John Baumgardner and Barbara Sommel

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Husband John Baumgardner ¹

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           Born: 1774 - eastern Pennsylvania 1
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Wife Barbara Sommel ²

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1 M Jacob Baumgardner ²

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2 M Joseph Baumgardner ²

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3 M Daniel Baumgardner ²

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4 M John Baumgardner ²

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5 M Adam Baumgardner ²

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6 M Michael Baumgardner ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Dec 1804 - Bedford Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Barbara Long (      -      ) 2
           Marr: Somerset Co, PA

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7 M Samuel Baumgardner ²

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General Notes: Husband - John Baumgardner

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Between 1760 and 1770 three brothers of the surname Baumgardner came to America from Germany. One settled in New Jersey, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania. John was a son of one of these three brothers.

His father came from Holland to the United States, locating in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he was an early settler. [HAC 1914, 445]

As a young man he settled in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, where he became a farmer of note and reared to maturity a family of six sons and one daughter.

He was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and became a pioneer of Bedford County, where he bought and developed a farm on Denning's creek, selling it in 1816. He then purchased another property, in Cambria County, and spent the remainder of his life upon it, there dying after a long and useful life, filled with hard work and constant endeavor. [HAC 1914, 445]

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General Notes: Wife - Barbara Sommel

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There were many interesting stories told of early days when the Baumgardners were pioneers in various parts of Pennsylvania. A grandson would tell that when his grandmother, Barbara Sommel, was eighteen years old, she attended a husking bee, and while the harmless festivities were at their height the house was attacked by Indians, who killed the host and scalped him. The women of the party managed to escape, fleeing thirty-three miles to Cumberland for safety.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 746.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 445.