Samuel Barnhart and Mary Martha Byers

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Husband Samuel Barnhart ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 2 Dec 1838 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 4
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         Father: John Barnhart (1807-1858) 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Row (1809-1884) 3 5 8

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Wife Mary Martha Byers ^{1 4}

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         Father: Henry Byers (      -      ) 1 4
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1 M John Clymer Barnhart ^{1 4}

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2 M Caleb Stark Barnhart ^{1 4}

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3 M Samuel Albert Barnhart ^{1 4}

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4 M William Nevin Barnhart ¹

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            AKA: William Neven Barnhart 4
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5 M Henry Byers Barnhart ¹

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            AKA: King Barnhart 4
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6 F Jennie Saphora Barnhart ¹

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            AKA: Jennie Sophira Barnhart 4
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         Spouse: [Unk] Irwin (      -      ) 4

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7 F Sarah Elizabeth Barnhart ^{1 4}

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8 F Grace Gertrude Barnhart ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Will Leapine (      -      ) 4

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9 M Lucian Cort Barnhart ^{1 4}

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10 F Emma Kate Barnhart ¹

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            AKA: Anna Kate Barnhart 4
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         Spouse: Merten Crownover (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Barnhart

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He was reared on his father's farm and attended the common schools and Greensburg academy. After leaving school he engaged in farming. In 1868 he removed to his own home farm which was heavily underlaid with coal. He raised some of the best sheep in the county, had fine crops of grain and owned a fish pond from which he obtains large quantities of carp and bass. He owned two farms aggregating 170 acres of choice land. He was a strong democrat, served as school director, and was an earnest member of the Second Reformed church at Greensburg.

He was an invalid in his youth. For three years he remained in bed, the victim of a painful affliction. He afterwards removed to Greensburg, but eventually returned to the home farm in Hempfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which he bought after the death of his father. The property was valued at that time at one hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents per acre, and to the original tract Mr. Barnhart has consistently added until he now is the owner of two hundred and seventy-five acres of as fine farm land as is to be found in Westmoreland County. At one point he sold the underlying coal at the rate of one thousand dollars per acre. Mr. Barnhart often recalled with some amusement the fact that in his father's lifetime this coal was considered of no value. Upon the occasion of his becoming the recipient of this fortune, he made a present to each of his children of ten thousand dollars and invested the remainder in business property in Greensburg, his holdings being the most central and valuable blocks on the main street of that city. He also owned a handsome modern residence block of twenty-two rooms. In 1871 Mr. Barnhart erected a handsome brick residence, standing on a delightful eminence twelve hundred and twenty-five feet above the sea level. He continued to give his personal oversight to the operations on the farm, finding great enjoyment therein and in the opportunity which it gave him to keep close to the soil. He was an independent Democrat, who did not hesitate to support the Republican candidate when he felt that the interests in the community demanded it.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 656.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1254.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 93.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1255.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 655.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 102, 335, 1254.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 92.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 335.