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Note: N2296 Given name (Phebe), middle name (Jane) and maiden surname (Post) from Andover Theological Seminary, Necrology, 1880-1881., Henry Allen Hazen, Charles Carroll Carpenter, Boston: Beacon Press, Thomas Todd, Printer, Corner Beacon and Somerset Sts., 1881, page 369
Given name (Phoebe), middle initial (J), maiden surname (Post) and descent (Scotch-Irish) from The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Turtlecreek Township, Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992, page 779-780
Given name (Phoebe) and surname (Post) from "Decs. of John Sprowls" (Ruth Sprowls email - February 17, 2004)
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Phoebe Post was born September 5, 1823, and became the wife of Cyrus Sprowls, of East Finley township. They began life on the old home farm now owned by Mrs. Simeon Sprowls and they had three children, two of whom are living: Jesse P. and Mary A. Mrs. Sprowls was an exemplary member of the Bethel C.P. Church. She died July 31, 1849, and was buried in the Stony Point cemetery. Her husband lived many years after her decease. Their son, J. P., is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, now at Salem, Ill.; Mary A. is the wife of Jacob Rockey, of Burnsville, this county.
[From the pen of Mary E. Post.]
Text taken from page 221 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893)
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