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Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Wendell Vance HARPSTER Birth: 2 Mar 1900 Death: Aug 1979 in Zephyrhills, Pasco Co, Florida
  2. Wilma J HARPSTER Birth: 4 Aug 1901
  3. Vera Grace HARPSTER Birth: 18 Nov 1902 in Pennsylvania Death: Aug 1982
  4. Wayne Biddle HARPSTER Birth: 24 Jul 1904 in Pennsylvania Death: Apr 1996 in Port Matilda, Centre Co, Pennsylvania
  5. Dorothy E HARPSTER Birth: 15 Feb 1906 in Pennsylvania Death: 17 Aug 2001 in Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania
  6. Joyce V HARPSTER Birth: 20 Jun 1909 in Pennsylvania
  7. Helen E HARPSTER Birth: 12 Jun 1911 in Pennsylvania

Bibliography
  1. Gates, Dick, Harpster family, private email 5/3/2007. Author address: gatesrh at aol dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007].
  2. Harpster, John Orlando, Harpsters and their Habitat. St Petersburg, FL: author, 1956. Centre County PA Library P929.2Ha Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11],
place:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007],
parents:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11]
Sources with Information about marriage to Pearlah BIDDLE
date:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11],
child:
[Ref: Dick Gates 5/3/2007, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11, HarpsterJO HARPSTER p12]
Research Notes:
taught school for eight years in Centre Co, and four years in Clearfield Co [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11]

1902: mailman in Philipsburg, until his retirement in 1932 [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11]

member of the Official Board of Trinity Methodist Church; served as church treasurer and taught a Sunday School class for 27 years [Ref: HarpsterJO HARPSTER p11]



Pedigree of Jackson Hoover 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
Jackson Hoover HARPSTER
|                           /-----William WILLIAMS
|                  /-----Job WILLIAMS
|         /-----George WILLIAMS
 \-----Sarah Mary WILLIAMS
         |         /-----Henry BEAM
          \-----Mary Polly BEAM



Descendants of Jackson Hoover HARPSTER
1. Jackson Hoover HARPSTER m. Pearlah BIDDLE
m. Pearlah BIDDLE

2nd generation

4. Vera Grace HARPSTER m. Living IVES
m. Living IVES
5. Wayne Biddle HARPSTER m. Lelia M KUBLIC
m. Lelia M KUBLIC
7. Joyce V HARPSTER m. Living FOREMAN
m. Living FOREMAN
8. Helen E HARPSTER m. George FINKBEINER
m. George FINKBEINER