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reading, close observation and much reflection, all sys- tematically arranged and at his command. As a preacher of the gospel, Dr. Williams was grave and solemn in manner and richly scriptural and instructive in matter. The great doctrines of the eross were not held by him as mere theoretical beliefs, but constituted the very life of his own soul. As a pastor he was regular and faithful in family visitation and in the catechetical instruction of all classes of people". He married, June 15, 1800, Eleanor Campbell, who died April 28, 1856, aged seventy-six years. They had six sons and three daughters. Dr. Williams died Aug. 21, 1838, and rests in the grave yard of the Big Spring Church, Newville.
REV. ROBERT M'CACHRAN.
Rev. Robert MeCachran was descended from a Scotch ancestry. His great grand father, accompanied by his wife, four sons and one daughter, emigrated from Can- tyre, near Campbellstown, Scotland, about 1725, and settled in the Forks of the Brandywine, Chester County, Pa. Robert McCachran, the second son of John Mc- Cachran and Isabella Cunningham, was born at the Forks of the Brandywine, Chester County, Pa., Septen- ber 24, 1798. He early manifested a strong desire for a liberal education, and as there was no school in his immediate neighborhood where the higher branches of an English education were taught, he walked daily three miles in winter to a school affording those advantages. This he continued to do for some time, when a classical school was opened at Brandywine manor, by the Rev. John Grier. Mr. McCachran entered this school and remained there until its removal from the place, when
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he entered the Academy at West Nottingham, Md., in charge of Rev. James W. Magaw, a successful and pop- ular educator in those times. At the end of the course of study in this Academy, Mr. McCachran entered the junior class in Dickinson College, Carlisle, where he re- ceived his collegiate training. After completing his course at Dickinson, he taught for a season in the Acad- emy at Newark, Del., and then entered Princeton Theo- logical Seminary in 1824, from which he was graduated in 1827. He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of New Castle, April, 1827, and in the Au- tumn of the same year a field of labor was opened to him at Middletown, Deleware County, Pa. In connec- tion with his work in this church, he gave half of his time to missionary work in Deleware and adjoining counties. He was ordained at New Castle, Del., May 19, 1829. In 1830, because of ill health, he resigned his charge. After his resignation he made a journey on horse back in quest of health and another field of labor, up through Lancaster, York, Cumberland and Franklin counties, preaching as the opportunity presented. He preached several sermons in the church at Newville, which had recently become vacant by the resignation of Rev. Joshua Williams, and so pleased were the people with his ministrations that they gave him a call which was accepted, and he was installed pastor of that church April 13, 1831. Mr. McCachran labored with great diligence and success in the Big Spring Church for twenty-one years, resigning October 8, 1851. He then turned his attention to the establishment of a classical school for the training of young men for college and the ministry. He erected a suitable building near Newville
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REV. PHILIP H. MOWRY, D. D.
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where he successfully conducted the school until 1864, when it was discontinued because of a loss of students occasioned by the civil war. "Mr. McCachran was a man of great simplicity of character. He was sincere in his religious convictions and conscientious in the perform- ance of duty. He was well read in the ancient classics and in the works of the old divines of the seventeenth century. He was in the constant habit of daily reading the New Testament in the original Greek language. As a preacher he was simple, plain, scriptural and orthodox. He was generally regarded as exeelling most of his brethren in the brevity, comprehensiveness and felicity of expression in his prayers." For many years he was stated clerk of the Presbytery, and always an active member of the standing committee on languages, and conducted his examinations with due consideration and acceptableness. In his private life he was quietly and unostentiously charitable to the poor, and especially so . to the colored people, many of whom were greatly as- sisted by his counsels and liberality." It can be truly said of him that his entire life was in all respects most exemplary and blameless, and his end was in peace." He died February 25, 1885. On November 11, 1834, he married Jane Laughlin, who was born August 3, 1802, and died November 27, 1871. She was a daughter of Atchison Laughlin, a ruling elder in the church. To them were born two children, Mary and Robert, the latter is now a successful attorney-at-law in Newville, and represented his district in the Legislature of Pennsylvania from 1878 to 1882.
REV. JAMES S. H. HENDERSON.
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Rev. James S. H. Henderson was born in Frederick County, Md., September 20, 1815. He pursued his the- ological studies in Union Theological Seminary, N. Y., and Princeton Seminary, N. J., graduating from the lat- ter in the year, 1842. He was ordained by the Presby- tery, of Nashville, Tenn., 1842, and spent some time in home missionary work. In 1844 he was installed pas- tor of the Presbyterian Church at Augusta, Ky., where he remained ten years. In 1852 he accepted a call to the Big Spring Church, Newville, Pa. He resigned the church at Newville in 1861, and removed to Montgom- ery County, Md., where he became stated supply of the church at Neelsville. He ministered to this congrega- tion for nearly eighteen years, until his death, August 17, 1882. His ministry there was very successful, although the church at Neelsville was a small one. He organized a congregation at Boyds and these two became one pastorate. Both congregations built handsome church edifices prior to his death and were in a flourish- ing condition. He was married in 1842 to Rosanna J. Neel, daughter of James Neel, one of the original mem- bers of the church bearing his name, who with a daughter and six sons survive him. One of the latter is a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church.
REV. PHILIP H. MOWRY, D. D.
Rev. Philip Henry Mowry was born in Allegheny, Pa., March 6, 1837. His father, a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania, and of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, practiced medicine in Al- legheny from March, 1836, until his death, March 14, 1895. His grand father, Philip Mowry, was born in
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Pittsburg, Pa., 1777, where his great grand father, Christian M. Mowry, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, settled but a short time before. His mother, A. Rebekah Riddle, was a daughter of James M. Riddle, a lawyer, born in the Cumberland Valley, and who set- tled in Pittsburg in 1812, after marrying Elizabeth Weaver, of Cumberland County, Pa. Rev. P. H. Mowry graduated from Washington College, Cannons- burg, in 1858, and from the Western Theological Sem- inary in 1861. On leaving the Theological Seminary he was called to the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and ordained by the Presbytery of Phila- delphia, October 8, 1861, and at the same time installed pastor of the church. In October, 1863, he was called to the Big Spring Church, Newville, and entered upon his ministerial work here the following December. After a very successful pastorate of five years he resigned the Big Spring Church and accepted a call from the second Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Ohio. He remained in Springfield five years when he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, Pa., entering upon his pastoral work October 1, 1873. There he remains greatly beloved by his people and respected by all. Dr. Mowry married, October 23, 1861, Catharine A. daughter of William H. Richardson of Greensburg, Pa. She died January 20, 1881, leaving children-Elizabeth, Henri- etta, Robert Bruce, Fred, Philip, Rebecca and Mary. Dr. Mowry married secondly, April 18, 1889, Sarah W., daughter of William E. Du Bois, of Philadelphia.
REV. EBENEZER ERSKINE, D. D. Rev. Ebenezer Erskine is a son of John Erskine and
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his wife Margaret Trainor. John Erskine was the fifth in descent from Rev. Henry Erskine, father of Revs. Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine, founders of the Secession Church, of Scotland. He came from County Down, Ire- land, to this country at the close of the Revolutionary war, and after remaining for a time in Philadelphia, set- tled in Ridley township, Deleware County, Pa. There the subject of our sketch was born, January 31, 1821. He prepared for college in the celebrated classical school of Joseph P. Engles in Philadelphia, and entered Jeffer- son College, in 1839, from which he was graduated in 1843. In 1844 and 1845 he was principal of the Potts- town Academy. After resigning this position, he en- tered Princeton Theological Seminary October, 1845, from which he was graduated May, 1848. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Penn Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, September 11. 1849. There he remained until 1851, when he accepted a call to Colum- bia, Pa. He remained as pastor of the church at Columbia until 1857, when he resigned to accept a call to the Presbyterian Church at Sterling, Ill. He resigned the church at Sterling in 1865, to undertake, at the re- quest of several of his ministerial brethren, the founding of a Presbyterian College in Northern Illinois. This led to the establishment by him of the "North Western Presbyterion" at Chicago, in the fall of 1865, of which
he was editor and proprietor. This paper was a means of communication with the churches. The attempted founding of the college was delayed on account of the church controversies arising out of the civil war, the re- union of the two branches of the Presbyterian Church, and in relation to the Theological Seminary of the
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Northwest. In 1869 he accepted a unanimous call to become pastor of the Big Spring Presbyterian Church in Newville, where he yet remains, faithfully discharging his pastoral duties. Dr. Erskine has occupied many positions of importance and responsibility in the Pres- byterian Church. He has been moderator of the Synod of Harrisburg; moderator of the Synod of Pennsylvania; a member of five General Assemblies; a director in the North Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, from 1865 to 1869, and has been a director of Princeton The-
ological Seminary for the past twenty years. At the
meeting of General Assembly at Baltimore, 1875, he was appointed a member of the committee of conference on fraternal relations between the General Assemblies north and south. At the meeting of General Assembly at Saratoga, in 1890, he was chairman of the committee on revision that reported the plan of revision to the General Assembly which was unanimously adopted. He was also author of the resolution instructing the com- mittee on revision not to report anything that would im- pair the integrity of the Reformed or Calvinistic system as set forth in the confession of faith. He was also a member of the permanent committee on the revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith which continued its work for two years, and on its being reported to the General Assembly and handed down to the Presbyteries was not accepted. Dr. Erskine and Drs. Patton and Green of Princeton were among the conservative mem- bers of the committee and unfavorable to some of the changes recommended by the majority. In 1889 Dr. Erskine together with Dr. George Norcross and Rev. Mr. West published a history of the Carlisle Presbytery
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including biographical sketches of deceased members. This is a very full and complete work, the result of much pains taking labor, and a valuable contribution to the history of Presbyterianism in this country.
Possessing more than ordinary intellectual endow- ments, Dr. Erskine ranks high in the Presbyterian Church as a well read and sound theologion. He is a man of strong and decided convictions, and of great courage and strength of purpose. His sermons are full of thought and instruction; his matter solid and rewards the attention of those who are serious and thoughtful and who care more for sound scriptural and theological instruction, than for ornaments of rhetoric and mere empty declamation. He is noted for a remarkably clear voice, an earnest, persuasive and impressive manner well adapted to his matter. He is faithful and conscientious in the discharge of all his ministerial work allowing nothing to interfere with what he considers duty.
Dr. Erskine married, October 7, 1874, Helen M., daughter of James and Margaret (Sharp) McKeehan, a descendent of two of the oldest and most respected families in the vicinity of Newville. They have two daughters, Helen and Mary, residing at home.
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IN THE GRAVE YARD.
The earliest burials clustered around the old oak tree with its broad spreading branches in the south-eastern part of the graveyard, and near where the old log church stood. To the superficial observer, there seems to be much unoccupied space there, but this is not the case. In nearly every foot of ground rests the remains of the pioneer settlers and their children, although no tablet marks their resting place. There are very few of the first and second generations of the residents of this section who sleep in marked graves. Among many we have in mind, we mention the Fenton family of thirty persons, the grave of not one of whom is marked. The first of the family was Samuel Fenton. His son Sam- uel was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his son James was a Colonel in the war of 1812. In the progress of time, the graveyard gradually extended towards the church, the lower or south and eastern part bordering upon the spring, being very rocky, was used as quarries from an early date, and thus became a source of revenue to the church. In 1868, that portion was sold off, leaving sixteen feet along the fence for a road. In 1853, the western side of the graveyard was made on a line with the eastern side of Corporation street. This change in the boundary, left a number of graves of colored people outside of the enclosure in that part of the street between the fence and the property now owned by Samuel Ernst. The first record we find of an en- closure, is Sept. 1795, when Archibald MeCoy was paid for 348 perch of stone, at one dollar and forty cents por perch, for a graveyard wall. Four years later, the trustees "Resolved to cover the graveyard wall and en-
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close a yard around the meeting house." Some old per- sons remember when they were young, of seeing the re- mains of this wall on the south side of the graveyard, along the spring, near the water's edge, and to this day can be seen running east and west, through the grave- yard, about forty feet from the present fence dividing the church from the graveyard, a ridge of stone covered with earth and grass, which was doubtless the founda- tion of the wall. This ridge extends from the eastern extremity of the graveyard, west to the Boyd lot where it is broken by the terracing of the lot.
OUR FATHERS' RESTING PLACE.
BY BELLE M'KINNEY SWOPE.
Tall trees lift up their towering heads
As if upon the sky to trace Their shades, and o'er the church they shed A stately dignity and grace.
Within those ancient walls of stone, Each generation as it passed,
Found Christ's own blood could guilt atone, At His blest feet their burdens cast, And drifting silently away,
Time faded into endless day.
On the sloping turf by the old gray walls, The sunlight casts its slanting beams Across the path where the shadow falls, And touches the graves with golden streams. The soft wind sighing among the pines Whispers of perfect peace o'erhead, And the spring as onward it slowly winds Murmurs a requiem for the dead. Its waters caressing the grassy steep Where heroes and loved ones sweetly sleep.
Life's turmoil in each year that passes, Disturbs no rest in that calm spot, And silently the waving grasses
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Mark mounds of earth too soon forgot. Some slumber on in nameless places, Some lie 'neath monuments of stone, And hearts were sore to lose the faces That guther now around the throne. Peaceful the soldier's quiet sleep, Laurels of fame his winding sheet.
Oh, sacred spot of hallowed sorrow Guard well the dust in thine embrace;
The brightness of a glad tomorrow Dawns o'er our fathers' slumbering place.
Thrice holy sepulchre, to thy Blest shadows tender memory twines.
Where pastors in thy bosom lie, And consecrated earth enshrines. Faithful they were who rest from the strife, 'Neath the shades where they offered the Bread of Life.
Fair home for the reapers' treasured spoils Life's sweetest hopes lie in thy breast, And mortals cease from wearied toils, For unto all He giveth rest. Time steals no beauty and the air Breathes heavenly benedictions there.
INSCRIPTIONS FROM TOMBSTONES OF PERSONS BORN PRIOR TO 1800.
Adams, Robert, b. Oct. 2, 1798; d. May 14, 1874. Adams, Margaret, b. 1766; d. 1840.
Allen, John, b. 1791; d. Feb. 10, 1817. Allen, James W., b. June 25, 1789; d. June 19, 1869. Auxer, Elizabeth, wife of Geo., b. Oct. 2, 1796; d. April 11, 1845.
Barr, Sarah, dau. of Dr. John Geddes, b. 1802; d. Jan. 27, 1838.
Barr, Alexander, b. 1764; d. Sept. 4, 1831.
Bryson, William, b. 1728; d. June 13, 1800.
Brownson, Mary, dau. of Thomas, b. 1764; d. Sept. 3,
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1807.
Brown, James, b. Dec. 31, 1778; d. Oct. 11, 1822.
Brown, Martha, wife of James, b. Aug. 10, 1792; d. Feb. 7, 1852.
Brown, John, b. Sept. 19, 1752; d. Jan. 10, 1842.
Brown, Margaret, wife of John, b. 1748; d. Sept. 17, 1836.
Brown, Mary, b. April 12, 1788; d. Sept. 16, 1862.
Brown, James, b. 1777; d. July 31, 1862.
Brown, Nancy, wife of James b. July 5, 1800; d. Oct. 15, 1835.
Brown, William, b. 1797; d. May 13, 1864.
Brown, Jane, wife of William, b. Sept. 21, 1802; d. Mar. 10, 1877.
Brown, Rachel, b. 1769; d. Mar. 24, 1805.
Brown, Joseph, b. 1777; d. July 31, 1862.
Brown, Nancy, wife of JJoseph, b. July 3, 1800; d. Oct. 13, 1835.
Bratton, Adam, b. 1744; d. June 6, 1820.
Bratton, Ann, wife of Adam, b. 1752; d. Dec. 26, 1840.
Bratton, Samuel, b. 1796; d. Aug. 16, 1864.
Bratton, William, b. 1791; d. Mar. 11, 1862.
Bratton, George, b. 1784; d. Sept. 13, 1860.
Bratton, Mary, b. 1786; d. July 23, 1857.
Bratton, Eleanor, dau. of Adam, b. 1780; d. Sept. 20, 1848.
Bratton, William, son of Adam, b. 1796.
Buchanan, Mary, b. 1763; d. Oct. 16, 1823.
Buchanan, William, d. July 7, 1843. Buchanan, Ezekiel, d. Aug. 31, 1831. Buchanan, Robert, d. May 3, 1833.
Buchanan, Elizabeth, d. Aug. 25, 1863.
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Buchanan, Gen. Thomas, b. 1747; d. Oct. 13, 1823. (A soldier of the Revolutionary War.)
Binner, Mary E., b. 1772; d. Aug. 1853.
Boyd, William, b. Jan. 5, 1778; d. Feb. 2, 1846.
Boyd, Martha, wife of William, b. Dec. 14, 1779; d. Apr. 8, 1848.
Butler, Samuel, b, Feb. 2, 1778; d. Apr. 27, 1859.
Butler, Sallie, wife of Samuel, b. Apr. 4, 1793; d. Mar. 15, 1881.
Carnahan, Judith, wife of Robert, b. 1763; d. May 21, 1835.
Carnahan, Mary, wife of William, b. 1793; d. Sept. 7, 1823.
Carson, Hannan, b. 1774; d. April 5, 1844.
Carson, Priscilla, b. 1791; d. Aug. 16, 1864.
Campbell, William, b. Oct. 26, 1789; d. Apr. 1, 1864.
Cobean, William, b. 1795; d. Aug. 6, 1859.
Cobean, Mary McFarlane, wife of William, b. 1805; d. Oct. 4, 1855.
Conway, Mary, b. 1765; d. May 8, 1823.
Cook, Samuel, b. 1799; d. July 18, 1841.
Cook, Jane, b. 1794; d. Aug. 31, 1843.
Cox, Mary, b. 1800; d. Dec. 3, 1866.
Davidson, George, b. Oct. 27, 1777; d. June 12, 1856. Davidson, Jane, wife of George, b. Mar. 13, 1779; d. Dee. 6, 1863.
Davidson, Ann, b. Nov., 1788; d. Feb. 16, 1866.
Davidson, John, b. Dee. 15, 1786; d. Jan. 9, 1840. Davidson, Eleanor R., b. Apr. 15, 1797; d. Jan. 3, 1877.
Davidson, James, b. 1790; d. Sept. 27, 1858.
Davidson, Ann, wife of James, b. 1794; d. June 8, 1827. Davidson, Ann, wife of James, b. 1791; d. Sept. 17, 1867.
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Davidson, William, b. Dec. 2. 1788; d. Aug. 25, 1843. Davidson, Mary, wife of William, b. Nov. 18, 1796; d: Apr. 3, 1848.
Davidson, Alexander, b. June 14, 1787; d. Oct. 19, 1865. Davidson; Jane, wife of Alex., b. Nov. 29, 1790; d. Aug. 19, 1879.
Davidson, John, b. 1743; d. 1823.
Davidson, John, b. Feb. 27, 1772; d. May 10, 1810.
Davidson, Elizabeth Young, wife of John, b. 1772; d. Sept. 14, 1823.
Denning, William, b. 1737; d. Dec. 19, 1830. (The maker of the first wrought-iron cannon of the Revo- lutionary War.)
Dougherty, George, d. aged 82 years.
Dougherty, Rachel, wife of Geo., b. 1789; d. 1856.
Duey, Conrad, b. 1769; d. Oct. 15, 1833.
Duey, Rachel, wife of Conrad, b. 1779; d. Feb. 22, 1854.
Dunbar, Isabella, b. 1799; d. Sept. 25, 1824.
Dunbar, Mary, b. 1772; d. Jan. 30, 1830.
Dunbar, John, b. 1767; d. Oct. 18, 1829.
Duncan, Eliza Smith, wife of Capt. David, b. June 8, 1789; d. Aug. 7, 1863.
Ewing, Elizabeth, dau. of Geo. Gillespie, b. 1790; d. Jan. 16, 1846.
Elliott, Nancy, b. 1772; d. Apr. 16, 1798.
Elliott, Thomas, b. 1787; d. Mar. 19, 1849.
Elliott, Mrs. Elizabeth, b. July 13, 1794; d. Feb. 19, 1859.
Ferguson, William, b. 1758; d. Apr. 23, 1834. (A soldier in Revolution, and maker of the carriages for the cannon of William Denning.)
Fulton, Francis, b. 1764; d. Oct. 16, 1843.
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Fulton, Sarah, wife of Francis, b. 1768; d. Aug. 4, 1834. Fulton, James, b. Oct. 10, 1795; d. Aug. 17, 1860. Gailbraith, William, b. 1731; d. Nov., 1815.
Gailbraith, Sarah, wife of William, b. Oct. 4, 1748; d. Jan. 22, 1827.
Geddes, Dr. John, b. Aug. 16, 1766; d. Dec. 5, 1840.
Geddes, Elizabeth Peebles, b. Feb. 8, 1772; d. May 20, 1839.
Geddes, Dr. John P., b. Oct. 10, 1799; d. Dec. 8, 1837. Geese, Christian, b. Jan. 17, 1788; d. Nov. 24, 1814.
Giffin, Catharine, b. 1786; d. Jan. 15, 1834.
Gillespie, Nathaniel, b. 1744; d. Aug. 16, 1824. Gillespie. Martha, b. Apr. 20, 1747, d. June 25, 1819. Gillespie, Ann, b. 1782; d. Nov. 16, 1827.
Gillespie, Nancy, b. 1786; d. Aug. 21, 1835.
Glenn, Alexander, b. Feb. 22, 1787; d. Nov. 13, 1835. Glenn, Maria, wife of Alexander, b. May 17, 1792; d. May 28, 1841.
Graham, Martha, b. 1731; d. July 22, 1779.
Graham, James, b. 1725; d. Sept. 2, 1807.
Graham, Isaiah, b. 1769; d. Aug. 27, 1835.
Graham, Nancy, wife of Isaiah, b. Aug. 17, 1772; d. Feb. 17, 1841.
Graham, Nancy, b. June 17, 1798; d. Jan. 19, 1863.
Graham, Robert, b. 1800; d. Jan. 24, 1873.
Graham, Eliza, wife of Robert, b. 1799; d. Dec. 6, 1855.
Green, John, b. Aug., 1769; d. Feb. 12, 1846.
Harlan, James, b. 1791; d. June 21, 1832.
Harlan, George, b. Jan. 13, 1794; d. Mar. 11, 1873.
Harlan, Elizabeth H., wife of George, b. Apr. 9, 1811; d. Aug. 9, 1858.
Harlan, Ruth, b. Mar. 15, 1792; d. Feb. 2, 1854.
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Hays, Patrick, b. 1766; d. July 28, 1856.
Hays, Margaret Mickey, wife of Patrick, b. 1770; d. Jan. 25, 1837.
Hanna, Samuel, b. 1792, d. Feb. 8, 1825.
Hanna, Else, wife of Samuel, b. 1772; d. Feb. 10, 1850.
Hanna, John, b. 1765; d. Oct. 11, 1823.
Hamil, Mary, wife of Wm., b. 1787; d. Oct. 13, 1811. Hackett, Henry G., b. Feb. 12, 1792; d. Dec. 7. 1845. Hackett, Mary, wife of Henry, b. Dec. 4, 1794; d. Sept. 28, 1854.
Harper, John, husband of Jean, who, his journey fin- ished and got to his rest Sept. 12, 1804, aged 73 yrs. Harper, Robert, b. 1770; d. Nov. 19, 1802.
Harper, Samuel, b. 1775; d. Apr. 15, 1802.
Harper, Sarah, wife of Samuel, b. 1768; d. Mar. 16, 1848.
Harper, David, b. 1774; d. June 3, 1801.
Harper, Maj. John, b. Nov. 29, 1793; d. Oct. 11, 1846.
Harper, Andrew, b. 1799; d. Jan. 19, 1827.
Harper, Elizabeth, b. July 1806; d. Oct. 10, 1827.
Harper, William, b. 1761; d. May 18, 1824.
Harper, Esther, wife of Wm., b. 1762; d. Apr. 13, 1827.
Harper, Jean, wife of John, b. 1735; d. Mar. 16, 1808. Harper, James, b. 1757; d. Feb. 13, 1816.
Harper, Margaret, dau. of James b. 1798; d. Aug. 8, 1817.
Harper, John, b. June 22, 1795; d. June 5, 1847.
Harper, Margaret, wife of John, and dau. of John, of Adams Co., b. 1811; d. May 21, 1836.
Harper, Elzabeth,, wife of John, b. 1772; d. Mar. 27,
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1813.
House, John, b. 1782; d. Nov., 1872. (A soldier of the War of 1812.)
House, Elizabeth, wife of John, b. 1784; d. 1863.
Huston, James, b. 1784; d. June 17, 1825.
Huston, James, b. 1782; d. June 17, 1823.
Hunter, Joseph, b. 1775; d. June 28, 1835. Hood, Josiah, b. Aug. 11, 1794; d. Oct. 2, 1873.
Hood, Sarah, wife of Josiah, b. Sept. 28, 1794; d. Mar. 18, 1852.
Heffleman, Michael, b. Mar. 9, 1780; d. July 24, 1845. Heffleman, Mary, wife of Michael, b. Dec. 22, 1785; d. Feb. 2, 1837.
Heap, John.
Irvine, Samuel, b. 1747; d. Mar. 9, 1806.
Irvine, Mary, wife of Samuel, b. 1744: d. Oet. 28, 1819.
Irvine, Miss Ruth, b. July, 1777; d. Dec. 21, 1859.
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