Martha McNair, 12 Aug 1774 - 11 Jan 1803 at Shippensburg, PA, was the daughter of Thomas McNair and Ann Wallace McNair. She married Samuel Sturgeon. Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German by Wm H Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, p 492.
"* Sturgeon, Mrs., wife of Saml, sen." died 1817. It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. It also contains: "*M'Nair, Martha (Sturgeon) (sic)," 1774 - 11 Jan 1803. “Sturgeon, Mrs., w. Sam’l, sen., died 20 Sept. 1803” (p 42). It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading. Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA : Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39 & 41-42. No explanation why there is a different death day and month in her 1803 date in this source.
S Bertha Hayes Sanford’s DAR #61875, her application states “Samuel Sturgeon and Martha McMcNair, his wife.” They had a daughter Margaret Sturgeon who married John Heck. Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 61, 1922, p 303.
So she does not have an existing gravestone here.
Her obit was located in the Carlisle Weekly Herald (Carlisle, PA) dated 15 Jan 1803, page 2 (see photo). Note: Carlisle & Shippensburgh are in Cumberland Co., PA
"* Sturgeon, Mrs., wife of Saml, sen." died 1817. It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. It also contains: "*M'Nair, Martha (Sturgeon) (sic)," 1774 - 11 Jan 1803. “Sturgeon, Mrs., w. Sam’l, sen., died 20 Sept. 1803” (p 42). It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading. Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA : Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39 & 41-42. No explanation why there is a different death day and month in her 1803 date in this source.
S Bertha Hayes Sanford’s DAR #61875, her application states “Samuel Sturgeon and Martha McMcNair, his wife.” They had a daughter Margaret Sturgeon who married John Heck. Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 61, 1922, p 303.
So she does not have an existing gravestone here.
Her obit was located in the Carlisle Weekly Herald (Carlisle, PA) dated 15 Jan 1803, page 2 (see photo). Note: Carlisle & Shippensburgh are in Cumberland Co., PA
Martha McNair, 12 Aug 1774 - 11 Jan 1803 at Shippensburg, PA, was the daughter of Thomas McNair and Ann Wallace McNair. She married Samuel Sturgeon. Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German by Wm H Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, p 492.
"* Sturgeon, Mrs., wife of Saml, sen." died 1817. It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. It also contains: "*M'Nair, Martha (Sturgeon) (sic)," 1774 - 11 Jan 1803. “Sturgeon, Mrs., w. Sam’l, sen., died 20 Sept. 1803” (p 42). It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading. Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA : Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39 & 41-42. No explanation why there is a different death day and month in her 1803 date in this source.
S Bertha Hayes Sanford’s DAR #61875, her application states “Samuel Sturgeon and Martha McMcNair, his wife.” They had a daughter Margaret Sturgeon who married John Heck. Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 61, 1922, p 303.
So she does not have an existing gravestone here.
Her obit was located in the Carlisle Weekly Herald (Carlisle, PA) dated 15 Jan 1803, page 2 (see photo). Note: Carlisle & Shippensburgh are in Cumberland Co., PA
"* Sturgeon, Mrs., wife of Saml, sen." died 1817. It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. It also contains: "*M'Nair, Martha (Sturgeon) (sic)," 1774 - 11 Jan 1803. “Sturgeon, Mrs., w. Sam’l, sen., died 20 Sept. 1803” (p 42). It notes (*) her death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading. Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA : Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39 & 41-42. No explanation why there is a different death day and month in her 1803 date in this source.
S Bertha Hayes Sanford’s DAR #61875, her application states “Samuel Sturgeon and Martha McMcNair, his wife.” They had a daughter Margaret Sturgeon who married John Heck. Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 61, 1922, p 303.
So she does not have an existing gravestone here.
Her obit was located in the Carlisle Weekly Herald (Carlisle, PA) dated 15 Jan 1803, page 2 (see photo). Note: Carlisle & Shippensburgh are in Cumberland Co., PA
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