Anna Margaret Woolverton

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Wife Anna Margaret Woolverton

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           Born: 15 Jan 1839 - Greencastle, Putnam County, IN
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         Father: John Hall Woolverton {FGID: 55745057}
         Mother: Anna Maria Stewart {FGID: 55745017}

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General Notes: Wife - Anna Margaret Woolverton

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from David Macdonald

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sebastian/pafg15.htm
"1. Anna Margaret Woolverton
Anna Margaret Woolverton, the eldest child of Anna Maria Stewart and John Hall Woolverton, her first husband, was born in Putnam County, Indiana, near Greencastle, Jan. 15, 1839. After her father's death in 1840 her mother brought her and her brother William to her old home at Alexandria, Pa., where she lived and went to school until the death of her grandmother Stewart in 1856, when she went to Allegheny, Pa., and spent a year. Her home after this was with her mother and stepfather, who were then living in Altoona, Pa. Here she attended a private school for a while, going afterwards to Olome Institute, at Canonsburg, Pa., but did not graduate.

Returning home in the fall of 1861, she embraced the opportunity of teaching a district school among the ridges of Blair County, which placed her among a people as quaint and homely in manners and speech as Dickens' characters. Her pluck and nerve when called upon were never-failing in this new experience, nor was a keen sense of the comical ever lacking. It was richer in experience, however, than cash. She also taught a year after this at Bell's Mills and two years (1863 to 1865) in the Grammar School of Altoona.

In 1868 she went, with the family, to Philadelphia to reside. Here she took the chief care of the housekeeping, and (with her mother) ever had an open house to her friends.

Having connected herself with the people of God at Altoona in 1858 or 1859, she joined the Princeton Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia after her removal to that place.

After the death of her stepfather (in 1874) her aunt Margaret Harris Stewart (in 1888), and her mother (in 1889), the home at No. 48, North 39th Street, was sold.

Quickly following this Miss Woolverton's health failed and a serious and tedious illness followed, on account of which she has never since fully recovered her elasticity or nerve power. During this illness she was for eighteen months a guest in her brother's home in New York City.

Returning to Philadelphia in November, 1890, she lived for ten years at No. 246, S. 39th Street, and since 1900 she has been living at No. 232, S. 39th Street.

Through the generosity of her brother she has been enabled to enjoy every worldly comfort, besides sufficient means for the gratification of her tastes and benevolent impulses. She is able to travel some; has taken several long trips, among which was one to California.

Miss Woolverton possesses an original vein of wit and has good social qualities. Having a sympathetic nature, she is able easily to enter into the feelings of others--to weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice. Her profession of religion is not a mere form, but abundant evidence is given that she is interested in the progress of the Redeemer's kingdom in all its various movements. Her heart, tongue, hand and purse are always ready to assist in every approved work.

In appearance Miss Woolverton is tall (five feet five-and-one-half inches in height), slender, weighing 112 pounds; her complexion is light and her temperament nervous.

The writer of these pages has been greatly indebted to Miss Woolverton for assistance in the compilation of genealogical facts pertaining to the Alexandria branch of our family. (Colonel George Steuart and His Descendants )"

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