Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Elizabeth Maclay




Husband

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Wife Elizabeth Maclay 1 2 3

           Born: 16 Feb 1772 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Apr 1794 2 3
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church


         Father: Hon. William Maclay (1737-1804) 4 5 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Mary McClure Harris (1750-1809) 3 6 8 10


       Marriage: 


Children

General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Maclay


In Paxtang church burial ground is a large marble slab with this inscription:
Sacred
to
the Memory of
Eliza Maclay.
A lingering distemper
borne with resignation
put a period to her life
on the 19th of April, 1794
in the 23d year of her age.
The duties
annexed to her station
were discharged without a
blot.
Her weeping Parents
have placed over her this stone
The monument
Of her virtues and of
their affection.

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Sources


1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 823.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 82.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 148.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 518.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 81.

6 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 822.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 147.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 395.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1469.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80.


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