William Elder and Dorcas Wilkin

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Husband William Elder ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1828 - ? Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Elder (1755-Abt 1840) 1
         Mother: Nancy Rose (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Dorcas Wilkin ¹

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            AKA: Dorcas Wilken 2
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   Other Spouse: James Brown, Sr. (      -      ) 1 2

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Children

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1 F Hannah Elder ¹

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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Spouse: J. E. McConnell (      -      ) 1

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2 M John Elder ^{1 3}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1820 - Slippery Rock, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1908 4
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         Spouse: Eliza J. Elliott (1828/1829-1904) 4 5

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3 F [Unk] Elder

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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Spouse: Robert Peoples (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Elder

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He settled about three miles from the old family homestead, and engaged in farming, afterwards keeping a general store at Harlansburg, Pennsylvania, drawing all his supplies by team from Pittsburgh, forty-one miles away. In the War of 1812 he served as a volunteer. Besides his mercantile life, he cleared up a good farm, or was engaged in doing so, and while raising the frame for a barn was caught by a falling timber, and killed.

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General Notes: Wife - Dorcas Wilkin

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She lived to the age of fifty-two years.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 32.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 696.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 392.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 393.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 35, 594.