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THOMAS MURRAY WADDLE, miner, post office Turtle Creek, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Nov. 15, 1843, a son of James and Mary (Weldon) Waddle, of Pennsylvania, and of Irish and German descent, respectively. James Waddle was a farmer, and lived to the age of eighty-six years, being ill only one week before his death, which occurred in May, 1868. He was a democrat, in religion a Baptist. He was three times married; his first wife was the mother of ten children; his second of one, and his third, Mary Weldon, of five, of whom Thomas M. is the fourth. The mother of our subject was a member of the M. E. Church, and attained the same age as her husband, dying in November, 1886. Thomas M. was reared on the farm and had little opportunity for acquiring an education. At the age of fifteen he began mining, which he has followed ever since, except six years devoted to farming. He married, in 1861, Rachel Douds, who was born in Armstrong county, a daughter of James and Eliza (Johnson) Douds, natives of Washington county, of Scotch and Irish descent. Sept. 2, 1864, he enlisted in Co. E, Capt. William Walters, 211th P. V., for one year, or during the war, and was discharged June 2, 1865, at Alexandria, Va. In June, 1868, Mr. Waddle became a resident of Turtle Creek, and in 1881 built his present residence. Like his father, he was a democrat. His children are James F., in Pittsburgh; Anna Mary, wife of G. W. Morgan, in Turtle Creek; Eliza Ellen, wife of Peter Beveridge, also in Turtle Creek; Minnie May, Adella Jane, Sarah Martha and Margaret Blanche, at home. Mr. Waddle and family attend the Lutheran Church.