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that of John D. Davis, where he died January 13, 1862. His family consisted of the following children: Rachel, now eighty-eight years old, the wife of Thomas Michael, deceased, of Ebensburg; Eliza, deceased, who was the wife of William Morgan, who lived near Ebensburg; Daniel, who died in 1886; Catherine, who died in 1893, was the wife of Jacob Edwards; Mary Ann, the wife of the subject of this sketch; John, deceased; David, deceased; Evan, who went to California, and engaged in gold mining and became very wealthy; Lewis, died in St. Louis, at the age of twenty years; Martha, deceased, who was the wife of David Reese; Griffith, who married Jane Jones, and resides in Ebensburg; James, deceased; Sarah, who died in 1891, was the wife of Adam Tiger; Gwennie, married Daniel Thomas, of Johnstown; and Margaret, the wife of Alexander St. Clair, who has been an enterprising farmer in the State of Illinois for many years.     The marriage of John D. Davis with Miss Mary Ann Griffith resulted in the birth of the following children: Evan, born April 22, 1848, was twice married; his first marriage was with Veretta Fetzer, and upon her death he married Miss Alice Wells; he now lives in Clarion county; Mary Jane, born May 9, 1850, and died in Utah September 12, 1891, was the wife of W. W. Duncan, who died in Colorado September 14, 1895, leaving to survive them three daughters, namely: Mary E., Sarah M. and Annie B.; Sarah, born November 25, 1851, married Evan Williams, an enterprising merchant, lumberman and farmer, who died September 16, 1895. His widow and six children, namely: Henrietta B., Rachel A., Jessie H., Daniel W., Hazel J., and Alverda M., reside in Indiana county; Jonathan, born July 30, 1853, is now engaged in silver

mining in Colorado; David, born April 6, 1855, married Margaret Edmiston, and is in the employ of the Cambria Iron company, of Johnstown; Daniel, born August 15, 1857, married Mary E. Hart, and is also in the employ of the Cambria Iron company; Thomas, born October 15, 1859, is engaged in silvermining in Colorado; and William, born December 13, 1861. REV. RUPERT TRAGESER, the zealous and popular pastor of St. Nicholas Catholic church at Nicktown, is the youngest of five sons and three daughters born to Conrad and Mary Ann (Snyder) Trageser.     He was born in Altenmittlan, in one of the present states of the German empire, September 18, 1853. At sixteen years of age he left his native land and came to western Pennsylvania, where he immediately entered St. Vincent's college, Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and spent over ten years in classical and theological studies. He was then, in 1880, ordained to the priesthood at St. Vincent's by the late Rt. Rev. J. Tuigg, D.D., bishop of Pittsburg, and immediately entered upon his ministerial labors as assistant pastor of St. Mary's church in Elk county, where he remained four months. From St. Mary's he was transferred to Johnstown as assistant pastor of St. Joseph's church, and six months later was sent to Carrolltown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, where he remained nine months. From Carrolltown he was sent to Newark, New Jersey, where he served as assistant pastor of St. Mary's church for two years. At the end of that time he was transferred to Covington, Kentucky, where he was assistant pastor of St. Joseph's church for two years. From Covington he returned to Elk county, and, after one year spent as assistant pastor of St.

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