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Mary <I>Gilchrist</I> Purcell

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Mary Gilchrist Purcell

Birth
Death
20 Nov 1843 (aged 71–72)
Burial
Hoke County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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She was the widow of Col. Archibald McKay, Sr., a British Revolutionary Soldier.

She was the daughter of John Gilchrist and Effie McMillan.

(John Purcell & Mary Gilchrist Purcell are buried underneath marble sarcophagi erected by their son Alexander Torrey Purcell)

(notes from a cemetery survey made by Mrs Catherine Ann Walker McNeill, wife of Edwin L. McNeill, in the 1970's or 1980's)

She was the widow of Col. Archibald McKay, Sr., a British Revolutionary Soldier.

She was the daughter of John Gilchrist and Effie McMillan.

(John Purcell & Mary Gilchrist Purcell are buried underneath marble sarcophagi erected by their son Alexander Torrey Purcell)

(notes from a cemetery survey made by Mrs Catherine Ann Walker McNeill, wife of Edwin L. McNeill, in the 1970's or 1980's)


Inscription

Mrs. Mary Purcell

wife of John Purcell, Sr. Who D. Nov. 20, 1843 age 72 years The deceased sustained a spotless reputation & possessed a sound energetic & discriminating mind. She was for 50 years a communicant member of the Presbyterian Church.



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