Abraham Overholt Fretts and Mazie Reamer

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Husband Abraham Overholt Fretts ¹

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            AKA: Abraham E. Fretts 2
           Born: 1 Sep 1850 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Henry Fretts (1824-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Diana Myers (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 22 Nov 1871 2

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Wife Mazie Reamer ³

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            AKA: Mary E. Reamer 2
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         Father: Philip Reamer (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Katherine McMasters (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M William Fretts ⁴

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           Born: 13 Apr 1872 2
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           Died: 22 Apr 1872 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Ethel Kirk Fretts ⁵

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            AKA: Ethel R. Fretts 2
           Born: 29 Oct 1873 2
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         Spouse: J. Edwin Gatchel (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Abraham Overholt Fretts

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Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

He was educated in the public schools of his district and at the Mount Pleasant Academy. His first business venture was in the mercantile line, in Mount Pleasant, and he later became the proprietor of the National Hotel in the same place. In addition to his hotel business he conducted a livery stable, which was a profitable undertaking. He removed to Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania, in 1878, and there commenced the operation of oil wells, completing his first well in the same year. He left Bradford at the end of three years and removed to Greensburg, where he determined to make his permanent home. He engaged very extensively in leasing and speculating in the coal and oil fields, and was remarkably successful. He was thoroughly well-posted in his particular field of industry, and had the happy faculty of being able to take advantage of every opportunity as soon as it presented itself. He had a large circle of friends, and was highly respected in the business as well as the social world. He was a member of the Baptist church of Mount Pleasant, and his political affiliations were Republican.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 640.

2 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Brief History of John and Christian Fretz (Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1890), Pg 444.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 395, 641.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 641.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 395.