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m. 10 Oct 1830
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Mary Kuhns was the second wife of CHRISTIAN PERSHING, Jr. Her maiden name could have been KUNTZ? Robert MacPherson has her birth: 13 MAY 1805. Ernie Wheaton has her birth: 1804. After CHRISTIAN's first wife died in 1829, he went back to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1830 to find a new wife. As with his first wife, Christian had 10 more children with Mary. As noted elsewhere on WeRelate, James Haupert lists Mary's husband, Christian, as being buried in the Laketon Cemetery, in Wabash County. One has no idea as to how he could have come up with that, as it seems that Mary's husband never traveled to Indiana, and had indeed died in Tuscarawas County. Ernie Wheaton has a picture of Christian's stone, adjacent to his first wife, in Shanesville, Ohio (now Sugar Creek). It seems that Christian's wife, following the death of her husband, then left Tuscarawas County, to join three of her daughters in Wabash County. James's index shows Mary as being buried in the Urbana Cemetery, but no stone has been found. The next few years after the death of Christian, was a very tragic period in the life of his family. Christian died in 1867. Mary had not been in Indiana long, when she died in March of 1869. Her daughter Elizabeth (Karns) had died the month before, therefore compounding Mary's grief. Next, daughter Abby (Karns) died in June 1870. A year later daughter Lydia (Lawer) died in June of 1871. --White Creek 14:15, 12 September 2012 (EDT) Image Gallery
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