340. ELISHA LITTLETON⁶ PURNELL (GEORGE WASHINGTON⁵, WILLIAM⁴, ELISHA³, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born in Worcester Co., MD February 29, 1804. ELISHA died November 12, 1849 in Worcester Co., MD, at 45 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD, St. Paul's P.E. Church.

He married MARIA E. BREDELL in Worcester Co., MD, December 7, 1830. MARIA was born in Worcester Co., MD September 1, 1810. MARIA was the daughter of ISAAC BREDELL and ANN COLLIER. MARIA died October 10, 1836 in Worcester Co., MD, at 26 years of age. Her body was interred in Worcester Co., MD, St. Paul's P.E. Church. Maria was Elisha's cousin. (Matthew Wise,The Littleton Heritage, p. 423)

ELISHA LITTLETON PURNELL and MARIA E. BREDELL had the following children:

593 i. GEORGE COLLIER⁷ PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD December 31, 1831. GEORGE died March 16, 1868 in Worcester Co., MD, at 36 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. He married ELIZABETH ANN CHRISTIAN STEVENSON 1852. ELIZABETH was born October 5, 1831. ELIZABETH was the daughter of EDWARD STEVENSON (Rev.) and ELIZABETH (wife of Edward Stevenson). ELIZABETH died December 15, 1891 in Worcester Co., MD, at 60 years of age. Her body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. His descendants are traced in Melanie Ayres Merryweather's Genealogy of the Purnell Family.

594 ii. ISAAC BREDELL PURNELL was born 1833. He married MARY A. MARSHALL in Worcester Co., MD, June 29, 1854. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records) His seven children are listed in Melanie Ayres Merryweather's Genealogy of the Purnell Family.

595 iii. EDWARD JOHN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD February 14, 1835. EDWARD died January 9, 1840 in Worcester Co., MD, at 4 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD.

596 iv. MARIA PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD September 29, 1836. MARIA died October 26, 1836 in Worcester Co., MD, at less than one year of age. Her body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. (dates-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 37)

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