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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jesse Cornelius IRWIN: Birth: 22 MAR 1886 in Creek Locks, Ulster Co., NY. Death: 19 MAY 1937 in Middletown, Orange County, NY

  2. Harriet Jane ÒHattieÓ IRWIN: Birth: 30 SEP 1888 in St. Josen, Ulster Co., NY. Death: 7 JUL 1959 in Lakewood, Los Angeles Co., CA


Sources
1. Text:   Record in CB IrwinÕs Civil War Pension file states details of marriage: December 6, 1845, in Lackawack, NY, by John Tyler. Witnesses: Daniel Irwin, Henry and Hannah Mullen
  Record in CB IrwinÕs Civil War pension file states dates of birth of all his living children; document is dated 25 April 1898.
2. Title:   New York State Vital Records Index
3. Author:   Van Wagenen, Carl S.; The Genealogy of Jacob Aertsen Van Wagenen, 1637-1994

Notes
a. Note:   N98 Matthew contracted whooping cough as a child and became a deaf mute. His wife was also a deaf mute. They met while attending a school for the deaf in New York City, the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. The schoolÕs annual reports list both of them as students.
  Marriage Notice from New Paltz Times, June 25, 1884:
 At the residence of the brideÕs parents in Creek Locks, by the Rev. J. M. Compton, MATTHEW J. IRWIN of Napanoch and Miss Sarah H. ELTING, both deaf mutes.


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