Alexander McWilliams and Eliza Beatty

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Husband Alexander McWilliams ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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Wife Eliza Beatty ²

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           Born:  - Belfast, Ireland
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         Father: Hugh Beatty (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M John P. McWilliams ¹

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           Born: 10 Nov 1849 - Center Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Imelda Meals (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 28 May 1872 2

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2 M Hugh B. McWilliams ²

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3 F Anne Jane McWilliams ²

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4 M William McWilliams ²

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5 F Mary Elizabeth McWilliams ²

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6 M Samuel McWilliams ²

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7 M Robert McWilliams ²

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8 M David McWilliams ²

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander McWilliams

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He came as a boy from Ireland to the United States, and went directly to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he settled and made his home. The city of Pittsburgh was at that time little more than a marsh and Mr. McWilliams made his home in a log cabin situated on what became Fifth avenue. He learned the trade of stone mason and was one of those who worked upon the construction of the first bridge piers ever erected in the city. He was still a resident of Pittsburgh at the time of the great fire, but about 1845 he bought a farm in Center township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and moved there with his wife. Butler County was pretty much all a wilderness at the time of Mr. McWilliams' settlement, and he was obliged to clear his property of the virgin growth of forest and build for himself a log cabin.
He died at the age of eighty-three years.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 575.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 576.