Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Joseph Taylor Gillespie and Sidney Jane Douglass




Husband Joseph Taylor Gillespie 1 2

           Born: 1819 - Washington Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1889
         Buried: 
       Marriage: Abt 1860

   Other Spouse: Catharine Kuhns (      -1858) 2 - 26 Jul 1838 2



Wife Sidney Jane Douglass 1 2 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1889
         Buried: 


         Father: Thomas Douglass (      -1859) 3 4 5
         Mother: Margaret Johnston (      -      ) 1




Children

General Notes: Husband - Joseph Taylor Gillespie


He received his education in the public schools. After he grew to manhood he worked on the river, building barges and floating coal to the southern markets. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company E, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and was eighteen months in active service and five months in the hospital, after which he was honorably discharged for disability. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.


General Notes: Wife - Sidney Jane Douglass


She never married and died quite aged. [GPHWP, 980]

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Sources


1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 576.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 375.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 980.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 334, 576.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 260.


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