Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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George A. Bair and Mary A. Stonaker




Husband George A. Bair 1

           Born: 15 Apr 1834 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Adam Bair (Abt 1795-1880) 1 2
         Mother: Catherine Albright (Abt 1797-1886) 1 3


       Marriage: 22 Nov 1856 1

• Note: This may be the same person as : George Bair.




Wife Mary A. Stonaker 1

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         Father: Adam Stonaker (      -      ) 1
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1 M Charles F. Bair 1

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2 M Adam W. Bair 1

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3 F Anna B. Bair 1

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4 M Westley W. Bair 1

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General Notes: Husband - George A. Bair


He was reared on his father's farm, attended the common schools and then lived the quiet and uneventful life of a farmer until 1862. On August 22d of that year he enlisted in Co. B, one hundred and forty-second reg. Pa. Vols., fought in eighteen battles and was present at Lee's surrender. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the right leg by a ball and struck in the right knee by a piece of shell. He was promoted to sergeant and was honorably discharged at Washington City May 15, 1865. He then returned home and was engaged for twenty-one years in cultivating and improving his farm. In 1887 he embarked in a grocery business at Latrobe and was very successful.

He was a member of the German Reformed church; a member of Loyalhanna Council, No. 16, Chosen Friends and P. A. Williams Post, No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic.

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Sources


1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 317.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1186.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 832, 1186.


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