David M. Pry and Mary D. Lee

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Husband David M. Pry ¹

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           Born: 16 Jun 1842 - Cross Creek Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Pry (1813-Aft 1893) 3 4
         Mother: Rachel McClurg (      -      ) 2 4

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       Marriage: 5 Feb 1885 2

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth J. "Lizzie" Rea (      -1877) 5 - 5 Oct 1865 2

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Wife Mary D. Lee ²

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            AKA: Mary L. Lee 6
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         Father: Robert Lee (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Hindman (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - David M. Pry

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He was born on the home farm in Cross Creek township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and remained with his parents until about twenty years of age. He enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fortieth P. V. I., serving throughout, the Civil war. He was wounded at Spottsylvania, being shot in the leg by a musket ball, and was sent to the "Finley" hospital at Washington City. He remained there until mustered out of the service August 16, 1865, then returned home and engaged in farming. After marriage he followed farming for two years, and in 1868 opened a general store in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. In 1884 he was elected recorder of the county, and served in that office until 1887, then returned to Burgettstown, resum-ing his former business.
In politics Mr. Pry was a Republican, and was always active in promoting the wel-fare of his party, being prominent in the county conventions, and more than once represented his county in the state conventions at Harrisburg. He was repeatedly appointed, by the Governor of the State, a notary public, serving in that capacity sixteen years, and on February 21, 1893, was elected a justice of the peace in the borough of Burgettstown. He was also enrolled as agent or attorney, and admitted to practice before the De-partment of the Interior in Washington, D. C.; he secured many pensions for disabled soldiers, widows, orphans and dependent parents of the Civil war.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Burgettstown, and held the office of elder beginning in 1874. He was a delegate from the Washington Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, which met in Chicago in 1877.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 492, 1253.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1253.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 597, 1253.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 603.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 492, 1180, 1253.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1198.