David Simpson and Mary Peoples

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Husband David Simpson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Aug 1809 - County Derry, Ireland 1
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         Father: Robert Simpson (      -1847) 1
         Mother: Margaret Gilliland (Abt 1776-1872) 1

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       Marriage: 18 May 1854 1

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   Other Spouse: Lucinda Gamble (      -1852) 1

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Wife Mary Peoples ¹

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            AKA: Mary P. [Unk] 2
           Born: 8 Apr 1820 1
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         Father: Joseph Peoples (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Steel (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth S. Simpson ¹

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           Born: 24 Mar 1855 1
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         Spouse: M. L. Middlekauf (      -      ) 1

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2 F Mary J. Simpson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Jan 1857 1
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         Spouse: George A. Lynn (1849-      ) 1 2
           Marr: 9 Jun 1885 2

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3 M George P. Simpson ¹

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           Born: 23 Oct 1858 1
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4 M Joseph Williamson Simpson ^{1 3}

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           Born: 15 Jan 1860 - Pennsylvania 1
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5 M David Emmett Simpson ¹

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           Born: 4 Dec 1861 1
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6 F E. Agnes Simpson ¹

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           Born: 19 Apr 1864 1
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General Notes: Husband - David Simpson

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He was born three miles from Londonderry, in county Derry, Ireland. He was a tailor by trade.
He came to America in 1833, landed at St. Johns, New Brunswick, and from there went to Philadelphia, from whence he walked to Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and returned the next spring to Philadelphia. He then left that city and worked at tailoring in Baltimore and at Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland, Wilmington, North Carolina, and in New York City. In 1841 he went to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and from thence removed in 1842 to Johnstown where he worked for twelve years. In 1845 he built the "Mansion House" which was 50x80 feet in dimensions and was swept away by the great flood of 1889. In 1854 he sold the above named house and purchased a farm in Derry township, Westmoreland County, on which he lived for nine years. He then sold that farm and bought and sold two other farms. In 1874 he purchased a well-improved farm in Derry township on which he then resided. He also owned some valuable property in Latrobe.
He was a strong and unswering democrat. He was the oldest living charter member of Conemaugh Lodge, No. 191, I. O. O. F. and during a half century membership never asked for or received a cent of benefits.

He had six children with his first wife; two of these were still living in 1890.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 511.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 407.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1106.