Family
On June 23, 1813 he married Margaretta Watmough, daughter of James Horatio Watmough and Anna Carmick. With Margaretta he fathered ten children, including a daughter, Margaretta (June 26, 1814 – January 7, 1886) who married Major General George G. Meade, Commander of the Union Army of the Potomac from the Battle of Gettysburg until the end of the Civil War, and another daughter, Sarah Sergeant (September 24, 1817 – October 14, 1850) who married Henry A. Wise.
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“Some [adolescent] girls are depressed because they have lost their warm, open relationship with their parents. They have loved and been loved by people whom they now must betray to fit into peer culture. Furthermore, they are discouraged by peers from expressing sadness at the loss of family relationships—even to say they are sad is to admit weakness and dependency.”
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