John H. Jewell and Melvina Murrey

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Husband John H. Jewell ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1845 - Waynesburg, Greene Co, PA 2
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         Father: Samuel Jewell (      -1879) 2
         Mother: Eliza Ann Johnson (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Emma Evans (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Mary Margaret Dodd (1859-      ) 1 2 - 1887 2

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Wife Melvina Murrey ²

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Children

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1 F Louise Bertha Jewell ²

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         Spouse: Samuel Martin (      -      ) 2

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2 F Ida Melvina Jewell ²

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         Spouse: James Gunkins (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - John H. Jewell

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His education was secured in the common schools and Waynesburg College, and after leaving the latter institution at the age of twenty-one years, he began assisting his father in the hotel. Later he learned the trade of carpenter and stair-builder, becoming a contractor in Wheeling, and doing considerable work all over western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1897 he purchased a small hotel and farm at West Finley, and later bought another establishment, a popular hostelry that became known as the Jewell House. He was a Democrat in politics and, although living in a district that was strongly Republican, he served multiple terms as justice of the peace, receiving more than two-thirds of the total votes cast during one election and being practically forced to accept the office, although he was out of the county at the time of his nomination. With his family he attended the Presbyterian Church at Charleroi.

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General Notes: Wife - Melvina Murrey

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from Fayette Co, PA

She died one and one-half years after her marriage, leaving two children.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 717.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1303.