Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Deyarman, Alexander October 12, 1801 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 495
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Alexander Deyarman, a retired farmer of Georges township, and ex
director of the Fayette county poor, is a son of Hugh Deyarman and
Isabella Spratt Deyarman, and was born in Georges township, Fayette
county, Penna, October 12, 1801.
    Hugh Deyarman was a native of County Down, Ireland, and emigrated at
about the beginning of the present century to Georges township, where he
engaged for a short time at Oliphant's Furnace as a common laborer.  In
1812 he purchased a farm and engaged in farming.  He married Isabella
Spratt and their union was blessed with fifteen children.  
    Alexander Deyarman was reared on a farm and enjoyed the subscription
school privileges of his boyhood days.  To the tiller of the soil he gave
his active lifetime's interest and labor.  He purchased the farm of his
father, to which he has subsequently added until he now owns a farm of 135
acres of good, well-improved land.  He is a democrat of the old school, has 
always taken an active part in politics, and has served his party in various 
official capacities.  He was also director of the poor for three years.
    Alexander Deyarman has been married three times.  His first wife was
Phoebe Hadden of Georges township.  They had seven children: Hugh
Deyarman, Louisa Deyarman, Isabella Deyarman, Ann Deyarman, Mary J
Deyarman and two that died in infancy.  His second marriage was with Nancy
Greenlee.  The second union was blessed with the following children:
William G Deyarman, Alexander Deyarman and Robert Deyarman; John Deyarman
entered the Civil War and served six months, was taken sick at Cumberland
and mustered out of the service; Ewing Deyarman was also in the Federal
service, and was captured by Mosby and held prisoner at Andersonville for
six months; Julia Deyarman and Fannie Deyarman.  Mr Deyarman was married a
third time to Martha Watt, a daughter of Samuel Watt.
    He has been a member of the Presbyterian church for about fifty years,
and has served for many years as elder.  He is straightforward in
business, and fearless and plainspoken in expressing his opinion.

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