Matthias Shepler and Margaret Houseman

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Husband Matthias Shepler ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

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         Father: [Father] Shepler (      -      )
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Wife Margaret Houseman ^{2 4 5 6 7}

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Children

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1 M John Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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2 M Philip Shepler ^{2 3 4 8}

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           Born:  - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: Bef 1883 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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3 M Abraham Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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4 M Isaac Shepler ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

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           Born:  - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: 10 Dec 1837 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4 5 7 9 10
         Buried:  - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah Hill (Abt 1782-1869) 2 4 5 7 8

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5 M Jacob Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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6 F Mary Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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7 F Margaret Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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8 F Catherine Shepler ^{2 4 8}

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General Notes: Husband - Matthias Shepler

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He was a native of Germany and immigrated to America, settling in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he took "tomahawk possession" of a tract of land containing about four hundred acres, for which he afterward obtained a patent and which then remained in the family for at least four generations. [BHCWC, 635]

He was a native of Maryland and emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, settling in Rostraver township during the Revolutionary war. [BHCWC, 635]

He, with two of his brothers, Peter and Philip, moved from Virginia before the war of the Revolution and settled in Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, taking up farms on the Monongahela hills.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Houseman

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The Houseman family was one of the early settlers of Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 544.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 566.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 635.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 308.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 567.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 261, 1220.

7 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 97.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 261.

9 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

10 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 262, 1220.