Uriel Graves and Lucinda Strong

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Husband Uriel Graves ¹

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Wife Lucinda Strong ¹

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         Father: John Strong (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Emma Graves ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: John L. Armbrust (1858-      ) 3 4
           Marr: 19 Dec 1882 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Uriel Graves

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New York state

He was a Lutheran minister and at the time of his death was preaching at Norfolk, New York. Although a minister, he had his heart set on the love of his country as well, and in the time of the rebellion was the means of getting more volunteers than any six speakers in the towns of Orleans and Four Corners, Jefferson County, New York, where he was then stationed. His enemies, in order to get him out of their way, caused him to be drafted, but the church would not suffer him to go, so they pur-chased for him a substitute, who never returned home. As an orator he was fine, few men being able to compete with him and none excelling him. He came to Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1880, as a campaign speaker or lecturer for the Greenback party. Afterwards he moved his family to Greensburg and lived there just one year: in that year he edited the "National Issue," later called the "Evening Star," and then "Evening Press," the first daily paper published in Greensburg. He made many friends everywhere he went, was a loving father, a true friend and charitable to a fault.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 421.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 780.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 420.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 779.