Husband William Thaw 1 2 3 4
Born: 12 Oct 1818 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3 4
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Died: 17 Aug 1889 - Paris, France 4 5
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Father: John Thaw (1779-1866) 2 4 6 7
Mother: Elizabeth Thomas ( -1865) 6 8
Marriage: 1867 9
Other Spouse: Eliza Burd Blair ( -1862) 9 - 1841 10
• Note: This may be the same person as : William Thaw.
• Biographical Sketch: from The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889).
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• Biographical Sketch: from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914).
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• Biographical Sketch: John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915).
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• Biographical Sketch: Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889).
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Wife Mary Sibbet Copley 9
Born:
Christened: 1843 - Appleby Manor Church, Ford City, Armstrong Co, PA
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Father: Josiah Copley (1803-1885) 9 11 12
Mother: Margaret Chadwick Sibbet ( -Abt 1887) 11
Children
1 M Henry Kendall Thaw 13
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General Notes: Husband - William Thaw
He became one of Pittsburgh's wealthiest citizens.
When his first wife died she left him with three sons and two daughters. He had three sons and two daughters with his second wife.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Sibbet Copley
In the early days of Appleby Manor-a beautiful region which was one of the reservations made by the William Penn heirs-country churches were few and far between. It was due to the untiring efforts of Josiah Copley and Hamlet Totten, of Rural Village, that a plain but commodious frame church building was erected on land provided by John Christy, on a part of his own farm. Previously they had maintained prayer meetings in the little log schoolhouse, later securing the services of Levi M. Graves, a graduate of the Western Theological Seminary. At that church Mary Sibbet Copley, who later became the wife of William Thaw, of Pittsburgh, daughter of Josiah and Margaret Copley, was baptized in 1843. In recognition of the enduring work of her parents Mrs. Thaw replaced this building in 1892 with a brick church, English architecture, as a memorial. When this new church, known as Appleby Manor Memorial Presbyterian Church, was destroyed by lightning in 1907, Mrs. Thaw rebuilt it, without cost to the congregation, and the sweet-toned bell, presented by her son, Henry Kendall Thaw, for the first Memorial building, broken at the time of the fire, was recast and replaced. Beautiful for situation, it stands on the original site, partly surrounded with its peaceful God's acre, as a memorial to those whose memories are still cherished by the men and women of today who knew and honored them before they left those parts at the beginning of the Civil war.