James A. Beamer and Sarah Ellen "Sadie" Lauffer

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Husband James A. Beamer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Jul 1855 2 3
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         Father: Michael Beamer (1832-Aft 1906) 2 4
         Mother: Susannah Ludwick (1834-1857) 2

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       Marriage: Spring, 1879 2

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Wife Sarah Ellen "Sadie" Lauffer ^{2 5 6}

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         Father: Jacob F. Lauffer (1822/1824-Aft 1905) 7 8 9
         Mother: Susannah Cribbs (1823-1891) 9 10 11

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Children

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1 F Margaret Beamer ^{2 3}

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2 F Blanche Beamer ^{2 3}

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General Notes: Husband - James A. Beamer

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He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen years entered the employ of Hartipee & Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to learn the trade of machinist. He then went to Altoona and for four years worked in the locomotive shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as an apprentice, after which he was appointed to the position of fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad for a short time, and then was advanced to the position of roundhouse foreman at Everson, Pennsylvania. He was then transferred to Derry, and later to Altoona, still in the same capacity. He was advanced to the position of master mechanic in 1896, and was stationed at Tyrone. While in Al-toona served as water commissioner. He was a member of all the different Ma-sonic bodies in Altoona, and of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free-masonry, Valley of Pittsburg. He was a member of the Reformed church.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 403, 507.

2 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 33.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 404.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 403, 555.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 404, 507.

6 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 79.

7 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 368.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 657.

9 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 76.

10 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 507, 646.

11 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 176.