Margaret (Smeaton) Moyes

Wife of Andrew Moyes — married 22 Nov 1841 in Beath, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Descendants

Biography

His (Andrew Moyes's) youth had been spent in his native Scotland, where also he had married Margaret Smeaton, a daughter of Edward and Ann (Brown) Smeaton, who later came to America with their eleven children and settled in Harmarville, Pennsylvania. The Smeatons were of a very long lived family, Mr. and Mrs. Smeaton dying at the ages of eighty-eight and ninety-two years, respectively, and all their children living to advanced old age. Andrew Moyes and his wife came to the United States in the year 1845, and settled in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, where they made their home for two years. In his native land he had been a farmer, and now he found employment as a farm hand in a number of places. In 1847 he went to Ross Station, Pennsylvania, where he secured a permanent position as farmer with Mr. James Ross, in which service he remained until the year 1851, when he rented until the year 1876, and then purchased his own farm in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and operated it until the time of his wife's death. This event occurred in the year 1888, after which Mr. Moyes retired from all active life and went to live with his children. Here he remained until his own death, which occurred in his son's house in Sharpsburg, in 1892, in his eighty-first year. To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Moyes were born seven children, as follows: 1. Henry, who served in the Civil War in Company B, Sixty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was taken prisoner at Savage Station, and died in Libby Prison, September 23, 1862, one day before he was to have been exchanged. 2. Anna, now Mrs. Livingood, of Cameron, Missouri. 3. Elizabeth, now Mrs. Little, of Oakmont, Pennsylvania. 4. William Edward of whom further. 5. Robert, now a resident of Warren, Ohio. 6. James D.. a resident of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. 7. Mary, now Mrs. Slatter, also of Sharpsburg.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, p. 800-801)