(No further information; base of stone is buried)
Record of a tombstone for Margaret Jane Elliott is included in the Treasures of the Past inventory of Hice-Pershing Cemetery, but not among the Hice-Pershing memorials at Find A Grave.
Elliott is an old family name in East Wheatfield Township, where a James Elliott was among the earliest businessmen at Armagh, the township's (and Indiana County's) oldest village. But I was unable to link a family that might have included Margaret and James Elliott Jr. to any of those obscure lineages.
The family of a James Elliot Jr., age 25, and wife, Margaret, age 23, was enumerated in the 1850 census in Hice-Pershing neighborhood of East Wheatfield Township, near the families of both Hugh Hice and Daniel Pershing. Their children were John, age 6; Ellen, 3; and Isabella, 6/12.
I have been unable to locate this family, or what might have remained of it, in subsequent census years in Pennsylvania or elsewhere.
It seems likely that this is the Margaret Jane Elliott buried in Hice-Pershing, but much remains to be discovered.
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