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NEW BOOK ABOUT PARKER, PENNSYLVANIA
This year (2008) will bring the publication of a new book about
the ancestral home of the Robinsons and Marshalls--Parker, situated beautifully on the Allegheny River in Western
Pennsylvania. See the photo above!
Entitled From Boom To Bust: The Making of "The Smallest
City in the U.S.A,", the book will give some insight into this region in which descendants of Catharina Truby
Rohrer Marshall have lived from 1806 to the present day. For more information, and to order your copy, email
the author--a Parker resident and wife of the current mayor--Marilyn McCall, at
parkers1stlady@yahoo.com.
The First Way of War
John Grenier
(Cambridge, 2005)
The subtitle of this enlightenling book is American War Making
on the Frontier -- and there's the clue to what our ancestor, Colonel Christopher Truby of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was about as a county RANGER. (more)
Grenier is an Air Force officer and Associate Professor of History
at the United States Air Force Academy.
Click here for TABLE OF CONTENTS and more -- "The First Way of War"
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Beautiful Dreamer
(CD)
These were the songs our large family knew and sang, as they made their own music
throughout the second half of the 19th century, into our parents' time, and down to our own. You'll not find a
more surprising collection of beautifully-rendered American folk music.
Foster's Pittsburgh home in the 1850s was only a few blocks from the home
of Andrew E. Marshall and his wife Sarah Ellen. His song "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Always" could have
been written with them in mind, given their tragic, untimely deaths in 1860 and 1861. "Why do the beautiful die?"
Click here for reviews of this CD, posted at amazon.com
The Recordings of Musician
William Purvis
William Purvis, a descendant of Mary Ann Marshall Bailey and her husband
Elisha H. Bailey, is a noted musician of our time. His line from the Baileys is through their daughter Mary
Ellen Bailey Purvis (1839-1918), her son, Dr. Joseph D. Purvis (1882-1939), and his son, Dr. Joseph D. Purvis,
Jr. (1914-1987) -- all of Butler, Pennsylvania.
A Listing of Purvis' Recordings -- click here
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