418. JOHN SELBY6 PURNELL (JR.) (JOHN SELBY5, LEMUEL4, ELISHA3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born in Worcester Co., MD September 11, 1799. JOHN died September 7, 1874 in Worcester Co., MD, at 74 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD.

He married MARGARET CAMPBELL HENRY in Worcester Co., MD, June 21, 1826. (license date)

MARGARET was born April 11, 1793. MARGARET was the daughter of FRANCIS JENKINS HENRY and FRANCES "FANNY" PURNELL. MARGARET died December 31, 1831 at 38 years of age. She is buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Berlin, MD. (Melanie Ayres Merryweather, The Henry Family) (Matthew Wise, The Littleton Heritage, p. 227) John was a farmer and was ennumerated with his sister, Aralanta, and two children in the 1850 census. (1850 census Worcester Co. MD; Matthew Wise, The Littleton Heritage, p. 227)

JOHN SELBY PURNELL (Jr.) and MARGARET CAMPBELL HENRY had the following children:

child + 534 i. JOHN HENRY6 PURNELL was born March 29, 1827.

child 535 ii. FRANCIS "JENKINS" PURNELL (Dr.) was born in Worcester Co., MD December 5, 1828. FRANCIS died May 20, 1896 in Worcester Co., MD, at 67 years of age. He married SARAH ANNE TAYLOR in Worcester Co., MD, April 23, 1861. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records)

SARAH was born April 9, 1837. SARAH died August 6, 1899 in Worcester Co., MD, at 62 years of age. Jenkins is shown as a doctor, living in his father's home in the 1850 census. Jenkins and his wife, Sarah, are both buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Berlin, MD. (Matthew Wise, The Littleton Heritage, p. 227) Their children are shown in Melanie Ayres Merryweather's Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 33.

child 536 iii. NANCY PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD March 26, 1830. NANCY died Septemer 10, 1907 in Worcester Co., MD, at 77 years of age. Nancy was living in her father's household in 1850. (1850 census Worcester Co. MD; Matthew Wise, The Littleton Heritage, p. 227)

child 537 iv. JAMES ROBINS PURNELL was born in Worcester Co., MD January 23, 1834. JAMES died July 11, 1912 in Worcester Co., MD, at 78 years of age. James was living in the household of his aunt, Andazia Robins, in 1850. (1850 census Worcester Co. MD; Matthew Wise, The Littleton Heritage, p. 227; marriage & children-Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p.33)

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