Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Stayer, Joseph
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JOSEPH STAYER, a School Director of Bedford Township, 
Bedford County, Pa., where he is an extensive land-owner and 
a prosperous and enterprising agriculturist, was born in 
Bedford, August 22, 1848.  He is a son of the late Aaron 
Stayer.  His grandfather, John Stayer, who was born at 
Harper's Ferry, Va., and lived there until near the prime of 
his life, then came with other pioneers to Bedford County, 
and located with his family in the town of Bedford.  He was 
of German extraction.
  Aaron Stayer was a lad of about fourteen years when he 
came with his parents from Harper's Ferry to Bedford.  He 
grew to manhood in his new home, and, having taken up 
farming as an occupation, he here spent the remainder of his 
life, dying at an advanced age.  He was a man of high moral 
principles and a faithful member of the Dunkard church.  He 
married Mary Diffenbaugh, and had a large family of 
children, of whom the following-named are still living: 
John, of Monroe township, Pa.; Charles, of East Tennessee; 
Joseph, the direct subject of this biography; Adam, of Black 
Valley, Pa.; Aaron D., of Monroe township, Pa.; Eleanor, 
wife of Israel Morris, of Bedford County, Pennsylvania; 
Sarah, wife of Wilson Davis, also of Monroe, Pa.; Mary, wife 
of Samuel Sparks, of Black Valley, Pa.; and Rebecca, wife of 
George Robinson, of Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
  Joseph Stayer obtained his education in the public schools 
of Bedford township, and before reaching man's estate 
acquired the practical knowledge of agriculture that has 
since gained his success in his free and independent 
occupation of farming.  He has two hundred and seventy-six 
acres of land, a large part of which is devoted to tillage.  
For a number of years Mr. Stayer has also engaged in 
threshing and saw-milling.  Taking a keen interest in the 
education of the young, he is now one of the township Board 
of School Directors.  Fraternally, he belongs to the 
Oklahoma Tribe, No. 329, I.O.R.M., of Imlertown, and to the 
Brush Run Grange, P. of H.  Religiously, he is a Lutheran 
and an active member of the church of that denomination.
  Mr. Stayer married Susan Beegle, daughter of the late 
Samuel Beegle, of Bedford township.  They have six children; 
namely, William H., Edward R., Calvin J., Mary E., Carrie 
J., and Rosella.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa