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First Family Grave: Presbyterian Cemetery, Parker

“Simeon Hovey Robinson / Lies Here / Who died July 10 1822 / Aged 5 yers & 4 months.” The Presbyterian Cemetery of Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, is our family's historic burying ground from the 19th and early 20th centuries. This gravestone marks the first family grave of record there. Simeon Hovey Robinson was the first son of Elizabeth (Betsy) Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881) and her husband Elisha Robinson (1791-1874). This child was named after Dr. Simeon Hovey, Elizabeth’s guardian and her uncle—the husband of Mary Ann Truby Hovey. Betsy's "Aunt Hovey" was the sister of her deceased mother, Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. Simeon Hovey was Elisha Robinson’s uncle, the brother of his mother Olive Hovey Robinson. Elizabeth Robinson’s half-brother, Samuel Marshall (1801-1835) named his first son Simeon Hovey Marshall. Her half-sister, Mary Ann Marshall Bailey (1804-1895) named her first son Simeon Hovey Bailey.

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