David Simpson and Lucinda Gamble

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Husband David Simpson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Aug 1809 - County Derry, Ireland 1
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           Died: Aft 1890
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         Father: Robert Simpson (      -1847) 1
         Mother: Margaret Gilliland (Abt 1776-1872) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Mary Peoples (1820-      ) 1 - 18 May 1854 1

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Wife Lucinda Gamble ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 24 Jun 1852 1
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Children

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1 F Martha Simpson ¹

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           Died: Aft 1890
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         Spouse: Benjamin Davidson (      -      ) 1

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2 M William G. Simpson ¹

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General Notes: Husband - David Simpson

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He was born three miles from Londonderry, in county Derry, Ireland. He was a tailor by trade.
He came to America in 1833, landed at St. Johns, New Brunswick, and from there went to Philadelphia, from whence he walked to Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and returned the next spring to Philadelphia. He then left that city and worked at tailoring in Baltimore and at Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland, Wilmington, North Carolina, and in New York City. In 1841 he went to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and from thence removed in 1842 to Johnstown where he worked for twelve years. In 1845 he built the "Mansion House" which was 50x80 feet in dimensions and was swept away by the great flood of 1889. In 1854 he sold the above named house and purchased a farm in Derry township, Westmoreland County, on which he lived for nine years. He then sold that farm and bought and sold two other farms. In 1874 he purchased a well-improved farm in Derry township on which he then resided. He also owned some valuable property in Latrobe.
He was a strong and unswering democrat. He was the oldest living charter member of Conemaugh Lodge, No. 191, I. O. O. F. and during a half century membership never asked for or received a cent of benefits.

He had six children with his first wife; two of these were still living in 1890.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 511.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 407.