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!

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.

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Transcribed:  24 July 2008 by Patricia R. Smith Bastik

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Barzilla WILLIAMS

Son of John and Christina Moore Williams

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John and Christina Christina MOORE