Samuel T. Shoff and Bessie E. Marks

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Husband Samuel T. Shoff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Feb 1863 - Clearfield Co, PA 2
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         Father: Christopher C. Shoff (1837/1839-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Stitt (      -      ) 2 4

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       Marriage: 1888 2

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Wife Bessie E. Marks ^{1 2}

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         Father: George Marks (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel T. Shoff

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He attended the local schools of his native county, and began his life work on the farm. Later he went into the lumber woods, working there for fifteen years. He then entered the coal mines in Clearfield County, whence he went to Saltsburg, Indiana County, to work in the old Fairbanks mine. In 1893 he came to Leechburg, Armstrong County, to take charge of Kirkpatrick's mine, later owned by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. Mr. Shoff had thirty-one men under him at the mine.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows, belonging to the local lodge and to the encampment; and was a Mason, in this connection holding membership in Leechburg Lodge, No. 577, F. & A. M., of which he was a past master; Orient Chapter, No. 247, R. A. M., of Kittanning; and Tancred Commandery, No. 48, K. T., of Pittsburgh. He was very well known fraternally. In politics he was a Republican, and he served in the council of Leechburg for seven years. The Lutheran Church of Leechburg held his membership, and he was on the church council.

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General Notes: Wife - Bessie E. Marks

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from Port Matilda

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 694.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 733.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 694, 777.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 777.