John Purdy Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: John Purdy: was born in Cumberland County, Pa., in 1777. Emigrated to Westmoreland County, when a young man. Learned carpentry and cabinet making. In 1808 he married Miss Elizabeth Lavely. They remained in said county until 1821, when he, with wife and five children migrated to now Hancock County, West Virginia. In 1824 he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son James Purdy, where he followed farming until his death, which sad event occurred in 1859. His wife lived until 1873, aged ninety-three years.