Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher
Family Group Record
Henry Lauffer, Sr. and Barbara Allman
Husband Henry Lauffer, Sr. 1 2 3 4
Born: Abt 1754
Christened:
Died: Feb 1821 - near Pleasant Unity, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 4
Buried: - Bash Cemetery, near Pleasant Unity, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Christian Lauffer (1730-Abt 1800) 5 6 7 8
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Barbara Allman 3
AKA: Barbara Alliman 2 4
Born: Abt Apr 1771
Christened:
Died: 14 May 1846 2 4
Buried: - Bash Cemetery, near Pleasant Unity, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Children
1 M John Lauffer 3 9 10
Born: 1 Jul 1789 - Allentown, Lehigh Co, PA 10
Christened:
Died: 4 Feb 1873 10
Buried: - Hill's Cemetery, Manor Dale, Westmoreland Co, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth Andre (1795-1877) 11
Marr: Philadelphia, PA
2 M Henry Lauffer, Jr. 1 2 12
Born: Cal 27 Dec 1793
Christened:
Died: 18 Apr 1873 1 12
Buried: - Denmark Manor Cemetery, Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Spouse: Anna Marie Gress (1795-1870) 2 12
Marr: Sep 1814 2 12
3 F Elizabeth Lauffer 2 13
Born: 1795 13
Christened:
Died: 1869 13
Buried: - Wayne Co, OH
Spouse: Adam Rumbaugh ( -1870) 2 13
Marr: 1814 13
4 F Mary "Polly" Lauffer 14 15 16
Born: Cal 17 Jul 1799
Christened:
Died: 2 Sep 1880 14 16
Buried:
Spouse: Jacob Gress, Sr. (1793-1883) 16 17 18
Marr: 12 Mar 1818 16
5 F Susanna Lauffer 19 20
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: George Hartzell ( - ) 20 21
General Notes: Husband - Henry Lauffer, Sr.
In Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, vol. 23, page 226, we find that this Henry Lauffer is enrolled among "Rangers of the Frontiers 1778 to 1783," for Westmoreland County.
He was an enterprising farmer residing near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland County, and was still a young man when he died at sixty-seven years, five months, twenty-one days. He died from an injury to his foot that became infected. As he resided along the stage coach route to Pittsburg and the west, just south of Greensburg, he kept a wayside inn for many years.
He spent his life on the farm, cleared and started by his father, the old Lauffer homestead near Pleasant Unity, and it was there that his death occurred, at the age of sixty-eight years.
In 1816 he took out a quarter section of land in Wayne County, Ohio, near Wooster, for each of his five children; upon one of these sections Mrs. Elizabeth Rumbaugh moved in 1817, and the farm was still in the hands of that family a century later.
Sources
1
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 368.
2
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 657.
3
Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 346.
4
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 72.
5
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 367.
6
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 524, 657.
7
Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 346, 499.
8
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 8.
9
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 122, 368.
10
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 90.
11
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 122.
12
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 73.
13
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 81.
14
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 460.
15
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 467, 657.
16
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 84.
17
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 368, 460.
18
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 467.
19
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 425.
20
The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 87.
21
Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 436, 466.