David Ralston and Agnes Nancy Sharp

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Husband David Ralston ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1809 3
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       Marriage: 1803

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Wife Agnes Nancy Sharp ^{1 4 5}

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           Born: 21 Feb 1785 - Indiana Co, PA 4 5 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Aug 1862 - Indiana Co, PA 4 5 6
         Buried:  - Crooked Creek Cemetery

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         Father: Capt. Andrew Sharp (1750/1752-1794) 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Ann Woods (1757-1809) 6

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   Other Spouse: James Mitchell (1777-1845/1847) 3 5 6 - 1810

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Children

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1 M Andrew Ralston ⁶

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2 M David Ralston ^{1 3 10}

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           Born: 1804 - Armstrong Co, PA 11
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           Died: Bef 1880
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret Sharpe (      -Bef 1880) 10

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3 M John Ralston ^{2 6}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1807 - Plum Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 12
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           Died: 24 Aug 1879 - Elderton, Plum Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 13
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Sloan (      -1874) 6 14
           Marr: 26 Jun 1833 14

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4 F Mary Ralston ^{3 6}

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         Spouse: William McCracken (      -Bef 1880) 3 6

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General Notes: Husband - David Ralston

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He was a pioneer of Scotch-Irish descent, settled in Plum Creek township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and met with a tragic death nine years later.

His death occurred at a log tavern, then kept on the farm formerly owned by Robert Woodward, and later by John Ralston. Among the persons stopping there, at the time, was a man who went out of the house, after dark, for the purpose of waylaying another against whom he had some grudge. Mr. Ralston soon after went out, and, having been taken for the one for whom the other was lying in wait, was struck with a club. The blow, thus inflicted, soon proved to be fatal. He had in his life-time purchased, and resided on, the several tracts of land in the southeastern part of Plum Creek township.

He was an early settler in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, at the forks of Plum and Crooked creeks. In 1870, a stone was taken out of an oak tree which had blown down on this tract, on which was inscribed "D. R. 1798."

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General Notes: Wife - Agnes Nancy Sharp

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She was said to have been the first white child born in the section of Pennsyl­vania on the west side of Crooked Creek.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 428, 516.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 203, 591.

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 203.

4 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 29.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 653.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 428.

7 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 28.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 17.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 64.

10 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 65.

11 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 516.

12 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 591.

13 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 593.

14 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 592.