Husband Andrew William Barnhart 1 2
Born: 28 Mar 1839 - Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA 1 2
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Father: William Barnhart ( -1844) 3 4 5
Mother: Mary A. Daubenspeck ( -Bef 1883) 3 4
Marriage: 1895
Other Spouse: Melinda Murtland ( -1891) 6 7
Wife Susan Dufford 7
Born: 11 Aug 1842 - Connoquenessing Twp, Butler Co, PA 7
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Father: Henry Dufford ( - ) 7
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Other Spouse: [Unk] Detrick ( - ) 7
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General Notes: Husband - Andrew William Barnhart
The early death of his father prevented him from receiving the advantages the common schools afforded, and he grew to manhood among strangers. After reaching his majority, he purchased a farm in Concord township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, upon which he resided until the second year of the Civil war. On May 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he received two gun-shot wounds in the right leg and one in the left, and was transferred from the field hospital to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C. He was discharged from the service June 11, 1863, and returned to his farm. One year afterwards he went to the Venango County oil fields, where he worked until 1866. He then removed to Sugar Creek township, Armstrong County, where he followed farming until 1886, in which year he purchased a farm of 130 acres in Butler town-ship, Butler County, upon which he then resided, engaged in farming and oil producing. Politically, he was a Republican, was a member of A. G. Reed Post, Number 105, G. A. R., and of St. John's Reformed church, of Butler township.
Through an attack of scarlet fever in childhood, he had his hearing so impaired that he never at-tended school until he was a young man; thus he was mainly self educated. Soon after his mother's second marriage, he left home and worked in various places, assisting in building coal barges, lumbering and farming, up to 1862, when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, his hearing in the meantime having become almost normal and not preventing his being received as a soldier. As a member of Company G, One Hundred Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, he was sent to Harrisburg, and took part later in the battles of Fairfax Court House, Antietam, Snider's Gap, White Plains and Fredericksburg. At the latter battle he was shot in both legs, was wounded three times by balls and cut by bullets, and all these injuries made it necessary for him to go to a hospital, where he was detained until June, 1863. He was then honorably discharged at Harrisburg, and returned as soon as possible to his home. For the two succeeding years, he was obliged to use crutches. His first work after he had sufficiently recovered, was to operate a meat wagon, doing his own butchering and selling meat, eggs and butter on a route. After giving that business up, as it entailed too heavy work in his still crippled condition, he worked for a time at making lap shingles. Next he went into the Venango oil fields above Oil City, where he was employed through one season. He was then married and settled down to farming in Sugar Creek Township, in Armstrong County, where he remained until 1886, when he moved to Butler Township and settled on a farm. For a number of years he carried on large operations there in grain and stock, but then took his ease after his years of activity. He was a Republican in his political views and is keenly alive to all that concerns every part of the world, doing a large amount of reading. He consistently refused all political preferment.