Valentine Beaver and Catherine Mathay

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Husband Valentine Beaver ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 May 1835 - West Salem Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Peter Beaver (      -1874) 2 3
         Mother: Hannah Wasser (      -      ) 2 4

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       Marriage: 1865 - West Salem Twp, Mercer Co, PA 5

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Wife Catherine Mathay ⁵

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           Born: 3 Oct 1845 - Germany 5
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         Father: Peter Mathay (      -1900) 5
         Mother: Mary Eich (      -1906) 5 6

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Children

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1 M Henry Peter Beaver ⁵

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2 M George Albert Beaver ⁵

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3 F Marguerite Beaver ⁵

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4 M Fred Beaver ⁵

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5 M Junius Beaver ⁵

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6 M Walter D. Beaver ⁵

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7 F Julia Beaver ⁵

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         Spouse: W. McDonald (      -      ) 5

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8 F Catherine Beaver ⁵

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9 F Elizabeth Beaver ⁵

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10 F Mary Beaver ⁵

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11 F Eva Josephine Beaver ⁵

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12 F Charlotte Louise Beaver ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Valentine Beaver

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He attended school until he was about nineteen years of age, and was employed on the farm until 1859, when he went to Illinois and followed agriculture in Wabash County until 1861; then retraced his steps to his native state and enlisted as a soldier of the Civil war. He joined the Union forces on the original call for three-months’ troops and June 10, 1861, re-enlisted with the “Mercer Rifles,” under Captain Wormer, officially known as Company G, Pennsylvania Reserves. He participated in the battles of Cumberland Valley and Mechanicsburg, as well as in the Seven Days’ fight in front of Richmond; also at Bull Run, Antietam, Shenandoah Valley and the battles of the Wilderness, etc. His company was sent to the front in nearly all engagements, but he returned as one of thirty-four members of his command without a scratch or scar, being mustered out June 12, 1864. After his marriage he worked two years in a coal mine, was then employed by the old S. & A. Railway (later the Bessemer line) as a carpenter, and for ten years at the pumping station, near Osgood, Pennsylvania. During his long service with the company, he lost but six days’ time.

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General Notes: Wife - Catherine Mathay

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She came to America when less than three years of age, with her father and mother.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1146.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 941.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1146, 1160, 1191.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1146, 1191.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 942.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1163.