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• Name: Joseph Sellers HARPSTER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 6 May 1843 in Stormstown, Half Moon Twp, Centre Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 2 Mar 1914 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John HARPSTER Birth: 26 Dec 1812 in Pennsylvania Death: 11 Feb 1899
Mother:

• Leah SELLERS Birth: 29 May 1818 in Pennsylvania Death: 4 Jun 1885

Family:
Marriage:

• Sarah Mary WILLIAMS on Abt 1866 .^m1
  
• Sarah Mary WILLIAMS Birth: Sep 1843 in Pennsylvania Death: 1924

Children:

1. Jackson Hoover HARPSTER Birth: 25 Aug 1867 in Pennsylvania Death: 27 Mar 1942
2. John Orlando HARPSTER Birth: 17 Aug 1869 in Pennsylvania
3. George Wilbur HARPSTER Birth: 28 Jan 1871 in Pennsylvania
4. Mary Anna HARPSTER Birth: 20 Apr 1872 Death: Apr 1876
5. Leah Leona HARPSTER Birth: 21 Jun 1874 in Pennsylvania Death: 10 Sep 1903
6. Nancy Bertha HARPSTER Birth: 15 Oct 1875 in Pennsylvania
7. William Franklin HARPSTER Birth: 18 Oct 1877 in Pennsylvania Death: Jul 1972 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania
8. Estella Jane HARPSTER Birth: 6 Mar 1880
9. Chester Arthur HARPSTER Birth: 6 Aug 1882 in Pennsylvania Death: Sep 1962 in Pennsylvania
10. Simon Sellers HARPSTER Birth: 2 Jan 1884 Death: Aug 1969 in Tyrone, Blair Co, Pennsylvania
11. Pearl HARPSTER Birth: 18 Feb 1886 Death: Dec 1973

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

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

place:

[Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

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

parents:

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

Sources for death Information

date:

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

Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah Mary WILLIAMS

date:

1866 [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

abt 1866 [Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007],

child:

[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p12, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p13, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p14, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p15]

Research Notes:
18 Aug 1862: enlisted in Co G 148th Regiment PA Volunteers; serged until the end of the Civil War [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

3 May 1863: wounded in the arm at Chancellorsville, VA [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]

12 May 1864: wounded at Spotsylvania Court House; left for dead on the field of battle. He fell on his face; his buddy Nathan E Bean turned him on his back, pulled his cap over his face, and wrote home that he had fallen in the line of duty and the home folks mourned for him for weeks before they knew he was still living and in Prison Camp. As was usually the case after heavy cannonading, a thunder storm followed the battle and blew the cap off his face and the rain in his face brought him back to life. One of his sisters went down and brought him home of furlough. After recovery he returned to duty and served until the end of the war. [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p10]



Pedigree of Joseph Sellers 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
Joseph Sellers HARPSTER
|         /-----(Unk) SELLERS
 \-----Leah SELLERS



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