Hon. John T. Cunningham and Rachel Davidson

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Husband Hon. John T. Cunningham ¹

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            AKA: John C. Cunningham 2
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           Died: 15 Apr 1845 - Lawrence Co, PA 3
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         Father: Benjamin Cunningham (1770-1843) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Margaret Morton (      -      ) 1 4 5

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Rachel Davidson ⁸

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         Father: Robert Davidson (Abt 1778-1846) 2
         Mother: Margaret McCord (Abt 1796-1882) 3

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Children

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1 M Robert D. Cunningham ⁸

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           Died: Bef 1908 - Venango Co, PA
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2 M Benjamin W. Cunningham ⁹

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           Born: 20 Feb 1837 - Chewton, Lawrence Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Clarissa Allen (      -1890) 10
           Marr: 1863 11

         Spouse: Elizabeth Morgan (      -      ) 12
           Marr: Feb 1900 11

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3 M Oliver Perry Cunningham ¹³

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           Born: 8 May 1839 - Chewton, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1908
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         Spouse: Sarah Amanda Hennon (      -1865) 14
           Marr: Jan 1865 - Iowa 15

         Spouse: Susan Kennedy (      -      ) 15

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4 M John Harvey Cunningham ⁸

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           Died: Jun 1902 or 1904 8
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         Spouse: [Unk] Loefler (      -Aft 1904) 15

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John T. Cunningham

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He was a very prominent citizen of Wayne Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. His home was in the village of Chewton, where he served for twenty years in the office of justice of the peace. In 1844 he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, but his public career was cut short by his death after a brief illness, in the spring of 1845. He was a man of systematic habits and exceptional judgment. His docket, while justice of the peace, covering two decades, shows 640 cases.
The pages are immaculately clean and neat, not a single page revealing a blot. These records were later possessed by a grandchild, Mrs. A. D. Morns, wife of the court stenographer of Lawrence County. In the fall of 1844, he was elected a member of the General Assembly, but did not live to complete his term in that office.

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General Notes: Wife - Rachel Davidson

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She died January 8, 1830, lacking one day of being thirty years of age. [TCHNCLC, 825] But the same source gives dates of birth for her children in the late 1830s.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 742.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 690.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 825.

4 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 129.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 470.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 964.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 327.

8 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 743, 825.

9 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 743, 824.

10 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 801.

11 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 826.

12 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 743, 826.

13 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 742, 908.

14 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 667, 743, 908.

15 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 743.