John Philip Klingensmith and Barbara Broadsword

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Husband John Philip Klingensmith ¹

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         Father: Philip Klingensmith (      -      ) 1
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Wife Barbara Broadsword ¹

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1 F Susanna Klingensmith ¹

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         Spouse: Jonathan Sarver (      -Abt 1850) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - John Philip Klingensmith

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The Klingensmiths settled in the area of Jeanette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, at a very early date, before the War of the Revolution. Their names were among those who signed a petition to Governor Penn in 1774.

On the farm of his father stood a blockhouse known as "Fort Philip Klingensmith," which served as a place of refuge for the surrounding settlers during the hostile attacks of the Indians. During one of these attacks, his father and his wife were killed, and their son, Peter, who was then a child of five years, was taken captive by the Indians. He was treated with kindness, grew up, married an Indian woman, and reared a family. He had a faint recollection of his early home, and in after life paid a visit to his brothers and sisters, but soon returned to his Indian wife and family.

He was one of the founders of Lutheranism in his section. The itinerant Lutheran preachers always found a warm welcome in his home, and he would leave his farm labors, go about among the neighbors to invite them to a meeting at his house, and held religious services in the German language.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 630.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 921.