ing the height of the excise excitement;[1] during the latter years of his life retired from active business, devoting his attention to his estates, which, in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, comprehended surveys called in the original patents, Barry Hall, Bergen op Zoom, Ormsby's Villa, Mount Oliver and many other extensive tracts; died 19 December, 1805, at the townhouse of his son, Oliver Ormsby, corner of Water street and Chancery lane, Pittsburgh, with whom he had resided for some time prior to his decease, having given up his own establishment after the death of his wife. He lies buried with his wife and others of the family in Trinity churchyard. Their epitaphs, fast becoming undecipherable, are given thus in Penna. Maga., 1880, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 124:
"In memory of Jane Ormsby
late wife of John Ormsby who departed this
life the 13th day of June A. D. 1799, aged 52 years.
Mrs. Ormsby was a virtuous wife, a fond
mother, and an agreeable and
affectionate neighbor,
whose loss is greatly lamented by her family and friends."
"On the 19th day of December, A. D. 1805
the remains of the venerable John Ormsby, aged 85
years, was interred agreeably to his
desire with the ashes of his
beloved Wife.
"Mr. Ormsby may truly be styled the Patriarch of the Western Ormsbys; he migrated to Fort DuQuesne about the time the British took possession of it; at which time he was Commissary of Provisions, and Paymaster of Disbursements for the erection of Fort Pitt; subsequently he entered largely into the Indian
- ↑ "Allegheny County's Hundred Years," by George H. Thurston, p. 31.
