John R. Peffer and Catherine Zeigler

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Husband John R. Peffer ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: John Rice Peffer 4
           Born: 31 Aug 1830 - Lancaster Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1913 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Gottlieb Peffer (1801-1865) 1 5
         Mother: Rebecca Reiss (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1855 1

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Wife Catherine Zeigler ^{2 4}

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            AKA: Catherine Ziegler,1 Kate Zigler 6
           Born: 1834 4
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           Died: 1924 4
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         Father: Andrew Zeigler (1804-1865) 4
         Mother: Mary Yoder (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 M Alfred Zeigler Peffer ^{1 2 8}

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           Born: 11 Jul 1856 - Lancaster Twp, Butler Co, PA 1 2 8
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           Died: 1939 8
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         Spouse: Adelia A. Dambach (1862-1936) 1 8
           Marr: 16 Mar 1886 1 9

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2 F Mary Peffer ^{1 10 11}

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           Born: 1860 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 1958 11
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         Spouse: Israel M. Wise (1863-1948) 11 12 13
           Marr: 1891 14

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3 M Elmer Z. Peffer ^{1 2 8}

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           Born: 1867 8
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           Died: 1962 8
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         Spouse: Alice Boory (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - John R. Peffer

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After receiving a common school education, he engaged in farming, locating on a place in Jackson township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1859. Politically, he was a Republican. The family were members of the Reformed church at Harmony, in which Mr. Peffer served as deacon and elder.

He was born on the old home farm in Lancaster Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and spent his boyhood days there, assisting in clearing the homestead. After his marriage he rented the home farm for three years, and then purchased of Daniel Zeigler a hundred acre tract in Jackson Township. In his young days he was a man of great physical strength, and it was a common task for him to cut the trees and split three hundred rails in a day. He was a man of unusual business ability, and prospered beyond the average farmer. By his industry he purchased two additional farms, one of eighty acres in Jackson Township, and another of one hundred acres in Lancaster Township, adjoining the old home place.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1198.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1303.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 622.

4 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 277.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 621.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 617.

7 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 100.

8 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 278.

9 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1304.

10 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 712, 1303.

11 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 417.

12 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1093, 1198.

13 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 711, 1303.

14 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 712.