Joseph Studebaker

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Husband Joseph Studebaker ¹

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           Born: Abt 1744
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           Died: 1815 - Worth Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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Wife

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Studebaker ^{3 4}

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           Died: Bef 1895
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         Spouse: George Meals (      -Bef 1895) 4 5 6
           Marr: Westmoreland Co, PA

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2 M David Studebaker ^{7 8}

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           Born:  - Cumberland, PA
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           Died: 1840 8
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         Spouse: Catharine Michaels (      -1819) 2 8
           Marr: Worth Twp, Butler Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Studebaker

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He died in 1812. [HBC 1883, 437]
When a resident of Westmoreland County and but eleven years of age, the Indians, during one of their hostile incursions into that region, killed his mother and several of his brothers and sisters, and taking him to the remote regions of the great Northwest, kept him as a captive among them until he was twenty-one years of age. They then allowed him to return to Westmoreland, where he married and became the father of a considerable family. [HBC 1883, 437]

The simple record of his experience is this: He with his sister - a young lady - was captured by the Indians in Cumberland County in 1755, when eleven years of age. They both were with them for nine years, roving around over western Pennsylvania and the eastern part of Ohio. Miss Studebaker became quite a favorite with them, and was treated with all the courtesy and civility possible. She was said to be a fine looking young woman, and by her gentle deportment won the high regard of the entire tribe. She, in turn, grew to like her manner of life, and after a time, began to like this primitive mode of life and the society of the aborigines. Shortly before her brother's release, when riding through the woods upon her Indian pony, she was thrown suddenly and striking her head against a log, she was killed instantly. Her brother was liberated at a place called by the Indians Moosh-king-oong, which in our vernacular is Muskingum, a river in the southeastern part of Ohio. This liberation took place in 1764. When thirty-four years of age, he did valiant service as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. It is said by him that he not only frequently conversed with Washington, but was an intimate friend of his. He knew nothing of the death of his little sister until he obtained his liberation, and his sorrow for her early demise was no ordinary grief. [HBC 1883, 355]

Thirty years after his first visit to this part of the country, when he was fifty years of age, David [Joseph?] Studebaker came to his son David's place, and settled with him. Here he spent the remainder of his life. [HBC 1883, 354]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 354, 437.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 355.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 445.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1292.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 437, 445.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 277.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 354.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 610.