Jacob Shoemaker and Anna Maria Wagner

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Husband Jacob Shoemaker ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Sep 1803 3
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           Died: 27 May 1881 3
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Wife Anna Maria Wagner ³

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            AKA: Mary A. Wagner 1
           Born: 27 Dec 1806 3
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           Died: 30 Sep 1873 3
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Children

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1 M George Shoemaker ¹

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           Born: 9 Aug 1837 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary Painter (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1867 1

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2 M John Shoemaker ^{1 3}

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           Died: Aft 1918
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         Spouse: Katherine Blank (      -      ) 3

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3 F Elizabeth Schumacher ⁴

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         Spouse: Gottlieb Wagner (      -      ) 4

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4 F Rebecca Shoemaker ¹

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         Spouse: Joseph Walters (      -      ) 1

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5 F Barbara Shoemaker ¹

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         Spouse: Michael Potts (      -      ) 1

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6 F Catherine Shoemaker ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1 Apr 1843 5
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         Buried:  - Union Cemetery, near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: George Scott (1834-1909) 1 6
           Marr: 22 Feb 1866 5

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7 F Rosanna Shoemaker ¹

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         Spouse: Jerry Bush (      -      ) 1

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8 F Sabilla Shoemaker ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Shoemaker

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He was born in Switzerland, where he was reared. Immediately after his marriage, however, he emigrated to the United States and after a voyage of six weeks landed at Baltimore, Maryland. He proceeded with his young wife to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was employed for six months, and they then started for Pittsburgh. Sending their trunk across this state by wagon, he and his wife walked and on reaching Westmoreland County he was told that many who went to Pittsburgh returned to this county, so that he and his wife decided to remain and locate in Hempfield township, where they lived for ten or fifteen years. Mr. Shoemaker worked as a farm hand for Fred Bierer, and while thus employed saved his money which he put out at interest, and when he had accumulated sufficient capital purchased a small farm of forty acres. Through his frugal habits, careful management and economy he was at the time of his death one of the well-to-do farmers of the township, leaving an estate of more than thirty thousand dollars. He voted with the Democracy and was a member of the Lutheran church. His death occurred when he had reached the advanced age of eighty-five years. [HWC 1906 II, 588]

This is an old and distinguished family, which came originally from Stuttgart, Würtemberg, Germany. The American branch of the family settled in Philadelphia, where for many years a number of its members, prominent in the professional and business activities of the city, resided.
He migrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and made his home in Hempfield township, about three miles northeast of Greensburg and in the vicinity of Hannastown, the first county seat of Westmoreland county. He and his wife lived at the old homestead until their deaths. [WON, 177]

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 588.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 177, 883.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 177.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 556.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 883.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 882.