Charles Wotring    

CHARLES WOTRING, farmer, P.O. Saegerstown, was born in Lehigh County, Penn., August 26, 1812; son of Samuel and Eve (Garver) Wotring, who settled in Woodcock Township, this county, in 1826, purchasing, in 1827, the tract of land now owned and occupied by our subject and the County Poor Farm, clearing and improving a good share of it. Charles Wotring was married, January 15, 1837, to Mary, daughter of Peter and Charlotte (Good) Beige, who were among the early settlers of this township; they were from Lehigh County, Penn., and of German descent. To this union were born thirteen children, viz.: William, Henry, Eliza (deceased), Gideon, Samuel, Lavina (wife of Frank Hildebrand), Alfred P., Anna, Daniel, Wayne, Charles, Phebe C. and an infant (deceased). Mr. Wotring in politics is a Republican. He and his family are members of the German Reformed Church.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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