Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Alexander Vance




Husband Alexander Vance 1

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         Father: Andrew Vance (1793-1858) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Nancy Byers (      -Aft 1889) 1 2 4





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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Vance


He enlisted in the First Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded at Grafton. Immediately after being discharged from the hospital he re-enlisted in Company A, Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served in that company until the close of the war, having veteranized by his third enlistment; during his service he participated in twenty-five decisively fought battles, including those of the Peninsular campaign.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 599.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 476.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 598.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 229.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 540.


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