William Thomas Welty and Ada S. Thomas

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Husband William Thomas Welty ¹

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           Born: 5 Jun 1862 - Delmont, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Henry Welty (1834-1901) 2 4
         Mother: Margaret Jane Craig (      -Aft 1918) 2 5

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       Marriage: 27 Apr 1893 3

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Wife Ada S. Thomas ³

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         Father: Abraham W. Thomas (1839-Aft 1918) 6 7
         Mother: Sarah Henry (      -1894) 3 8

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Children

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1 F Margaret L. Welty ³

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General Notes: Husband - William Thomas Welty

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He was but a boy when his parents moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where they remained a short time. They then returned to Hannahstown, where he was reared. His early educational training was acquired in the common schools of this town and later at Greensburg Academy. In 1883, then in his twenty-first year, he went to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to enter into the employ of Mr. Lewis Trauger, then one of the prominent dry-goods merchants of that town. His genial disposition soon won for him a host of friends in his newly adopted residence, and for fifteen years he held a responsible position in Mr. Trauger’s business. In 1898 Lewis Trauger died, and Mr. Welty purchased the entire stock of goods. This seemed a large undertaking, but it was one in which he prospered even beyond his own expectations, and in 1901 he purchased the building in which he transacted his business.
He was one of the leading members of the Zion Lutheran church, was for over twenty years a member of the church choir, was a deacon of the church for several years, and was always prominently and actively identified with Sunday school work. He was a member of the I. O. of H. and the J. O. U. A. M.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 101.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 102.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 103.

4 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 58.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 823.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 706.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81, 103.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 962.