Samuel McMurdy and Mary Karnes

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Husband Samuel McMurdy ¹

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           Born: 11 Mar 1811 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Jan 1891
         Buried:  - Zion Union Cemetery (Old Zion), Mariasville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: George McMurdy (1788-1850) 3 4 5
         Mother: Polly Martin (1783-1871) 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 8 Dec 1835 7

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   Other Spouse: Maria Hale (Abt 1826-1896) 1 - 1852 1

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Wife Mary Karnes ¹

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            AKA: Mary Karns, Mary Kerns
           Born: 15 Nov 1814 - Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 31 Mar 1851
         Buried:  - Zion Union Cemetery (Old Zion), Mariasville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 8

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Children

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1 M William K. McMurdy ¹

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           Born: 7 Aug 1836 - Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1919
         Buried:  - Zion Union Cemetery (Old Zion), Mariasville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 8

         Spouse: Marian Winger (1845-1906)
           Marr: 16 Feb 1862 1

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2 F Anna "Annie" McMurdy ¹

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           Born: 28 Nov 1837
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Oct 1900
         Buried:  - Zion Union Cemetery (Old Zion), Mariasville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 9

         Spouse: James A. Caldwell (      -1925) 1

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3 M John McMurdy ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1890
         Buried: 

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel McMurdy

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At the age of seventeen he went to learn the trade of a tanner, shoe-maker, and harness-maker. He got his schooling in the log school-house of the olden time. His first purchase of land in Richland township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, consisted of 77 acres, for which he paid the sum of three dollars an acre. About 1878 he sold two farms at $100 per acre. He married in 1835, but his wife dying in 1851, he was married a second time in 1852.

He and his first wife were the parents of eight children; five were deceased before 1890.

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1116.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 4, Richland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1996), Pg 72.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 527, 953.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 327.

5 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 296.

6 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 527, 954.

7 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 169.

8 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 4, Richland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1996), Pg 71.

9 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 4, Richland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1996), Pg 59.