Henry Earnest and Margaret Miller

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Husband Henry Earnest ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 28 Mar 1772 - Bedford Co, PA 4
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           Died: 30 Mar 1857 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 4
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         Father: Adam Earnest (      -1777) 3
         Mother: Eve "Indian Eve" Dibert (      -1815) 2

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       Marriage:  - Bedford Co, PA

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Wife Margaret Miller ⁴

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           Born: 1766 4
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           Died: 1851 4
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Children

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1 M John Earnest ¹

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2 M Peter Earnest ⁴

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         Spouse: Sarah Shaffer (      -      ) 4
           Marr: Westmoreland Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Earnest

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He lived with his parents in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, their cabin being built on the side of a hill. When he was seven years of age, their cabin was attacked by Indians, who it seems had been watching for several days. The father was too old to be taken a prisoner, or else tried to defend his family and was killed. He had two crowns on his head, and the Indians, after scalping him, laid the crowns on a bench, and the mother concealed these while the Indians were ransacking the house. Henry's sister, a young girl, escaped with a cousin by climbing through a window, but the mother, Henry, and a younger brother were taken prisoners and led to Detroit. As the youngest child was small, the mother had to carry him all the way. It was during the month of May, and they had to walk all the way in their bare feet, tramping through thorns and briars, and they were very footsore by the time they reached their destination. While en route they lived upon turkey buzzard and deer, and mixing the tallow of the deer with flour they baked cakes on flat heated stones. Henry's head was shaved, except a small portion which was adorned with feathers, in the vain attempt to make him look like an Indian. In the fall of the year the three captives were bought by the English, set free, and sent home. Henry grew up in Bedford County, married there, later removing to Westmoreland County, where he died at the age of eighty-five years. [HWC 1906 III, 523]

His birth occurred in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and he came to Westmoreland County while a young man.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 523.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 236.

3 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 96.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 237.