John Elder and Elizabeth Awl

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Husband John Elder ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 3 Aug 1757 - Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 27 Apr 1811 - Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA 1 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church

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         Father: Rev. John Elder (1706-1792) 3 5
         Mother: Mary Simpson (1732-1786) 2 6 7

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       Marriage: 16 Dec 1778 4

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Wife Elizabeth Awl ²

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           Born: 18 Nov 4
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           Died: Abt 1850
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         Father: Jacob Awl (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Mary Elder ^{4 8}

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           Born: 1779 4
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           Died: 18 Dec 1831 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: Gen. John Forster (1777-1863) 8 10
           Marr: 25 Sep 1798 11

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2 M Jacob Elder ^{1 4}

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           Born: 1780 or 1783 - Paxtang, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: Oct 1816 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M John Elder ⁴

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         Spouse: Mary McCammon (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 17 Oct 1826 4

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4 M Robert Elder ⁴

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5 M Joshua Elder ⁴

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6 F Sally Ann Elder ⁴

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7 F Eliza Awl Elder ⁴

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         Spouse: Henry Alward (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Elder

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He was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and afterwards judge of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.

He was educated under Joseph Hutchinson, a celebrated teacher in his day, and gave special attention to land-surveying. He was a farmer. At the commencement of the Revolution, although a youth of eighteen, he was enrolled among the associators, and was an ensign in Colonel Burd's battalion. On the 18th of April, 1780, he was appointed deputy surveyor, and for several years filled that position. He was elected sheriff of the county of Dauphin in 1794, serving from the 19th of November, that year, until October 17, 1797. Like the majority of persons who filled that responsible ofiice in that locality, he came out of it the poorer.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Awl

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The source states that she was born in 1781, but this is impossible. Perhaps 1761 was meant?

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 482.

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

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

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 194.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 187.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 142.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 622.

8 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 492.

9 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 252.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 194, 247.

11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 251.