Dedication:
"in loving memory of  SARAH
Wife of THOMAS SIMPSON of Paxton
her granddaughter SARAH ELDER
Wife of GENERAL JAMES WALLACE of Hanover
her granddaughter SARAH ELDER COURDEN
her niece SARAH COURDEN
Wife of HOMER HAMILTON CUMMINGS
her daughter SARAH ELLEN CUMMINGS
all of whom lived valiantly in the spirit of their Scotch-Irish traditions.

Index has Rev. John ELDER entry in 12 pages.
for example, Chapter 3, page 45:
"...it was the Armstrong family who quite unintentionally provided for Paxton Township its first cause celebre; furnished the Presbyterian members of the Reverend Mr. John Elder's Paxton Church with a topic for awesome conversation...
  ...occasion to a unique narrative framed by nine frontier deponents and set down for them in his unmistakable handwriting by their pastor John Elder on April 19, 1744, in the presence of Justice James Armstrong.
  Mr. Elder made faithful copy of their attestation, leaving it, despite his clerical training and his meticulous script, entirely their own prose....
   (Footnote 15: "To identify John Elder's hand one has only to examine Elder. Pap." = John Elder Papers, Public Records Office, Education Building, Harrisburg)...
Page 49:
  "Today the story of Jack Armstrong has little currency in Susquehanna country. Few motorists realize, as they speed along the Juniata on their way to Lewistown or the West and pass through Jacks Narrows, that they are traversing a precipitous valley which takes it name from a murdered trader's sleeping place and violent death...."
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