William Sergeant and Eliza Lawrence Espy

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Husband William Sergeant ¹

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           Born: 1829 - Philadelphia, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. John Sergeant (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 8 Nov 1853 1

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Wife Eliza Lawrence Espy ¹

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         Father: James Snodgrass Espy (1788-1872) 2 3 4
         Mother: Mary H. Pollard (1802-      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Mary Sergeant ⁵

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2 F Margaretta Sergeant ⁵

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         Spouse: Alexander James Dallas Dixon (      -      ) 5

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3 F Louisa Sergeant ⁶

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         Spouse: John C. Kunkel, Jr. (1858-      ) 7

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4 M John Sergeant ⁵

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5 F Sarah Haly Sergeant ⁵

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6 F Eliza Sergeant ⁵

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         Spouse: William Heyward Meyers (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 15 Oct 1884 5

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General Notes: Husband - William Sergeant

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He graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied law under Benjamin Gerhard, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1850. He held a prominent position at the bar, and was for a time a representative in the State Legislature. On the breaking out of the rebellion he was commissioned captain of the Twelfth infantry U. S. A.; afterwards colonel of the Two Hundred and Tenth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. On the 31st of March, 1865, was wounded in his thigh by a ball, while resisting an attack of the enemy on the White Oak road, near the Boynton plank-road, in front of Petersburg, Virginia, from which he died on board of the hospital boat, while on his way home.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 223.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1002.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 1194.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 218.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 224.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 224, 364.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 224, 365.