Abram H. Sherrick and Mary Dillinger

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Husband Abram H. Sherrick ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Abraham Sherrick 3 4 5
           Born: 24 Mar 1832 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Sherrick (      -1870) 1 6 7
         Mother: Anna Overholt (1804-1855/1905) 2 6

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Wife Mary Dillinger ^{2 3 5}

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         Father: Samuel Dillinger (1810-1889) 5 8 9
         Mother: Sarah Loucks (1808-1898/1898) 5 8 9

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1 M Frank Sherrick ²

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2 M Samuel Sherrick ²

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3 M Bart Sherrick ²

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4 F Ella Sherrick ²

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5 F Carrie Sherrick ²

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6 M Charles Sherrick ²

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7 F Cora Sherrick ²

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8 F Lydia Sherrick ²

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9 F Mollie Sherrick ²

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10 M Edward Sherrick ²

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General Notes: Husband - Abram H. Sherrick

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His early life was spent on the farm, and at the age of fifteen he went to Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and attended the seminary, where he was principally educated. Some few years before he had reached his majority, he was associated with his uncle, John Sherrick, in the mercantile business at Mt. Pleasant. At the age of twenty-two years he crossed overland to California in search of gold under the rugged crests of the "Nevadas" before the construction of the railroad which came to span the continent from ocean to ocean. He continued successfully as a gold miner for three years. From 1854 to 1858 he was engaged in the distillery business. In 1862 he removed to a farm near Pennsville, Bullskin township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he then resided. Besides owning a splendid and highly improved farm of three hundred acres, he was one of the most prominent and extensive stock dealers in Fayette county. He operated and was the proprietor of large coke works near Pennsville, which were supplied with coal from his own farm. He shipped from these works daily about ten cars of coke.

The mining of coal and manufacture of coke constituted the chief interest in the development of the minerals in Bullskin township. For some years the "Pennsville Mines" property was the most productive. It was owned by A. H. Sherrick, and embraced all the privileges of one hundred and sixty-five acres of land. Here coal was mined in a small way fifty years previously by the Shallenbargers and others, but it was not until 1872 that the product of the mines was converted into coke. In that year Mr. Sherrick began the construction of his coke-works, grading a yard about a quarter of a mile from the line of the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad. Seventy ovens were built, and most of them lighted in the summer of 1873. Nearly all of these were kept in fire for twenty years or more, the daily product being from seven to nine cars of forty-eight-hour coke. The shaft in the mine was sunk to the depth of one-third of a mile, and the coal was taken from a nine-foot vein, which was underlaid by a fine stratum of limestone. In connection with the mines were several shops and seven dwellings. The hands employed numbered fifty, and were under the personal superintendence of A. H. Sherrick.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 347.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 568.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 687.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 64.

5 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 85.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 685.

7 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 72.

8 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 688.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 117.