Husband Dr. Robert Agnew 1 2 3 4
Born: 21 Apr 1785 - Adams Co, PA 4
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Died: 10 Oct 1858 2
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Father: David Agnew (1743- ) 5 6 7
Mother: Mary Erwin ( - ) 5 6 8
Marriage: 1 Aug 1815 4
Wife Agnes Noble 9 10
AKA: Mary Novle Henderson,4 [Unk] Noble 11
Born: 30 Jan 1781 1
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Died: 25 Feb 1871 - Lancaster Co, PA 1
Buried: - Fagg's Manor, Chester Co, PA
Father: James Noble ( - ) 9
Mother:
Other Spouse: Rev. Ebenezer Henderson ( -1804) 9 11 12 13
Children
1 M Dr. David Hayes Agnew, M.D., LL.D. 3 4 10 14 15 16
Born: 24 Nov 1818 - Sadsbury Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 14 15
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Died: 22 Mar 1888 3
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Spouse: Margaret Creighton Irwin ( - ) 2
Marr: 21 Nov 1841 2
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Agnew
He was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and received his general education at Dickinson college, studied medicine and became a surgeon in the United States Navy. On his first voyage the vessel was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, and he narrowly escaped with his life. This incident changed his plans. He settled at Nobleville, where he soon acquired a large general practice, which finally made inroads upon his health, and he determined to retire. His popularity, however, was such that he concluded the only way to do this was to remove from the neighborhood. He, therefore, after a practice of a quarter of a century, removed to Baltimore County, Maryland, where he purchased a handsome country seat. While a citizen of Lancaster County he was prominently identified with the Octoraro United Presbyterian Church as a leading member of the Sessions. The farm house in which his distinguished son, David Hayes Agnew, was born was still standing in 1903 and in good repair. The old flouring mill, built by Dr. Robert Agnew in 1816, on a branch of the Octoraro at Christiana, was then a ruin. For many years the driveway leading from the public road to the farm buildings, led over the embankment of the mill pond.
He was a physician of Sadsburg township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the State Legislature, 1828-29.
General Notes: Wife - Agnes Noble
Her last years were spent in the enjoyment of good health. To the last her powers were unimpaired. Her mind had lost none of its vigor-she was still employed with her favorite books. These were the standard religious treatises of a former age, Boston's Fourfold State, Owen on Forgiveness and on the Spirit, Edwards' History of Redemption, Baxter's Saint's Rest, and Henry's Commentary. Of these and of the Bible she was never weary. Always serene, contented and cheerful, perfectly guileless and ingenuous in character, unusually clear and full in knowledge of divine truth, she daily walked with God, and ripened for glory.
Reverence for divine things was a marked feature in her character, and she could never allow a quotation from the Scriptures, for any light or trifling purpose, to go unrebuked.
She was most happily qualified for the positions she held as the partner of a pastor and of a physician. Though she lived long, she did not outlive her usefulness, but lived the object of general regard, and died to the regret of all who knew her.
She was a distinguished and excellent woman, a "mother in Israel"; a widow who was a "widow indeed," and who, like "Anna the prophetess-the daughter of Phanuel-lived to a great age," and to the last moment of her long life faithfully "served God night and day." She died of paralysis, in the ninety-first year of her age.
To her son, Dr. Agnew, who was summoned to her bedside, she said, "I am glad to see you. You have come to see the broken frame of your old mother; but in my feebleness I have still great cause for thankfulness. God has kept my mind untouched," and, as if to assure him of the fact, commenced repeating to him one of her favorite chapters, (John xiv.) "Let not your heart be troubled," &c.; also the 71st and 91st Psalms. She constantly spoke of her decease with the utmost composure, and, as her end drew nigh, repeated the passage, "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?"
She wished her dust to repose beside that of her husband and ancestors in the old burying-ground of Fagg's Manor-and there, on a lovely spring day, after appropriate services by her pastor, the Rev. Mr. Easton, at the house of her nephew, Rev. W. F. P. Noble, her remains were laid to rest near the place where she was born and twice married.
Old friends gathered in to see her, and so gently had time dealt with her, so little was she changed-not a furrow on her face-that one and another said, "This is indeed my old friend; nothing is wanting but the bloom upon the cheek."