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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... Sometimes it would keep until mid summer . Most of the syrup was stored in open wooden vessels or jars . The syrup would form its own mold . As long as this mold remained blue , the syrup would keep . However , if it turned gray , the ...
... Sometimes it would keep until mid summer . Most of the syrup was stored in open wooden vessels or jars . The syrup would form its own mold . As long as this mold remained blue , the syrup would keep . However , if it turned gray , the ...
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... Sometimes they'd crawl over the fence to see the graves . Her mother explained that the four babies of Christian Werner were buried there . In 1987 Naomi , age 86 , went with us to find the graves . The fields have been cultivated and ...
... Sometimes they'd crawl over the fence to see the graves . Her mother explained that the four babies of Christian Werner were buried there . In 1987 Naomi , age 86 , went with us to find the graves . The fields have been cultivated and ...
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... Sometimes I could hardly keep from crying as the play showed how drunkeness can break up a lovely and happy home . I thought of you and wished you could be in to hear and see it . I and Simon room together . Joe and Ephraim . Eating is ...
... Sometimes I could hardly keep from crying as the play showed how drunkeness can break up a lovely and happy home . I thought of you and wished you could be in to hear and see it . I and Simon room together . Joe and Ephraim . Eating is ...
Contents
Werner Family Comes To America | 8 |
Mother Dinah Smith Werner | 16 |
Wife Lydia Stahl Werner | 28 |
Copyright | |
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