435. WILLIAM THOMAS6 PURNELL (JOHN5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born in DE July 25, 1805. WILLIAM died December 16, 1873 in Worcester Co., MD, at 68 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD.

He married twice. He married HENRIETTA SMITH about 1830. (LDS Ancestral File shows her as Henrietta Brown)

He married HENRIETTA ZIPPORAH SPENCE in Worcester Co., MD, August 20, 1844. HENRIETTA was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1820. HENRIETTA was the daughter of JOHN SELBY SPENCE (Dr.) (Senator) and SALLY "MARIA" PURNELL. HENRIETTA died November 6, 1893 in Worcester Co., MD, at 73 years of age. She is buried at St. Pauls Cemetery, Berlin. Leslie P. Dryden, Dryden Family & Descendants, Alamo, TX, 1999) William studied law and entered the diplomatic service. He later served in the Maryland Legislature and the 1864 Constitutional Convention of MD. In 1870, he was shown as a farmer in the Berlin district. (Leslie P. Dryden, Dryden Family & Descendants, Alamo, TX, 1999; Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum; Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p.13) His children and grandchildren are traced by Melanie Ayres Merryweather in Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 13.

WILLIAM THOMAS PURNELL and HENRIETTA SMITH had the following children:

child 742 i. JOSEPHINE7 PURNELL was born 1831. Died young. (LDS Ancestral File)

child 743 ii. CHARLES T. PURNELL was born 1833. He married CLARA BENTRON. Daughter of S. R. Betron. (Polk Family & Kinsmen)

WILLIAM THOMAS PURNELL and HENRIETTA ZIPPORAH SPENCE had the following children:

child 744 iii. LOUISE PURNELL was born 1837.

child 745 iv. WILLIAM M. PURNELL was born in MI 1848.

child 746 v. MARIA LOUISE PURNELL was born in MI 1849. MARIA died 1918 in Snow Hill, Worcester Co., MD, at 69 years of age.

child 747 vi. CLAYTON PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD October 12, 1857. CLAYTON died 1933 at 75 years of age. He married MAY MCCULLOUGH 1889.

child 748 vii. JOHN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1859.

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