William Sterling and Martha Hartley Marshall

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Husband William Sterling ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Apr 1808 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Sterling (1772-      ) 3
         Mother: Janet McQuiston (Abt 1772-1845) 2

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Donaldson (      -      ) 2

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Wife Martha Hartley Marshall ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Oct 1820 1 2
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         Father: James Marshall (1790-1875) 2 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Margaret Kirkpatrick (      -1823) 2 5 8

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Children

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1 M Wilson C. Sterling ²

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         Spouse: Alice Reich (      -      ) 2

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2 F Margaret Sterling ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Celia Sterling ²

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4 F Sarah Sterling ²

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5 M James Marshall Sterling ^{2 10}

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            AKA: James A. Sterling 9
           Born: 16 Jun 1855 - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: Hannah Katherine "Kate" McConnell (1861-Bet 1905/1926) 10 12
           Marr: 17 Feb 1887 11

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6 M Edwin Sterling ²

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7 M William Sterling ²

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8 F Nettie Sterling ²

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         Spouse: Thomas Elder (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - William Sterling

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He followed farming, and was highly respected and very successful. His education, not unlike many another in those early days before the free public school system was established, was of necessity limited, yet by force of character, high aim in life, and through careful reading became a well versed man. He was a high-minded and sound thinking man, who absorbed but the good from his superior associates with whom he mingled. He was ever loyal to church and state, and a life-long total abstainer, as had been his father, even to the use of tobacco. He exerted all his influence for the cause of temperance, which in his day and generation was not as popular as later. Like all of his forefathers, he was strictly of the Presbyterian faith, exemplifying it in his daily walk with men. For many years he was an elder in the old Salem church, which society had for generations been sustained by the Sterlings. Aside from the office of elder he never held office, except that of school director in Derry township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

With his first wife he had two children, only one surviving in 1906.

1 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 52.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 303.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 301.

4 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 48.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 434.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 538.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 34.

8 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 49.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 129.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 35.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 304.

12 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 15, 304, 456.