Photo taken 29 April 2010

The headstone shows he was born in 1827. His Pa. death certificate shows he was born in 1837. I cannot find any official documents proving the 1827 date.

History of Allegheny County, p. 444:

John Muse, farmer, P. O. McKeesport, was born in Wilkins township, Allegheny county, Pa., March 9, 1827, a son of John J. and Rebecca (Edmundson) Muse. His paternal grandfather, Fauntley Muse, a native of Virginia, came in 1766 with his mother and stepfather (whose name was Elrod) to Elizabeth township, this county, where he was reared from eleven years of age. he was a farmer all his life, and died at at the residence of his son, Fauntley, in Versailles township, in 1839. Fauntley, Sr., was a soldier of the Revolution, and his son, Fauntley, Jr., of the war of 1812. John J. Muse was a farmer, and purchased the property now occupied now by the subject of our sketch, in Versailles township, in 1832. He was a prominent citizen , and represented Allegheny county in the legislature in 1854-55, and county treasurer in 1858-59.

John Muse was reared in Versailles township from five years of age, and educated in the common schools. He has been a farmer all his life, and owns and occupies the old homestead of his father, known as the Galilee farm, which was patented in 1783 by a man named Rayburn, and who erected a blockhouse thereon for protection from the Indians. In 1792, his (Rayburn's) hired man, Robert Cousins, was shot dead by the Indians while cultivating corn, and his two daughters reached the blockhouse barely in time to escape the same fate. Rayburn sold the farm to Anthony Rollins, grand-uncle of James Rollins, of Missouri (deceased), who deeded it to Dr. Rollins, from whom it was purchased by John J. Muse, in 1832. Mr. Muse occupies one of the best farms in the township, comprising 156 acres. He is a director of the People's Bank of McKeesport; politically he is a staunch republican.