Carson B. Brinker and Georgiana McAfee

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Husband Carson B. Brinker ¹

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            AKA: Carlston Brinker 2
           Born: 21 Jun 1849 - Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: John M. Brinker (1803-1884) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth "Betsey" Henry (1808-1883) 4 7 8

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       Marriage: 11 Jan 1870 3

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Wife Georgiana McAfee ³

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           Born: Abt 1851 - Somerset, Somerset Co, PA
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Children

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1 F Anna Brinker ⁹

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         Spouse: George Elmer Steel (      -Bef 1918) 2

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2 F Myrtle Brinker ¹⁰

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         Spouse: John Y. Woods (      -      ) 10

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3 F Catharine Iona "Kate" Brinker ^{10 11 12}

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         Spouse: Ephriam Blank Zimmerman (1871-      ) 10 11

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4 M Frank Brinker ¹⁰

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5 F Maud Brinker ¹⁰

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         Spouse: E. B. Beerbower (      -      ) 10

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6 M Edward E. Brinker ¹⁰

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7 F Mary Brinker ¹⁰

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         Spouse: L. L. Patton (      -      ) 10

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8 M George Brinker ¹⁰

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General Notes: Husband - Carson B. Brinker

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He was born in Ligonier Valley, about seven miles southwest of Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He passed his early youth in his native township. After taking advantage of the somewhat meagre educational opportunities offered by the local public schools, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith and learned that trade at Ligonier. After the close of his apprenticeship, he practiced his craft for some fifteen years, both in Westmoreland and Somerset counties, five years of this time being spent at Kecksburg, in Mount Pleasant township. In the month of March, 1878, he came to Unity township, where he was associated in business with his brother, Joseph Brinker. Here the two young men began extensive farming operations on a fertile and productive property where Mr. Brinker long resided, which was situated about one-half mile from Pleasant Unity and eight miles southeast of Greensburg. This place was the old Henry Swartz farm, where there stood an old limestone house, built in 1827 by John Swartz, the original owner. According to the earliest deed in existence, this old property originally belonged to one Christian Gardiner, who appears to have owned a large tract of land in that region, including this property, which contained about thirty-eight acres at the time of its purchase. Later the Fisher farm of twenty-nine acres, which had originally belonged to Dr. Nelson, was added, making in all some sixty-seven acres. Here Mr. Brinker carried on very successful operations and added largely to the barns and other outbuildings and put on a tin and copper roof on the house. He devoted his principal attention to stock breeding and grazing and bred some very fine types of Clydeshire horses. He and his brother Joseph resided together until the latter's death. At one point the two brothers sold about thirty-six acres of coal underlying their farm at the rate of one hundred dollars an acre. Carson later refused eighteen hundred dollars per acre for the remaining thirty-eight. He fell heir to his brother Joseph's share of the farm and after the death of the latter operated it entirely on his own account, though as far as the active management of the place went this was always his task. Both he and his brother were staunch Republicans in politics, and both attended St. Luke's Reformed Church at Pleasant Unity.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1065, 1104.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 162.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1065.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1186.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 172, 841.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1063, 1104.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 302.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1036, 1064, 1104.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 162, 1066.

10 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1066.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 499.

12 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 153.