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biography
Galbreath
McMullen is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Sandy Lake Township, Mercer
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GALBREATH
MCMULLEN
(deceased). —Probably one of the oldest, if not the oldest man
that ever lived in Mercer County was Galbreath
McMullen, of Mill Creek Township, who died at the home of his son, A.
J. McMullen, about mid way between Sandy Lake and New Lebanon, on
the 24th of September, 1884, aged one hundred and four years, five months
and sixteen days. He was born at Winchester, Va., on the 8th of April,
1779, the son of Galbreath and Margaret (Lukens)
McMullen. His ancestry was of Scotch descent. He was twice married,
the first time to Rebecca Angell in 1809. By
her he had these children: John A., Margaret, Ellen,
Elizabeth, James, Sarah, Hannah, Galbreath and infant unnamed. The
second, in 1824, to Mary Park; by her he had Samuel,
Archie, Joseph, William, Andrew J. and two girls who died before
they received names. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 from what is now
Lawrence (then Beaver) County. For more than seventy years he was a
resident of Pennsylvania. In early days he hunted on the site of the
present city of New Castle. He was always a Democrat, and cast his first
vote for Thomas Jefferson, at his first election in 1800. He never used
tobacco in his life, and never used spectacles. He could read ordinary
print with ease up to a point within a few weeks of his death. His
descendants are numerous in Mercer County.
History
of Mercer County, 1888, page
1088
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