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John Grantz
JOHN GRANTZ, late of Bethel township, Armstrong county, was born in
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, July 2, 1834, and died July 25, 1912. He was brought
to the United States by his father, Adam Grantz, when six years old. His
mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lautenschlager, died in Germany when a
young woman. They had a family of four sons and two daughters, Henry, George,
Barbara, Elizabeth, John and Adam, of whom one son and one daughter survive,
Elizabeth and Henry. All came to America with the father. Settling first at
Delmont, Westmoreland Co., Pa., Adam Grantz subsequently, about 1850, came to
Armstrong county, where with the exception of about two years spent in
Pittsburgh he passed the remainder of his life. His death occurred in
Armstrong county in 1886, when he was aged eighty-two years, ten months,
seventeen days. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.John Grantz
received his education in the county schools, and became a farmer. He was
married twice, first to Malinda Trexel, daughter of Israel and Tina (Kinnard)
Trexel, and to this union were born two children: George, who married Sarah
Fennel1, resides at Delmont, Pa.; and Sarah C., deceased, who married Lewis
Klingensmith, and had children, Clara E. (Mrs. Gordon Fennell), Charles E. (a
telegraph operator), Sadie T. (Mrs. Matthew Dixon), and Bessie M. (Mrs. Braden
Beatty).On Oct. 4, 1864, for his second wife, John Grantz married Mary
Lucetta Klingensmith, who was born March 7, 1837, daughter of Adam and Anna
Mary (Kirkland) Klingensmith, and had by her children as follows: Abraham R.,
who married Mary Trower, and lives at Hunter, Okla.; Anna Mary, who became the
second wife of Lewis Klingensmith (who first married her sister Sarah), of
near Kelly Station, and has children, Harry R. (a farmer, at home), Bert C.,
David D., Ruth V., Cleason J. and Marie B. (all at home); Hettie J., wife of
Joseph Gleixner, residing at St. Mary’s, Pa.; John A., who married Jane
Kunkelman, and died in 1911; William J., who married Mabel Ross, living at
Brickerville, Pa.; Harriet E., wife of Marney Klingensmith, now of Willow,
Cal.; Luther S.; Amos, who married Della Earhart and lives near Salina, Pa.;
Josiah W., who married Phroney Myers and (second) Mary McMunn; Lewis H., who
married Lena —- and lives in Oklahoma; and Miles Roy, who married June 15,
1910, Sarah F. Turner, of Leechburg, Armstrong county, daughter of William R.
and Elizabeth (Smith) Turner (Mrs. Miles R. Grantz died March 15, 1913). Three
of the sons of this family are in Oklahoma.Source: Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed January 2012 by Sara Stewart for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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