Samuel Gehr    

SAMUEL GEHR, farmer, P.O. Linesville, was born in Summit Township, this county, in 1813; son of Balthazar and Elizabeth (Fleming) Gehr, the former of whom, born in 1782, is still enjoying good health. Our subject was married, August 22, 1837, to Hannah Garwood. To this union have been born Eunice, wife of Robert McClinton (have seven children: William, Elma, James, Margaret, Emma, Hugh and Bessie); Sylvester A., married to Frances Ames; Harvy C., married to Lavinia Dudley (have five children: William, Henry, Laverie, Murry and Nellie); Emeline, wife of Henry Hall; Nelson D., formerly married to Addie Hall, by whom he had four children: Nettie, Glenroy, Alonzo and Cora; Isaac, married to Lovilla Jackson (have two children: Aggie and Ray); Nimrod, married to Ellen Dikman (had two children: Maud and Jennie). Three of the sons served during the late war. Samuel Gehr’s second wife was Amelia Hanpe, whom he married March 8, 1877. Our subject states that he was an expert in finding bee trees, the richest of which yielded him fourteen gallons of strained honey; that he was quite a hunter, killing his first deer when fourteen years old, with a flint-lock gun, and also that the last bear (a large black one) heard of in the neighborhood, and for which a party had been hunting two days, was at last captured by himself when the others had given up the chase. He also followed trapping and procured an abundance of furs. Mr. and Mrs. Gehr are members of the Evangelical 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, page 986. 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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