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1. | Franklin Pierce STRAHORN was born 9 Jun 1851, New London, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (son of Joseph STRAHORN and Elizabeth ALCOTT); died 1 Aug 1912, Aetna Twp., Hardin Co., Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. Notes: Past and Present of Hardin County, Iowa edited by William J. Moir. Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen, 1911. Franklin married Cynthia Cornelia BIRD 12 Nov 1874, Etna, Hardin, Iowa. Cynthia was born 28 Sep 1851, Michigan; died 18 Oct 1929, Iowa Falls,Hardin, Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] Children:
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2. | Joseph STRAHORN was born 6 Feb 1805, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (son of Samuel J. STRAYHORN and Hannah GHEEN); died 20 Jul 1876, Aetna Twp., Hardin Co., Iowa; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. Notes: "To the citizens of Aetna township the gentleman whose life is herein reviewed is so well known as a capable farmer and honest, upright and active member of the community, as to need no introduction. Frank P. Strahorn was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1851, the son of Joseph and Eliza (Alcott) Strahorn. His father was born in 1805 and died on July 20, 1876. His mother was born in 1812, and died on December 1, 1877. His grandparents, Joseph and Alcott Strahorn, were natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent, and lived to be very old, dying in their native state. (his grandparents were actually Samuel Strahorn & Hannah Gheen -Ed) Joseph — Elizabeth ALCOTT. Elizabeth was born 27 Apr 1810; died 2 Dec 1877; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Elizabeth ALCOTT was born 27 Apr 1810; died 2 Dec 1877; was buried Oak Wood Cemetery, Ackley, Franklin Co., Iowa.
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4. | Samuel J. STRAYHORN was born 1769, Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert STRAYHORN and FNU LNU); died 10 Oct 1858, New London Twp, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania - Old Section. Notes: 1789 Tax List in Horsham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Samuel married Hannah GHEEN 1 Feb 1798, Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania. Hannah was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850. [Group Sheet] |
5. | Hannah GHEEN was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850.
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8. | Robert STRAYHORN was born Abt 1733, Ayrshire, Scotland; died Aft 1820, Chester, Pennsylvania. Other Events:
Notes: According to the Biographical History of Chester and Delaware Counties by Cope and Ashmeade (the copy I have seen was entitled Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties -Ed) published in 1901, Vol 2, page 394, "Robert Strahorn was a Scottish dissenter, who left his native land in order to escape religious persecution, and landed in America in April 1775, about the time of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted three times in the Continental Army, serving through the entire war, and never receiving a wound. He participated in some of the most memorable events which marked the struggle for independence, and was a sharer in many of the greatest of the hardships which fell to the lot of the devoted patriot army. He accompanied Washington when the latter, on that never-to-be-forgotten Christmas night, crossed the Delaware in order to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, and he shared all the sufferings of the winter at Valley Forge. Robert brought his two sons, Nathaniel and Samuel with him to America in 1775." (Most arrival records recorded males over sixteen years old, so Margaret was likely not recorded -Ed.) Robert — FNU LNU. [Group Sheet] |
9. | FNU LNU Notes: She was definitely not Margaret Ross. Notes: No birth records, thus no mother(s), have been found for Samuel and Nathaniel Strayhorn, and the birth record for Margaret does not name her parents.
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