Excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania: Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers Church of that town. She is of scotch-irish descent, and is one of a family of eight chil dren. Her father was a tailor, doing business in Decatur township. Both he and his wife died at an advanced age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.