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Nancy Thompson Moorhead
Submitted by Karen Moorhead (second
email address), great great great great granddaughter of James and Nancy Thompson
Moorhead and great great granddaughter of Alexander Thompson Moorhead, Jr.
Nancy Thompson Moorhead, b. abt 1780, d. 13 May
1856 Indiana Co., PA; m. 20 Aug 1799 in Indiana Co., PA, James
Moorhead, b 23 Aug 1780 Waynesboro, Franklin Co., PA, d 9 Jan 1857
Indiana Co., PA, buried Oakland Cemetery, Indiana Co., PA.
Alexander Thompson Moorhead Jr. wrote a book History
of the Moorhead Family from the latter part of the Sixteenth Century to the
Present Time, Compiled and Published by A.T. Moorhead [Alexander Thompson Moorhead,
Jr.], Indiana, PA August 23, 1901.
This source states the following: Nancy
Thompson Moorhead, wife of James Moorhead,
was a strong-minded lady, but mild and affectionate to a large degree. She was a
most devout christian woman. She reigned by love as the queen in the home but
her word was law; a kind and tender mother, requiring strict obedience from all
her children, but careful not to impose too many laws. Her influece and control
followed the children through life. Even after they had homes of their own
a suggestion from "mother" was carefully observed. Her death, as her
life, was calm and peaceful and occurred May 13, 1856, in the 77th year of her
life.
Info taken from the book History of Moorhead Family compiled and
published by A.T. Moorhead, Indiana, PA August 23, 1901 In the year 1799, James
Moorhead erected a home upon the tract of land given him by this father
and on August 20 of the same year he married Miss Nancy
Thompson, a daughter of the family to which reference has been made.
There they lived, according to his own language, as happy as king and queen.
They were born to them ten children -- Alexander Thompson,
Polly Parks, Margaret, William, Nancy Riddle, James Washington, Robert Brown,
John Milton, Charlotte and Lavina.
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