Henry McDonough and Unknown

---

---

Husband Henry McDonough ¹

---

           Born:  - Baltimore, MD
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Somerset Twp, Washington Co, PA
         Buried: 

---

         Father: [Father] McDonough (      -      )
         Mother: 

---

       Marriage: 

---

   Other Spouse: Jane Hamilton (      -      ) 1

---

---

Wife Unknown

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Henry McDonough

---

He was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, where the family had resided many years.
The youngest in the family, he drifted westward, finally arriving in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and, first settling near West Alexander, was among the earliest pioneers of that locality. He married, and two children were born to him, but one day while he was absent from the house, clearing the land, the Indians rushed down on the little home, and massacred his helpless wife and children. Heartsick and lonely, the bereaved husband and father traded his property for a mere trifle, and abandoning the desolated home returned to Baltimore, where he remained a few years. However, he again came to Washington County, and in 1783 purchased a farm in Somerset township, on which he resided until his death. Soon after returning to the county he was married again.
In political affiliations he was a Whig, and served several years as justice of the peace in Somerset township. In religious faith he was first a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in later life united with the Baptists, in whose faith he died.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 479.