Isaac Kepple and Mary M. Thorn

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Husband Isaac Kepple ¹

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           Born: 22 Dec 1817 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1898 2
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         Father: Lewis Kepple (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Christina Kline (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 16 Oct 1850 1

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Wife Mary M. Thorn ^{1 3}

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           Born: 3 Sep 1828 - Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1904 2
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         Father: George Thorn (1796-1868) 4
         Mother: Catharine Barnhart (      -1830) 4

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Children

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1 F Angeline Kepple ¹

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2 M William L. Kepple ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1 Oct 1854 - Buena Vista, Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Ellenberger (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 28 Oct 1884 5

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3 M Winfield S. Kepple ^{1 5}

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           Born:  - Buena Vista, Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA
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4 M Addison D. Kepple ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 May 1864 - Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Beulah Mary Fleeger (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 19 Oct 1898 2

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5 U [Infant] Kepple ¹

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           Born:  - Buena Vista, Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Kepple

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He grew to maturity in his native county, assisting in the farm duties, wearing home-made clothing, and helping his mother to prepare the flax and wool from which the clothing for the family was made upon the home loom. He attended the subscription schools of the period, and shared the trials and hardships of pioneer days. When eighteen years of age his father died, and so he started out for himself, as a farm hand, receiving for his labor from forty to fifty cents per day. He later found employment on the Pennsylvania canal, afterwards rented the old homestead in Westmoreland County, which he tilled for a number of years, and then purchased a farm of his own in that county. In 1848 he sold his property, came to Butler County, and located on a farm in Fairview township, near Buena Vista. There he resided, and greatly improved the place during the passing years. Oil was found on his farm in paying quantities, and at one time there were eleven producing wells on it. For many years he had a good pro­duction from two independent wells. The family were members of the Reformed church, and in politics, Mr. Kepple was an ardent Republican.

He was a young man at the time he located at Buena Vista, Fairview Township, Butler County, PA, and there con­tinued to live the remainder of his days. He was employed on a canal boat in his early life, running between Freeport and Johnstown, but afterwards followed farming.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1004.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1397.

3 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 21 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1934), Pg 269.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1001.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1320.