John Morrison Elder and Margaret Erskine Brown

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Husband John Morrison Elder ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 22 Dec 1832 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1907 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Elder (1782-1855) 1 6 7 8
         Mother: Mary "Polly" McConnell (1792/1792-1881) 7 8 9

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       Marriage: 12 Nov 1861 10

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Wife Margaret Erskine Brown ^{2 4 5 10 11}

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           Born: 3 Mar 1837 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 May 1871 10
         Buried:  - New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Thomas Oliver Brown (1800-1866) 11 12 13 14 15
         Mother: Nancy Beattie (Abt 1809-1839) 2 4

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Children

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1 M John Calvin Brown Elder ¹⁰

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           Born: 24 Oct 1862 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Nettie Jane Love (1864-      ) 10

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2 F Tirzah Mary Elder ^{10 16 17}

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           Born: 9 Apr 1864 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Renwick Steele (1859-Aft 1918) 10 16 17
           Marr: 18 Sep 1888 10 17

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3 F Agnes Viola Elder ^{10 18 19}

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           Born: 10 Apr 1866 - New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 10 18
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Jun 1934 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John William Pollins (1849-1922) 10 19 20
           Marr: 21 Sep 1898 10 18

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4 F Harriet Cannon Elder ¹⁰

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           Born: 21 Mar 1869 21
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Apr 1899 21
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Baird Patterson (1867-      ) 21 22
           Marr: 29 May 1885 21

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General Notes: Husband - John Morrison Elder

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near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA

He was a farmer but appears to have been one rather from force of circumstances than by choice and inclination. He was a man of considerable culture and refinement, well read and of lively intellect. Although he was successful in his farming operations and continued in that pursuit all his days, yet his chief interests in life were with the things of the mind and the spirit. For many years he was a bulwark of the Covenantor Church at New Alexandria and he was personally acquainted with a great many ministers of that denomination (Reformed Presbyterian). Two of his brothers were ministers and other collateral relatives with whom he kept in touch were also in the professions, notably the law and the ministry.

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14 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 396.

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20 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 879.

21 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 539.

22 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 100.