Joseph Alter and Margaret Curry Dinsmore

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Husband Joseph Alter [57]

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      Born: 15 Sep 1800 - , , , PA ^{1 2 3}
 Christened:
      Died: 26 Jun 1861 ²
     Buried: 1861 - Dugan Cemetery, Plum, Allegheny, PA ²

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Father: David Alter [3570] (1775-1838)
Mother: Elizabeth Mell [48] (1779-1837) ⁴

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    Married:

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Wife Margaret Curry Dinsmore [60]

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      Born: 24 Oct 1805 - , , , PA ^{2 3}
 Christened:
      Died: 14 Apr 1865 ²
     Buried: 1865 - Dugan Cemetery, Plum, Allegheny, PA ²

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Children

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1 M Dr. David Alter [61] ⁵

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      Born: 28 Dec 1829 - Alter Farm, Puckety Creek, Westmoreland, PA ^{2 3 6 7 8}
 Christened:
      Died: 21 Nov 1894 - , , , PA ^{2 6}
     Buried: 1894 - Plum Creek Cemetery, Plum, Allegheny, PA ²
Spouse: Mary Anderson [6618] (1844-1926) Marr: 31 Dec 1863 ^{1 9}

1 B284. Old and New Westmoreland (PA), Vol. 4, by Boucher, John Newton (American Historical Society: NY, 1918); available on the internet at books.google.com/books?id=6s8wAQAAMAAJ, p. 1077.

2 CM076. Find-A-Grave (cemetery records) as contributed by the public; published on the internet at http://www.findagrave.com/.

3 C85. United States Federal Census, year 1850.

4 Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application, 1961 - Henry Mell Alter (papers) SAR Membership Number 87563, year 1961. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; scanned images published online by ancestry.com, says b 1778.

5 B062. History of Westmoreland County, PA, by Boucher, John Newton, (Lewis Publishing Co.: NY, 1906).

6 B284. Old and New Westmoreland (PA), Vol. 4, by Boucher, John Newton (American Historical Society: NY, 1918); available on the internet at books.google.com/books?id=6s8wAQAAMAAJ.

7 B287. Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by John Gresham (Dunlap & Clark, 1890); scanned copy available on the internet at http://archive.org/stream/biographicalhist00gres/biographicalhist00gres_djvu.txt.

8 C88. United States Federal Census, year 1880.

9 B287. Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by John Gresham (Dunlap & Clark, 1890); scanned copy available on the internet at http://archive.org/stream/biographicalhist00gres/biographicalhist00gres_djvu.txt, p. 713.

Rowley Genealogy Site & Family Charts, compiled by I. Rowley, version of Nov. 10, 2016.

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