Robert Gorsuch, Sr. and Nancy Cooper

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Husband Robert Gorsuch, Sr. ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1792 - Maryland
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           Died: 1871 - ? Pennsylvania 1
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         Father: John Gorsuch (      -1828) 1
         Mother: Nancy McClelland (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth "Betsey" McCoy (      -      ) 3 4

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Searight (      -Abt 1853) 5

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Wife Nancy Cooper ^{1 5}

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Gorsuch, Sr.

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He was born in Maryland, and came across the mountains at the age of six years, in 1798, with his father, when the Indians were numerous in Pennsylvania.
He was a farmer.
He had five children with his second wife.

He was just six years of age at the time of the family migration to western Pennsylvania, and practically his entire life has been spent in that part of the state. In his earlier years he was engaged in digging coal in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, later coming to Service and purchasing a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Upper Service. This was entirely timber land, and he was obliged to fell the trees and clear a space in order to erect the log house in which he and his family lived. Having cleared a sufficient space to make a productive farm, he was accustomed to "pack" to Pittsburgh, taking all night for the journey. He would take to the market in Pittsburgh seventy-eight cents worth of butter, and with the money thus realized would purchase and bring home all of those necessaries which the farm could not produce. He remained on the Upper Service farm about a quarter of a century, and about 1830 he purchased a farm of one hundred and fifty-six acres in Murdocksville, where he spent the remainder of his life.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 850.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 565, 1058.

3 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 850, 866.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 566, 1058.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 566.