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Alexander McElhenny and Sophia Hazlet Marriage 1833

After obtaining Margaret McElhenny Levens’ death certificate which listed her parents as Alexander McElheny and Sophia Hazelet, I found this marriage record in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Pennsylvania Historic Church and Town Records database on Ancestry.com. The below is from the church records of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

McElhenny-Hazlet Marriage 1833
McElhenny-Hazlet Marriage 1833
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McIlhenney, Alexander & Hazlet, Sophia > married 24th December 1833 by Jas. Montgomery

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Original source citation:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Births & Marriages, Reel 1079, p. 25, Alexander McIlhenney & Sophia Hazlet, 24 December 1833; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 4 January 2013).

Margaret McElhenny Levens Death (1918)

Margaret Levens Death Certificate

Transcribed by Alexander Conrad from photocopy

Margaret Levens Death 1918
Margaret Levens Death 1918

1. Place of Death

County of Columbia

Borough of Centralia

2. Full Name: Margaret Levens

3. Sex: female

4. Color or Race: white

5. Single, Married, Widowed or Divorced: widowed

6. Date of Birth: July 2nd 1838

7. Age: 79 years 11 months 22 days

8. Occupation: housewife

9. Birthplace: Philadelphia

10. Name of Father: Alexander McElheny

11. Birthplace of Father: Ireland

12. Maiden Name of Mother: Sophia Hazelet

13. Birthplace of Mother: Ireland

14. Informant: Mrs. Jennie Heahley, Philadelphia

15. Filed 6/24 1918
16. Date of Death: 6 – 22 – 1918

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19. Place of Burial or Removal

Ashland, Pa.

Date of Burial: June 25 1918
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Original Source Citation:

Pennsylvania, Department of Health, death certificate 66517 (1918), Margaret Levens; Division of Vital Records, New Castle.