John Murray and Mary [Unk]

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Husband John Murray ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Jan 1824 2
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary [Unk] ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Apr 1871 1 2
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Alexander Murray ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1813 - Shaver's Creek Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Apr 1889 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Isabella Meek Holt (      -1879) 3 4 5
           Marr: 23 Feb 1842 5

         Spouse: Mrs. Ermina J. Spackman (      -1885) 1 5
           Marr: 19 Jan 1882 1 5

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General Notes: Husband - John Murray

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In the year 1821, he and his wife, with a family of small children, came from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and took up their abode in that part of Clearfield County that was, in later years, erected into Girard township, upon lands for which the father had a contract of purchase, but for which no payment had then been made. After three years passed in clearing the land, for it was a dense forest, and erecting a cabin in which to live, the head of this family was taken away by the hand of death, leaving to the widowed mother the care of the children, and with no hope for future comfort save her great mainstay and support,\emdash faith and trust in God. Armed with these, and being possessed of much courage and energy, she commenced the battle for life.

1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 687.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 772.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 687, 706.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 644, 1652.

5 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 773.