Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Pentz and Sarah Jane Hollopeter




Husband John Pentz 1

           Born: 11 Jul 1841 - Brady Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Father: John Pentz (1800-1846) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Knox (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Susan B. McGovern (      -Aft 1898) 3 - 24 Oct 1893 3



Wife Sarah Jane Hollopeter 4

            AKA: [Unk] Hallopeter 5
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           Died: Aug 1892 4
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Children
1 M William Pentz 4

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         Spouse: Hannah Clever (      -      ) 4


2 F Mary Ada Pentz 4

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           Died: 18 Aug 1878 4
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3 F Elizabeth Pentz 4

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         Spouse: Christopher Uble (      -      ) 4


4 M Frederick M. "Fred" Pentz 6

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         Spouse: Arminta "Minta" Kester (      -      ) 6


5 F Annie Pentz 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Pentz


Throughout his entire business career he engaged in lumbering and farming. He held a prominent place among the old lumbermen who first engaged in the business of rafting down the Susquehanna. He purchased a farm in Union township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, which he improved and made his home for eight years, and on disposing of that tract bought the Joseph Davis farm in Penn township, where he resided until 1893.
He was a Democrat, and served as justice of the peace in Penn township for five years, constable for seven years, school director and overseer of the poor. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Grampian.


General Notes: Wife - Sarah Jane Hollopeter

from Union Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

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Sources


1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 947, 983, 1657.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 947.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 564, 948.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 948.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 983.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 868, 948.


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