Absalom Bumgardner and Elizabeth Carner

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Husband Absalom Bumgardner ¹

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            AKA: Absalom Baumgartner
           Born: 5 Sep 1821 - Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 28 Jul 1891
         Buried:  - Beringer Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: John Bumgardner (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 25 Mar 1846 or 1847 1

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Wife Elizabeth Carner ³

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            AKA: Elizabeth Garner, Elizabeth Karner 1
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         Father: Peter Carner (Abt 1785-Aft 1870)
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Baumgardner ¹

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         Spouse: Peter Walter (      -      ) 1

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2 M George Baumgardner ¹

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3 M William Baumgardner ¹

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4 M John E. Baumgardner ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Absalom Bumgardner

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At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, and served until his majority. In 1846 he located in Franklin, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade four years, and then opened a shop in Scrubgrass township. In 1856 he removed to Findley township, Mercer County, where he carried on busi-ness until 1859 and then returned to Scrubgrass township. In 1860 he engaged in making tools for oil operators, and in 1861 enlisted in Company H, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He then located at Kennerdell, where he carried on business until 1877. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and also of John Welton Post, G. A. R., of Kennerdell. [HVC 1890, 1005]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1005.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 11.

3 D. Kipp Melat, The Ancestry and Descendents of John Carner and his Wife Susan Stroup Carner, Pioneer Settlers of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: Self-published, 1985), Pg 3.