Cress Pitzer and Elizabeth Shaffer

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Husband Cress Pitzer ¹

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           Born: 24 Feb 1839 - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: Michael Pitzer (1802-1881) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Cameron (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1 Mar 1860 - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 3

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Wife Elizabeth Shaffer ³

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         Father: Joseph Shaffer (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Eva Pitzer (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Joseph Pitzer ³

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         Spouse: Minnie West (      -      ) 3

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2 M Albert Pitzer ³

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         Spouse: Mary Jones (      -      ) 3

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3 M David Pitzer ³

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4 F Emma Pitzer ³

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5 M Frank Pitzer ³

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6 M John Pitzer ³

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7 M Samuel Pitzer ³

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8 F Ida Pitzer ³

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9 F Doris Pitzer ³

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General Notes: Husband - Cress Pitzer

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He was reared in Shenango township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and went to Austin School-house until he was ten years of age, and thus acquired his education. He was apprenticed at an early age to the trade of a shoe-maker, but he did not long continue to follow the cobbler's art, for the work disagreed with his health. He then sought more rugged and out-door employments, and decided on boating on the canal. He bought a canal boat, the McFarland, which plied between Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania, and Meadville, Ohio, and was engaged in carrying freight until the canal was closed to navigation. In 1867, he moved with his father and other members of the family to Dickinson County, Tennessee, and farmed for thirteen years near Charlotte, also operating a threshing-machine. In 1880, he returned to Lawrence County, and in the spring of 1881 built a store-room in East Moravia on the east side, where he carried a well-selected stock of general merchandise. His spare time was taken up with job work in repairing shoes.
He and his wife were members and regular attendants of the M. E. Church. In politics, Mr. Pitzer was a firm Republican.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 151.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 289.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 152.