David Setzer

DAVID SETZER Born 12 April 1828, Paradise Township, Pa. He was the son of John & Susan Gerhart Setzer. The family lived in Hamilton, Township. David married Susan Gerhart in about 1858. Sarah (1829-1902) from Lackawanna Co., Pa was the daughter of Samuel & Margaret Laphey Gerhart. They settled in Paradise, where he was a farmer and were active members of Keokee Church. David enlisted 16 Feb 1864 in the Army Calvary.
 He was a private in company I 11^th pa regiment. He was discharged 13 Aug 1865. I found information that Sarah was also a nurse during the war, but I don’t know if she followed her husband and was with Co. I. or she volunteers with another regiment. They had children; Mary, Ida, John, Hester, Lydia, Ezra, Federic, Minnie, Christina, Flora & Bertha. 8 of their children reached adulthood and lived and worked in Paradise. In later years they lived with their daughter Mary who was married to John Heller. In 2004, while working on my book Silent Towns Cemeteries of Barrett, Paradise Price Township, Pa. I had taken a photo of Frederick & Ezra Coffman. The stone badly deteriorated, I could make out only first names. An old cemetery list had their surname as Coffman, which made sense because their stone was leaning against a Coffman stone. The same day I had randomly taken a photo of David and Sarah Setzer stone and when I started to research them I was surprised that Ezra b. June 1870 & Frederick were children of David & Sarah. David died 17 Aug 1904 and he and Sarah and most of their family are buried at Keokee Church Cemetery in Paradise Valley Pa.