Orrin L. Cribbs and Julia Clara Wakefield

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Husband Orrin L. Cribbs ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Oren Cribbs 4
           Born: 9 Mar 1873 - Heshbon, Indiana Co, PA 5
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         Father: George Washington Cribbs (1840-      ) 3 6 7
         Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Palmer (1843-      ) 2 5 6

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       Marriage: 16 Mar 1899 8

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Wife Julia Clara Wakefield ^{8 9}

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           Born:  - West Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA
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         Father: James M. Wakefield (1852-      ) 1 10
         Mother: Sarah Elizabeth St. Clair (1857-      ) 1 11

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Children

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1 F Gladys Ruth Cribbs ⁸

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2 F Bertha Elizabeth Cribbs ^{2 8}

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3 F Grace Leona Cribbs ^{2 8}

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4 M George Marion Cribbs ^{2 8}

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5 M Kenneth Cribbs ^{2 8}

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General Notes: Husband - Orrin L. Cribbs

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He passed his childhood and youth in his native region. He became a student at the public schools of West Wheatfield township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, when only eight years old. His schooling amounted at first to but five months during the year, the remainder of the time being spent on the farm, assisting his father with the work. The months of his schooling were later increased to the number of six and he completed his studies at the public schools when sixteen years of age. He had decided in the meantime to take up teaching itself as a profession, and accordingly entered a teacher's training school at Armagh, Indiana County, and there studied for a number of years. After completing his course at this institution, he taught school for three years, one of which was spent in Butler township, Indiana County, and the second in West Wheatfield township, his native place. He still continued during his vacation and other spare time to work on his father's farm, but at the age of twenty he left the parental home and made his way to the town of Scio, Ohio, where he took a commercial course in the Scio Business College. After graduating from this school, he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, and there secured a position with the Big Four Railroad, and worked in their employ for a short time. He then became connected with the advertising department of the "Indianapolis News," but only remained there for a few months before returning home. He made this move at the request of his parents, as their other children had all left home and they were in great need of his assistance in running the place. On this occasion he remained with his parents until 1899, and in the autumn of that year secured a position in the general store of Robinson & Company at Garfield, Indiana County. He worked for this concern for some three years, and then became connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His first position was as a clerk at Bolivar, Pennsylvania, where he remained for a number of months, and in the spring of 1906 was appointed extra agent of the Pittsburgh division of the railroad and served in that capacity till the autumn of 1911. He then was appointed agent at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1913, and was then sent to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where he worked in the same capacity until February, 1915. He was then appointed to his present position at Greensburg, made his home there. Like his father before him, he was a staunch Republican in politics, while in his religious belief he was a Methodist and attended the church of that denomination at Greensburg. He was also a prominent Mason in that city, and a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons there.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 427.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 831.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1210.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 701.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1211.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 426.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 830.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1212.

9 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 701, 831.

10 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 700, 804.

11 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 701, 804.