John Fritchman and Mrs. Gephart

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Husband John Fritchman ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Frietzman 3
           Born:  - Germany
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         Father: [Father] Frietzman (      -      )
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   Other Spouse: Barbara Walthour (      -      ) 2 3 4

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Wife Mrs. Gephart ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Fritchman

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With his two brothers, Adam and Michael, he came to America from Germany, where they were born and reared, and located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Adam and Michael were millers and distillers, and they became the owners of a large tract of land in Westmoreland County, and laid out a private cemetery at Sistersville [Stewartsville?], where the three brothers were subsequently buried.
He located at Pittsburgh, where during the remainder of his life he ran a hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1845. He also operated a lime kiln and burned all the lime used in constructing the western Pennsylvania Penitentiary.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 429.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 648.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 955.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 125.