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NOTICE:
Our son Robert, a minor has been improperly and imprudently contracting debts without our knowledge. Notice that restoration will be executed, but not in the furture.
Robert McDonald, Sr. and Mary McDonald, Delaware Twp. Mercer Co., PA
-­ From the Western Press, Sept 2, 1811

 


MURDER MOST FOUL
From a letter received by his friends here, we regret to learn that Mr. ROBERT M'DONALD, formerly of this place, was murdered in Jackson, Miss. in January last. It appears that Mr. M'Donald, who has been for some years engaged in business in the south, had contracted to build the State house at Jackson; and on last Christmas, some of his workmen having got into a frolic, he discharge them. A short time afterwards, one of them attacked him in the street, with a rifle in his hands, and after some slight altercation shot him in the side, which caused his death in about an hour.
The culprit, at the date of the letter, was in jail, awaiting his trial.
Mr. M'Donald was a young man, in the prime of life, and his untimely death will be sincerely lamented by a numerous circle of relatives and friends, to whom he had endeared himself by his manly virtues and exemplary course of life.
­ The Western Press, Sat. Mar 31, 1838

 


 

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MERCER COUNTY MARRIAGES (from??? Mercer Newspaper, date unknown)

McDonald ­ Parks. At his home, by Rev. J.R. Wylie, on December 21st [1882], Daniel McDonald, of Appaloose County, Iowa, to Miss Parks, of Balm.