Col. Robert Elder and Mary J. Thompson

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Husband Col. Robert Elder ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 11 Jun 1742 - Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Sep 1818 - Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Rev. John Elder (1706-1792) 5 6
         Mother: Mary Baker (1715-1749) 3 7

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       Marriage: 7 Feb 1769 8

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Wife Mary J. Thompson ^{1 9}

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           Born: 19 Oct 1750 1 2 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Aug 1813 1 2 9
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Robert Elder

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He was educated at the academy in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was destined by his father for the ministry. His inclinations, and the breaking out of the French and Indian war, when the boy enlisted with his father as a ranger on the frontiers, determined otherwise. With his Scotch-Irish neighbors, he entered heartily into the contest for independence, and throughout the war of the Revolution was in the field or engaged in organizing the associators, of which he was colonel, succeeding Colonel Burd in the command of the companies raised in Paxtang. At the close of the conflict, he continued his occupation of farming, avoiding public office, preferring the quiet of domestic life.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary J. Thompson

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from Derry

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 182.

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

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

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 192.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 535.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 187.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 622.

8 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 161.

9 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 193.