Loudon Research
Perry and Cumberland Counties, PA
James Loudon d. September 22, 1783 ae 57 years; buried in Bull Hill graveyard1; immigrated
from Scotland to America in 1754 at Baltimore, then to region north of the Kittatinny range. In
1755 he located in that part of the Shearman’s Valley which afterward came to be designated
as the Raccoon Valley.2
Kline’s Carlisle Weekly Gazette, Sept. 24, 1800. Administration account of Christen Loudon and
Archibald Loudon, admrs of the estate of James Loudon, decd, late of Rye twp.3
Married:
1)Christiana d. June 21, 1807 said to be buried in Bull Hill graveyard, Perry Co., PA
Children:
1. Archibald Loudon b. 24 Aug 1754; d. Aug 12, 1840 buried Old Graveyard at Carlisle
Married 1) Mary Carson b. 1761; d. Dec. 26, 1795
Children:
1. Margaret Loudon married David Woods of Dickinson Twp
2. Christina Loudon married John English
3. Mary Loudon b. 1790; d. 1862 ae 72; unmarried,
4. Catharine Loudon married Thomas H. Criswell
5. Sarah Loudon married Charles Ford
Married:
2) Mrs. Hannah Gustine Holcomb d. Nov 16, 1822
Children:
1.James Loudon b. March 9, 1799 at Carlisle; d. July 8, 1880; Member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Carlisle
Married: July 21, 1821
1)Mary C. Maloney d. June 23, 1835 in childbirth of last child, James.
Children:
1. Henrietta Loudon d. Aug 7,1900 m. Robert Halbert
2. Archibald Loudon d. 1871 unmarried
3. Anna Maria Loudon m. James Fleming; lived Alameda, Cal.
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www.findagrave.com; Bull Hill Cemetery; Old Graveyard, Carlisle; Silver Spring Presbyterian, Mechanicsburg;
Trindle Springs Lutheran, Silver Spring.
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Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905. Full
text with search option at http://archive.org/details/biographicalanna00ingene
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Abstracts of South Central Pennsylvania Newspapers 1796-1800, Compiled by F. Edward Wright, Family Line
Publications, Westminster, Maryland.
4. Alfred Loudon b. April 7, 1827; d. Nov 25, 1915 ae 88 y buried Old Graveyard;
unmarried
5. Isabella Loudon b. Dec 13, 1828; married Mr. Rippey; lived Winterset, Iowa
6. Oberlin Loudon b. Dec 6, 1830; married a lady of Ardmore, near Phila, moved
to Washington
7. Duffield Loudon b. Dec 12, 1832; died National Soldiers’ Home at Dayton,
Ohio on Sept 10, 1897
8. William Loudon b. Oct 20, 1833; d. June 20, 1844
9. James Loudon d. in infancy
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Married:
2) Elizabeth Ann Loudon b. 1811; d. March 1882, buried old graveyard at
Carlisle.; d/o Matthew Loudon (brother of James’ father).
Children:
1.Matthew Loudon b. May 18, 1838 lived Mechanicsburg
2. Mary Matilda Loudon b. 1840; d 1891
4.James Augustus Loudon b. March 5, 1843; d Sept 11, 1861
5.Edward P. Loudon b. Dec 10, 1847
6.Charles Ogilby Loudon b. March 3, 1849
7.William Loudon d. infancy
8.Thomas C. Loudon b. July 14, 1852 m. Miss Reed of Petersburg, Adams Co.
9.William C. Loudon b. April 10, 1854; d. 1920 buried Old Graveyard
Married:
Martha Ellen Claudy b. 1859; d. 1941 buried Old Graveyard
Matthew Loudon b. ca 1740; d. 10 January 18014
Jane Christiana Loudon b ca 17455
John Loudon b ca 17566
Margaret Loudon b. ca 1757; d. 11 Oct 18177
Elizabeth Loudon b. ca 1765; d. 24 July 18038
“Pedigree Resource File”, database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/3M8P-DH8: accessed
2013-08-07), entry for James /LOUDON/.
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Matthew Loudon was a younger brother of James Loudon, and with him came from Scotland in
1754, According to some accounts there was also a brother John. These three brothers settled
in the Raccoon Valley, in what is now Perry county, early in 1755. They were soon afterwards
driven away by the Indians…When peace was restored, John and James Loudon ventured back
to their possessions in the Raccoon Valley, but their brother Matthew, having formed new
alliances, remained in the Cumberland Valley.
Matthew Loudon b. 1729 Ireland; d. Jan 10, 1801 buried Silver Spring Presbyterian Church
Lieutenant Matthew Loudon serviced in Revolutionary War. His
1st wife is Elizabeth McCormick (1740-1767) and 2nd wife is Ann
Copenger. "He and his two wives lie buried in the same grave in
the cemetery of the Silver Spring church."
Married:
1) Elizabeth Mccormick b. 1740 Lancaster Co., Pa; d. 1767Carlisle, Cumberland
Co., Pa; d/o Thomas McCormick
Children:
1. Mary Loudon b. May 1761
Married: March 14, 1782
Col. James McFarland
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2. Archibald Loudon b March 17, 1763; d. March 22, 1832
Archibald began life as a farmer on the ridge a little to the
northeast of where New Kingstown now is, and near
where his father settled when he came into the
Cumberland Valley.
He and John Walker, a neighbor, engaged at
manufacturing iron at Mt.Holly, Cumberland count in the
years of 1800-1801. The venture was a financial failure
for both partners, they lost heavily.
Archibald continued to live on his farm near New
Kingstown until about 1820, when he exchanged it for a
farm lying on the Juniata river, opposite Newport, Perry
county and with his family removed there. He died there
22 March 1832. His wife died five days after her husband.
From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania, (Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1905), pages 27-30.
Married:
1)Margaret Bines b. Oct 24, 1769; d. Mar 27, 1832; d/o Thomas & Margaret
Vance Bines
Children:
1. Elizabeth McCormick Loudon m. James Bell (4 children)
2. .John McCormick Loudon b. Sep 18, 1792; d. Sep 16, 1880
Married:
2)Nancy Giffin b. Sep 19, 1803; d. Aug 29, 1834
Children:
1. Matthew Loudon b. December 1794 m. Sarah Fulton in 1840 (4 daughters)
moved to Missouri, returned to Perry Co.,; d. April 21, 1855
2. Margaret Loudon b. Sep 15, 1796; d. Feb 5, 1874 ae 78
Married:
Henry Ewalt 1800; d. Jan 11, 1871 ae 71 y
Children:
1. William Henry Ewalt b March 1827; d. Feb 1875
2. Loudon Bines Ewalt b. April 16, 1836; d Nov 30, 1903
3. Margaret Ewalt b Sept 21, 1838
3. Thomas Bines Loudon b. Jun. 1799; d. Dec. 31, 1848 Middlesex, Cumberland
Co., PA
Married: February 1830
Martha Irvine d. Nov 27, 1879 Hogestown, Cumberland Co., Pa
(Sally wife of Thomas Loudon died Nov. 27, 1879 ae 79y 8m 27d Is this
Martha?)
4.James Loudon b. Feb 22, 1802; d. Harford county, MD; no children
Married: 1836
Mrs. Ann Englehart
5.Mary Ann Loudon b. May 1, 1804; d .Oct 26, 1848 Hogestown, Cumberland
Co., Pa; unmarried
6.Margery Bines Loudon b. Sep 30, 1808; d. Jan 25, 1888;
Married: 1832
Dr. Isaac Wayne Snowden b. 1794; d. June 4, 1850
Children:
1. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden b. 1833; d. Aug. 1900
2. John Ross Snowden 18343. Archibald Loudon Snowden b. Aug 11, 1835; d. 1912
4. Margaret Snowden b Jan 10, 1838; d. Mar 23, -1854
5. Sarah Gustine Snowden b. April 5, 1841;
6. Maude Loudon Snowden b. Mar 31, 184; d. -1930
7.William McCormick Loudon b. Nov 12, 1812; d. 1891
Married: Eliz J. Patterson B. Apr 6, 1814; d. Jun 5, 1903; buried Riverside
Cemetery, Hannibal, Mo
Children:
1. Thomas Burs Loudon b. 1842; d. 1914
2. Margaretta Bines Loudon b. Dec 28, 1848, D. Mar 13, 1851 ae 2 y
3. Margaret B. Loudon b. 1852; d. 1913
Married Charles H. Rowe b. 1850; d. 1932
Children:
1. William Loudon Rowe
2. Charles Arthur. Rowe b. 1881; d. 1962
3. Clara Bele Rowe b. 1880; d. 1923; married George H. Tontrup
2) Ann Copenger d. Feb 17, 1829
Children:
1..Elizabeth b. 1774; d. Nov 30, 1814 ae 40 y;
Married:
Thomas Carothers
Children:
1. John Carothers to Missouri; d. 1855
2. Matthew Carothers d. young
3. William to Texas
4. Thomas to Texas
5. Nancy Carothers m. son of James Armstrong of Carlisle and had two sons
6. Mary Ann Carothers d. 1800
2.John Loudon married Polly Hoge d/o John and moved to Ohio in 1816
3.James Loudon b. Apr 1, 1781; d. Jan 27, 1847
Married:
Mary Pinkerton b. 1791; d. May 10, 1857
Children:
1. Matthew Loudon March 7, 1812; d. Oct 30, 1883 ae 73-7-23
Married:
Catharine Myers b. 1816; d. April 18, 1893 ae 77; d/o John Myers & Elizabeth
Children:
1.John Myers Loudon b. May 27, 1841; d. Aug 6, 1894
Married:
Eliza Lyde J. Ellis b. Dec 10, 1848; d. Nov 15, 1934 d/o Margaret Jones &
Thomas Ellis
Children:
1.Margaret Ellis Loudon b. Dec 12, 1875
2.Mary Catharine Loudon b. April 17, 1880; d. 1951
3.John Matthew Loudon b. June 24, 1882
4.Lillie “Bell Loudon b. April 17, 1886; d. Dec 18, 1901 ae 15-8-1
5.Miriam Cristobel Loudon b. Sept 12, 1889
2.Elizabeth Loudon b. Sep 16, 1843; d. Oct 23, 1915 ae 72-1-7 buried Trindle
Springs
3.Alfred James Loudon b. 1848; d. 1915 buried Trindle Springs Lutheran,
Cumberland Co. PA
Married:
Mary Ellen Sailor b. 1857; d. 1934 d/o Mary Ann Fink & Simon Peter Sailor
Children:
1.Matthew James Loudon d. May 21, 1882 ae 2-4-23
2.Simon Seiler Loudon b. 1888; d. 1936
Married:
Bessie May Lower b. 1889; d. 1969 (Married 2) Orrin Landis)
Children:
1. Alfred James Loudon b. Aug 7, 1914; d. Feb 19, 1998
3.Archibald Pinkerton Loudon b. 1893; d. 1983 buried Trindle Springs
Married:
Mary Frances Myers b. 1899; d. 1992; d/o Isaac Jacob Myers and Emma
Olivia Winbigler
Children:
1. Cecil I. Loudon b 1919; d. 1921 buried Trindle Springs
4.Catherine Loudon b Feb 15, 1783; d.Jan 19, 1820 ae 36y 11 m
Married:
Andrew Carothers b. 177; d. July 27, 18361836
Children:
1. John C. to Missouri; married Miss Carothers; no children
2. Matthew married Miss Wilson to Shellyville, Mo. Had large family
3. James to California
Andrew Carothers married Mrs. Isabella Creigh Alexander, d. June 4, 1861 ae
75, buried Old Graveyard at Carlisle, widow of Samuel Alexander
5.Ann b .Oct 29 1785; d. Jan 18, 1845
"Ann, born Oct. 29, 1785, was a deaf mute, and died
unmarried Jan. 18, 1845, at the home of her brother
James at Roxbury, in Monroe township, and her remains
are buried at Silver Spring." from Biographical Annals of
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago:The
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905) pages 27-30