John Shoemaker

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Jay Charles Grahm/William James Walker ← Hannah Townsend ← Elisabeth Shoemaker ← John Shoemaker

In brief

Born 1759 in Loudon County, Virginia. He died August 11, 1815 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Family

Father

Phillip Shoemaker

Mother

Anna Barbara Rittenhouse

Spouse

Mary Ann Baker

Children

Philip Shoemaker
b. January 25, 1784, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
m. Elizabeth Rose
d. April 10, 1860
Catherine Shoemaker
b. Abt. 1784-1790
m. John Patton
d. Abt. 1818-1820
Susanna Shoemaker
b. Abt. 1784-1790
m. James McKee
Elisabeth Shoemaker · in this line
b. June 26, 1792, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
m. John Townsend, April 11, 1811
d. c. 1870 · Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
John Shoemaker
b. December 20, 1799
m. Christina Smith
d. May 22, 1881

Siblings

J Schumacher
Mary Ann Davis
Jacob R Shoemaker
Esther Troth
Catharine Shoemaker
Sarah Shoemaker
Solomon Shoemaker
Johann George E Shoemaker
E Potterfield
Christiana Shoemaker
Daniel Shoemaker

Life story

A Revolutionary Soldier's Farm

John Shoemaker was born in 1759 in Loudoun County, Virginia, and served as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, likely in Captain William Heyser's company of Pennsylvania's German Regiment. He settled afterward in Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, buying land there in 1792. John died August 11, 1815.

Sources (1)

Lillian (Shumaker) Lankerd, compiler, Genealogy of Three Loudon County Virginia Shoemaker Lines (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Lillian Lankerd, 1962), 2; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofthree01lank/page/2/mode/2up : accessed 13 November 2023).