Rev. Joseph Vance, D.D. and Sarah H. Maddox

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Husband Rev. Joseph Vance, D.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 8 Oct 1837 1
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         Father: Samuel Vance (1791-1874) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary Fife (1799-1885) 2

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       Marriage: Sep 1880 1

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   Other Spouse: Mary Hay Maddox (      -1871) 1 2 - Apr 1866 1

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Wife Sarah H. Maddox ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 F Miriam C. Vance ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Joseph Vance, D.D.

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He became a Presbyterian minister and located at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but on account of ill health returned to the family homestead and died when still a young man. [HWC 1882, 954] But this does not agree with other information known about him. Possibly confusion with his uncle, Joseph Vance?

In 1853 he entered Washington College, later Washington and Jefferson, and graduated in September, 1858. In the same month he entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Washington in April, 1860, and graduated from the seminary in 1861. His first charge was the Assembly Church, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where he began his work in July, 1861. In June, 1862, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Winnebago. In January, 1865, he entered the work of the Christian Commission, and was sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi. In February he was appointed by Col. John Eaton, assistant superintendent of the schools of the Freedman's Department in the district of Vicksburg, and served in that capacity until the 1st of July. He was called to the Second Presbyterian Church of Vincennes, Indiana, in September, 1865, and continued as its pastor until it was united with the First Presbyterian Church in April, 1873. Accepting a call to the church formed by the union, he remained until July, 1874. During his pastorage in Vincennes he was stated clerk of the presbytery, permanent clerk of the synod and a trustee of Hanover College. During the summer of 1875 Dr. Vance supplied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Reading, Pennsylvania, in the absence of its pastor. The Rev. Dr. C. P. Wing having resigned the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, in October, 1875, Mr. Vance was, in November of the same year, invited to supply the pulpit, and on the 30th of April, 1876, was installed pastor by a committee of Presbytery. In June, 1884, the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the Western University of Pennsylvania, and also by Washington and Jefferson College. [HCC 1886, 399]

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah H. Maddox

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from Vincennes, Knox Co, IN

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 399.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 59.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 954.

4 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 180.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 59, 355.