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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Page 33
... log house . ( See House chapter ) Naomi often went with her brother to get the cows and passed the Ackerman family cemetery . Sometimes they'd crawl over the fence to see the graves . Her mother explained that the four babies of ...
... log house . ( See House chapter ) Naomi often went with her brother to get the cows and passed the Ackerman family cemetery . Sometimes they'd crawl over the fence to see the graves . Her mother explained that the four babies of ...
Page 94
... LOG HOUSE REPLACEMENTS Three of his earliest construction jobs were to replace his German relatives ' log houses . As soon as they could afford to , the immigrants replaced their log buildings with more convenient structures . These ...
... LOG HOUSE REPLACEMENTS Three of his earliest construction jobs were to replace his German relatives ' log houses . As soon as they could afford to , the immigrants replaced their log buildings with more convenient structures . These ...
Page 96
... log house of Naomi's grandparents , Henry and Amelia Sass Ackerman . ( It was adjacent to the Christian Werner log house above Brush Creek . ) The log house had bare wood floors , partially covered with homemade rugs . Snakes got into ...
... log house of Naomi's grandparents , Henry and Amelia Sass Ackerman . ( It was adjacent to the Christian Werner log house above Brush Creek . ) The log house had bare wood floors , partially covered with homemade rugs . Snakes got into ...
Contents
Werner Family Comes To America | 8 |
Mother Dinah Smith Werner | 16 |
Wife Lydia Stahl Werner | 28 |
Copyright | |
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