William Elwood and [Unk] Greer

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Husband William Elwood ^{1 2}

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            AKA: William Ellwood 3
           Born:  - Belmont Co, OH
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           Died: 1871 1
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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Ruth Lilley (1812-1885) 2 4

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Wife [Unk] Greer ⁵

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Children

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1 M William Ellwood ³

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           Died: Bef 1893
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2 F Clarissa Ellwood ³

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           Died: Bef 1893
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         Spouse: Harrison Bishop (      -      ) 3

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3 F Martha Ellwood ³

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           Died: Bef 1893
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         Spouse: Harrison Thompson (      -      ) 3

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4 F Margaret Ellwood ³

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           Died: Bef 1893
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5 U [Unk] Ellwood ³

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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 U [Unk] Ellwood ³

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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - William Elwood

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A native of Belmont County, Ohio, he became a pioneer of southwestern Pennsylvania, coming there in 1818. He was poor, both in this world's goods and in what an education might have given him, he had received none. When he entered Washington County, all his belongings he carried in a bandana handkerchief. He was a blacksmith by trade, going to work in Centreville, and by indomitable perseverance, close attention to business, and judicious economy, he not only made money, but saved it. By and by he bought a house and lot, then sixty-six acres of land, then 122, then 211 acres near Fredericktown, and, finally, yet another tract of 128 acres, all in East Bethlehem township, every foot of it earned by honest labor. (This tract was later owned and occupied by his son Robert J., the principal improvements being placed on it by the latter, including an elegant and commodious residence.)
In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

He had seven children with his first wife; all were deceased before 1893.

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General Notes: Wife - [Unk] Greer

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She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1410.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 575.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 454.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 454, 1413.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 454, 1410.