George H. Hettenbaugh, Sr. and Sarah Michaels

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Husband George H. Hettenbaugh, Sr. ¹

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           Born:  - Germany
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Wife Sarah Michaels ¹

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Children

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1 M George H. Hettenbaugh, Jr. ¹

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           Born: 14 Feb 1812 - Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Hannah Daniels (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - George H. Hettenbaugh, Sr.

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He was born in Germany and came to America with his parents when a child. They settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared to the age of seventeen years, when he accompanied a brother on a kind of pioneering expedition westward and landed in Washington Township, Lawrence County, in 1796. The boys camped in the strange woods the first night and in the morning met Indians who, fortunately, proved friendly to them. They prospected for a time, but finally decided to locate in Scott Township, as it is now, and secured land, entering 200 acres in the heart of the woods. For several years following they lived in Big Meadows, but in 1813, George H. Hettenbaugh, Sr., moved to his own farm. He went to work clearing and improving, and remained on the place until he sold it to his son, George H., after which he moved to Mercer County, where he bought farming land on which he continued to live until the close of his life, when aged eighty-seven years. He served in the War of 1812, and through all his political life voted with the Democratic party. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church.

He and his wife had eleven children, five sons and six daughters.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Michaels

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Her ancestors came to Pennsylvania from Germany.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 391.