Robert Elkin

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Husband Robert Elkin ¹

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           Born:  - Mullinatomagh, Ireland
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         Father: Robert Elkin (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Marjorie Woods (      -      ) 1

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         Father: William Smith (      -      ) 2
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Elkin

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His parents were stricken with fever and died when he and his siblings were comparatively young, and the children were taken into the family of a neighbor, William Smith.

The eldest son of his parents, he came to America in 1794 and made his first settlement in Brushvalley township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was the first of the Elkin family to emigrate to America from Ireland. Having been a farmer in Ireland he evidently decided to follow the same pursuit in the new world, and no doubt selected a farm in that section of Indiana County for the purpose. For many years he wrote an occasional letter to his friends in Ireland, but nothing was heard from him later perhaps than 1825, except that he had moved from Indiana County, Pennsylvania, to the central part of Ohio. A nephew who settled in Pennsylvania in 1853 made a visit to that state to locate him, but found the family had moved west, to Missouri, and as there are numerous Elkins in the southwest no doubt many are his descendants.

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 163.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 164.