Purcell Burial Ground
| Bridgeton Township |
Kindly submitted by Susan
Moore Raff |
| John and Ann had
another daughter Lavinia who married William Goddard of
Nockamixon. They had a son Wesley Goddard who lived in
Bridgeton. Don't know where they are buried.
Pursell Burying Ground -1867 |
At the time of John
Moore's death in 1807 he and Ann had just bought 125 acres of
land from the Traugers in Alexandria, Hunterdon County. Ann
eventually moved the family there and by 1830 she and her
sons, William, John, Jacob, Archibald, and Thomas were settled
there. Ann died in 1843 and was buried next to her husband in
Upper Black Eddy. Her son's continued to farm the land in
Hunterdon. 90 acres of the original land is still owned by
their descendents to this day! |
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Chapter
XXXIX
Biographical
Sketches – Nockamixon
SEXTUS C.
PURSELL
…Philadelphia,
was born in NOCKAMIXON
township March 31, 1841. He received his education in the
public schools, the Milford, N. J. Academy, and at the New
York Conference seminary, at Charlotteville, N. Y. October 1,
1863, he entered the service of the Belvidere Delaware
railroad company, as clerk in the superintendent’s office, at
Lambertville, N. J. He remained in that position until
December 1, 1867, when he resigned to accept the agency of the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation company at Bethlehem, Pa. He
remained there but a few months when he was promoted to a
position in the general office of the company at Mauch Chunk.
A change in the management of the company’s railroad led to
his resignation, and he returned to his native place. May 1,
1870, he again entered the service of the Belvidere road, in
the office of the superintendent, and in the fall of the same
year was elected member of assembly for Bucks county, and was
re-elected in 1871. June 1, 1874, he was appointed ticket
agent for the Pennsylvania railroad company, at Kensington
station, Philadelphia, and he still holds that position. He
was married January 14, 1875, to Camilla I. Gwinner.
They have had three children, one of whom died in 1885 at the
age of nine years.
History of the Counties of
Transcribed: 24 July 2008 by Patricia R. Smith Bastik |

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John and Christina Christina MOORE |
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