Dennis Springer (1787 - 1866)

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Brownfield) Springer — married 22 Mar 1821 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1866 at age 79 in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

From “Levi Springer House Fan Hollow Road Union Town Vicinity Fayette County Pennsylvania – Photographs Drawings Written Historical and Architectural Data” :

"...Thomas Brownfield was an early pioneer, coming to Fayette County from the same area of Virginia as themselves (Springers), and establishing in 1805 perhapsthe premire tavern-stop in Uniontown, the White Swan. Of the six children of Sarah and Dennis, four of them -- Levi B, Sarah, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth--lived out their entire lives in the old brick mansion built by their grandfather. The other two children married, and dispersed. Lydia married Albert Rizer (on September 25, 1845), who took his family to Cumberland, Maryland, where she died at the age of 38 in 1865. Catherine Springer (Lydia's sister) married Porter Craig (whose family had farms in South Union Township) at the Springer House itself on February 24, 1863. The four sibilings stayed together on the farm, tending the house, and adding outbuildings until 1906. When Elizabeth Springer, the last sister, died in 1913 at the age of 90, there was no family member left to inherit. The grown children of Lydia Springer Rizer had dispersed again, to West Virginia, Ohio and even Oregon. The children of Catherine Springer Craig had already inherited farms in South Union Township from their father's family, so neither could any of them take over the main farm. So at 2:00 PM on Thursday September 11, 1913, the Springer House and 273 acres of the excellent limestone farm, with all of the outbuildings, twenty-five head of fine two-year old steers, and 150 tons of hay, were sold at public auction."

“Levi Springer House Fan Hollow Road Union Town Vicinity Fayette County Pennsylvania – Photographs Drawings Written Historical and Architectural Data” Historic American Buildings Survey, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Custom House, Room 251, 2nd & Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106; HABS No. PA-5482; http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa1900/pa1976/data/pa1976data.pdf

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