George Adam Blank and Catherine Shelley

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Husband George Adam Blank ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1792 - Montgomery Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1865 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: [Unk] Blank (      -      )
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Wife Catherine Shelley ¹

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            AKA: Catharine Shelle,3 Catherine Shelly 2
           Born:  - Montgomery Co, PA
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           Died: 1875 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Blank ⁴

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           Born: Abt Nov 1814
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           Died: 12 Jun 1844 4
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         Spouse: Joseph Shirey (1811-1883) 5
           Marr: 28 Oct 1834 4

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2 M Jonas Blank ^{2 6}

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           Born: Abt 1817 - Montgomery Co, PA
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           Died: 24 Feb 1896 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Charlotte Elizabeth Bierer (Abt 1825-1909) 2 6
           Marr: 2 Dec 1841 2 6

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3 M Ephraim Blank ^{2 7}

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4 M William Blank ²

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5 M Michael G. Blank ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Nov 1829 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1913 2
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         Spouse: Hannah F. Earnest (1838-      ) 1
           Marr: 22 Mar 1860 1

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6 M Daniel Blank ²

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           Died: 1862 2
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7 M John Blank ^{1 2}

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8 F Sophia Blank ²

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         Spouse: Luke Bierer (      -      ) 2

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9 F Polly Blank ²

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         Spouse: Amos Bierer (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - George Adam Blank

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He was born thirty miles west of Philadelphia, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. At the instance of his uncle, Jacob Berger, who had no children, he came to Westmoreland County and resided with Mr. Berger and his wife for several years. By hard work and prudent management he soon acquired means enough to purchase a farm of his own, which was later owned by his son, John. He was over six feet in height and very strong. He was a democrat, an elder in the Lutheran church and an influential man in his neighborhood. He learned the trade of shoemaker at Germantown, and before leaving the east he married. They had eleven children, of whom seven were dead before 1890. He owned about six hundred acres of land when he died.

When a young married man, he came to Westmoreland County, where he and his wife joined his aunt, who was the wife of one Jacob Berger, a pioneer in that part of the state. He made his home with this aunt, who had no children of her own, and inherited a fine property from her.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 658.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 974.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 55.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1246.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 689, 974, 1246.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 54.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 499.