Rev. Lawrence Stright and Sarah L. Dodd

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Husband Rev. Lawrence Stright ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Rev. Lawrence Streit
           Born: Cal 30 Mar 1802
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Aug 1858
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Lawrence Stright (1751-1812) 4
         Mother: Margaret Roy (1757-1817) 4

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       Marriage: 1826 2

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Wife Sarah L. Dodd ²

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           Born: Cal 15 May 1805
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Nov 1872
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Lawrence Stright

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He preached at the New School Presbyterian Church, which was built about one and a half miles north of New Vernon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania; he helped to build up the organization, and the old church building was afterward moved away by James Stright, and was used for a barn. In this church a Rev. Burchard preached who was a cousin of the famous “R. R. R.” Burchard. Lawrence Stright organized a church in Sunville, Venango County, where he preached until his death.

He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1835. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Erie, June 26, 1838, and served churches at Wattsburg and Sun­ville and for a short time served dissenters from the Fairfield Church.

He died Aug. 5, 1858. [SG, 14]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 977.

2 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 14.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 74.

4 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 12.