Henry Shaner and Catherine Sober

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Husband Henry Shaner ¹

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           Born: 6 Dec 1834 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Father: Henry Shaner (1809-1881) 2 3 4
         Mother: Catherine Cline (1810-1887/1889) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 6 Jan 1859 5

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Wife Catherine Sober ⁵

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           Born: Cal 25 Jun 1840 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: 14 Jan 1910 5
         Buried:  - Evergreen Cemetery, near Leechburg, Allegheny Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

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         Father: Daniel Sober (1798-1885) 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Spiker (      -      ) 5 6

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Children

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1 F Frances B. Shaner ⁷

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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: Thomas H. Moore (      -Bef 1914) 7

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2 M Rev. Braden E. Shaner ⁷

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           Born: 20 Feb 1862 7
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           Died: 2 Oct 1910 7
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         Spouse: Annie Dutterer (      -      ) 7

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3 F Media Shaner ⁷

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         Spouse: Charles Kelley (      -      ) 7

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4 M William H. Shaner ⁷

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           Born: 10 Jan 1866 7
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           Died: 9 Apr 1890 - Oregon 7
         Buried:  - Evergreen Cemetery, near Leechburg, Allegheny Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

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5 F Elizabeth J. Shaner ⁷

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         Spouse: Thomas Groves (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Shaner

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He was reared upon the home farm, remaining there until he reached the age of eighteen years. He then learned the car­penter's trade, which he followed for a period of seven years. In 1857 he and his brother Daniel, with John M. Shaner, a cousin, went out to Kansas, where Henry Shaner remained for twenty-one months, during which time he had the privilege of casting his vote in favor of Kansas becoming a free State. In 1859 he bought a farm, part of the property of the David Leech heirs, which then con­sisted of eighty-one acres lying along the Kit­tanning road. He later sold off four acres to the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Shaner had to clear most of the land himself, and he made practically all the improvements on the property, put up all the buildings, etc. There were three profitable gas wells on the farm, and it was all underlaid with coal. Mr. Shaner had the coal deposits leased to a company, and mining was com­menced in 1899; the find proved valuable, oper­ations continued steadily thereafter. Mr. Shaner served as supervisor of Gilpin township, and he was well known in his connection with the Hebron Lutheran Church of Leechburg, which he joined in 1859, and which he served in an official capacity for many years. He was a Republican in politics.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 441.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 739.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1112.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 357.

5 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 442.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 534.

7 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 443.