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:
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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)