Edward C. Fruit and Kate Garner

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Husband Edward C. Fruit ¹

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           Born: 9 Oct 1822 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Fruit (1795-1879) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Campbell (1801-1866) 4

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       Marriage: 28 Nov 1856 1

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Wife Kate Garner ¹

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         Father: Jacob Garner (1799-      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Louck (1802-      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Jessie Fruit ¹

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         Spouse: John Magargee (      -      ) 1

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2 M Robert E. Fruit ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Edward C. Fruit

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He attended the country schools of his boyhood. From 1865 to 1872 he clerked for Gundy & Peters, Gundy & Persh, Charleston, and Enoch, his brother, at Clarksville. He was once elected a justice of the peace, but did not qualify. He was school director for seven years, assessor, and for two years a director of schools at Clarksville. He was a member of I. O. O. F. at Mercer, a charter member of same at Charleston, Clarksville and Hamburg, and was once an A. F. & A. M. He was a Republican. [HMC 1888, 926]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 926.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 925.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 744.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 925, 926.