SPANG, Florence Bell

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Florence married PEPPLER, David Louis 23 Sep 1901. David was born 14 Oct 1878, Kelly Station, Armstrong Co., Pa.; died 03 Jan 1936, Parks TWP, Armstrong Co, @ 4:40 PM. [Group Sheet]

1. PEPPLER, James Leslie was born 18 Mar 1903, Parks Twp., Armstrong Co., Pa.; died 08 May 1965, Buried @ Kadish Chapel Cemetery-Wellsburg.
2. PEPPLER, Vivian Elizabeth was born 30 Aug 1904; died 20 Nov 1904.
3. PEPPLER, Freda Rebecca was born 01 Apr 1906, Parks Twp., Armstrong Co., Pa.; died 14 Feb 1985, Wesley Manor, Kittanning, Armstrong Co., Pa..
4. PEPPLER, Dean Clark was born 12 May 1912; died 1936.
5. Living
6. Living
7. PEPPLER, Waldo James

Amos married KLINGENSMITH, Mary Ann 1873. Mary was born 05 Jul 1857, Armstrong Co., Pa.; died 08 Jun 1908, Bethel Twp, Armstrong Co, Pa; was buried Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ford City, Armstrong Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

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Buried in Bethel Twp Probably in Bethel Church Cemetery.
1910 census lists Amos' wife as Kathryn L., age 51

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Samuel Spang's grandfather, George, came from Germany in 1763 and settled in Cumberland Co., Pennslvania. He had four children--Michael, Margaret, Henry and Jacob, who was born 17 Feb 1770 in Reading, PA. After their marriage Jacob and Nancy moved to Erie Co., but moved on to Salem Township, Westmoreland Co., as she did not like the high winds from Lake Erie. Later they moved to Allegheny Township, Armstrong Co. Barbara & Samual had moved to Armstrong County by the time of the 1860 census.
[The Klingensmiths of Pennsylvania and Their Decendants]

Samuel married SCHMAEL, Barbara 1838. Barbara (daughter of SCHMAEL, Jacob and KLINGELSCHMIDT, Magthalena, daughter of SMAIL, Jacob and KLINGENSMITH, Magdalena) was born 28 Nov 1818, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; was christened 09 Jul 1819, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died 10 Mar 1908, Pennsylvania; was buried Dunkard Baptist Christian Brethern Cemetery, Cochrans Mills. Burrell Township, Armstrong Co., PA. [Group Sheet]

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Baptized by: John Michael Steck -- Greensburg Luthern
Sponsered by her parents.

Original name was Schmael -- German Name

Barbara's will was dated 10 May 1906. She left her 53 acre farm, which was located in Bethel Twp., Armstrong Co., Pa. to her son, Isaiah, with a unique condition. Isaiah had to accept the bequest within 30 days after the appraisement; otherwise the farm would be sold along with her personal property and the procedes divided equally among her seven children. The appraisement and inventory of her personal property, two days after her death, showed a value of $490.30. When the time came for the division of the estate among the heirs, in March 1910, there was only $185.00 in the administrator's account, or $26.43 per child.The will originally provided that, aside from the farm, her children were to share equally. Since her daughter, Nancy, was deceased, she bequeathed her share to four of her eight children --- Robert, William, Samual Young and Barbara Eckman ---after $35.00 was spent for a tombstone for the deceassed daughter. On 27 January 1907 Barbara amended her will to provide that nancy's other four children were to share in their mother's portion of the estate. Each child received $3.31/ $3.30, which was not mentioned in the 1907 change. By the time of the final distribution, Barbara's daughter, Leah Shotts was also deceased. The result was that each of her nine children received $2.94 / $2.93 from their grandmother. Barbara left nothing to her stepchildren, the children of her husband and his first wife, Elizabeth Riggle.

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SOURCE: Birth, death dates and spouse from cemetery
May have married two sistersInformation from C. E. Spang, 1963
Jacob moved to Erie Co. and served 1 term as High Sheriff; his wife did not like the wind so they moved to Salem, Westmoreland, Co then to Armstrong Co. He was a farmer. He may have married 2 sisters, Nancy and Elizabeth Mary Brown.

Jacob married BROWN, Elizabeth Mary Magdaline 1797. Elizabeth was born 02 Mar 1776, Reading, Pa.. [Group Sheet]

Jacob married KLINGELSCHMIDT, Magthalena Between 1823 and 1848. Magthalena (daughter of KLINGELSCHMIDT, Andreass and BAHM, Angeness) was born 16 Sep 1795, (date fr E. Tusing); was christened 08 May 1796, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died 1852. [Group Sheet]

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[Tracey3.FTW]

Baptized by: John Michael Steck - Harrold Zion Luthern Church
Sponsored by: Petter Bahm & Barbera

In volume 3 of The German Church Records of Western Pa. years 1805 - 1812 by Paul Miller Ruff (see source information list) it has a record of two children being born to:
Jacob Schmehl & Maria

Childrens' names:
Sara B 16 jan 1809 Baptized 13 Sep 1812
Margretha B 28 May Baptized 13 Sep 1812

May be same lineage???

MAGDALENA KLINGENSMITH, b- 16 Sept. 17g5 Westmoreland Co., d- 1852 according to tombstone; m- Jacob Smail, s/o Peter Smail Jr. & Sophia Gungkel (Kunkle), b- 1792 PA, d- Nov./Dec. 1857 Armstrong Co. He m-2 after Magdalena's death, Nancy J. Elliott Ross, d/o George Elliott & Ann , b4 Dec. 1799, d- 5 Oct. 1878 Crook Creek Cem., Ford City, PA. Masdalena's sponsors at her baptism at Harrold~s Zion Lutheran Church in Westmoreland County were Peter and Barbara Baum. Some sources give Jacob's wife as Anna Maria, Polly, and Margaretta. Simon Peter Klingensmith, Jacob's son -in-law, wrote in his Bible that his mother-in-law~s name was Magdalena. Magdalena and Jacob are buried in the Smail Cemetery, which is located near the Bethel Church in Armstrong County. In 1978 Hazel Branscum erected a monument at the cemetery in memory of her great great yrandparents and her great grandparents, Joseph and Lavina Smail. According to a history of Armstrong County published in the 1980's, "Jacob had a country store and deeded land for the cemetery and for the Smail schoolhouse, where early settlers also held their church services."