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Connecting the Gable Family

The Family of Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright

Alice Gable Kalush

October 2011

Last Updated: 2/25/2019

This document is part of the Connecting the Gable Family book which is divided into chapters which are in

separate files. This document covers the descendants of Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright. The Early

Gebel Lancaster County Settlers discusses various people which may have been Jacob Gabel's parents and the

evidence supporting each one in more detail than this document does.

Documents in this Series:

Connecting the Gable Family: Early Gebel Lancaster County Settlers

Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright

Connecting the Gable Familly: Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant

Connecting the Gable Family: Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes


Table of Contents Connecting Jacob Gable with His Parents ............................................................................................................................... 3

Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright .................................................................................................................................. 11

Chapter Two: William Gabel and Catherine Klugh and Descendants ............................................................................... 31

Chapter Three: Jacob Klugh and Elizabeth Gable ............................................................................................................. 43

Henry Gable and Mary (Klugh?) ........................................................................................................................................ 44


Connecting Jacob Gable with His Parents Last Reviewed and Updated: 5/15/2018

I believe that Johannes Gebel/John Gable (1.2) and Elizabeth of the Wilhelm Gebel of Manheim Township and

His Children document are the parents of Jacob Gable and that his siblings are Benjamin Gable, Henry Gable,

Polly Gable and Catherine Gable Prowant. It is also possible that Jacob Gable is the son of one of Johannes

Gebel's brothers.

Both John Gable and Jacob Gable have records tying them back to Manheim Township, Lancaster County,

Pennsylvania. Jacob has no birth record. Two of his children have birth records which link his family to

Manheim township in 1817 and 1822. The first is from a Family Record for son William Gable's family (full

document shown later in this document.) The second is the obituary of his daughter Elizabeth Gable Klugh.

"Elizabeth Gebel" has a birth fraktur (see later in this document) which says she was born in Lancaster Parish

and is written in German.

The birth frakturs of his sons Jacob and Henry Gable (see later in this document), state they were born in East

Hempfield Township in 1825 and 1827.

According to the 1830 census "Jacob Gebel" still lived in Manheim township. In the 1840 and 1850 census he

lived in East Hempfield. No record of him in 1860 exists. In 1870 he was living at the home of his daughter

Elizabeth Gable Klugh in Mountville.


John Gable and his children Benjamin Gable, Henry Gable, Polly Gable and Catherine Gable Prowant moved to

Ohio around 1830 while Jacob Gable remained in Lancaster county.

Why Did My Parents Know Each Other Well Enough To Get Married?

Next, I'm going to mention some ways that these two branches of the Gable family kept in contact.

During the 19th century letters were written back and forth and there were visits back and forth across a

distance of about 350 miles. The Ohio Gables (descendants of John Gable) were from my father's side of the

Gable family and the Lancaster county Gables (descendants of Jacob Gable) were from my mother's side of the

Gable family. Some of these letters were saved by John Gable, son of Benjamin Gable. When my parents

were children they visited each other in 1925 and on some other occasions. In the photo on the next page my

mother is the child on the left and my father is next to her. John Gable, who saved the letters is the man with

the hat in the back.


The Gable and Kraiss families circa 1925 at Kraiss home in Mountville Back Row: Charles Dudley Gable, John Gable, Sarah Campbell Gable (wife of John)

Barbara Klugh Musser Shindle, Mabel Musser Kraiss, Hazel Gable, Florence Shindle Fisher

Ruth Kraiss, Charles Marvin Gable, Barbara Kraiss

Florence Shindle Fisher was daughter of Michael Shindle

1-John Gable wife Elizabeth

|--2-Jacob Gabel 1793-1872 wife Elizabeth Hambright

| |--3-Elizabeth "Eliza" Gable 1822-1908 husband Charles Klugh

| | |--4-Barbara Klugh 1752-1938 husbands Amos Musser, Michael Shindle

| | | |--5 Mabel Musser husband Charles Kraiss

| | | | |--6 Ruth Kraiss husband Charles Marvin Gable

| | | | |--6 Barbara Kraiss

|--2-Benjamin Gable 1806-1895 wife Anna Koppes Gable, Margaret Overholt Nash

| |--3-John Gable 1842-1930 wife Sarah Campbell

| | |--4-David Gable 1851-1934 wife Mary Rickert

| | | |--5 Charles Dudley Gable 1887-1963 wife Hazel Ruth (letter from her)

| | | | |--6 Charles Marvin Gable 1918-2004 wife Ruth Kraiss

| |--Elizabeth Gable 1839-1909


The John Gable Letter Collection

The John Gable Letter Collection was saved by John Gable, who was the son of Benjamin Gable, and lived in

Medina County, Ohio. My mother got a copy of these letters from George Gable, who is the grandson of John

Gable's son Uriah Gable. These letters were written between 1866 and 1894 and include letters from

descendants of Benjamin and Henry in Ohio and Jacob in Pennsylvania. Also, of interest is that I have tried to

identify all of the people mentioned in the letters and the only Gable descendants I've identified are descended

from Benjamin, Henry or Jacob. None are descendants of other children of John Gable's father Wilhelm Gebel.

The only other Gable mentioned was a Jesse Gable, who purchased cider in 1885 from John Gable and his

brother David. Jesse Gable doesn't appear to be related to any of Wilhelm Gebel's descendants.

On the next page is a chart

1 showing how the Gable family members that participated in the letter writing

campaign or were mentioned in them are related. In the chart my father's Ohio relatives are blue and my

mother's Lancaster County, Pennsylvania relatives are brown. The chart uses the pen symbol for the letter

writers and the envelope symbol for people mentioned in the letters.

There is more information about the people in the chart and what the letters contained on the following pages.

1 Doug Baldwin, a descendant of Jacob Gable's son William Gable and Catherine Klugh, made this chart. Doug is the son of Karen

Gable on the chart. Thanks, Doug!



Wilhelm Gebel's son John and his children Benjamin, Henry, Catherine Gable Prowant, and Polly moved to

Ohio around 1830 while Jacob and his children remained in Lancaster County. In the tables below, red

means that the person wrote letters and blue means that the person was mentioned in a letter. The numbers in

green are the letters the person was mentioned in or wrote.

1-John Gebel 1761-aft 1840, wife Elizabeth

|--2-Jacob Gabel 1793-1872, wife Elizabeth Hambright 1793-1852

|--2-Polly/Mary Gable 1796- 1874 (4)

|--2-Catherine Gable 1800-1875, husband Christian Prowant

|--2-Benjamin Gable 1806-1895, wives Anna Koppes 1808-1865, Margaret Overholt 1811-1891

|--2-Henry Gable 1812-1893 (18), wife Lydia Baer 1813-1887

| |--3-Elizabeth Gable 1837-1890 (5), husband Joseph Shaum 1837-1910 (5)

| |--2-Rebecca Gable 1849-1919 (3, 18)

The center of the letter writing campaign were Benjamin Gable's children John and Elizabeth. During this time

John was living in Ohio and Elizabeth was living in Lancaster county near Jacob's descendants.

1-John Gebel 1761-aft 1840, wife Elizabeth Benz

|--2-Benjamin Gable 1806-1895 (2, 9, 22), wives Anna Koppes 1808-1865, Margaret Overholt 1811-1891 (9, 14, 22)

| |--3-Elizabeth Gable1839-1909

| |--3-Jacob Gable 1840-1869

| |--3-John Gable 1842-1930, wife Sarah Campbell 1852-1904 (14, 15) | |--3-Samuel K Gable 1849-1924, wife Emeline W. Leatherman 1853-1911 (9, 17, 22)

| |--3-David K. Gable 1851-1934, wife Mary A. Rickert 1861-1922 (10,20, 21, 22, 23, 25)


Below is a chart of some of Jacob Gable's descendants. The people in red wrote letters and the ones in blue were

mentioned in the letters. Most of the letters were written either by or to Benjamin's son John in Medina

County, Ohio and his sister Elizabeth. The numbers in green are the letter numbers.

1-Jacob Gabel 1793-1872, wife Elizabeth Hambright 1793-1852, mar 1816

|--2-William Gabel 1817-1851, wife Catherine Klugh 1814-1904 (4, 5, 17, 18), mar 1840

| |--3-Elizabeth Gable 1841-1926 (17), husband Levi M. Stoner 1836-1919 (17), mar 1865

| |--3-Mary Catherine Gable 1844-1929 (4, 8, 16), husband Frederick Mann 1840-1903 (4, 16) , mar 1870

| |--3-John Peters Gable 1846-1935 (6), wife Mary A. Calm 1854-1923, mar 1881

| |--3-Jacob K. Gable 1849-1933, wife Miami Hess 1854-1932, mar 1875

|--2-Elizabeth "Eliza" Gable 1822-1908, husband Charles Klugh 1816-1862, mar 1844

| |--3 Jacob H. Klugh 1845-1939

| |--3-Elizabeth Klugh 1848-1904, mar 1867

| |--3-Mary Catherine Klugh 1849-1932 (4, 20), husband Jacob S. Musser 1848-1926

| |--3-Barbara Klugh 1852-1938 (4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 20, 28)

husbands Amos S. Musser 1846-1887, mar 1873; Michael G. Shindle 1837-1916 (28,31,34), mar 1892

| |--3-Henry G. Klugh 1854-1908, wife Annie B. Lutz, mar 1892

|--2-Jacob Gable 1825-

|--2-Henry Gable 1827-1906, wife Mary Klugh 1831-1891, mar 1852

| |--3-William K. Gable 1852-1929 (17), wife Sally E. Jeffers 1857-1878, mar 1878

| |--3-Anna K. Gable 1859-, John Kleinfelter

| |--3-Harry H. Gable 1864-

| |--3-Martin K. Gable 1865-1957

John's sister Elizabeth (Liz or Lizzie) lived in Lancaster County between 1868 and 1872 and worked for

Abraham Bausman and his wife Anna Brenneman in Millersville, Manor township as a domestic servant.

Abraham Bausman was related to the Gables through their Klugh spouses (see chart below). In blue are two of

Jacob Gable's children. John Gable's wife Sarah Campbell was also originally from Millersville and they were

married in Ohio in 1871. Letter writers are in red and letter numbers in green below.

1-Abraham Peters 1741-1818, wife Anna Catharine Lutz 1760-1843

|--2-Elizabeth Peters 1779-1851, husband John Bausman 1780-

| |--3-Abraham Bausman 1810-1891, wife Anna Brenneman 1820-1901 (12, 15)

| | |--4-John B. Bausman 1845-1921 (13), wife Emma Martin 1849-1908 (13)

|--2-Maria Peters 1788-1861, husband Jacob Klugh 1788-1864

| |--3-Catherine Klugh 1814-1904, husband William Gabel 1817-1851

| |--3-Charles (Carl) Klugh 1816-1862, wife Elizabeth Gable 1822-

| |--3-George Peters Klugh 1824-1891 (13), wife Sallie b. 20 Nov 1824 (13), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d.

| | 31 May 1891, Philadelphia, PA

| | +Sallie b. Feb 1832, Pennsylvania

Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable (1793-1872) and Descendants

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Elizabeth's presence in Millersville resulted in a bunch of letters back and forth between John and Liz and also

with some of the Pennsylvania Gable family relatives and John to assure him that all was well with Liz. Below

is a sampling of some of these letters.

Letter # Date From To About

4 6/3/1867 Liz Gable, Mountville

John Gable, Ohio

Went with Barb and Molly Klugh, Lidy Laymon to eat ice cream. Molly Gable and Fred Mann came home with her. Aunt Kity's going to get boarders. Mentions a couple of visits to Aunt Kity. Wants Mary Koppes to answer her letter. Aunt Lica wants all to go to Uncle Henry's and Uncle Ruben's that night. Had visitors from Stark County, Ohio where Aunt Poll was.

6 2/23/1868 Barbara Klugh, Mountville

John Gable, Medina County

Liz likes life at her new home. She has lots of work for a big family. Gives address to John P. Gable in Mountville.

12 2/6/1870 Anna Bausman, Millersville

John Gable, Ohio Anna (daughter of Abraham and Anna) is in school, Liz in love with old Joe, refers to John going home, Anna's asking about boys in Ohio

13 2/6/1870

George & Sallie Klugh, John B. Bausman, Lancaster

John Gable, Ohio Liz and Bausman family are well. The "father" Abraham Koppes is mentioned.

17 12/11/1870 Liz Gable, Mountville

John Gable, Ohio

Barb says that Mariah (Elizabeth Gable?) is married to Levi Stoner and they have a young daughter, William Gable living with Aunt Kitty (his grandmother) Wants to know why her brother Sam doesn't send his picture.

This section only includes discussion of the letters from the PA Gables and related PA people. See the

document about Benjamin Gable for more information about the letter collection.

One of the things I noticed was how frequently Aunt Kity (Catherine Klugh Gable) was mentioned in the

letters. She was called Kitty as evidenced by this newspaper article when her daughter-in-law's father Joseph

Hess committed suicide in 1878. Miami Hess was the wife of Jacob Klugh Gable (1849-1933). The "Kitty

Klug Inn" was actually the Black Bear tavern run by Catherine Gable's father Jacob Klugh until his death in

1864.


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Using DNA to Prove the Connection:

Below is a chart showing DNA matches between people descended from John Gable's OH branch (Catherine,

Benjamin and Henry) across the top and from John Gable's PA branch (Jacob) in the first column. This table

does not include myself and my sister Martha because we're descended from both Benjamin and Jacob.

You Can Help: I would like to find some higher matches. It would help if anyone descended from any of the

couples named in the chart (especially Jacob) who have taken the Ancestry DNA test would contact me. I can

tell you how to look for matches to John Gable's Ohio children. Please contact me at [email protected].

Benjamin

Gable and Anna

Koppes

Catherine Gable and

Christian Prowant

Henry Gable and

Lydia Baer

Jacob Gable and

Elizabeth

Hambright denisefurlong_1

D. M.

(Brett

Merillat)

Ron

Thomas Carolyn Coddens

Paul Diehl Mod 13.4, 1 Mod 10.6, 1 > 20

douglaswbaldwin Mod 8.2, 1

K.G.

(douglaswbaldwin) Good 15.4,

1

Good 15.6,

1

alicekalushc and

Martha Bland

Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes, David Gable and Mary Ann Rickert,

Charles Dudley Gable and Hazel Ruth

alicekalushc and

Martha Bland

Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, Elizabeth Gable and Charles Klugh,

Barbara Klugh and Amos Musser, Mabel Musser and Charles Kraiss

Paul Diehl

Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, Elizabeth Gable and Charles Klugh,

Elizabeth Klugh and Jacob Lockard Reitzel, Mary Elizabeth Reitzel and

Peter Mathias Diehl

douglaswbaldwin

(and K. G.)

Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, William Gable and Catherine Klugh,

Jacob K. Gable and Miami Hess, Irvin Hess Gable and Addie Irene

Shoemaker

denisefurlong_1 Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes, John Gable and Sarah Campbell, Uriah

Gable and Mary Zulemma Anderson

D. M. (Brett

Merillat) Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant, John Prowant and Susan Burkhart,

Catherine Prowant and Alton Adams, Stella Adams and Abel M. Anders

Ron Thomas

Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant, Mary Prowant and Jesse Rodgers,

William Rodgers and Electa Smith, Gladys Irene Rodgers and Richard F.

Coldwell, Ardonna Faye Coldwell and Milton Walter Thomas, Ron

Thomas

Carolyn Coddens Henry Gable and Lydia Baer, Elizabeth Gable and Joseph Shaum, Isaiah

Shaum and Lizzie Weaver, Paul Edward Shaum and Bernice Harter


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Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright

Elizabeth Hambrecht (Hambright) was born to Georg Hambrecht (1749-1826) and his wife Anna Maria

(Schindel) (1755-1828) on June 17, 1793 and christened on December 22, 1793 according to the following

record from Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, MI. Family records list her death as February 17, 1852. The

Hambrecht family lived in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, PA. Georg Hambrecht’s headstone is now

located at the Landis Valley Farm Museum in Lancaster, PA.

Elizabeth Hambrecht Birth Ledger Page 2 Jacob Gabel Headstone

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Georg Freidrich Schindel’s will confirms that his daughter Anna Maria Schindel was married to George

Hambright:

“… It is further my bequest that my property shall be equally divided among my children who are George

Schindel, and my daughter Anna Maria married to George Hambright, … ”

Trinity Lutheran Church was not able to find a birth record for Jacob Gable/Gebel. Mabel Musser Kraiss

(Elizabeth Gable Klugh’s granddaughter) believed that he was born January 28, 1793 and died January 16,

1872. Based on the 1850 and 1870 census, it’s more likely he was born in 1794. The 1850 census lists him

and his wife Elizabeth as 56 on 9/9/1850. The 1870 census shows him living in the household of daughter

Elizabeth Gable Klugh and lists him as 76 on 7/27/1870.

It is not known who Jacob Gable's parents were. The most likely possibility is that he is the son or nephew of

John Gable of Manheim Township and about 1830 Milton Township, Wayne County, Ohio. John Gable was

the son of Wilhelm Gebel of Manheim township. Many of John's brothers still lived in Manheim township

until at least 1810 or 1820. Another possibility is that he is related to John Gable and Elizabeth Marzall of

Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Wilhelm Gebel of Lancaster Borough or Henry Gebel and Susannah of

Manor Township. (See Wilhelm Gebel and Wives document for more information.)

2 Georg Hambrecht and Anna Maria, Elizabeth born 17 Jun, baptized 22 Dec, witnesses Adam Weber and Regina(?), page from 1793

3 Jacob Gabel headstone in Mountville Cemetery, Mountville, PA


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Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambrecht Marriage Ledger page

Dec 31, 1816

Census records

Birth years: Jacob 1793, Elizabeth 1793, William 1817, Elizabeth 1822, Jacob 1825, Henry 1827

The 1830 census shows Jacob Gebel living in Manheim township. The Family Record of his son William

states that William was born in Manheim township in Oct 1817. The obituary of his daughter Elizabeth states

that Elizabeth was born in Manheim township north of Petersburg (today East Petersburg) in Feb 1822. The

birth frakturs for his sons Jacob and Henry state they were born in East Hempfield township in July 1825 and

September 1827. Jacob's age is wrong but all of the other ages match. It is possible in the early years they

spent the summers in East Hempfield township and the winters in Manheim township. This would make sense

if they returned to live with the more established Manheim township Gebels.

1830 Census Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Name Page Males

Females

<5 5-9

10-14

15-19

20-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-69

70-79

80-89

90-99 100+

Jacob Gebel 414 2 1 1

1 1

1840 Census East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Neighbor of John, Simon and Samuel Minich

Name Page Males

Females

<5 5-9

10-14

15-19

20-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-69

70-79

80-89

90-99 100+

Jacob Gable 84

1

1


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1850 Census East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA Neighbor of John Minnich, age 50 and Barbary age 44 and Emanuel Minnich age 24 and Ann age 19

Name Age

Est Birth Year Sex Race Prof

Real Estate

Place of Birth 10 School 12 13

Jacob Gabbel 56 1794 M W

PA

Elizabeth Gabbel 56 1794 F W PA

No 1860 census found, Not found near John Minnich in East Hempfield either

Map of where the Minnich farm was in 1864: 4

4 East Hempfield Township, From Lancaster County 1864, Pennsylvania, Published by D. S. Bare & Bridgens in 1864


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1870 Census West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA, page 81 Living with daughter Eliza and daughter in law Catharine

House # / Fam # Name Age Sex Race Prof

Real Estate

Pers Estate

Place of Birth

571/607 Eliza Klugh 49 F W Keeping House

130 PA

Henry Klugh 16 F W At Home PA

Jacob Gable 76 M W

At Home

PA

572/608 Catharine Gable 54 F W Keeping Hotel 10000 1500 PA

John Gable 23 M W

Works on Farm

PA

Jacob Gable 21 M W

Works on Farm

PA


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Jacob and Elizabeth’s children

Jacob and Elisabeth had at least four children: William, Elizabeth, Jacob and Henry. Birth records exist for all

four children which list their parents as Jacob Gable and his wife Elizabeth (a daughter of Geo. Hambright).

William was born on Oct 20, 1817 in Manheim Township and died on Sep 4, 1851 in Mountville, Lancaster

County, PA. He married Catherine Klugh, daughter of Jacob Klugh (1788-1864) and Maria Peters (1788-aft

1860) on Dec 13, 1840 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA as documented in the following

family record. Catherine was born Apr 8, 1814 in Manor Township and died on Feb 7, 1904 in Mountville,

PA. This document is believed to have been created about 1845.

William Gable Family Record

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5 Weiser, Frederick S. and Heaney, Howell J "The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia". The

Pennsylvania German Society & The Free Library of Philadelphia. Breinigsville, PA 1978.


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Elizabeth Gable (Gebel) Klug (Klugh) was born on Feb 3, 1822 in Lancaster

Parish, Lancaster, PA and died June 7, 1908 in Mountville. She married

Charles Klug, son of Jacob Klug and Maria Peters on Dec 12, 1844 in

Lancaster County, PA.

Charles Klug was born Oct 13, 1816 in Manor Township, Lancaster County

and died there on March 23, 1862.

Elizabeth Gebel Birth Fraktur

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6 Birth Certificate of Elisabeth Gebel, father Jacob Gebel and mother Elisabeth (whose father is George Hambright),

3rd

day of February 1822, Sunday at 1 o’clock in the afternoon at Lancaster Parish, Lancaster County of the State of Pennsylvania.


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Eliza Klugh Death Certificate


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Elizabeth Gable Klugh obituaries:

Slightly different version7:

Mrs. Elizabeth Klugh, widow of Charles Klugh,

died yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock at the home of

her son-in-law, M.G. Schindle, at Mountville, from

acute indigestion and infirmities due to old age, she

being in her eighty-seventh year. Mrs. Klugh retired on

Saturday evening in her usual health, about 2 o'clock

yesterday morning she summoned her daughter and

expired shortly afterwards.

Deceased was the daughter of the late Jacob and

Elizabeth Gable. She was born in Manheim Township,

north of Petersburg.

For a number of years she resided east of

Mountville. Her husband died forty-six years ago and

she had resided with her daughter for the past thirty

years.

Deceased was a member of the Mountville

Reformed Church, the following children survive:

Jacob H. Klugh of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Mary Musser, of

Mountville; Mrs Barbara Shindle.

The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at

1:30 o'clock from the home of her daughter in

Mountville. Interment will be in the Mountville

Cemetery.

I assume this means that Elizabeth was born in Manheim Township. We know she lived in East Hempfield township by 1825 because her siblings Jacob and Henry were born there (see their birth frakturs below).

7 Columbia News, Columbia, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1908


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As you can see in the 1864 map8 below, "Manheim Township, north of Petersburg" doesn't really make sense

because no part of Manheim Township is north of Petersburg. Wilhelm Gebel lived slightly northwest of

Oregon P.O. in Manheim township, but we know of other sources that many of his children had moved into

Lancaster and other areas surrounding the northeast corner of Manheim township.

8 Bridgens' Atlas of Lancaster County, Penna., published 1864 by D.S. Bare


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Charles (Carl) Klug Birth Fraktur

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9 These two married ones Jacob Klug and his married wife Maria born Peter is a son to the world born in the year of our Lord Jesus

1816 on the 13th

day of October. This son is born in Manor Township in Lancaster County in the state of Pennsylvania in North

America; and was baptized and given the name Carl on the 16th

day of December in the year of our Lord from the holy father Endros.

The baptism witnesses were the parents themselves. (Christian Frederick Ludwig Endress was Trinity Lutheran Church pastor from

1815-1827).


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Charles Klug Obituary

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There is more information about the descendants of Charles Klugh and Elizabeth Gable in the Ruth Gable's

document about Klugh family genealogy document.11

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Died, On the sixth of this month, in Manor Township, Mr. Charles Klug, in his 42nd

year of his life. Your sickness that lastest one

day, he endured with a patience that signified a true believer in Christ. 11

https://msu.edu/~kalush/Genealogy/KlughFamilyBible.html

https://msu.edu/~kalush/Genealogy/Ruth_Gable_Klugh_Family_document_Not_Private.pdf

https://msu.edu/~kalush/Genealogy/Ruth_Gable_Klugh_Family_document_Not_Private.pdf


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Jacob Gable was born July 4, 1825 in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA. It is unknown when

he died or if he married. I didn’t find him in any census record, but I don’t have a matching record 1830

census record for his father either.

Jacob Gable Birth Fraktur, July 4, 1825

In 1880, Jacob Gable lived in Marietta Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and worked as a Couchman.


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Son Henry Gable was born on September 16, 1827 and married Mary Klugh in July 1852. I assume Mary

Klugh is related to the siblings Catherine Klugh and Charles Klugh who married Henry's siblings William and

Elizabeth Gable, but was unable to identify their parents. Henry was a blacksmith and lived in East Hempfield

Township at the time of the wedding.

Henry Gable Birth Fraktur

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12 Henry Gable a son of Jacob Gable and his wife Elizabeth (a daughter of George Hambright was born on the 16th of September,

A.D. 1827; Sunday evening at 9:00 in the sign of the Lion--- In East Hempfield Township, Lancaster county and the state of

Pennsylvania.

Found for sale at Muleskinner Antiques in 2014: 5548 Main Street, Williamsville, NY 14221 (716-633-4077 Ron Korman)

(http://www.muleskinnerantiques.com/rkphotopage.html)


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Descendants of Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambrecht

2-Jacob Gabel b. 28 Jan 1793 or 1794, Lititz or Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA, d. 16 Jan 1872, , Lancaster,

Pennsylvania, bur. Mountville Cemetery,

Mountville, Pennsylvania

+Elizabeth Hambright b. 17 Jun 1793, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, c. 22 Dec 1793,

Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Lancaster

Co, PA, m. 31 Dec 1816, Lancaster, PA, d. 11 Feb 1852, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, PA, bur. 13

Feb 1852, Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Lancaster,

PA

|--3-William Gabel b. 20 Oct 1817, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d. 4 Sep 1851,

Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, bur.

| Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA

| +Catherine Klugh b. 8 Apr 1814, Manor Township, Lancaster Co., PA, m. 13 Dec 1840, West Hempfield

Township, Lancaster Co., PA, d. 7 Feb 1904,

| Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA

| |--4-Elizabeth Gable b. 17 Oct 1841, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

ADD HUSBAND

| |--4-Mary C. Gable b. 8 Jun 1844, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , sp.Frederick

Mann

| |--4-John Peters Gable b. Nov 1846, Pennsylvania, d. 1935, bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA. sp. Mary A.

Calm

| |--4-Jacob K. Gable b. 1 Jan 1849, Pennsylvania, d. 14 Jan 1943, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, bur.

Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, sp. Miami B. Hess

|--3-Elizabeth Gable b. 3 Feb 1822, Lititz, Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 7 Jun 1908,

Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvnia,

| bur. 9 Jun 1908, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvnia

| +Charles (Carl) Klugh b. 13 Oct 1816, Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA, c. 16 Dec 1816, m. 12 Dec

1844, Lancaster County, PA, d. 23 Mar 1862,

| Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA, bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA

| |--4-Jacob H. Klugh b. 24 Nov 1845, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, c. 3 Sep 1846, d. 21 Mar 1939, Hastings,

Michigan

| |--4-Elizabeth Klugh b. 3 Jan 1848, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, c. 26 Mar 1848, d. 30 Dec 1904,

Columbia, Lancaster Co., PA, bur. Mountville,

| | Lancaster Co., PA, sp. Jacob Lockard Reitzel

| |--4-Mary Catherine Klugh b. 15 Oct 1849, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, c. 31 Jul 1848, d. 14 Nov 1932,

bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, sp. Jacob S. Musser

| |--4-Barbara Klugh b. 1 Apr 1852, Mountville, Lancaster County, PA, c. 6 Jun 1852, d. 18 Jul 1938,

Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, bur. Mountville

| | Cemetery, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, sp. Amos S. Musser sp. Michael G. Shindle

| |--4-Henry G. Klugh b. 1854, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, d. 10 Jan 1908, Columbia, Lancaster Co., PA,

bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, sp. Annie B. Lutz

|--3-Jacob Gable b. 4 Jul 1825, East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA, c. 193x

|--3-Henry Gable b. 1827, East Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, sp. Mary Klugh


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About the Hambright Family:

The Hambrecht family (including Hans Hambrect, Adam Ambright, Conrad Ambright, Viet Hambreght and

(not listed) children Eva Catherine, Heinrich and Frederick) arrived in Philadelphia via Rotterdam on October

27, 1738 aboard the English ship St. Andrews, Captain Steadman, master. The father, Hans Conrad

Hambrecht, died shortly after arriving in America. His oldest son Johann Adam reared his younger siblings.

The Hambright family came from Neunstetten, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Johann Adam Hambrecht

lived in Manheim Township and was a farmer and soldier. He rendered material aid by purchasing supplies

and enlisting soldiers in Lancaster County. His younger brother Colonel Frederick Hambright was famous for

the battle of Kings Mountain in NC during the Revolutionary War.

Son Johann Georg Hambright was a Lieutenant in Captain Martin Weybright's Company in the Lancaster

County Militia during the Revolutionary War and was a farmer in Manheim Township. Children: George,

Michael, Adam, Anna Maria, Rosina, Frederick, Martin, and Elizabeth.


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Hambright Land on Manheim township Warrant Map

(red circle is Hambright (11), blue circle is Gable)


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Chapter Two: William Gabel and Catherine Klugh and Descendants

1-William Gabel b. 20 Oct 1817, Manheim, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 4 Sep 1851, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

+Catherine Klugh b. 8 Apr 1814, Manor Township, Lancaster Co., PA, m. 13 Dec 1840, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster Co.,

PA, d. 7 Feb 1904, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--2-Elizabeth Gable b. 17 Oct 1841, Mountville, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d. 21 Mar 1926,

Mountville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

+Levi M. Stoner b. 13 Feb 1836, Pennsylvania m. 1865 d. 24 Jun 1919 Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--2-Mary Catherine Gable b. 8 Jun 1844, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d. 4 Mar 1929, Hampden,

Cumberland, Pennsylvania

| +Frederick Mann b. Aug 1840, Pennsylvania, d. 20 Sep 1903, Pennslyvania, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--2-John Peters Gable b. 17 Nov 1846, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 29 Aug 1935, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

| +Mary A. Calm b. 29 Jan 1854, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, m. 1881, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

d. 1 Apr 1923, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--2-Jacob K. Gable b. 10 Jan 1849, Mountville, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, d. 14 Jan 1933, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

United States, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

+Miami B. Hess b. 25 May 1854, East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, m. 1875, Pennsylvania, d. 10 Aug

1932, Lancaster County, Pennsylania, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

William Gabel was the oldest son of Jacob Gabel and Elizabeth Hambright. His wife Catherine Klugh was the

daughter of Jacob Klugh and Maria Peters. They were married in 1840. According to the 1850 census they

lived in the same house as father in law Jacob Klugh in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County,

Pennsylvania and William was a blacksmith. William died in 1851. According to the 1860 Census Catherine

Klugh Gable and her children continued to live with her father. Her profession was "domestic". Jacob Klugh

ran the Black Bear Inn on the Lancaster and Columbia turnpike one half mile east of Mountville. In 1860 Jacob

Klugh was listed as retired and his wife Mary as Hotel. Jacob Klugh died in 1864. In 1870 Catherine Gable

was living next door to her sister in law Eliza Gable Klugh, wife of her brother Charles Klugh. She was listed

as keeping hotel (see below).


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Below is an 1875 map of Mountville13

which shows the location of the Black Bear Hotel and also the residence

of Catherine Gable. She was still living in the same location in 1899 according to another map.14

Also

living nearby are Frederick Mann, husband of Catherine Gable's daughter Mary Catherine and Levi M. Stoner,

husband of Catherine Gable's daughter Elizabeth. Census records also show Jacob Klugh and his daughter in

law Elizabeth Gable Klugh, daughter of Jacob Gable and sister of Catherine Klugh Gable's husband William

living nearby. Also, nearby is the home of Anna and Elizabeth Neff, which you'll hear more about later.

13 West Hempfield, Mountville, Salunga, From Lancaster County 1875, Pennsylvania, Published by Everts & Stewart in 1875

14 Page 061 - Columbia Borough, Mountville Right,From Lancaster County 1899, Pennsylvania, Published by Graves & Steinbarger

in 1899. Both of these maps are available for free on HistoricMapWorks.com.


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1860 Census West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, pages 1 & 2

Here is a snapshot of the Gable, Klugh and Neff families from 1860. All three of these families are living close

together. Frederick Mann (line 28) later marries Mary Catherine Gable (line 33). Catherine Klugh Gable (line

31) is Charles Klugh's (37) sister. Elizabeth Gable Klugh (line 38) is the sister of Catherine Gable's deceased

husband William. See map on page x for location of A & E Neff's home near C. Gable's home.


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1870 Census in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania pages 81-82

For various descendants of Jacob Gable

Catharine Klugh Gable and Eliza(beth) Gable Klugh

1870 Census West Hempfield township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, pages 81-82


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A Sad Story

William and Catherine Gable's son Jacob K. Gable married Miami Hess, daughter of Joseph Hess. Joseph Hess

worked in the hotel business and unfortunately came to a very sad end. His descendant, Douglas Baldwin, sent

me this sad 1878 newspaper clipping. After my earlier research into the Klugh family and also of Catherine

Gable, I immediately associated "Kitty Klug Inn" with the Black Bear tavern15

. It appears very likely that

Catharine Klugh Gable probably spent some time working at the Black Bear tavern most of her life and after

her father's death people started to call it the Kitty Klug Inn.

15

This drawing is from the Mountville 200 Years 1814-2014 Anniversary Book, p. 15. The original source is the Mountville 175

Anniversary Book, page 15. In the Mountville 175 Years book it says "The earliest known business built in the mid 1700's was the

Black Bear Hotel at 325 E Main St. In its last years as a dwelling, it was torn down about 1908 and its beams used to build a new

barn. Mrs A.G. Hess painted this picture of it from her early memories of it." There is no known photo of it. Mrs. Kathryn Drumm

Hess (1885-1993) was the wife of Dr. Ammon Gross Hess, a physician in Mountville. According to 1910 - 1940 census records she

lived in Mountville.


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Reading Times, Sat May 4, 1878


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Death Of Joseph Hess

The York Daily 03 May 1878 Friday

The suicide occurred on 2 May 1878 on a farm owned by J. Neff east of Mountville. J. Neff is not

on the 1875 map, but A&E Neff is listed as residence right next to Mann and Stoner residences by

the railroad. Frederick Mann and Levi M.Stoner are the husbands of Catherine Klugh Gable's

daughters Mary Catherine and Elizabeth.

In 1880 Frederick Mann and his family lived with Elizabeth Neff, age 64 "Aunt" in West Hempfield

Township. Based on a FindAGrave entry16

I found that Elizabeth had a sister named Anna and a

brother named Joseph which I assume are A & E and J. Neff. They lived in Mountville and

Millersville.

16

https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85814761


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Jacob K. Gable and Miami Hess

Jacob K. Gable was the son of William Gable and Catherine Klugh. His wife, Miami Hess was the daughter of

Joseph Hess (1821-1878) and Caroline Brubaker (1837-). He was a farmer and spent most of his life in

Mountville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The one exception is the 1880 census which lists him in Martic

township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Descendants of Jacob K. Gable and Miami Hess17

1-Jacob K. Gable b. 10 Jan 1849, Pennsylvania, d. 14 Jan 1933, West Hempfield, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bur. Mountville,

Pennsylvania

+Miami B Hess b. 25 May 1854, E Hempfield Twp, Pennsylvania, m. 1875, d. 10 Aug 1932, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Bur.

Mountville, Pennsylvania

|--2-Jacob Hess Gable b. 19 Jan 1876, Mountville, Pennsylvania, d. 1 Nov 1922, Plymouth, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Bur.

Mountville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

| +Kathryn Fishel b. Sep 1878, Pennsylvania, m. 27 Feb 1902, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 1965, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster County,

Pennsylvania

| |--3-Mary C Gable b. Abt 1903, Pennsylvania, d. 17 Mar 1993

| +Paul M Mc Clintic b. Abt 1902, Pennsylvania

| | +Oscar Evans Phillips b. 17 May 1902, Pennsylvania, m. 27 May 1933, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, d. Feb 1971, Hazleton, Luzerne,

| | Pennsylvania, Bur. Mountville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

| |--3-Jean Gable b. Abt 1908, Pennsylvania

| |--3-Louis Gable b. Abt 1911, Pennsylvania

|--2-Irvin Hess Gable b. 23 Nov 1877, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 27 Mar 1961, Drexel Hill, Delaware, Pennsylvania,

Bur. Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

| +Addie Irene Shoemaker b. 9 Jan 1880, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, m. 21 Sep 1903, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d. 12

Jun 1970, Drexel Hill, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Bur. Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

| |--3-Helen Marie Gable b. Abt 1905, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, d. 24 Feb 1996, Bur. Drexel Hill, Delaware County,

Pennsylvania

| | +Daniel D Tompkins b. 12 May 1904, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, m. 8 Mar 1941, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware,

d. 21 Mar 1989, Bur. Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

| | +Arthur Edward Fenstermacher b. 23 Sep 1898, Easton, Pennsylvania, m. 24 Mar 1923, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, d. 26 Jun 1961,

South Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania

| | +Thomas J. Green b. 29 Feb 1880, Wilmington Delaware, m. 18 Oct 1928, Fairfax, Virginia, d. 26 Apr 1939, Harrisburg,

Dauphin, Pennsylvania

| | +Weidman

| |--3-James Shoemaker Gable b. 21 Nov 1911, Pennsylvania, d. 17 Apr 1943, San Diego, Bur. Drexel Hill, Delaware County,

Pennsylvania

| | +Dorothea Haltner b. Abt 1913, Wisconsin, m. 15 Oct 1934, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

| | +Retha Lorein Watson b. 4 Jan 1915, Henryetta OK, Oklahoma, m. 12 Apr 1937, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, d. 12 Dec

1997, Kern, Bur. Arvin, Kern County, California

| |--3-Richard S Gable b. 26 Dec 1915, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 9 Aug 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, Bur. Harrisburg, Dauphin County,

| | Pennsylvania

| +Suzanne Mermon b. 17 Oct 1914, Nesquehoning, Carbon, Pennsylvania, m. 11 Oct 1940, Nesquehoning, Carbon, Pennsylvania,

d. 4 Nov 2007, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Bur. Harrisburg, Dauphin

| County, Pennsylvania

|--2-Cora May Gable b. 1 May 1880, Marticville, Pennsylvania, d. 11 Mar 1952, Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

+John Armor Greer b. Abt 1879, Pennsylvania, m. 24 Oct 1901, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--3-Ruth C Greer b. Abt 1903, Pennsylvania

|--3-Jacob C Greer b. Abt 1905, Pennsylvania

|--3-John Armor Greer b. Abt 1911, Pennsylvania

17

Source Douglas Baldwin, Descendant of Irwin Hess Gable 1877-1961


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Irwin Hess Gable and Irene Shoemaker Gable and family circa 1900

From Douglas W. Baldwin

Dad = Irwin Hess Gable, Mother = Irene Shoemaker Gable, their children Jim, Dick and Helen.


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John Peters Gable and Mary A. Calm

Check Census

John Peters Gable was the son of William Gable and Catherine Klugh.

1-John Peters Gable b. 17 Nov 1846, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, d. 29 Aug 1935, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bur.

Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

+Mary A. Calm b. 29 Jan 1854, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, m. 1881, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

d. 1 Apr 1923, Mountville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

|--2-Willie C. Gable b. Abt 1877, , Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

|--2-Clarence Henry Gable b. 15 Jan 1882, Mountville, West Hempfield Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa, d. Feb 1979, Mountville, West

Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

+Laura Catherine Martin b. 1885, m. 13 Aug 1918, East Main Street, Mountville, PA, d. 1983

John P. Gable on 1875 Mountville Map18

John P. Gable would start a saddle shop at 33 East Main Street in 1880, partnering with Henry S. Immel in his

tobacco warehouse business in 1904.19

18 West Hempfield, Mountville, Salunga, From Lancaster County 1875, Pennsylvania, Published by Everts & Stewart in 1875

19 From Mountville 200 Years 1814-2014 booklet, page 25.


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Mary Catharine Gable and Frederick Mann


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Elizabeth Gable and Levi M. Stoner


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Chapter Three: Jacob Klugh and Elizabeth Gable


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Henry Gable and Mary (Klugh?)

William K. Gable (son of Jacob Gable's son, Henry Gable and Mary Klugh) is described below.

WILLIAM K. GABLE.20 For twenty-four years Mr. Gable has been in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Company, having risen from the position of brakeman to the more responsible post of engineer. In the discharge

of these duties he has exhibited the keen intelligence, quick perception and rugged honesty which have

characterized him through life. He was born in the township of West Hempfield, Dec. 15, 1852. His father,

whose Christian name is Henry, was born in 1827. He is by trade a blacksmith, but ceased active toil many

years ago, and is passing life's evening in well earned repose. The name of Mr. Gable's mother before marriage

was Marl Cluke (assume this is Mary Klugh). She was born in 1831, and passed away Oct. 4, 1891. Both she

and her husband were earnest members of the Reformed Church. They came to Columbia to reside in 1877, and

were the parents of four children : William K., Harry H., Anna and Martin. Harry H. is a Pennsylvania

Company's flagman and lives in Reading. Anna is the wife of John Kleinfelter, of Cumberland county. Martin is

also a railroad man, his home being in Reading.

William K. Gable remained at home until he had passed his thirteenth year, when, a mere boy in point of age,

yet full of pluck and grit, he found his way to Chicago, 111. For a year he attended school there, and for three

years worked in a box factory. In 1870 he returned to Lancaster county, finding employment as an apprentice in

a blacksmith shop in Mountville, where he remained for three months. From Mountville, he went to Lancaster,

where he passed six months. The next eighteen months he spent in Mt. Joy. Having learned the trade he readily

found employment in Harrisburg as a journeyman during the three and a half years following. He subsequently

found work at his trade at Pittsburg and at other points, but his natural impulse was toward the exciting, perilous

(and sometimes underpaid) life of a railroad man. His yearning was gratified in 1876, when he entered the

Pennsylvania Company's service as a brakeman. Six months later he was made a fireman ; and after riding in

the cab for five years and eleven months in that capacity, he was promoted to the position of engineer. He is a

member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and in politics is a Republican. Both himself and family

attend the Lutheran Church.

He married, June 18, 1878, Sally E. Jeffers, who was born at Lancaster, April 3, 1857. Her father, John, was a

Union soldier, who sacrificed an arm in his country's service. He died in 1864, in his forty-first year. Mrs.

Gable's mother's name before marriage was Catherine Lingars. Mrs. Jeffers survived her husband for five years,

and died in 1869, aged forty-two years. Mrs. Gable was their only child. Her mother, however, married again,

her second husband being Benjamin Roodman. The issue of the second marriage was one daughter, Anna, who

married William Noxtoof, of Lancaster.

Twelve children have been born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Gable: Albert, Harry, Florence, William,

Mattie and Stella (twins), John, Irene, Greda, Edna and Alex (twins), and Howard. Five survive and live at

home with their parents: Albert, Harry, Florence, Stella and Howard.

John Peters Gable (son of Jacob Gable's son William Gable and Catherine Klugh)

John P. Gable would start a saddle shop at 33 East Main Street in 1880, partnering with Henry S. Immel in his

tobacco warehouse business in 1904.21

20

From Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, PA, John F. Meginness, 1903. 21

From Mountville 200 Years 1814-2014, page 25.