William Ramsey Line and Mary Simpson Elder

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Husband William Ramsey Line ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1814 2
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           Died: Aft 1905
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         Father: Judge William Line (1785-1868) 3 4
         Mother: Rebecca Wise (      -1826) 5

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       Marriage: 10 Jul 1845 1 6

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Wife Mary Simpson Elder ^{6 7}

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           Born: 1798 7
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           Died: 17 Apr 1882 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8
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         Father: Samuel Elder (1772-1815) 9 10
         Mother: Margaret Espy (1771-1851) 9 11 12

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   Other Spouse: Adams Campbell (      -1840) 6 7

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - William Ramsey Line

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He was born while his parents resided on West South street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was named after the Hon. William Ramsey, an intimate friend of his father. He grew to manhood in, and always lived near, the town. During his youth he attended the private schools which then flourished in Carlisle. Meager as were the educational advantages of the day, he made good progress in his studies, and before he had reached manhood's years had acquired sufficient knowledge to teach school, which he did for a number of years. His first teaching was done at the Red School House, later named Paradise, in South Middleton township. He next taught the Wise School and subsequently the one located near the head of the Letort Spring, which came to be known as the Bonny Brook school. He was successful from the first, and as his reputation as an instructor spread, patrons multiplied, and his school grew to large size, young men and women, some of them married, availing themselves of his teaching. This school was always well filled with studious and well-behaved pupils. Besides being a natural scholar and instructor, he in his earlier years, had a mechanical bent of mind and worked in wood as a recreation from his studies and school duties. While teaching the Wise school he spent much of his spare time in the carpenter shop of Philip Shissler nearby, and among other useful things made himself a new buggy.

Soon after his marriage he moved to a farm lying on the Trindle Spring Road a short distance east of Carlisle, the ownership of which he later acquired. There he resided continuously, his life quiet and uneventful, but full of the kind deeds.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 207.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 173.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 204.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 171.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 172.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 174.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 206.

9 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 482.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 191.

11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 191, 218.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1002.