Peter Gillespie and Ruth Anna Jones

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Husband Peter Gillespie ¹

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           Born: 10 Nov 1853 - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Joseph Taylor Gillespie (1819-Bef 1889) 1 2
         Mother: Catharine Kuhns (      -1858) 1

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       Marriage: 10 Dec 1884 3

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Wife Ruth Anna Jones ³

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         Father: John Jones (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Martha Pascoe (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Edith Ruth Gillespie ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Catharine Martha Gillespie ³

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           Born: 13 Aug 1888 3
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3 M Joseph Alan Gillespie ³

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           Born: 4 Jul 1890 3
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4 F Eva Ruth Gillespie ³

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           Born: 21 Sep 1901 3
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General Notes: Husband - Peter Gillespie

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He was educated in the public schools of Coultersville, Pennsylvania, and after leaving school learned the carpenter's trade. In 1876 he went to Pittsburgh, where he was for some years engaged in business as a contractor and builder. He served multiple terms as school director of the Twenty-third ward; he was also a member of the central board of education. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Grand Fraternal Insurance. Politically he was a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Mary S. Brown Memorial Methodist Episcopal church of the Twenty-third ward.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 375.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 576.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 376.