Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Elizabeth Kelso




Husband

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Wife Elizabeth Kelso 1 2

           Born: 24 Nov 1801 2
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           Died: 1884 or 1885 1 2
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         Father: Mark Kelso (1769-1853) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Ewing (Abt 1777-1819) 5 6


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Children

General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Kelso


She became slightly deranged at the age of about twenty years. There was a rumor of a broken engagement as the possible cause. She was an expert needlewoman and made for herself a fine long veil which she insisted upon wearing on occasions that were thought to be sufficiently great. After her father's death she continued to set a plate for him at the table and always expected his return before they would be through. Upon one occasion she burned sulphur in the house to smoke the devil out. She was never a charge upon others and her mind never assumed harmful or more serious delusions than these mentioned.

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Sources


1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 575.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 114.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 372, 575, 944.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 112.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 575, 944.

6 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 96.


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