Family of Ormsby.
21
|
farmer and slave owner of Shippensburg, Pa., by his wife Sarah Dougherty, b. 1747; d. 23 December, 1834; both buried Middle Spring, Pa., lower graveyard. David Mahon was son of Archibald Mahon, whose father removed from Wales, their native country, to Nuck, co. Londonderry, Ireland, where he married, from whence his son came to America with the McNitt family and married Jane McNitt shortly after landing here, and settled on the Connedoguinet creek, near Herron's branch, Cumberland co., Pa. Issue: | ||
| 1. Jane Ormsby, m. Robert Graham Ormsby. | ||
| 2. Sarah Mahon Ormsby, m. Major Asher Phillips, U. S. A. | ||
| 3. Sidney Ormsby, m. John Harding Page. | ||
| 4. Caroline Ormsby, d. young. | ||
| 5. Mary Mahon Ormsby, m. Lieut. Elias Phillips, U. S. A. | ||
| 6. John Ormsby, d. young. | ||
| 7. Caroline Ormsby, d. unm. | ||
| 8. Oliveretta Ormsby, m. Lieut. Col. Clifton Wharton, U. S. A. | ||
| 9. Josephine Blakeney Ormsby, m. Commandant Edward Madison Yard, U. S. N. | ||
| 10. Oliver Harrison Ormsby, m. Jane Eliza Hoffa. | ||
BEDFORD.
| 3. Jane Ormsby (John1), b. Bedford, Pa., 1769; d. 8 July, 1790; m. Doctor Nathaniel Bedford, b. Birmingham, England; d. Pittsburgh, 21 March, 1818; a surgeon in the British army; later, about 1765, came to Pittsburgh and was first physician in what is now Allegheny county; laid out the original town of Birmingham, now incorporated in Pittsburgh, South Side, in the fall of 1811 and named it |
