Lawrence Dempsey and Mary Kafman

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Husband Lawrence Dempsey ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died:  - Pennsylvania
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Kafman ²

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           Born: Abt 1741
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           Died: Sep 1825 3
         Buried:  - Dempseytown Cemetery, Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Peter Dempsey ²

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           Born:  - Centre Co, PA
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         Spouse: Susanna Carter (      -      ) 2

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2 M David Dempsey ²

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General Notes: Husband - Lawrence Dempsey

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He born in Ireland, of Scotch ancestors. He first became a resident of Centre County, Pennsylvania, soon after the close of the American Revolution. In 1797 he penetrated the wilds of the Upper Allegheny Valley to the lands open to settlement on the general terms presented by the state. He was the first settler in the region and made his first improvement on the "Cauvel" farm, not far from the old graveyard near Dempseytown, Venango County, a hamlet named in his honor. Here he planted an orchard, one of the first in the county, and certainly the first in what is now Oakland township. He died in one of the eastern counties of the state, but his wife and one son are buried in the family graveyard at Dempseytown.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1017.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 75.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 382.