Jacob S. Errett and Anna Sholl

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Husband Jacob S. Errett ¹

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           Born: 31 Mar 1834 - near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Errett (1787-Abt 1846) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Smith (1792-Abt 1882) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Baughman (      -      ) 2

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Wife Anna Sholl ²

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           Died: Mar 1865 2
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         Father: [Father] Sholl (      -      )
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob S. Errett

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He was born on the home farm, six miles west of Greensburg, and one mile south of the Union Pike, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a year and a half old when his father was killed by an accident at the log house raising of a neighbor, and although so young a part of the burden of the farm soon fell upon him. On February 15, 1864, he enlisted in Colonel Coulter's regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving until the close of the war. His wife died while he was away with the army. He saw hard service with the Army of the Potomac, and fought at the battle of the Wilderness, and was wounded in the foot while charging with his regiment at Spottsylvania. After recovering sufficiently he obtained a furlough and reached home one hour after his wife died. He had forty acres of the home farm, which he had helped to clear as a boy, and on this stood an old log house, and there he erected a barn in 1870, and a better residence in 1893. He later bought seventy-three acres of the adjoining farm, which had belonged to his brother George, who had acquired it shortly after his father's death. This had belonged to his mother's parents and had been her old home. He kept adding to this until his farm comprised one hundred and twenty-three acres, which he devoted to general farming. In his political views, Mr. Errett was a Republican, but was extremely independent and only voted for the best man in his opinion regardless of his party affiliations. In his early days he was fond of hunting the wild game which then abounded in the county, and particularly fox-hunting. He was a member of Cribbs Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and also of the Lutheran church.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1014.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1015.