Husband Rev. David Blair 1 2 3 4
Born: Nov 1786 - Parish of Donagar, County Antrim, Ireland 2 3
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Died: 1882 - ? Indiana Co, PA 2
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Father: Hugh Blair (1741-1837) 2 3 4 5 6
Mother: Janet Thompson (1745-1835) 4
Marriage: 1821 2 3 7
Wife Margaret Steel 1 8
AKA: Margaret Steele 2 3 7
Born: Abt 1801
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Died: 6 Apr 1865 2 3
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Father: Samuel Steel (Abt 1765-1850) 8
Mother: Jane McCartney ( -1829) 8
Children
1 M Hon. Samuel S. Blair 1 2
Born: 5 Dec 1821 - Indiana Co, PA 1
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Spouse: Sarah M. Denniston ( - ) 1
Marr: 2 Dec 1845 1
2 M Judge John Pringle Blair 2 3 4
Born: 28 Mar 1833 or 1835 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 2 3
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Died: 19 Jan 1913 3 9
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Spouse: Elizabeth Sutton ( - ) 3 4 9
Marr: 14 Feb 1866 3 9
General Notes: Husband - Rev. David Blair
He was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, and came to America about the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was a minister in the United Presbyterian Church, and in 1816 being called to the church of that denomination in Indiana County, made his home there the same year. For sixty-six years he was the pastor of that church, or until his death, at the great age of ninety-five, although he did not during the latest years of his life perform the active duties of the pastorate.
He was a graduate of the oldest theological seminary of the new world and the founder of the United Presbyterian Church in Indiana and adjoining counties in Pennsylvania. He was born in the parish of Donagar [Donagan?], in County Antrim, Ireland, in November, 1786. In early life he was somewhat delicate. Having fitted for college with Rev. Mr. McLean, he entered Jefferson College in 1810 and would have graduated in the class of 1812 if his health had not given away early in that year. Recovering somewhat, he spent the required four sessions at Dr. Anderson's theological seminary, was ordained in October, 1818, to the ministry of the Associate Presbyterian Church, and installed as pastor of the united congregations of Indiana, Crooked Creek and Conemaugh. He spent nearly half a century in laboring for these churches, and as the result of his labors nearly twenty congregations were built up out of them-an unparalleled fact in the history of the United Presbyterian denomination. While inheriting the sturdy independence and iron-willed determination of his own race, he was remarkably liberal, charitable and enlightened in his views. Rev. W. S. Owens pays this just and eloquent tribute to his character:
"He resisted the narrow spirit of exclusiveness and advocated always the broad principles of Christian charity and unity. No man worked harder to secure that happy union of 1858 (Union of Associate and Associate Reformed Churches) which gave birth to our United Presbyterian Church. In the great Civil war he was a Union man and his pulpit gave forth no uncertain sound on the mighty issues then pending."
In 1862 he resigned from active pastoral work. In 1882, in the ninety-fifth year of his life and in the land of his noble lifework as an able minister and excellent man, death quietly summoned him. [HIC 1913, 679]
He and his wife had ten children, of whom four were living in 1883.
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Steel
from Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA