George Mattern and Catharine Shook

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Husband George Mattern ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Peter Mattern,3 Peter Matthorn 3
           Born:  - Germany
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           Died: 1810 1
         Buried: 

       Marriage:  - Germany

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Wife Catharine Shook ²

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            AKA: Catherine [Unk] 1
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           Died: Aft 1812
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Children

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1 M George Mattern ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1833 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Catherine Hyskell (      -      ) 1 4

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2 M Adam Mattern ^{1 2}

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3 M John Mattern ^{1 2}

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4 M Jacob Mattern ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1770 - Maryland
     Christened: 
           Died: 1851 or 1852 1 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Wareham (      -1814) 2

         Spouse: Elizabeth Markley (      -1829) 2

         Spouse: Catharine Fetterhoff (      -      ) 2

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5 M Abraham Mattern ²

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           Born: Abt 1772
     Christened: 
           Died: 1796 2
         Buried: 

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6 F Elizabeth Mattern ^{1 2 5}

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           Born: Abt 1773
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Nov 1863
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

         Spouse: Truman Curtis (Abt 1775-1860) 1 7

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7 M David Mattern ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1883 - Franklin Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA
         Buried: 
         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Catherine Wareham (      -      ) 1

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8 F Catharine Mattern ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Andrew Truby (      -      ) 1

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9 M Andrew Mattern ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - George Mattern

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He married in Germany and came to America about 1732 or '33. For a short time he rented a farm in one of the eastern counties of Pennsylvania, but settled in Maryland, where his family lived until 1780. In 1779 he bought 300 acres of wild land in Franklin township, Huntingdon County, and sent three of his sons to build a log cabin, in which they lived for many years. In the next spring the family moved to their new home; their goods were carried in wagons, the family walking beside them.
He was a member of the Lutheran church.

The Mattern family in America sprang from Peter Mattern (formerly spelled Matthorn), who was a native of the Valley of the Rhine, born near the Matterhorn, one of the Swiss mountains, or Pennine Alps, Canton Valais. About the year 1750 he and his wife came to America and settled in the state of Maryland, where nine children were born to them. In 1779 three of the family-Jacob, David and George-moved into the Spruce Creek Valley in what later became Huntingdon County, in Pennsylvania, where for over a century the homestead remained in the possession of the descendants of the patriarch. In the cemetery of the old Lutheran Church at the Seven Stars, which was part of the old homestead, George Mattern and his wife lie buried, and around them many of their posterity sleep their last sleep. [CBRCP-CCJC, 360]

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Notes: Marriage

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In June, 1895, their descendants, numbering about one thousand, held a reunion at Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania.

1 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 269.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 118.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 360.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1352.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 727.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 60.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 726.