Samuel Aughey & Elizabeth Kepner

Samuel Aughey, son of Henry Ache and Mary Magdalene Felty, was born on 30 Jul 1804 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 10 Jul 1899 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA.

Elizabeth Kepner daughter of John Jacob Kepner and Sarah Elizabeth Dupes was born on 22 Oct 1808 in Turbett, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 01 Mar 1900 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA.

 

Samuel Aughey and Elizabeth Kepner were married on 30 Jan 1827. They had the following children:

• Jacob Aughey was born about 1828. He died about 1831.

• Samuel Aughey was born on 08 Feb 1831 in Mifflin, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Elizabeth Catherine Welty on 14 Oct 1858 in Hannastown, Westmoreland Co, PA. He died on 03 Feb 1912 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA.

• Elizabeth Aughey was born on 08 Feb 1831. She married Henry Groninger Suloff on 14 Jan 1851. She died on 22 Aug 1902.

• Sarah Dupes Aughey was born on 08 Apr 1835 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. She married William M. Brown in 1851. She died on 16 Oct 1924 in Dakota City, Dakota, Nebraska, USA.

• John Henry Aughey was born about 1836. He died at 6 weeks old.

• Hannah Catherine Aughey was born on 19 Dec 1838 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. She married Samuel D. Dearing. She died on 21 Nov 1914 in Dakota, Nebraska, USA.

• Mary Jane Aughey was born on 15 Jul 1841 in Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. She married Jacob Albert Heikes on 17 Feb 1858. She died on 10 Jul 1925 in Wakefield, Dixon, Nebraska, USA.

• Delilah Aughey was born about 1843. She died about 1861.

• Lyman Aughey was born on 27 Oct 1846 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Clara Logan about 1872. He married Mary Ann Benton Cramer on 20 Jan 1880 in Mifflintown, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 03 Jul 1923 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Harriet Aughey was born on 01 Jan 1849. She married John Thomas Shover. She died on 09 Mar 1936.

• Isabella Aughey was born on 15 Jul 1851 in Licking Creek, Juniata, Pennsylvania. She married Henry Arbogast. She died on 22 Jun 1936 in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, USA.

From Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of The Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania,  1897, page 831:

Samuel Aughey was born in Milford township, Juniata county, in 1804. He received a fair education, and was all his life a farmer, owning and cultivating a farm of 240 acres. In 1842, he erected on his property a large stone barn, and in 1847, acommodious dwelling house. He was married in Turbett township, in 1827, to Miss Elizabeth Kepner, born in that township in 1808, daughter of Jacob Kepner, and sister of Samuel and Benjamin Kepner, of Juniata county. They had twelve children: Rev. S. A. and Lizzie, twins, the former a minister of the Lutheran church and a professor of a prominent educational institution in Alabama, and the latter the wife of Henry Suloff, of Fermanagh township, Juniata county; Sarah D. (Mrs. William Brown), of Nebraska; Hannah C. (Mrs. Samuel Dearing), of Nebraska; Mary J. (Mrs. Jacob Heikes) of Wakefield, Neb; Lyman, of Milford township, Juniata county; Harriet (Mrs. John Shover), of the same township; Isabella (Mrs. Henry Arbogast) of Altoona, Pa; and Jacob, Henry, and Delilah, all deceased. Samuel Aughey was a Democrat. He held various township offices, including school director and township treasurer. He was a prominent and active member of the Lutheran church, being an elder and one of the founders of the congregation in the Licking Creek valley. He gave the land on which the brick building of St. Stephen’s Lutheran church was erected. He died in June, 1889, highly respected by all who knew him. His widow, exceedingly active for her years, still survives, at the age of eighty-nine.