BIOS: William Harrison ZUFALL, Harnedsville, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 415/6

William Harrison ZUFALL.

William Harrison Zufall, of Harnedsville, was born October 29, 1858, in the town 
of Somerset, son of Isaac Zufall and grandson of John Zufall, of Somerset 
county, where the family has been resident for at least three generations.
Isaac Zufall, son of John Zufall, was born February 11, 1832, in Somerset 
county, and during the Civil war served in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, First Division, Third Brigade, Second Army 
Regiment, under Captains Mead and Weaver.  He participated in many battles and 
was killed May 10, 1864, in the Seven-Days fight at the battle of the 
Wilderness.  Isaac Zufall married, December 1, 1857, Regina, daughter of Daniel 
and Sarah (Herch) Martz, of Southampton township, and their children were: 1. 
William Harrison, of whom later.  2. Catharine Anna, born September 17, 1860, 
died March 17, 1902; married (first) I. N. Kemp, from whom she was divorced in 
1898; (second) George B. Kingsland, of Allegheny City; children by first 
marriage, Sadie and Grace.  3. George Monroe, born November 10, 1862, of 
Colorado City, Colorado, married Emma E. Wilson, of Grand Valley, Colorado.  4. 
Isaac Francis, born March 10, 1864, died May 20, 1893; married Corda Rhoads, of 
Rockwood, Somerset county, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Zufall, the mother of these 
children, married, February 19, 1867, Jonathan Jackson Daniels, and two children 
were born to them: Harry Ellsworth, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this 
work; and Arthur Jonathan, born July 27, 1872, married Anna Smith, of Butler, 
Pennsylvania.
William Harrison Zufall, son of Isaac and Regina (Martz) Zufall, was educated in 
the public schools of Somerset county, and learned the plasterer's trade, which 
he followed for twenty years.  For the last ten years he has been engaged in 
painting and papering.  He is now serving a term of five years as justice of the 
peace of Lower Turkeyfoot township.  In politics he has always been a staunch 
Republican.  He is a member of the United Evangelical church.
Mr. Zufall married, March 19, 1900, Daisy Deborah, daughter of John and Sarah 
(Meyers) Shoemaker, of Hyndman, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and they had three 
children: Ina May, born May 15, 1901; Dolly Blanche, born July 21, 1902, died 
September 9, 1902; and Topona Aileena, born June 22, 1903.