349. JOHN FISHER⁶ PURNELL (ISAAC MARSHALL⁵, THOMAS⁴, MATTHEW³, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born in Worcester Co., MD before 1798. JOHN died 1871 in Worcester Co., MD, at 73 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD.

He married ELIZA BOWEN in Worcester Co., MD, April 7, 1823. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records)

ELIZA was born 1805. ELIZA was the daughter of ELIJAH BOWEN and ELENOR "NELLIE" JONES. ELIZA died 1857 at 52 years of age. Hester Jones, age 86, was living in John & Eliza's household in 1850. This is probably Eliza's mother, Eleanor. His mother was living with him, as Hester Jones, in the 1850 census. (dates & marriage-Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum; children-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family) John's descendants are traced in Merryweather's Genealogy of the Purnell Family. Son, George, is found in the family Bible of his uncle, Littleton Bowen. Children: Mary, Sally, Irving, Ellen, Adella are found in the Turner manuscript at Maryland Historical Society.

JOHN FISHER PURNELL and ELIZA BOWEN had the following children:

617 i. LAVINIA⁷ PURNELL.

618 ii. MARY PURNELL. She married THOMAS COLLINS.

619 iii. ELLEN PURNELL.

620 iv. MARY ELIZABETH PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD 1823. MARY died in Worcester Co., MD. She is buried at Makemie Presbyterian Church Cemetery. She married THOMAS H. COLLINS in Worcester Co., MD, November 24, 1847. (Family Bible of Littleton Bowen) (dates-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 29)

621 v. ESMAY OR ESME BOWEN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD 1827. ESMAY died 1851 in Worcester Co., MD, at 24 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. (Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum)

622 vi. THOMAS EDWARD PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1829.

623 vii. ELMIRA CHURCH PURNELL was born 1833. She married GEORGE WASHINGTON PURNELL SMITH in Worcester Co., MD, January 14, 1856. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records)

624 viii. SALLY PURNELL was born 1835. She married UNKNOWN HUTCHINSON.

625 ix. ISAAC MARSHALL PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1837. He married JOSEPHINE REGESTER.

626 x. LYTTLETON BOWEN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD 1839. LYTTLETON died 1898 at 59 years of age. He married MARY ELIZABETH BERRY HURST 1865. MARY was born 1845. MARY was the daughter of JOHN HURST. MARY died 1917 at 72 years of age. His descendants are traced further in Melanie Ayres Merryweather's Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 29.

627 xi. ELIJAH BOWEN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD February 25, 1840. ELIJAH died March 3, 1854 in Worcester Co., MD, at 14 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. (Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum; dates-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 30)

628 xii. WASHINGTON IRVING PURNELL was born 1843.

629 xiii. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY PURNELL was born 1844.

630 xiv. ADELIA DELAPHINE PURNELL was born 1846. She married HORACE PAYNE.

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