Rev. Reid Bracken and Mary Graham

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Husband Rev. Reid Bracken ¹

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            AKA: Rev. Reed Bracken 2 3
           Born: 1778 - York Co, PA 4
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           Died: 29 Jul 1849 - Portersville, Muddy Creek Twp, Butler Co, PA 3 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Bracken (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Anna Shannon (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Graham ¹

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           Born: 
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         Father: Rev. William Graham (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Rev. Newton Bracken ³

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           Born: 1812 - Butler Co, PA 3
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           Died: 
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           Note: He succeeded his father as pastor at Portersville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1846. He retired at Glasco, Kansas, in 1883.

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Reid Bracken

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He was born in York County, Pennsylvania; was brought to Washington County when he was six weeks old. He was the first child baptized in Chartiers Church, and the first male child baptized west of the Alleghany Mountains. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1802, and was a member of the first class that graduated after the college was chartered; his name stands at the head of the list. In 1806, he came to Butler County, having been licensed to preach the Gospel in 1805; he received calls from Mount Nebo, in Connoquenessing Township, and Plain, in Cranberry Township. He was ordained on the 20th day of April, 1808, and preached thirty-eight years at Mount Nebo, twelve years at Plain, twelve at Middlesex, and a number of years at Portersville; one-half of his time at Mount Nebo; the other places successively. He died on the farm on which he settled (later owned by Mrs. Humphry), in the seventy-second year of his age. He was the pioneer minister in that part of Butler County and many churches were built up through his instrumentality.

He was a man of large stature, over six feet in height with a large frame. He came to Butler County when it was a new country and the people poor, and, like his people, he commenced in the woods, and by the labor of his own hands cut down the forest and made for himself a farm which he cultivated to support his family.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were the parents of eight children; seven were still living in 1883.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 191.

2 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 189.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 129.

4 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 189, 191.