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Biography: Ephraim Burkhart, son of Joseph and Margaret (Hart) Burkhart, was born in 1796, in Lancaster county, and followed the millwright's trade. He came to Cambria county, where he was employed by Judge Abram Hildebrand to build a grist mill, in which he afterward remained as miller. About 1829 he purchased a tract of woodland in Jackson township, about one mile from where is now the village of Vinco, erected a house, in which he took up his abode, and a stable, and began to improve the land. There were then but two houses on the Ebensburg road between the old turnpike and the farm of the late Rev. Levi Roberts, now belonging to the heirs of the late Jacob Angus, Samuel Singer and John Benshoff. There Ephraim lived to the end of his days, enduring in the earlier years very great difficulties and hardships, which, in the course of time, his energy, skill and perseverance triumphantly surmounted.
He married Catharine Hildebrand, whose family history is appended to this sketch, and their children were: Abram; Joseph, of Adams township, minister in German Baptist (Dunkard) church; John, in lumber business, Zearing, Iowa, whither he moved prior to Civil war; Samuel, of whom later; Margaret, wife of James Sensebaugh, of Mineral Point; Keziah, who died at Mineral Point, widow of George Ford, accidentally killed on railroad at that place; Mary, went to Iowa many years ago, later married George James, of Rock Falls, Illinois, and died there; Jane, wife of Abram Byers, of Mineral Point, perished in Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889; Lovina, wife of Edward Muller, now deceased; and Charlotte, died in infancy. Ephraim, the father of this family, died July 16, 1872, aged seventy-six years. After her husband's death, Catherine moved with her son Joseph to Adams township, taking with her sufficient furniture to furnish two rooms in her son's house, which he had placed at her disposal. She remained there until 1879, when she gave up housekeeping and went to live with her daughter Jane in Jackson township. In the winter following she fell on the ice and sustained a fracture of the arm which partially disabled the limb for the remainder of her life. About 1880 Mr. Byers, her son-in-law, purchased the old homestead and moved thereon, Catherine being thus again installed on the farm where she had spent forty-three of her happiest years. In the spring of 1887, Mr. Byers sold the homestead, and after living in several places in Jackson township moved to Mineral Point in the autumn of 1888. There Catherine, with her daughter Jane, perished on that memorable day, May 31, 1889, aged eighty-five years, one month and twenty-two days.
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Biography: Ephraim Burkhart, son of Joseph and Margaret (Hart) Burkhart, was born in 1796, in Lancaster county, and followed the millwright's trade. He came to Cambria county, where he was employed by Judge Abram Hildebrand to build a grist mill, in which he afterward remained as miller. About 1829 he purchased a tract of woodland in Jackson township, about one mile from where is now the village of Vinco, erected a house, in which he took up his abode, and a stable, and began to improve the land. There were then but two houses on the Ebensburg road between the old turnpike and the farm of the late Rev. Levi Roberts, now belonging to the heirs of the late Jacob Angus, Samuel Singer and John Benshoff. There Ephraim lived to the end of his days, enduring in the earlier years very great difficulties and hardships, which, in the course of time, his energy, skill and perseverance triumphantly surmounted.
He married Catharine Hildebrand, whose family history is appended to this sketch, and their children were: Abram; Joseph, of Adams township, minister in German Baptist (Dunkard) church; John, in lumber business, Zearing, Iowa, whither he moved prior to Civil war; Samuel, of whom later; Margaret, wife of James Sensebaugh, of Mineral Point; Keziah, who died at Mineral Point, widow of George Ford, accidentally killed on railroad at that place; Mary, went to Iowa many years ago, later married George James, of Rock Falls, Illinois, and died there; Jane, wife of Abram Byers, of Mineral Point, perished in Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889; Lovina, wife of Edward Muller, now deceased; and Charlotte, died in infancy. Ephraim, the father of this family, died July 16, 1872, aged seventy-six years. After her husband's death, Catherine moved with her son Joseph to Adams township, taking with her sufficient furniture to furnish two rooms in her son's house, which he had placed at her disposal. She remained there until 1879, when she gave up housekeeping and went to live with her daughter Jane in Jackson township. In the winter following she fell on the ice and sustained a fracture of the arm which partially disabled the limb for the remainder of her life. About 1880 Mr. Byers, her son-in-law, purchased the old homestead and moved thereon, Catherine being thus again installed on the farm where she had spent forty-three of her happiest years. In the spring of 1887, Mr. Byers sold the homestead, and after living in several places in Jackson township moved to Mineral Point in the autumn of 1888. There Catherine, with her daughter Jane, perished on that memorable day, May 31, 1889, aged eighty-five years, one month and twenty-two days.
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Biography: Ephraim Burkhart, son of Joseph and Margaret (Hart) Burkhart, was born in 1796, in Lancaster county, and followed the millwright's trade. He came to Cambria county, where he was employed by Judge Abram Hildebrand to build a grist mill, in which he afterward remained as miller. About 1829 he purchased a tract of woodland in Jackson township, about one mile from where is now the village of Vinco, erected a house, in which he took up his abode, and a stable, and began to improve the land. There were then but two houses on the Ebensburg road between the old turnpike and the farm of the late Rev. Levi Roberts, now belonging to the heirs of the late Jacob Angus, Samuel Singer and John Benshoff. There Ephraim lived to the end of his days, enduring in the earlier years very great difficulties and hardships, which, in the course of time, his energy, skill and perseverance triumphantly surmounted.
He married Catharine Hildebrand, whose family history is appended to this sketch, and their children were: Abram; Joseph, of Adams township, minister in German Baptist (Dunkard) church; John, in lumber business, Zearing, Iowa, whither he moved prior to Civil war; Samuel, of whom later; Margaret, wife of James Sensebaugh, of Mineral Point; Keziah, who died at Mineral Point, widow of George Ford, accidentally killed on railroad at that place; Mary, went to Iowa many years ago, later married George James, of Rock Falls, Illinois, and died there; Jane, wife of Abram Byers, of Mineral Point, perished in Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889; Lovina, wife of Edward Muller, now deceased; and Charlotte, died in infancy. Ephraim, the father of this family, died July 16, 1872, aged seventy-six years. After her husband's death, Catherine moved with her son Joseph to Adams township, taking with her sufficient furniture to furnish two rooms in her son's house, which he had placed at her disposal. She remained there until 1879, when she gave up housekeeping and went to live with her daughter Jane in Jackson township. In the winter following she fell on the ice and sustained a fracture of the arm which partially disabled the limb for the remainder of her life. About 1880 Mr. Byers, her son-in-law, purchased the old homestead and moved thereon, Catherine being thus again installed on the farm where she had spent forty-three of her happiest years. In the spring of 1887, Mr. Byers sold the homestead, and after living in several places in Jackson township moved to Mineral Point in the autumn of 1888. There Catherine, with her daughter Jane, perished on that memorable day, May 31, 1889, aged eighty-five years, one month and twenty-two days.
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Biography: Ephraim Burkhart, son of Joseph and Margaret (Hart) Burkhart, was born in 1796, in Lancaster county, and followed the millwright's trade. He came to Cambria county, where he was employed by Judge Abram Hildebrand to build a grist mill, in which he afterward remained as miller. About 1829 he purchased a tract of woodland in Jackson township, about one mile from where is now the village of Vinco, erected a house, in which he took up his abode, and a stable, and began to improve the land. There were then but two houses on the Ebensburg road between the old turnpike and the farm of the late Rev. Levi Roberts, now belonging to the heirs of the late Jacob Angus, Samuel Singer and John Benshoff. There Ephraim lived to the end of his days, enduring in the earlier years very great difficulties and hardships, which, in the course of time, his energy, skill and perseverance triumphantly surmounted.
He married Catharine Hildebrand, whose family history is appended to this sketch, and their children were: Abram; Joseph, of Adams township, minister in German Baptist (Dunkard) church; John, in lumber business, Zearing, Iowa, whither he moved prior to Civil war; Samuel, of whom later; Margaret, wife of James Sensebaugh, of Mineral Point; Keziah, who died at Mineral Point, widow of George Ford, accidentally killed on railroad at that place; Mary, went to Iowa many years ago, later married George James, of Rock Falls, Illinois, and died there; Jane, wife of Abram Byers, of Mineral Point, perished in Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889; Lovina, wife of Edward Muller, now deceased; and Charlotte, died in infancy. Ephraim, the father of this family, died July 16, 1872, aged seventy-six years. After her husband's death, Catherine moved with her son Joseph to Adams township, taking with her sufficient furniture to furnish two rooms in her son's house, which he had placed at her disposal. She remained there until 1879, when she gave up housekeeping and went to live with her daughter Jane in Jackson township. In the winter following she fell on the ice and sustained a fracture of the arm which partially disabled the limb for the remainder of her life. About 1880 Mr. Byers, her son-in-law, purchased the old homestead and moved thereon, Catherine being thus again installed on the farm where she had spent forty-three of her happiest years. In the spring of 1887, Mr. Byers sold the homestead, and after living in several places in Jackson township moved to Mineral Point in the autumn of 1888. There Catherine, with her daughter Jane, perished on that memorable day, May 31, 1889, aged eighty-five years, one month and twenty-two days.
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