Robert Elder and Mary Whiteside

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Husband Robert Elder ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1751 - Paxtang Twp, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Oct 1837 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
         Buried:  - Salem Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: David Elder (1710-1753) 6
         Mother: Hannah Anderson (1716-1811) 2

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       Marriage:  - ? Lancaster Co, PA

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Wife Mary Whiteside ^{2 3}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Feb 1823 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
         Buried:  - Salem Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Capt. Thomas Whiteside (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Margaret Porter (      -      ) 8 9

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Children

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1 F Hannah Elder ^{2 10 11}

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           Born: 23 Mar 1780 - Lancaster Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Sep 1855 - Indiana Co, PA 2 11
         Buried:  - Salem Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: James Richards (Abt 1772-1827/1833) 2 10 11
           Marr: 1809 11

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2 M Thomas Elder ^{1 2 9 12}

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           Born: 18 Jan 1782 - Lancaster Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Apr 1855 - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary "Polly" McConnell (1792/1792-1881) 2 9 13
           Marr: 2 Jun or 12 Jun 1812 12

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Elder

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He was a soldier through all of the seven years of the Revolutionary War, and, soon after the close of the struggle for liberty, moved with his mother and family from the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Westmoreland County, where he was one of the earliest settlers. He took up a tract of land near New Alexandria, known as "the Richlands."

In 1800 the Elders, with the McConnell and Whiteside families, with whom they were intermarried, crossed the mountains by covered wagon, settling on land in Derry Township, Westmoreland County, which they acquired by patent from the Commonwealth.

He was a cabinetmaker by trade. He settled on, and became owner of, a portion of a large body of land, long known as the "Richlands," taken up by Thomas Anderson, a relative of his. Of these lands, the tract known as "Hannasburg" descended through the mother, Mrs. Hannah Elder; the other, known as "Andersonia," by will of said Anderson. Robert Elder was in politics a democrat, a consistent member of "Old Salem" Presbyterian church (Salem, in whose church-yard stood an ancient gravestone marked "Thomas Anderson, aged 103 years").

1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 600.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 536.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 191.

4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 258.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 535.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 13.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 14.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 34.

10 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 395.

11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 208.

12 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 487.

13 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 488.