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Catharine (Albright) Seltzer
Born - September 6,1831
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
1st Marriage - March 4, 1852
St. John's United Church of Christ
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Died - September 25, 1909
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Buried
- Saint John's United Church of Christ Cemetery
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Section B, Row 17
Husband - Nathan Faust Seltzer
Born - December 2, 1827
East Brunswick Township, Pennsylvania
Died - October 11, 1859
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Parents - Abraham & Catherine (Faust) Seltzer
To This Union 4 Children Were Born
Michael Seltzer, Great Grandfather of Wesley A. Seltzer, served in the
Revolutionary War, and was at Valley Forge. He was taken prisoner and
was confined with others in an old stone church, where he starved to death.
His children were Abraham, John and Jacob.
Abraham Seltzer, son of Michael, was born in Berks county, Pa., and was
and early settler in East Brunswick township, Schuylkill county, where he
followed farming at Drehersville until his death, which occurred there.
For a number of years he kept a hotel at that point, besides following
agricultural pursuits. He lived to the age of ninety-one years, and his wife,
whose maiden name was Catherine Faust, is buried with him at the Red Church.
They had the following family: Joseph, Elizabeth, Michael, Susan, Polly,
Catherine, Rebecca and Nathan. One married Daniel Ebling; another
Edward Ebling; Michael married Mary Frey; Nathan married Catherine Albright;
Joseph went West, where he died; Mrs. Reuben Miller lived in the West.
Nathan Seltzer, son of Abraham, was born December 1827, in East Brunswick
township, and died at early age of thirty three. He was a successful business man,
following farming, and kept an inn at Drehersville for a time, also carrying on a
general mercantile business at that point. He was a member of the Reformed
Church, and is buried at the Red Church. Politically he was a Democrat.
His wife Catherine, was the daughter of Peter Albright, of West Brunswick township,
and four children were born to this union: Elizabeth, Wesley A., Oscar and Mary,
all deceased but Wesley. Mrs. Seltzer remarried, becoming the wife of John
Walborn, but had no children by that union.
Source:
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Genealogy - Family History
Volume 2, Page 620
By: J. H. Beers and Company
Daughter - Elizabeth Elmira Seltzer
Born - December 23, 1853
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Died - December 18, 1858
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Son - Wesley Abraham Seltzer
Born - January 22, 1855
Wife - Joanna (Hoy) Seltzer
Born - July 23, 1854
Son -Oscar Seltzer
Daughter - Maria Ann Seltzer
Born - October 15, 1857
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Sister - Sarah Albright
Born - 1827 ۩ Died - 1836
Sister - Isabella (Albright) Kimmel
Born - 1831 - Pennsylvania
Husband - John F. Kimmel
Sister - Elizabeth (Albright) Hoy
Born - March 1,1835 - Pennsylvania
Husband - Henry H. Hoy
Brother - James E. Albright
Born - December 13,1835
Died - September 6,1863
Wife - Caroline (Heisler) Albright
Brother - Charles Albright
Born - 1839/1840
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Wife - Rebecca (Fegley) Albright
Sister - Francisca Rebecca" Francie" Albright
Born - April 7, 1850
Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania
Father - Peter A. Albright
Mother - Magdalena (Fosselman) Albright
Paternal Grandfather - Peter R, Albright
Paternal Grandmother - Maria Christina (Medlar) Albright
Maternal Grandfather - George Fosselman
Maternal Grandmother - Barbara (Ritter) Fosselman
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