MARY HAIR:
obit, from the Monongahela Republican: "The deceased was born in Berkely county, Virginia, now West Virginia, on the 10th day of March, 1797. She came to this count withher parents, James and Rebecca Hair, in the year 1806. Her parents, not long after their arrival, settled on what was known then as the
Platter farm, but afterwards was well known as the Hair farm, on Pigeon Creek. Her father was the first ruling elder elected in the Presbyterian church in this city, which election occurred soon after the removal of the church organization from Horseshoe, in what year we are not able to say. the deceased had six
brothers, John, James, Samuel, Geilbert M., Uriah, and B.W. Hair. John died in 1856 or thereabout, in Mount Union, Ohio. She had four sisters, Mrs. Martha Crouch, who died a few years since in the west; Mrs. Kela Baker, who died on the old Hair farm many years ago; Mrs. Eliza Potter, deceased in Allegheny
City many years since; and Mrs. Louisa Brinton, who died years ago near Brownsville, Pa. She with her husband united with the Presbyterian church under the ministry of Rev. Dr. Ralston, and each were members of that church over fifty years. Being in full possession of her mental faculties to the last, she
freely conversed on her prospects of Heaven; and , relying entirely on the blood of Christ, she was enabled to declare that death had no terrors. Thus in less than a year have passed with the portals of Heaven-two Christian parents, leaving behind a large circle of friends to mourn their loss. 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
Mary Hair was born on 10. Mar. 1797 at Berkley County, Virginia. She was the daughter of
James Hair and
Rebecca McKown. Mary Hair married
Isaac Van Voorhis, son of
Daniel Van Voorhees and
Nancy Myers, on 13. May. 1819 at Carroll Twp., Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mary Hair died on 14. Apr. 1876 at age 79.