Armstrong County PA Archives Tombstones.....Harbison, Massa
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Massa Harbison
1770 - 1837

Comment: 
w/o John Harbison. Captured by Indians May 22 And Escaped 
May 27, 1792. Captured by a band of Indians while her 
husband was away patrolling the frontier,she watched her 
children murdered in front of her,Taken across the Allegheny 
River with one remaining infant in her arms,she was forced 
almost to Butler PA before escaping,She made her way back to 
the river and crossed it with the help of men near the 
present-day site of Blawnox,She lived out her last years in 
a home at the corner of 4th and Mulberry Alley in 
Freeport,near the Methodist Episcopal Church,She d. Dec 9, 
1837 and was interred in the community graveyard.Her name is 
on the list of persons known to be in that graveyard just 
before all remains were removed to the new cemetery,It was 
noted that at that time,in 1903,that she and her husband 
John did not have tombstones,