Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Peter Feltenberger and Selinda Lusher




Husband Peter Feltenberger 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife Selinda Lusher

            AKA: Celinda Lusher,1 Salinda Lusher
           Born: Abt 1823
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Oct 1889
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA


         Father: John Lusher (1800-1883) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret "Peggy" Felmale (1799-1870) 2 3




Children
1 M John Feltenberger 4

           Born: 23 May 1841 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Apr 1920 4
         Buried:  - Melat-Hanby Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
         Spouse: Margaret Elizabeth Snyder (1857-1927) 4


2 F Sarah "Sadie" Feltenberger 1

           Born: Abt 1845
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: James Stinger (      -      ) 1


3 F Angeline Feltenberger 1

           Born: Abt 1847
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: James Fritz (      -      ) 1



General Notes: Husband - Peter Feltenberger


Peter and Celinda Feltenberger separated. Peter went back east of the mountains in Pennsylvania, where he had previously lived.

A family tradition states that Peter left Selinda and went back to eastern Pennsylvania, married again (a bigamist!) and had another family. Later, after his death, by chance the two families met and became friends.


General Notes: Wife - Selinda Lusher


Records from the Rockland M. E. church show that she was baptised as an adult there on February 29, 1880.

There is no marker for her in Rockland Cemetery.

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Sources


1 Unknown, A Feltenberger Genealogy (Franklin, PA: Privately published, ~1965), Pg 2.

2 James Lincoln Lusher, Lusher Family Tree (Self-published, cir. 1942), Pg 2.

3 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 106.

4 Unknown, A Feltenberger Genealogy (Franklin, PA: Privately published, ~1965), Pg 7.

5 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 23.


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