Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Joseph Taylor Gillespie and Catharine Kuhns




Husband Joseph Taylor Gillespie 1 2

           Born: 1819 - Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: Bef 1889
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       Marriage: 26 Jul 1838 2

   Other Spouse: Sidney Jane Douglass (      -Aft 1889) 1 2 3 - Abt 1860



Wife Catharine Kuhns 2

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           Died: 6 Oct 1858 2
 Cause of Death: typhoid fever
         Buried: 


         Father: Peter Kuhns (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catharine [Unk] (      -      ) 2




Children
1 M Jordan Gillespie 2

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         Spouse: Margaret Arthurs (      -      ) 2


2 F Jane Gillespie 2

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           Died: 11 Jan 1859 2
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3 F Elizabeth Fry Gillespie 2

           Born: 
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           Died: 30 Aug 1890 2
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4 M William Kuhns Gillespie 2

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           Died: 31 Jul 1904 2
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5 F Cordelia Gillespie 2

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         Spouse: George S. Toumans (      -      ) 2


6 M Joseph Gillespie 2

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           Died: 3 Sep 1894 2
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7 M Peter Gillespie 2

           Born: 10 Nov 1853 - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Spouse: Ruth Anna Jones (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 10 Dec 1884 4


8 F Catharine Gillespie 2

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         Spouse: Nathan Roney (      -      ) 2



General Notes: Husband - Joseph Taylor Gillespie


He received his education in the public schools. After he grew to manhood he worked on the river, building barges and floating coal to the southern markets. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company E, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and was eighteen months in active service and five months in the hospital, after which he was honorably discharged for disability. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 576.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 375.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 980.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 376.


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