Isaac Fulton and Hannah Simpson

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Husband Isaac Fulton ¹

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           Born: Abt 1809
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           Died: 1874 1
         Buried:  - Madison, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: John Fulton (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah Totten (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Hannah Simpson ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 
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         Father: Daniel Simpson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Hannah McIlravy (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M John Fulton ¹

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           Born: 22 Nov 1869 3
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Margaret Fulton (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Abt 1890

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2 M James Fulton ¹

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           Born: 4 Jul 1872 3
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Fulton

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He remained unmarried, living with his bachelor brothers and maiden sisters until he had reached the age of sixty years, when he married Hannah Simpson, thirty-six years of age. Upon his marriage he purchased a farm of sixty-eight acres at Centerville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a stone mason by trade, but was very much more extensively known as a lecturer on the abolition of slavery and temperance.
Like his nephew, Colonel J. T. Fulton, and like Andrew and Samuel Fulton, other distinguished representatives of the family who were well known in the legal profession during their lives, he possessed a gift of language, which, as the tool of an original mind and a faculty for thinking on his feet rendered him a very effective force for the advancement of the two great causes which he had championed. He was very popular with audiences in that part of the country and made very effective addresses, and so sincerely convinced was he of the righteousness of his cause that he did not hesitate to keep appointments in the face of threats against his life. His temperance views were of such a radical nature that the minister of his church ex-communicated him. He was extremely radical in his general opinions and was well-known as a reformer throughout the region. He was a man much in advance of his time, and although he enjoyed no unusual educational advantages was possessed of great native talents, which brought him eventually to the position which he held in the community. He was utterly without fear and his friends and neighbors sometimes quoted him as fearing neither man nor devil. Upon his death he left his widow with two sons, aged five and two years, respectively. Mrs. Fulton, often had great difficulty in supporting the small family, but did the best she could, and gave them what advantages she might, although often at a cost of long and painful struggle. When they finally came of an age to take care of the farm, she surrendered the management of it to them.

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General Notes: Wife - Hannah Simpson

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She was very popular in the neighborhood, and was an unusually good neighbor, especially in cases of sickness, and was often called to the bedside of her ill friends even when age should have excused her.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 897.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 897, 912, 1009.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 898.