Matthew Loudon

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Husband Matthew Loudon ¹

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           Born:  - Raccoon Valley, PA
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           Died:  - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
         Buried:  - Old Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

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         Father: James Loudon (      -1783) 2
         Mother: Christiana [Unk] (      -1807) 1

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Wife

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Ann Loudon ³

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           Died: Mar 1882 4
         Buried:  - Old Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: James Loudon (1799-1880) 5
           Marr: 6 Oct 1836 3

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Loudon

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He was born in the Raccoon Valley of Pennsylvania and always lived there. He inherited a large body of land from his father's estate upon which he had a modest but comfortable home. Although his land was fertile and yielded bountifully, he did not farm much of it. He was the mighty hunter of all that region and preferred roaming through the woods and mountains for game to tilling the soil and reaping crops. When yet a boy of only fourteen years he shot his first bear, and all his lifetime he was noted for being a deadly foe to bears. Deer then were plentiful in that section and in season his table was always well supplied with venison and other game. When he was especially successful in the chase he would provide venison feasts and invite his neighbors and friends to help eat them, and would send quarters of venison around to neighbors who could not attend, or to whom he owed favors.
After the death of his wife, Elizabeth Ann, being his only daughter, it was a great loss to him when she married. He and his only other child, a son, afterward lived with tenants to whom he rented his farm. However he was not contented and whenever he could find it convenient he would go to Carlisle and visit his daughter, generally traveling on horseback. Being a very old man, these long trips were a heavy tax on his strength, and after one of them he fell sick and died at the home of his daughter in Carlisle.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 818.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 27.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 822.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 823.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 820.