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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



also active and energetic in his farming 

 operations, and as the years have passed he 

 has acquired considerable valuable falrm 

 property in Georgia and Tennessee and 

 owns a number of farm mortgages. He has 

 good, business discernment, has made 

 creditable and judicious investment, and in 

 guiding his business affairs has shown capa- 

 bility and sound sense. During the period 

 of the civil war Mr. Dager married Miss 

 Margaret Springer, who was born at Look- 

 cut Mountain, and was a daughter of Joel 

 and Sarah (Lewis) Springer, the former 

 a native of Pennsylvania. He went to the 

 south, however, where he obtained a large 

 plantation and became an extensive slave 

 owner. Prior to the war of the reliellion 

 he was one of the leading planters of his 

 section of the country, and he remained and 

 died upon the old homestead in Georgia. 

 He was an earnest, Christian man. He was 

 connected with the Whitesides family, who 

 owned Lookout Mountain and were promi- 

 nent people of his portion of the State. 

 To Mr. and Mrs. Dager have been born 

 five children: Henry, a farmer; Maggie, 

 the wife of George Miller, who is engaged 

 in the butchering business ; Charles, who is 

 engaged in the raising of vegetables which 

 he sells in the Philadelphia market; Al- 

 bert and Anna, both at home. Mrs. Danger 

 is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. 

 Dager votes with the Democracy and exer- 

 cises considerable influence in the party 

 councils. He served as a school director 

 at Baron Hill for three years, was justice 

 of the peace for three years and has also 

 been supervisor of his township. He has 

 never been a politician, however, in the 

 sense of office seeking, his official positions 

 being bestowed upon him by his fellow 

 townsmen, who recognized his worth and 

 ability. He is a member of the Lutheran 

 church at Baron Hill, and has led an up- 

 right, honorable life. He has reared three 

 sons who have never used intoxicants. 

 His entire career has been characterized 

 by fidelity to duty and straightforward deal- 

 ing with his followmen, and during his long 

 residence in this part of Pennsylvania has 

 become widely and favorably known. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. Robert 

 Roberts, the progenitor of that branch of 

 the Roberts family resident in Southamp- 

 ton. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whose 

 birth is supposed to have occurred in Mont- 

 gomery county, near Willow Grove, about 

 the year 1797, died in 1876. His wife, 

 whose maiden name was Hannah Tyson, 

 bore him the following children ; Tacy. 

 Mary, who became the wife of Ed. C. Wal- 

 ton and two children were born to them : 

 John and Seth. Jonathan, who married 

 (first) Martha Walton, of Monts-nmery 

 countv, who bore him two children : Edwin 

 and Hannah; married (second) Marv N. 

 Lawrence, who was born in Philadolpliia. 

 Pennsylvania, June 20. 1832, daughter of 



George and Mary (Boss) Lawrence, ancf 

 granddaughter of William and Mary 

 (Weaver) Lawrence. George Lawrence 

 was born April 25, 1798, and his wife Mary 

 was born April 25, 1798, which was a most 

 unusual incident. Jonathan and Mary N. 

 Lawrence were the parents of one child., 

 Jonathan Lawrence, born April 27, 1871^ 

 died April 26, 1879. Edwin, born April 9, 

 1851, in Montgomery county; in 1863 he 

 accompanied his parents to Davisville^ 

 Southampton township, Bucks county^ 

 where his education was continued in the 

 common schools. He began his career as a 

 farmer, which vocation he followed for 

 several years, or until his marriage with 

 Annie E. Search. He then moved to the 

 city of Philadelphia, where he engaged irfc 

 the produce commission business, but after 

 a residence of eleven years there returned 

 to Bucks county, locating at Southampton, 

 where his death occurred in the spring of 

 1898. Two children were born to Mr. 

 and Mrs. Roberts, namely : Harry, born 

 jNlarch 14, 1877, died December 23, 1885; 

 and Harold S., born January 22, 1889. 



Annie E. (Search) Roberts, widow of 

 Edwin Roberts, traces her ancestry to one 

 of three brothers — Charles, William and 

 Lot Search — who came to this country dur- 

 ing the eighteenth century and settled re- 

 spectively in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 

 New York. Christopher Search, probably 

 a son of Charles Search, a descendant of 

 one of the three brothers aforementioned, 

 was married twice. His first wife bore 

 him six children, as follows : Samuel, who 

 married Catherine Puff; William, Sarah, 

 John, Charles, and James. His second wife,, 

 whose maiden name was Ann Miles, bore 

 him eight children, namely : Miles, who died 

 in infancy ; George, who married Martha 

 Owens and their family consisted of lWO 

 children; Elizabeth and Celina ; Jacob, men- 

 tioned hereinafter ; Margaret, who became 

 the wife of Elias Lefferts and they reared 

 a family of eleven children : Ellen, Anna, 

 George, Rachel, Neismuth, Samuel, Sarah,. 

 Lizetta, Jacob, Laura and Mary; Christo- 

 pher, who married Margaret Fetter and they 

 reared a family of seven children : Cornelia,. 

 George, NewLon, Casper, Margaret. Kattie^ 

 and Weedie ; Anthony, who married Eliza • 

 — , and he with two of his sons- 

 served in the Civil war, the latter being- 

 killed; Ann, who became the wife of Casper 

 Fetter and mother of five children : George, 

 Christopher, Anna. Anthony, and one who- 

 died in infancy; Griffith, who married 

 Louisa Fetter and their family consisted of 

 the following named children ; Amy, Ida,. 

 Cora, Louisa, Mary and Alice. 



Jacob M. Search, son of Christopher and' 

 Ann (Miles) Search, was born at South- 

 ampton, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. De- 

 cember 7, 1810, on the old homestead farm 

 now occupied by John Finney. His active- 

 career was devoted to farming pursuits. 

 Although always intensely interested iit 

 politics he never held any public office other 

 than that of school director. He purchased 



