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Heirlooms

• Prehistoric Native American stone artifacts found on the Abbott farm
• Katharina Heim/Heimm's trunk when she immigrated from Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Christian and Katharina Heim Abbott's candlestick
• Family bibles, Edward Abbott's Bible right inside cover page
• Jacob family side chair
• Jacob family table
• Edward Abbott's Civil War musket
• Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's chair with Rose Abbott's needlepoint and matching settee
• Abbott family cradle, in which all of Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's children were born
• Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's dresser
• Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's 50th anniversary urns
• Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's oil lamp
• Edward and Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's mantle clock
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's jewelry
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's butter stamp
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's sugar bowl
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's milk pitcher
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's bird statues
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's bisque figurines
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's 50th anniversary matched vases
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's monkey carving
• Janice Donley's dining room mantle, showing several Abbott and Donley heirlooms
• Elizabeth Jacob Abbott's scale balance
• Maggie Jacob's iron
• Abbott Ice and Packing Plant ice pick
• Abbott Ice and Packing Plant grapple used to hang meat
• Abbott Ice and Packing Plant meat hook
• Abbott Ice and Packing Plant bullwhip
• Abbott Ice and Packing Company lard bucket
• Rose Abbott LaValle Donley's ironing board and scrub board
• Clarence Abbott's chair
• Ruth Geyser Abbott's embroidery

Documents

• Marriage, birth, and death records
1. Christian Abbott's funeral memorial card, Magdelena Schmeltz's funeral memorial card, Rose Abbott's and John LaValle's marriage documents, Rose Abbott LaValle's and Tom Donley's marriage documents, Abbott baptism records from St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, August Abbott, Jr., baptism record, Henry Abbott baptism record, Catarina Schmeltz baptism record, Christian Abbott confirmation record, Christian Abbott and Magdalena Schmeltz marriage record, Howard and Ella Boggs Abbott marriage records, Howard Abbott funeral memorial card
• Wills
• Land records
1. Abbott Land Transaction History, Colonial Heights Plan, Mount Lebanon
• War records
1. Henry Abbott's Declaration for Invalid Pension, Henry Abbott's General Affidavit - Declaration for Invalid Pension, George Abbott's Call to Colors from Mt. Lebanon Church, George Abbott's Memorial from Mt. Lebanon Church
• Citizenship
1. Charles/Carl August Abbott's Declaration of Intent, John Jacob's Declaration of Intent, John Jacob's Certificate of Citizenship
• Signatures
1. Augustus/August Abicht/Abbott, Charles/Carl August Abicht/Abbott (from his will), Charles/Carl August Abicht/Abbott (from his declaration of intent for citizenship), Christian Abbott, August Abbott, Jr, Henry Abbott, Edward Abbott, Edward Abbott Executors (Christopher, Howard, Clarence), John George Jacob, Maggie (Margaret) Jacob
• Census
1. Abbotts on the 1860 U.S. Census for Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny County, PA, Reel M653, Roll 1061. Page 261 (Augustus and Roseanna), Page 223 (Christ and Charles), Page 220 (August, Jr. and Caroline). Courtesy of Terry Cook.
• Obituaries (more coming soon)
1. Charles/Carl August Abbott, Magdalena Hedrick Abbott (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie Mansfield-Item), Karl H. Abbott, Magdalena Schmeltz Abbott (Mansfield-Item, Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette), Christian Abbott (Mansfield-Item, Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette), August Abbott, Edward Adolph Abbott, Sr., Elizabeth Jacob Abbott (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Unknown newspaper), Clara Berger Abbott (wife of William Abbott), Edward Adolph Abbott, Jr., Harold Edward Donley
2. Abbott obituaries not yet connected to the family: Clyde Francis, Jennie, Frank S., Charles H.
• Other
1. August Abbott Meat Market, Abbott Packing Plant, Carnegie City Directory, Rose Abbott LaValle Donley's widow's train pass, Rose Abbott LaValle Donley's bank passbook, Howard Abbott sunday school booklets, Family Roots: The Abbott Journey, by Margaret A. Jackson, Mt. Lebanon Magazine, vol. 24, no. 6, July/August 2004, pp. 30-36, used with permission, Maggie Jacob's childhood autograph book.

Cemetary grave markers

• Cemetery Tour of all headstone markers
• Augustus and Rosa Ott Abicht Headstone Markers
• Carl (Charles) and Magdalena Hetrick Abicht/Abbott Family Cemetery Plot
• Carl (Charles) and Magdalena Hetrick Abicht/Abbott Headstone Markers
• Charles Abbott Headstone Markers
• Henry Abbott Headstone Markers

Family recipes

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Austin C. Wooster paintings

• Abbott family farm
• Biography of Austin C. Wooster
• Wooster gallery

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Janice G. Donley

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