David Metheny and Emma Gregg

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Husband David Metheny ¹

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            AKA: Dr. David Matheny 2
           Born: 16 Oct 1836 - near Wurtemburg, Lawrence Co, PA 3
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           Died: 4 Jun 1897 - Mersine, Asia Minor 3
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         Father: Joseph Matheny (1808-1838) 4
         Mother: Jane Sterrett (      -1838) 1

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       Marriage: 1862 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary Ellen Dodds (1849-Aft 1914) 5

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Wife Emma Gregg ³

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           Died: 1876 3
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Children

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1 F Emma Matilda Mizpah Metheny ⁶

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           Died: 1885 - Latakia, Syria 6
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         Spouse: Dr. A. J. Dodds (      -      ) 6

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2 F Elma Gregg Sterrett Metheny ⁶

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           Died: when six years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Dr. Samuel Alexander Sterrett Metheney ^{6 7}

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         Spouse: Margaret Slater (      -      ) 6 7

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4 M David Gregg Metheny ⁶

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         Spouse: Ida Patterson (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - David Metheny

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His early education was obtained under the direction of Professor John Newell, principal of a preparatory academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after which he entered Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, and immediately after his graduation therefrom volunteered for hospital service in the south, where physicians and surgeons were badly needed because of the many casualties of the Civil War, being stationed at Whitehouse Landing. The severe drain upon his strength and vitality, together with the unhealthful climate was more than he could endure, and he contracted a dangerous fever, which compelled him to return to the more bracing northern climate. From the age of fifteen years his training had been the responsibility of an uncle, Samuel A. Sterrett, a famous oculist and aurist of No. 907 Penn avenue, Pittsburgh, and to that city he returned at the close of his service in the south, establishing in practice there, being made physician to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was married in 1862 and soon after, in 1864, was appointed missionary physician to Latakia, Syria, and was there stationed for eighteen years, serving for that length of time as consular agent of the United States, receiving no remuneration for discharging the duties of that office. In 1873 he returned to the United States and was ordained a minister of the Covenanter Church, the first and only one to enter the ministry of that church without a theological education, his studies in Arabic being substituted for the Hebrew requirements. He moved to Adana, Asia Minor, in 1882, and was later stationed in Tarsus for two years, his last years as a missionary being spent at Mersine, where his death occurred.
"During his years spent in foreign lands, Dr. Metheny was the projector of a great and wonderful work among the natives of the countries in which he labored, and gave unsparingly of his time, strength and knowledge to their spiritual uplift and the curing of their physical ailments. In the organization of churches and Sunday schools he met with the most favorable success, and the converts he won to Christianity were many, a large number of whom carry on the work he so nobly began and reach more of their people than he could ever have hoped to touch through his own efforts. His share of the great missionary task with which humanity has been charged by Divine command has been a glorious one, the effects of which will be felt for long years to come, for by him has come the message that has called his fellow beings out of the darkness 'into His wonderful light.'"

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 203.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 207.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 204.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 813.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 204, 206.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 205.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1000.