Sie ist verheiratet mit Constantine Antoine DeBeelen.
Sie haben geheiratet.
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Notes
Found online at Google Digital Books, "History of the Gazzam and DeBeelen Families",
A. DeBeelen Mackenzie, 1894, page 59. Noted gratefully here this day...
12/5/11
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Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy, daughter and only child of Captain Patrick Murphy, of the
Continental Army, around whose parentage there clings a little romance.
It seems that sometime during the latter half of the 17th century, a poor gentleman became
tutor in the family of an Irish nobleman, the father of a beautiful daughter. The tutor fell in
love with his charge, there was an elopement, a hasty marriage, and — America.
During the Revolution the tutor became an officer in the Continental Army. After peace
was declared he moved to Pittsburg, in which city his wife died at the time of the birth of
her daughter. It was this daughter who became the wife of Antoine deBeelen.
Upon the death of his wife Captain Murphy sent to Carlisle, Pa., for a young woman
named Molly, who had left Ireland to come to America as maid to Mrs. Murphy, marrying
here and settling at Carlisle, shortly afterward becoming a widow. She consented to take
charge of the infant daughter, and subsequently Captain Murphy married her. From this
union there was no issue, but Mrs. Murphy survived the death of the Captain many years.
He left her comparatively well off and she became projector of many business enterprises,
being interested in the first gas works and one of the first rolling mills ever started in
Pittsburg. Through clear-headed business ability she acquired considerable additional
property, in later years extremely valuable.
Dying childless, this property was bequeathed to the descendants of her stepdaughter,
Elizabeth Antoinette. Constantine Antoine deBeelen and Elizabeth Antoinette, his wife,
left several children. But two of them married, however : —
Mary ; married Dr. William Simpson, of Pittsburg, Pa., and was the mother of the wife of
the late Benjamin Rush, Esq., of Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Antoinette ; born at Pittsburg, Pa. , in 1 8 1 7 ; married, March 24, 1835, to
Dr. Edward D. Gazzam.* Mrs. E. A. Gazzam was a gentlewoman of fine education, of
polished and easy manners, hospitable disposition, good and truly charitable nature, and
ever ambitious to relieve the wants of her suffering fellow-beings — a liberal Christian in
the broadest sense of the word. She lived a life of influence, and in her death, which
occurred suddenly on the 25th of July, 1871, at Pittsburg, all who knew her recognized
the transition of an immortal soul from earth to a happy and eternal heaven.
Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Constantine Antoine DeBeelen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||