Alexander Hawthorne and Cynthea Locke

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Husband Alexander Hawthorne ¹

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           Died: 1864 - Lawrence Co, PA 1
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   Other Spouse: Mary McMurray (      -1854) 2 - 1807 2

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Wife Cynthea Locke ²

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           Died: 1860 2
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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Hawthorne

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He came from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, about or shortly after 1800. He built the first hotel in New Castle, Lawrence County, which he called the "Exchange Hotel," at the southwest corner of what later became Mercer and North Streets, about 1804 or 1805. The hotel was boarded on the sides and was one of the first buildings built of sawed stuff in that section of the country. Buildings were generally left unpainted in those days, so when the newly finished building was painted with a purplish paint made from iron ore found near by, it caused much comment. The peculiar hue soon earned for the hotel the name "Pokeberry Exchange" which it carried for many years. The hotel was finally sold to one of the Reinholts. Mr. Hawthorne purchased a farm in Neshannock Township, about 1804, and finally moved from town to the farm, probably about 1840, where he remained until his death. [TCHNCLC, 879]

He purchased Tract No. 1825, next north of the John Moore farm and next to the farm later occupied by John R. Maitland, about 1804. He built a house and barn on the property and put on a tenant, he himself living in New Castle at his hotel, nicknamed the "Pokeberry Exchange," till about 1840, when he moved out on the farm and lived there until his death.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 860, 879.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 879.