515. MATTHEW6 PURNELL (JOHN5, WILLIAM4, MATTHEW3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born in Worcester Co., MD 1791. MATTHEW died 1857 in Worcester Co., MD, at 66 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD, Makemie Presbyterian Church.

He married EUPHEMIA DUNCAN 1816. EUPHEMIA was born 1801. EUPHEMIA was the daughter of THOMAS DUNCAN and FRANCES "FANNY" MARSHALL*. EUPHEMIA died 1855 in Worcester Co., MD, at 54 years of age. Euphemia is a descendant of the Marshalls from Accomack Co. VA. (notes of James H. Marshall from research of Dr. William Rowley Bishop, Jr.) (children's names-Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum; dates & burial-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p.24) Matthew's descendants are traced in Genealogy of the Purnell Family by Melanie A. Merryweather.

MATTHEW PURNELL and EUPHEMIA DUNCAN had the following children:

child + 810 i. JOHN MATTHEW7 PURNELL.

child 811 ii. MARGARET PURNELL.

child 812 iii. THOMAS DUNCAN PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1820. He married JULIA ANNE GRAY. Thomas was named in the will of Thomas Dixon Purnell in 1814. He was living with her parents in the 1850 census, age 30. His occupation is shown as merchant.

child + 813 iv. STEPHEN DUNCAN PURNELL was born 1824.

child 814 v. LEMUEL B. PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1825. 1850 census shows he was living at home, age 25. He married ANNIE M. ENNIS. Lemuel is shown as a constable in the 1850 census.

child 815 vi. SARAH PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1828. 1850 census shows her living at home with her parents, age 22. She married twice. She married UNKNOWN SEWELL (husband of Sarah Purnell). She married UNKNOWN COLLINS (husband of Sarah Purnell).

child 816 vii. DELILAH ANNIE PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1830. Ann Purnell was living at home for the 1850 census, age 20. She married JAMES PURNELL BURROUGHS in Worcester Co., MD, December 14, 1863. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records)

child + 817 viii. GEORGIANNA CAROLINE PURNELL was born about 1837.

child 818 ix. LEVI A. PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1841. He is shown age 9 in 1850 census. He married SARAH MESSICK.

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