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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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MISS MARY J. HAZLETT, retired teacher, post office Bonney, is a daughter of Samuel and Mary Hazlett, and was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1830. Her father came from Carlisle, Cumberland county. Pa., about the year 1817 or 1818, and settled in this county. About 1840 he purchased forty-four acres of land in Chartiers township, upon which he resided until his death, in 1858, when he was sixty-one years of age. His widow survived him until 1880, when she departed this life at the age of ninety-one years. They had four children: James Wills (deceased), Sarah Lawson, wife of Samuel Hodgson; Mary Jane, and Eliza McKee, wife of James Wilkinson. Miss Mary J. Hazlett followed teaching in this county for six years. She resides upon the old homestead of her parents, one-third of which she owns, and which is known as Hazel Wilde.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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