Christian Smathers and Elizabeth Daubenspeck

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Husband Christian Smathers ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: [Unk] Smithers 4
           Born:  - ? Luzerne Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - ? Monroe Twp, Clarion Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: Jacob Smathers (Abt 1749-      ) 3 5
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elizabeth Daubenspeck ^{2 4}

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - ? Monroe Twp, Clarion Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: Jacob Daubenspeck (      -      ) 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Barbara Geiger (      -      ) 9

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Children

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1 M Christian Smathers ^{3 10}

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           Born: 1793 - Luzerne Co, PA 3
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           Died:  - Jefferson Co, PA
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         Spouse: Susanna Harriger (      -      ) 5 11

         Spouse: Mrs. Catherine Rodes (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Christian Smathers

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He lived in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, until after his marriage and in 1795 moved from there to Butler County, locating at the village of Bruin, his wife's people, the Dobinspecks, being very prominent there. One year later, he and his wife moved to Clarion County and settled on a farm in
Monroe township. It was wild land at the time but he cleared it and developed a productive farm and they lived there until death. They had eight children.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1601.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 465.

3 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 738.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 444.

5 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 50.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 405.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1327.

8 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 464.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1303.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 665, 1086.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1086.