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According to the genealogy notebook of Gladys (Bittner) Korns of Somerset County PA, Franklin Bittner’s first wife was Mary Beachley, and they had following children:

• Josiah Joe Bittner born Nov. 14, 1854 died 1936
• Susan
• Wesley, who was younger than Josiah Joe, and who married Jane Wagaman
• Alice
• John Bittner who was a flagman and was killed by a train
• Ellen who died of diphtheria at age 16
• Thomas, who died when a log fell on him

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According to the genealogy notebook of Gladys (Bittner) Korns, Franklin’s second wife was Julia Yutzy, the daughter of George Yutzy, who lived below the Greenville Lutheran Church. Franklin sold his farm to Herman Shockey and moved to Jones Mills to "take her away from her people.

Franklin and Julia had the following children:

• Sherman who married Ellen McKenzie.
• Norman
• Lucinda
• Savannah

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According to Pattysue Murphy, who got her information "mostly from a book her Grandma Bittner kept and passed on to Uncle Leroy":

• Josiah was born Nov. 14.
• Susan’s middle name was Catherine, and she was born Jan. 9, 1858
• Wesley’s middle name was Daniel, and he was born Aug. 13, 1856.
• Alice’s middle name was Mary, and she was born Jan. 21, 1860.
• Ellen’s middle name was Sarah, and she was born March 16, 1866.
• Thomas’s middle name was Franklin, and a birth or death date for him is Aug. 1868

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According to the Somerset County book "Genealogy of the Relatives of William J. Miller", (Meyersdale, PA: 1963) which was originally written circa 1874 to 1899, but added to later:

"On the 21st of Sept. 1874, I received from Franklin Bittner, the following record of his family.

Franklin Bittner was born in Greenville, Somerset Co., Pa. Jan. 4, 1830, married in Greenville, Somerset Co., Pa.. Aug. 14, 1854, to Mary Beeghley Benjamin Knepper. His wife Mary Beeghley, was born in Elk Lick, Somerset Co., Pa., _________. Died in Greenville, Aug. 14, 1868. Their children are:

Josie, born Nov. 15, 1855; Daniel Wesley, born Aug. 13, 1856; Susannah Catharine, born Jan. 9, 1858; Mary Alice, born Jan. 21, 1860; John Lincoln, born May 26, 1864; Sarah Ellen, born Mar. 16, 1866; Thomas Franklin, born Aug. _____ 1868."

Also from the same book:

"Franklin Bittner is married again and has one child. His address: Pocahontas, Somerset Co., Pa."

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The following from is quoted from an untitled anonymous page from the Bittner File, Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset Co..:

"Mary ___ Beeghly, 1498, (dau of Michael J. Beeghly and Barbara Miller), Pocahontas, Pa., at death, was b. ___ __, 8_- in Elklick twp,. Somerset Co., Pa., d. Aug. 14, 1868, m. Aug. 14, 1854, Franklin __ Bittinger who was b. Jan. 4, 1830 in Greenville twp., Somerset Co., Pa., d. __ __, __, son of ____ Bittinger and ___ ____ Farmer. United Evangelical. She Samuel Miller cemetery, near Pocahontas, Pa. He Mount Zion cemetery, near Jones Mills, Pa. (After her death he m. Julia Ann Werner)"

The page lists Franklin's children as follows:

• Josia
• Daniel Wesley
• Susan Catharine
• Mary Alice
• John Lincoln
• Sara Ellen
• Thomas Franklin

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The following 1880 census record is that of our ancestor Franklin Bittner, who was living in Somerset County PA at the time:

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Henry J. Bittner and Elizabeth _____ (who are buried in the Snyder Cemetery, Melcroft, Saltlick Township, Fayette Co., PA.) had a son named Franklin Bittner, but it is not our ancestor, as proven by a portions of that Franklin’s diary that is in the library of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset Co.

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