Country Carpenter: Josiah C. Werner, 1863-1926Catherine M. Rhoads Gateway Press, 1991 - 128 pages Adam Werner (1800-1876) and his wife, Anna Catharine Sass, came to America from Germany in 1854 settling in Pennsylvania. This is the life story of their grandson, Josiah C. Werner, a Pennsylvania carpenter. |
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... Naomi's kin . When a girl married , the Meyers ' gift was a cow , a young man's present was a horse . Money was not easy to come by ... Amelia , Naomi's grandmother picked huckleberries on the mountain every summer and carried them down ...
... Naomi's kin . When a girl married , the Meyers ' gift was a cow , a young man's present was a horse . Money was not easy to come by ... Amelia , Naomi's grandmother picked huckleberries on the mountain every summer and carried them down ...
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... Naomi , her sisters and brothers had to sit quietly in the corner while the adults talked . She also remembered his tobacco patch . Another day , Naomi showed us a small clay vase that Lydia Baker Werner ( Christian's second wife ) had ...
... Naomi , her sisters and brothers had to sit quietly in the corner while the adults talked . She also remembered his tobacco patch . Another day , Naomi showed us a small clay vase that Lydia Baker Werner ( Christian's second wife ) had ...
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... Naomi Ackerman Ferner told us the Werners built her homeplace about 1900 , the year before she was born . Prior to its construction her parents , GEORGE and SAVILLA ACKERMAN , started housekeeping in the original log house of Naomi's ...
... Naomi Ackerman Ferner told us the Werners built her homeplace about 1900 , the year before she was born . Prior to its construction her parents , GEORGE and SAVILLA ACKERMAN , started housekeeping in the original log house of Naomi's ...
Contents
Werner Family Comes To America | 8 |
Mother Dinah Smith Werner | 16 |
Wife Lydia Stahl Werner | 28 |
Copyright | |
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