John A B Stearns

Birth Name John A B Stearns
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1812 New York, United States   1a
Residence April 15, 1834 Buffalo Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States   2a
Event Note

John was of Buffalo Township, and/or Freeport Borough, Armstrong County, when he married.

Occupation   Freeport, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States    
General

According to page 6 of Jacob S. Royer's Reminiscences of My Grandmother [Mary Ann Kiel]'s Life, John Stern was 'a well to do salt merchant between Freeport and Tarentum, along the Allegheny river, some 28 miles above Pittsburg.'

Census (Head) June 16, 1870 Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, United States   1a
Event Note

1870 Census Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri
Rolla Post Office
Roll: M593_797, Page: 730A, family 166
June 16, 1870

John A Stearns, 57, druggist, RE: $1000, PE: $1000, born in New York
Elizabeth C Stearns, 56, born in Pennsylvania

 

Census (Head) June 11, 1880 Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States 94 Market St 3a
Event Note

Is this them:
1880 Census, Ward 1, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA, ED 181, page 36
June 11, 1880
at 94 Market Street

John Sterns, 67, agent, born in Pennsylvania, parents also
Elizabeth Sterns, born in Pennsylvania, parents in New York

Death        

Families

Family of John A B Stearns and Elizabeth Kern
Married Wife Elizabeth Kern ( b. September 22, 1813 d. between 1880 and 1888 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage April 15, 1834 Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States   2a
General

STERN, John A.B. of Freeport, Armstrong Co. & Elizabeth KERN of Hempfield Twp. m Tues. last by __ White (4-18-1834 WI)

STERNS, John of Buffalo Twp, Armstrong Co. & Elizabeth KERN of Hempfield Twp, Wsmd. Co. m Tues 15th inst. by __ White (4-18-1834 RF)

Note: Elizabeth's sister Mary Ann was married by John White in August 1834. Her brother Henry R. Kern's obituary said he had a long-time friend, a Methodist minister named White. Also, Elizabeth's sister Sarah Kern Kiel named a son Joseph White Kiel, born 13 Sept 1834.

Pedigree

    1. John A B Stearns
      1. Elizabeth Kern

Source References

  1. National Archives and Records Administration: 1870 United States Census
      • Page: Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri; Roll: M593_797; Page: 730A
      • Citation:

        https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&indiv=try&h=1042048

  2. Mary Jane Mains, compiler: Newspaper accounts of births, marriages & deaths, 1808-1929 (not all inclusive)
      • Page: citing The Westmoreland Intelligencer and the Westmoreland Republican and Farmers' Chronicle, both of Apr 18, 1834
  3. 1880 United States Census
      • Page: Ward 1, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA, ED 181, page 36
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWX6-FSB : 15 July 2017), Elizabeth Sterns in household of John Sterns, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 181, sheet 18D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,110.