Lawrence County PA Archives Obituaries.....Cunningham, Joseph, Honorable May 2, 1884
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New Castle News, May 6, 1884
Hon. Joseph Cunningham died at four o'clock on Tuesday 
morning, after a long illness.  Hon. Joseph Cunningham was 
born December 9, 1811.  On the fourth of February 1832, he 
married Jennette McGREGOR, and both united with the 
Slipperyrock Presbyterian church during the same year.  He 
was elected one of the rulling elders of this church in 
1839.  He purchased his residence, known as Locust Ridge 
Home, and settled upon it in 1848.  In 1855 he was elected 
Justice of the Peace and re-elected to the same office in 
1860.  In 1861 he was elected to the honorable and 
responsible position of Associate Judge of this county.  His 
first wife died on the first of August, 1872, and on the 
first of April, 1874, he married Eliza W. DAVIDSON.  Judge 
Cunningham dies with the esteem of all those who knew him.  
As an honorable and upright man he had no superior  He had a 
keen and discerning mind, which was often called into 
requisition by his neighbors.  One of God's true noble men 
has gone to his everlasting reward. His funeral will take 
place from his late residence, in Wayne township, on 
Thursday at 10 o'clock.

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