Adam Shanor and Elizabeth Whitehead

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Husband Adam Shanor ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Adam Shaner 3
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Adam Shaner.

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Wife Elizabeth Whitehead ⁴

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Children

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1 M Jacob Shanor ^{1 5}

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            AKA: Jacob Shaner 1 3
           Born: Abt 1789 - Taneytown, Carroll Co, MD
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           Died: Oct 1873 - Center Twp, Butler Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Highberger (      -1843) 4

         Spouse: Sarah Mechling (      -      ) 4

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2 F Catharine Shaner ⁴

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3 M Daniel Shaner ⁶

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4 M John Shaner ⁶

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5 F Susan Shaner ⁴

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6 M William Shaner ⁴

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7 F Mary Shaner ⁴

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         Spouse: [Unk] Balph (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Adam Shanor

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He came to Butler County, Pennsylvania, from Westmoreland County in 1797 or 1798, and settled in Butler Township, but soon moved into what is now Centre Township, purchased the settler’s right of Frank Karns to 165 acres of land, which assignment is acknowledged in the deed given him in 1812, by Stephen Lowrey—consideration, $1.

In 1797, Adam Shaner and his wife came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Butler County, and first located near the present site of Butler Borough; not long afterward, he removed to a farm in Center Township. He was among the first to erect distilleries once so common in the county.

It was Adam Shanor from Virginia who was the pioneer of the family in Butler County, PA.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 655.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 475.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 341, 345.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 345.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 476.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 341.