When the John Huston family moved to Virginia about 1747, Christopher and Samuel remained in Cumberlarid County, Pennsylvania, where both had acquired land and were fairly close neighbors. Their lives ran remarkably parallel. Christopher married Susanna Wilson and they had seven children. Samuel married Isabella Sharon and they had eight children.

Both Christopher and Samuel served in the Revolutionary War, both in the Third Battalion of Pennsylvania troops. Christopher’s son, John, married Samuel’s daughter, Margaret. This marriage of first cousins was not rare among the Scotch-Irish. In fact, in the same family, Samuel’s youngest daughter, Isabella, married her first cousin, James Clendenin, another member of this Scotch-Irish community in the Cumberland Valley.

Closing their parallel lives, Christopher and Samuel Huston died in the same year, 1784. Both were buried in the little commuunity burying ground, Pine Hill Graveyard. There their remains rest among those of their families, their relatives and several of their comrades in the struggle for independence. E. Rankin Huston in his book, "The Huston Families," laments the neglect of the graves of these pioneers:

"We have neglected the graves of these Revolutionary sires so long that brambles and briars hide them from view and cattle tramp over the hallowed spot. No loving hands strew flowers on their lowly beds on Memorial Day, no orator or poet tells of the