Jacob Gress and Mary Catharine Rumbaugh

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Husband Jacob Gress ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 27 Sep 1825 - Washington Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: Aft 1890
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         Father: Jacob Gress, Sr. (1793-1883) 2 4 5
         Mother: Mary "Polly" Lauffer (cal 1799-1880) 1 5 6

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       Marriage: 20 Mar 1856 1 2 3

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   Other Spouse: Maria Zimmerman (1835-1879) 1 2 3 - 9 Jun 1870 1 2 3

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   Other Spouse: Julia Ann Hess (1840-      ) 1 2 3 - 15 Mar 1881 1 2 3

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Wife Mary Catharine Rumbaugh ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Jun 1836 3
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           Died: 6 Apr 1859 1 3
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         Father: Peter Rumbaugh (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Mary Calvena Gress ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 6 Jan 1857 3
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         Spouse: Jesse K. Poorman (      -      ) 1 2 3
           Marr: 4 Nov 1875 3

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2 M Franklin Levan Gress ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 Feb 1859 3
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         Spouse: Anna E. Brown (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 23 Feb 1893 3

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Gress

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He received his education in the schools of his neighborhood. He came to Unity township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1837 and remained until 1856 when he moved to a farm of his father's in Mt. Pleasant township. In 1866 he returned to the home farm where he remained until 1886, when he retired from farming and active business life and removed to a residence at Pleasant Unity in 1889. He owned his father's Unity township farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres besides an adjoining farm of one hundred and eighteen acres and four acres of land and some valuable property at Pleasant Unity. Jacob Gress was a good business man, a "dyed-in-the-wool" democrat and one of the old and substantial members of St. Paul Reformed church, in which he was deacon and elder.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 460.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 467.

3 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 86.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 368, 460.

5 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 84.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 467, 657.