David Hart and Margery Dunning
Husband David Hart 1 2
Born: 28 Nov 1770 or 1775 - Adams Co, PA 1 3 Christened: Died: 1 Oct 1852 or 1862 - Somerset Twp, Washington Co, PA 4 5 Buried: - Pigeon Creek U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA
Father: Nathan Hart ( -1787) 6 Mother: Margaret Monteith ( -1785) 1 6
Marriage: 1832 5
Other Spouse: Sarah Paxton ( -1830) 1 2 - 12 Apr 1798 6
Wife Margery Dunning 6
AKA: Margaret Dunning 5 Born: Christened: Died: 2 Jan 1871 4 Buried:
Other Spouse: [Unk] Butler ( - ) 6
Children
1 M Dunning Hart 6 7 8
Born: 30 Nov 1836 - Washington Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1910 Buried:Spouse: Mary Jane Davis (1839-1911) 8 9 10 Marr: Autumn, 1865 10
2 F Margaret Hart 4 6 11
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1910 Buried:Spouse: Willison Kerr (1825-1881) 6 11
3 F Eliza Harper Hart 4 6
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1910 Buried:Spouse: Ard M. Hosack ( - ) 6
General Notes: Husband - David Hart
His parents died, leaving the four children orphans. David Hart assumed the entire management of the homestead, and cared, as a father, for his three sisters.
He married and they remained on Muddy Run in Adams County, Pennsylvania, until the spring of 1807, when he and wife, feeling that the advantages and future welfare of their family demanded removal farther west, severed the strong ties that bound them to their childhood home. They started on their journey to Washington County, coming through on horseback and arriving in Somerset Township about the first of April, 1807. There, in a house they hewed out of the forest, they lived and died. There were born to them nine children, three born in Adams County and six in Washington County. [TCHWWC, 616]
He came to Washington County as a volunteer in the service of General Washington and was so impressed with the beauty of the landscape, the excellence of the soil and the value of the forest trees, that he resolved to some time return and establish his home there. [TCHWWC, 644]
The words written by one who knew him well, Rev. Bankhead Boyd, of Pigeon Creek:
"David Hart died at his residence in Somerset Township, Washington County, on the first day of October, 1852, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was born in Adams County, Pa., November 28, 1775. The time of his removal to this county was 1807. He was a ruling elder in the Associate Presbyterian Church of Pigeon Creek. In noticing the death of this good man, it is not our design to pronounce any eulogy upon him. He was too well known in the community in which he long resided, to render this necessary. It is but justice; however, to say that but few men stood higher in the community than the deceased. He possessed a strong, discriminating judgment, a character fair and unblemished, strongly marked by decision, and at the same time distinguished for uprightness and sterling integrity, which secured for him the esteem and confidence of all who knew him. This was evident from the large amount of business with which he was from time to time entrusted, and indeed, during the greater part of his long life, he was acting for others, in one way or another, and the vast concourse of people which accompanied his mortal remains to their final resting place, showed the high esteem in which he was held by the community at large. Benevolence was a paramount feature in his character. The good of others was an object which he kept steadily in view, and any measures which he believed calculated for the promotion of the public good, received his cordial support. At the time of his death he was an active and influential member of the Bible Society of Somerset Township. The interests of true religion, also the advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom, in this world, were always with him matters of the first importance. Having early made a profession of his faith in Christ, he ever manifested a deep solicitude for the cause he had espoused, and his counsel and contributions were never wanting but always rendered with the greatest cheerfulness, when the interests of the church required them. His whole life was an ornament of the profession he had made. His house was the house of prayer, the morning and evening sacrifice was never neglected. His seat was never vacant in the House of God but for the weightiest reasons, and in all the relations of life he seemed to aim at maintaining a conscience void of offense toward God and toward man.
"In a word, he was a just man who feared God and wrought righteousness and was eminently useful in his day and generation, both in the church and in the world, being always ready for every good work. From the nature of the disease from which he died, he was in a great measure deprived of the powers of speech during his last illness, and consequently little could be obtained from him respecting his feelings or state of mind, but, judging from the general tenor of his life, we can have no doubt but that his latter end was peace. 'Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace.' He left a wife and numerous relatives to mourn his loss, but trust their loss was his gain, and that he is now in the Upper Sanctuary, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb with the angels and the spirits of just men made perfect."
". . . the writer feels prompted to add a few words to his memory, not to eulogize, but simple unvarnished truths. He was a man of no unordinary intellect, a thorough Bible scholar, his character unimpeachable, distinguished for uprightness and sterling integrity; he had an indomitable will, a characteristic inherited from the Scotch-Irish race, and which has been transmitted all along the line, neither friend nor foe could swerve him from what he considered the line of duty; yet allied to this unyielding will was a keen discriminating judgment, and soundness of decision, generous, gentle and kind, traits that made him a safe counselor and guide, and secured for him the esteem and confidence of an extended community. In short, he was a just man who feared God and wrought righteousness, and was eminently useful in his day and generation, both in the church and in the world."
1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 166.
2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 616, 644.
3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 616, 619.
4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 169.
5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 619.
6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 616.
7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 169, 1475.
8 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 682.
9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1475.
10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 620.
11
William C. Armstrong, The Kerr Clan of New Jersey (Morrison, IL: The Shawver Publishing Co., 1931), Pg 190.
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