Mary Arnold McCracken
Birth: Feb. 1, 1801, Scotland
Death: Apr. 6, 1885
Burial: Buffalo United Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Slate Lick, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA
[Has photographs]
This is an old, marble pillar stone. The face with Mary's inscription is easy to read, but did not photograph well due to being in the shade. The inscription on reads:
IN MEMORY OF
MARY
WIFE OF
GEORGE
McCRACKAN
BORN NEAR WHITHORN
SCOTLAND
Feb 1, 1801
Died
April 6, 1885
Her husband is George McCRACKAN (1803-1886). His inscription is on another face of this gravestone.
In the lower photo to the right, you can see a medium-sized weathered mable headstone - this is the gravestone of her two children, Charlotte (1848-1853) and James (1850-1853) who died at a very young age in August, 1853.
Spouse: George McCrackan (1803 - 1886)*
Children: John A. McCracken (1826 - 1915), Jean M. McCracken Posey (1833 - 1926), Mary Ann McCracken Forsythe (1834 - 1931), Grace S McCrackan McEwen (1838 - 1933), George A McCrackan (1842 - 1930), William Nelson McCrackan (1847 - 1930), James McCrackan (1850 - 1853)
The location information shown in Findagrave is the County (Wigtownshire) where the town of Whithorn is located.
From Wikipedia: Whithorn (Taigh Mhàrtainn in Gaelic) is a small burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about ten miles south of Wigtown.
Whithorn Priory
The town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland, Candida Casa the 'White [or 'Shining'] House', built by Saint Ninian (original form Nynia) about 397. A monastery and diocese of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was founded on the site in the 8th century.
