Husband Ephraim Lyon Blaine 1 2 3
Born: 28 Feb 1796 - Middlesex, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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Died: 28 Jun 1850 4
Buried: - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
Father: James Blaine, Esq. ( -1832) 1 5 6 7
Mother: Margaret "Peggy" Lyon (1772- ) 1 5 6 7
Marriage: 1820
Wife Maria Gillespie 1 2 8
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Buried: - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
Father: Neal Gillespie, Jr. ( - ) 8 9
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1 M Hon. James Gillespie Blaine 1 9
Born: 31 Jan 1830 - West Brownsville, Washington Co, PA
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Died: 27 Jan 1893 - Washington, D. C.
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Spouse: Harriet Stanwood ( - )
2 F [Unk] Blaine
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Spouse: Maj. Robert C. Walker ( -Aft 1889) 10 11
3 M Neil Blaine 9
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4 M Robert Gillespie Blaine 9
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5 M John E. Blaine 9
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6 F Eliza Blaine 9
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7 F Margaret Blaine 9
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General Notes: Husband - Ephraim Lyon Blaine
He was engaged in merchandising and farming with his father. He became quite prominent and influential in public and political affairs; in 1842 was the Democratic candidate for prothonotary, and elected. During the heat of the canvass which preceded the election, it seems to have been a mooted question whether the Democratic candidate for the office of prothonotary was a member of the Roman Catholic church, as if such membership deprived that communion of citizenship\emdash an opinion most intolerant and bigoted. However, to prove or disprove an assertion too freely made, the Roman priest officiating in the neighborhood was appealed to, who promptly furnished the following:
"This is to certify that Ephraim L. Blaine is not now and never was a member of the Catholic Church; and furthermore, in my opinion, he is not fit to be a member of any Church."
The foregoing forcible, and not to say the least unequivocal, document, was afterwards displayed in the public prints of the day. Notwithstanding the broad and, perhaps, unwarranted assertion of the Reverend Father, Mr. Blaine finally became a member of the denomination mentioned, and his remains lie buried beside those of his wife, within the shadows of the Roman Catholic church at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna.
General Notes: Wife - Maria Gillespie
from Washington Co, PA
Her forebears were Irish Catholics who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1780s.
Notes: Marriage
They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony, although he remained a Presbyterian. Following a common compromise of the era, they agreed that their daughters would be raised in their mother's Catholic faith while their sons would be brought up in their father's religion.