"Eldest son of Daniel & Lucretia McLean ... in the 81 year of his age."
This inscription (if read correctly) contradicts the birth record from the family Bible by several years. However, an earlier birth year is indicated by the Pennsylvania Death Certificate Index.
McLean family Bible entry:
Samuel their son was born September 12 1797 at 2 o'clock am.
Sources:
Thanks to David Hereford Surles for providing information that his father copied from McLean family Bible. The Bible is now in the holdings of the Bridwell Library at SMU in Dallas.
Tombstone inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia, Wesley Pippenger, v 5
Death announcement, March 22, 1881, edition of the National Republican
This inscription (if read correctly) contradicts the birth record from the family Bible by several years. However, an earlier birth year is indicated by the Pennsylvania Death Certificate Index.
McLean family Bible entry:
Samuel their son was born September 12 1797 at 2 o'clock am.
Sources:
Thanks to David Hereford Surles for providing information that his father copied from McLean family Bible. The Bible is now in the holdings of the Bridwell Library at SMU in Dallas.
Tombstone inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia, Wesley Pippenger, v 5
Death announcement, March 22, 1881, edition of the National Republican
"Eldest son of Daniel & Lucretia McLean ... in the 81 year of his age."
This inscription (if read correctly) contradicts the birth record from the family Bible by several years. However, an earlier birth year is indicated by the Pennsylvania Death Certificate Index.
McLean family Bible entry:
Samuel their son was born September 12 1797 at 2 o'clock am.
Sources:
Thanks to David Hereford Surles for providing information that his father copied from McLean family Bible. The Bible is now in the holdings of the Bridwell Library at SMU in Dallas.
Tombstone inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia, Wesley Pippenger, v 5
Death announcement, March 22, 1881, edition of the National Republican
This inscription (if read correctly) contradicts the birth record from the family Bible by several years. However, an earlier birth year is indicated by the Pennsylvania Death Certificate Index.
McLean family Bible entry:
Samuel their son was born September 12 1797 at 2 o'clock am.
Sources:
Thanks to David Hereford Surles for providing information that his father copied from McLean family Bible. The Bible is now in the holdings of the Bridwell Library at SMU in Dallas.
Tombstone inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia, Wesley Pippenger, v 5
Death announcement, March 22, 1881, edition of the National Republican
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