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| 3. | SPANG, Joseph M.  (1.Sarah1) was born Sep 1880, Pennsylvania. Notes:
Guide to the Old Photographs
Elizabeth Trew Span McMurtry?s Family
This page is to help identify the old pictures that my mother gave me to preserve. My mother, Elizabeth Trew Spang McMurtry, was born in 1913, daughter of Joseph M Spang and Genevieve Crum.
Spang Family
Joseph Spang b 1880 was a medical doctor in Allegheny, Pennsylvania that was later annexed to the City of Pittsburgh and became the ?lower north side? of Pittsburgh. It was close to what has become known as the Mexican War District because the streets have names like: Palo Alto, Monterey, Buena Vista, etc. He married Genieve Crum between 1910 and 1912.
His parents were Joseph A. Spang b 1847 and Sarah Herr. The Herrs were Pennsylvania Dutch family from Lancaster Co., PA. IN 1880, he was listed as a carpenter. In 1900, Joseph A. was a janitor and his son Joseph M was a clerk in a grocery store. They had numerous lodgers who were clergyman. In 1870, Joseph and Sarah were living in Hampton, Allegheny County and Joseph was a farmer. With them lived several of Sarah?s Herr siblings or cousin. They also had a son Charles A. Spang b 1871 who was living in Avalon, Allegheny County with his wife Jennie, his mother Sarah and two daughters: Helen b 1903 and Ruth b 1907, later Sarah F b 1913. (This Sarah may be the cousin in some of the pictures with Elizabeth Spang.)
His grandparents were Jacob Spang b 1822 and Hannah Buffington. In 1850, Jacob was a farmer in Shaler Township. Hannah was born 1829; so she was the age to be a sibling or cousins of Ephraim Buffington who is one of the photos.
Crum
John Crum b 1840 married Martha Shannon b 1848. about 1867. In 1880, he was an engineer living in Washington Township, Armstrong County in western Pennsylvania. Martha?s parents were Irish immigrants and the census suggests they were Andrew and Margaret Shannon who lived in Duquesne Allegheny Co in 1860 and 1850. John and Martha had 5 daughters:
Elizabeth (known as Aunt Lizzie) b 1868 md John Trew Jones b 187, a street conductor
Sarah (known as Aunt Sadie) b 1872 md Howard W. Evans and had a son:
John H Evans 1896
Edward W. Evans b 1904 (uncle Eddie)
Ora b 1875
Maud M. b 1875 md John Livingston
Olive b 1905 md John Cleary (Aunt Olive) No children
Genevieve b 1877 md Joseph Spang
Elizabeth b 1913 md Joseph McMurtry
Martha/Marcy b about 1919 died 1920s
There is a beautiful picture of the 5 daughters in their youth with their parents.
Vera and her daughter Alice Jane fit in here somewhere, but I?m not sure where.
Joseph married CRUM, Genevieve Between 1910 and 1912. Genevieve (daughter of CRUM, John and SHANNON, Martha) was born 1877, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]
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