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| | History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania |
 | | Thomas Anderson, aforementioned, was born in Ireland, 1718, emigrated to America, locating in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, fought through the revolutionary war when between fifty and sixty years old, died on the old Elder farm near New Alexandria in 1822, aged one hundred and four years, and is buried in Old Salem churchyard. |
 | | She was a daughter of David and Martha (Whiteside) McConnell, of Lancaster county, who with their children crossed the mountains in a covered wagon in the year 1800 and settled in Salem township. |
 | | Her brother Daniel McConnell, born 1794, was the grandfather of Judge A. McConnell, of Westmoreland county, whose father was the late Kirk McConnell, of Salem township. |
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