John Donaldson and Rebecca Van Eman

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Husband John Donaldson ^{1 2}

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         Father: James Donaldson (      -      ) 1
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   Other Spouse: Margaret Salisbury (      -      ) 1

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Wife Rebecca Van Eman ^{2 3}

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         Father: William Van Eman (1794-Abt 1829) 4
         Mother: Mary Bracken (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Mary E. Donaldson ¹

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2 M John William Donaldson ^{1 6}

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           Born: 13 Sep 1853 - Brown Co, OH 1
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         Spouse: Mary Belle Lyon (      -      ) 1 6
           Marr: 1 Jan 1880 1

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3 F Jennie R. Donaldson ¹

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4 M Alexander B. Donaldson ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Donaldson

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He passed his youth on the home farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was educated.
He was a Whig, and an ardent partisan. He served many years as justice of the peace in Brown County, Ohio, to which state he removed six months before his first marriage, where he was engaged in coach building and afterward in farming. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he was an elder for years.
He died in [Georgetown?] Brown County, Ohio, and the family then removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, first locating near Canonsburg.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1254.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 720.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 426, 1254.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 272, 426.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 426.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 292.