MARY ANN GRABLE, an estimable lady of Bentleyville, is a representative of one of the old families of Washington county. She is a daughter of John Grable, a native of the county, where his whole life was passed in farming. In early manhood Mr. Grable was united in marriage with Mary Carson, who was born September 8, 1796, and she bore him children, as follows: Julia A. (Wife of John McCormick, of Washington county), Mary Ann (whose name opens this sketch), Julia A., (deceased), Jerome (also deceased) and Joel. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Grable settled in Fallowfield township, this county, where he died in 1822. Mrs. Grable was afterward married to Charles Farquhar, who was born August 6, 1800, and was by occupation a farmer and tanner. They passed their wedded life in Washington county, and here Mr. Farquhar died in 1871, being followed by his wife in 1881, in her eighty-fifth year. She left four children by this marriage: Elizabeth (born March 13, 1834), John G., Salome and Isabella, all of whom are deceased save Elizabeth. The Misses Mary Ann Grable and Elizabeth Farquhar have continued, since the death of their parents, to reside together on the old homestead. They have an abundance of this world’s goods left to them by the industry and prudence of their parents, and are now only waiting the summons which will unite them on to the other shore, in an unbroken family circle, never to part.

Text taken from page 965 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Larry Jones of Pittsburgh, PA as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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