Daniel B. Hetzler and Rosa J. Smith

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Husband Daniel B. Hetzler ¹

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           Born: 11 Dec 1845 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jul 1924 2
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: John Hetzler, Jr. (1818-1903) 1 4
         Mother: Maria Smith (1825-1914) 4 5

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       Marriage: 2 Mar 1870 5

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Wife Rosa J. Smith ^{2 5}

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           Born: 1 Sep 1855 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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           Died: 5 Apr 1918 2 5
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

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         Father: Rev. Friend W. Smith (1831-1882) 5 7 8
         Mother: Caroline Matilda T. Armstrong (1828-1909) 8

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Children

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1 F Lottie Lavina Robison ^{9 10}

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            AKA: Lottie Robinson 5
           Born: 4 Sep 1883 - Sugarcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Apr 1971 10
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 11
         Status: Adopted

         Spouse: Stanley J. Bell (1874-1935)
           Marr: 26 Jun 1901 - ? Venango Co, PA 9

         Spouse: Charles H. Ross (1883-1974) 12
           Marr: 25 Oct 1951 - Rockland, Venango Co, PA 13

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel B. Hetzler

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He was two years old when his parents removed to the tract where they made their permanent home, a property adjoining his present [1918] farm. His education was acquired in the public schools of the locality, and his early training was along the line of agricultural work and oil operations, as well as surveying, Mr. Hetzler gaining through his various activities on his own account and as his father's assistant an insight into local real estate conditions which has proved very valuable. As a young man he was employed for four years as tool dresser, rig builder and gauger, mainly in Clarion County. When he married he began housekeeping at his present place, then comprising forty-six acres given him by his father and known as the Ramsdell tract. He has been extensively interested in oil production, having for ten years taken leases and operated in the Butler County field as well as in the Red Valley territory, and he has improved his home property notably, having erected a fine home there in 1879 and kept up the property attractively. He is still engaged in oil production and farming. Though his father divided his landed es-tate during his lifetime in accordance with his special wishes, he had considerable other property to be settled after his death, and upon Daniel B. Hetzler devolved the duties of executor and administrator, which he filled conscientiously and ably.
Mr. Hetzler has been foremost in advocating the business-like and efficient administration of public affairs, and active in politics as an earnest member of the Prohibition Party, having served as delegate to the Pittsburgh convention in 1916. He was three times elected justice of the peace, for which office he is well fitted by disposition as well as his familiarity with local conditions. In the year 1892 he was mercantile appraiser of Venango County. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, having joined the Order at Emlenton (eight miles from his home) in 1872 and subsequently transferred to the lodge at Rockland, which is but a mile from his residence. [HVC 1919, 668]

No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hetzler, but they reared a daughter, Lottie Robinson, from childhood.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 666.

2 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 71.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 77, 89.

4 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 125.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 668.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 77.

7 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 637.

8 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 123.

9 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 60.

10 Linda (Francis) Hanna & Roberta (Francis) Hamilton, The Descendants of Walter Bell (Franklin, PA: Self-published, about 1990), Pg 19.

11 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 64.

12 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 25.

13 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #28633.