Samuel Eicher

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Husband Samuel Eicher ^{1 2}

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1 M Samuel Eicher ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Mary Ridenour (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Eicher

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He was one of five brothers who came from Germany as young men. Two of them settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, one in the Ligonier valley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, one in Ohio and one in Pittsburgh. He was one of the two who settled in Fayette County, taking up a large tract of land comprising practically all of what later became Bullskin township. Here he erected a simple cabin in what was then practically a wilderness and established a home where he passed the remainder of his life. This property was largely cleared and cultivated by him, and part of it, two hundred and twenty-six acres in extent, was still in the possession of his descendants into the twentieth century. He followed the trade of coopering in addition to his agricultural pursuits.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 7.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1169.