John S. Lauffer (1769 - 1851)

Born 8 Mar 1769 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania,

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Died 15 Feb 1851 at age 81 in Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

John Seth Lauffer, Sr. was born 8 March 1769, in Harrison City, Penn Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States^[1]. He was the son of Christian Lauffer and was five years old when his father relocated the family to Westmoreland County.

He was the father of fourteen children.

With his first wife, Susanna Kemerer (died 11 Nov 1815, aged 41 years):

• Elizabeth Kemerer Lauffer
• Susanna Lauffer
• Anna Maria Lauffer (Mary)
• Christian Lauffer
• Daniel Lauffer
• John Seth Lauffer Jr
• Simon Lincoln Lauffer
• Seth Lauffer, 1806-1895
• Harriet Esther Lauffer (Hettie)
• Henrich Lauffer (Henry)
• Jacob Lauffer
• Sarah Lauffer

With his second wife, Barbara Erret (died 1855):

• Johanna Lauffer (Hanna)
• Catherine Lauffer

Residence 1 August 1850, Franklin Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States^[2]

Household Sex Age Birthplace

John Lauffer Male 81 Pennsylvania Farmer

Barbara Lauffer Female 65 Pennsylvania

Mary Fritchman Female 19 Pennsylvania

In the year 1794 he moved on a tract of land north of Harrison City, a portion of which has since been known as the Hezekiah Waugaman farm.

John died in 1851 in Harrison City, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States^[3].

His tombstone in the Denmark Manor Cemetery, Penn Township, Westmoreland County, bears this inscription: In memory of John Lauffer, Sr., died Feb. 18, 1851. Aged 81 years, 11 months, 10 days.

John Lauffer, Sr., was a very careful man in the matter of keeping an accurate family record. In his huge German Bible with its wooden lids covered with leather, he jotted down the dates of birth of his children as they were born. His estate was settled in 1856 after the death of his second wife Barbara in 1855. George Ashbaugh, son-in-law, and his son, Christian, were the executors. The whereabouts of that old Bible the descendants of neither Christian Lauffer nor George Ashbaugh can inform us. This old Bible may be no longer in existence. It simply shows the necessity of the publication of some such history as this to keep old records together, if we are to know in the later times, just Who-is-Who in the great Lauffer family.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CT5-LZW5 : 11 January 2021), John Lauffer Sr, 1769.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4Z4-C5Q : 24 December 2020), John Lauffer, Municipality of Murrysville, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CY6-MHY2 : 12 January 2021), John Lauffer Sr, 1851.
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7750843/john-s.-lauffer

• Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 28, Ed. 1 (Provo, UT: Brøderbund Software, Inc., 547), Tree #2886.

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