Robert Guffey and Sarah Campbell

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Husband Robert Guffey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1798 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Abt 1870
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         Father: Squire John Guffey (1764-Abt 1845) 2
         Mother: Agnes Lowry (1773-1811) 1 2

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       Marriage:  - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA

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Wife Sarah Campbell ²

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           Born: Bef 1814
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           Died: 1904 2
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Children

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1 M James Lowry Guffey ³

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           Born: 23 Apr 1825 - near Sutersville, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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           Died: 29 Jan 1913 - Forward Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Round Hill Cemetery, Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Scott (1828-1886/1891) 3 4

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2 F Mary A. Guffey ^{3 4}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bet 1906 and 1915
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Robert Campbell Guffey ^{3 4}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bet 1906 and 1915
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4 M John R. Guffey ^{3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1835
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           Died: Aft 1915
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Guffey

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He bought a farm in Sewickley township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, lying about one and a half miles from Sutersville, containing one hundred acres that he cleared and brought under cultivation. He was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church.

The first coal mines in western Pennsylvania were opened up by the Guffeys on their own land. The first coal sent down the Ohio river from Pittsburgh was shipped in 1817. Robert Guffey, a son of “Squire John,” often related that in the year 1808, being then a lad of ten years, he held a copper lamp to give light to the coal diggers. The lamp was a great contrivance, oblong in shape, and contained lumps of tallow and wick which was drawn out through a spout and lighted.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 338.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 993.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 994.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 530.