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Johann Nicklaus Fast
(1727-1818)
Cadarina Margaretha Dörner
(1724-1795)
Joseph Yeager
(1739-1838)
Catherine Elizabeth Becker
(1743-After 1768)
Francis Fast
(Cal 1760-1831)
Elizabeth Yeager
(1768-1826)
Joseph John Fast
(1787-1835)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Sophia Guzeman

Joseph John Fast 2

  • Born: 23 October 1787, Masontown, PA 2
  • Marriage (1): Sophia Guzeman about 1813 in Probably Masontown, PA 1
  • Died: 27 December 1835, Savannah, OH at age 48 2
  • Buried: After 27 December 1835, Ashland, OH

bullet   Another name for Joseph was John Joseph Fast.1 3

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bullet  Birth Notes:

Birth date is calculated from the age at death of 48y, 2m, 4d.
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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• He has alternate birth date of 13 November 1787 and a birth location of Pennsylvania.

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• He was buried after 27 December 1835 in the Saint Luke's Cemetery in Ashland, OH.

John's gravestone in Saint Luke's Cemetery is an old and badly weathered gothic style tablet of white sandstone or perhaps slate. The inscription reads "Sacred to the memory of Joseph Fast who departed this life Dec. 27, AD 1835, Aged 48y 2m & 4d".

Find A Grave Memorial #22573279
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Joseph married Sophia Guzeman about 1813 in Probably Masontown, PA.1 (Sophia Guzeman was born on 31 October 1793 in Pennsylvania,4 died on 31 December 1842 in Savannah, OH 1 3 4 and was buried after 31 December 1842 in Ashland, OH 3 4.)


bullet  Marriage Notes:

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #1334]
John Joseph Fast (and family) moved to Pennsylvania in 1816 and settled on a farm of 320 acres six miles north of Ashland County, Ohio. John Joseph Fast, and wife Sophia, had 13 children - 7 boys and 6 girls. All children reached maturity.
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Sources


1 George F. Sowers, World Family Tree Vol. 003, Ed. 1, Tree #5643 (Brøderbund Software, Inc., Release date: February 9, 1996).

2 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 3 Apr 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22573279.

3 Becky Teubner (Becky Teubner has posted many messages relating to her visits to various cemeteries around Ohio and the Fast family gravestones that are located there. Most of these messages are archived at Genealogy.com's message database at http://genforum.genealogy.com/fast/messages/.), http://genforum.genealogy.com/fast/messages/311.html.

4 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 3 Apr 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22573282.


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