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Peter Laubach

15 Apr 1825 – 28 May 1890

Birth15 Apr 1825
Death28 May 1890
CemeteryBenton Cemetery
Benton , Columbia County , Pennsylvania , USA
Added byTammy Clark on 11 Jul 2007
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Peter LAUBACH, farmer, P. O. Raven Creek, was born April 15, 1825, in Sugar Loaf Township, on a part of the old LAUBACH homestead. At the age of eight years he moved with his parents to Benton Township, and lived on the old John LAUBACH farm, first settled by Benjamin COLEMAN. December 14, 1848, he married Miss Susan C., daughter of Philip KRICKBAUM. After his marriage he conducted a store in Benton about nine months, and in 1847 purchased 100 acres where he now resides. This he improved with buildings, etc., and moved on it in 1850. He now owns 440 acres and is considered one of the most substantial farmers in northern Columbia County. The following named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. LAUBACH; Isaac K. K., born October 28, 1849, married Anna, daughter of Thomas GIBBONS, and resides in Benton Township; John C., born January 12, 1851, died September 17, 1854; Rhoda Ann and Margaret Ann (twins), born April 5, 1855—the former is the wife of Henry C. LEARN and resides near Berwick, Margaret Ann is the wife of Frank P. DILDINE, near Benton; Sarah E. B. and Freace Brown (twins) born September 19, 1858; the latter died in infancy, the former is the wife of Alvin W. DRESHER and resides in Benton Township; Winfield Scott, born April 26, 1861, conducts the home farm and married February 10, 1886, Elizabeth C., daughter of Samuel ROBERTS, and Susan Matilda, born November 25, 1868, died January 19, 1869. Mr. LAUBACH joined the Presbyterian Church in 1863 and has served as ruling elder, secretary of the session and treasurer of the church fund. He was postmaster at Raven Creek from November 11, 1872, to March 9, 1886. Politically he is a Republican; is a member of the Masonic fraternity, R. A. degree, charter member of Oriental Lodge, No. 460, at Orangeville. He was drafted twice, sent two substitutes to the civil war, one in the nine months' draft and the other in the last three years' draft service. John George LAUBACH (great-grandfather of our subject), emigrated with his father from Germany and settled in Philadelphia in 1736. His children were Susan, John Michael, John, John Christian, Ann Mary, John Conrad (died young), John Conrad, Anna Margaret, Catharine, John George, Wilberg and Elizabeth. John Christian, the grandfather of our subject, was born June 30, 1764, in Bucks County, Penn., and married Anna Mary FRUTCHY, who was born February 3, 1773. She died July 8, 1823, and he March 15, 1825, and both are buried at St. Gabriel's Church. He was the first LAUBACH to settle in Columbia County in 1790, and came to Sugarloaf Township in 1793. There he took up a farm on what is now known as "Fritz Hill," a tract of about 400 acres. His family consisted of Susan, who married John MOORE, to whom she bore eight children and died in her ninety-fist year; George married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin COLEMAN, one of the first settlers in Sugarloaf Township and now in his ninetieth year and lives in Michigan; Frederick, married Mary LARISH, and their eight children are now all married and living; Peter, died in childhood; Hannah, resides in the Town of Bloomsburg, the widow of Thomas CONNOR, and has three sons and two daughters: Elizabeth, wife of William COLE and mother of nine children, eight now living: Anna Margaret, married William IKELER, and died in Fishingcreek Township: Polly wife of John IKELER, they reside in Michigan and have five children living; Catharine, is the widow of John R. DAVIS, and lives in Benton—she has nine children living; Christian, married Hannah HEFLEY and resides in Danville, Montour County; John (father of our subject), married Ann, daughter of Abraham KLINE, Jr. The following are the names of their children: Abraham, in Washington Territory, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Rhoda Ann, married J. H. HARRISON and died January 29, 1884, in Union Township, Luzerne County; Isaac, married Sarah, daughter of Christian ASH, served in the Civil War three years as volunteer and volunteered three more years, now resides in Iowa; Peter; George, married Charlotte McHENRY, a daughter of Daniel McHENRY, Jr; George, enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers and served one year, receiving an honorable discharge; Christian, married Sarah Ann, daughter of Jonathan C. PENNINGTON; John Frutchy, married Susan TAYLOR, and died October 24, 1863; Daniel S., married Elizabeth YOUNG, served in the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth nine-months' draft men; David Kline, married Mary PENNINGTON (he served in the One-Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry), and Frederick, married Lucy, daughter of Rev. M. H. HARRISON; he enlisted in the Ninety-third Pennsylvania Volunteer three years, and enlisted three years more after the close of his first term, and died October 29, 1881. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 Benton Township pg. 379) Married Susan C. KRICKBAUM December 4, 1848. Children: 1.Isaac Kinney LAUBACH 2.John C. LAUBACH 3.Rhoda Ann LAUBACH 4.Margaret Anna LAUBACH 5.Sarah E. LAUBACH 6.Frease Brown LAUBACH 7.Winfield Scott LAUBACH 8.Susan Matilda LAUBACH

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