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• Name: John HARPSTER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 26 Dec 1812 in Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 11 Feb 1899 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Samuel H HARPSTER Birth: 1788 in Pennsylvania Death: 1875
Mother:

• Elizabeth BEAL Death: 1830

Family:
Marriage:

• Leah SELLERS on 12 Apr 1835 .^m1
  
• Leah SELLERS Birth: 29 May 1818 in Pennsylvania Death: 4 Jun 1885

Children:

1. Mary Ann HARPSTER Birth: 27 Jul 1836 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 27 Oct 1853
2. Elizabeth HARPSTER Birth: 10 Jun 1838 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1913
3. William P HARPSTER Birth: 24 Feb 1840 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1928
4. Daniel Bates HARPSTER Birth: 22 Jan 1842 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 9 Feb 1865 in Salisbury, North Carolina
5. Joseph Sellers HARPSTER Birth: 6 May 1843 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 2 Mar 1914
6. Isaiah Potter HARPSTER Birth: 4 Sep 1844 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1873
7. Nancy Jane HARPSTER Birth: 12 Nov 1846 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Apr 1925
8. Sarah Catharine HARPSTER Birth: Aug 1849 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1916
9. Frances Leah HARPSTER Birth: 15 Jun 1851 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1911
10. John H HARPSTER Birth: 21 Dec 1852 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 10 Mar 1853
11. Lucetta M HARPSTER Birth: 16 Apr 1854 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 3 May 1876
12. Dora Leona HARPSTER Birth: 11 Jun 1860 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania Death: 22 Dec 1905

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007]

1812 [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p9],

place:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007],

parents:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p9]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007]

1899 [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p9]

Sources with Information about marriage to Leah SELLERS

date:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007]

1835 [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10],

child:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p17]

Research Notes:
master carpenter; specialized in building barns [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

lived at Stormstown Half Moon Twp [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

1864: moved to a farm at Sunny Side, 4 miles North of Port Matilda [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]



Pedigree of John HARPSTER
                                     /-----George Frederick HERBSTER
                            /-----Georg David HERBSTER
                           |        |         /-----Martin WEICK
                           |         \-----Anna Christina WEICK
                           |                  \-----Anna Christina HOSIN
                   /-----Jacob Friedrich HERBSTER
                  |         \-----Maria Sidonia BECKER
          /-----Christoph HERBSTER
         |         \-----Margaretha KRAUSS
 /-----Samuel H HARPSTER
|         \-----Maria Elisabeth WERNER
John HARPSTER
|         /-----Abraham BEAL
 \-----Elizabeth BEAL



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