Alexander Proudfit and Margaret Morrow

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Husband Alexander Proudfit ¹

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           Born: 2 May 1805 1
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           Died: 26 Dec 1859 - Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co, IA 2
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         Father: Alexander Proudfit (1763-1844) 3
         Mother: Martha McCleary (1774-1844) 1

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       Marriage: 21 Feb 1833 2

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Wife Margaret Morrow ¹

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           Born: 1809 2
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           Died: 6 Sep 1892 - Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co, IA 2
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Children

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1 M John Alexander Proudfit ²

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           Born: 2 May 1834 2
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Sarah E. Beatty (1843-Aft 1908) 2
           Marr: 1865 2

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2 F Mary Proudfit ²

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           Born: 1836 2
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           Died: 1891 4
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         Spouse: Rev. Ira O. Kemble (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1864 4

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3 M Andrew James Proudfit ²

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           Born: 1848 2
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           Died: Aft 1908
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         Spouse: Margaret Catherine Quick (1849-      ) 4
           Marr: 1870 4

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Proudfit

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He went from western New York to Pennsylvania in 1833, and settled on a farm in Franklin Township, Erie County, near his brother Andrew. Finding the labor of clearing a farm in that locality greater, and the soil less productive than he had expected, he remained but a year or two, going to Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he lived until some time after 1850. He then moved to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, but was caught in the current of emigration which set so strongly in the fifties to the states west of the Mississippi, and in 1857 moved with his family to Oskaloosa, Iowa. They made the entire journey with teams, the household goods being carried in a "prairie schooner," and the women driving in a single carriage. His oldest son had preceded him, and was already in business in Oskaloosa. He died of gastritis.

1 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 17.

2 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 60.

3 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 15.

4 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 61.