Lancaster County Family Ties

  Uncle W. Scott APPLEBACH in the newspapers The below articles are ones that I have found for WS Applebach in the first quarter of the 1900's.  Within the family, he was remembered by his peers as having a short fuse, possibly a drinker but a sometimes bouncer in Lancaster bars during the 1940s-1960s, a wife beater, childless, and prone to look for trouble to get into.  In case you need a reminder, Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor, were contemporaries that were both heroes during the war we had with Mexico in the 1840's over Texas. They were known as "Fuss and Feathers". It is ironic that these twins were named that forty years later by a couple that rarely, if ever, left southeastern Penn - especially Lancaster County, PA. In 1906, Scott married Mabel Overly. He would have been 19 or 20. Scott and Mabel married in July and had a daughter on Dec. 29, 1906. Her name was Catherine. I have not done enough research yet to find out if she died, or just disappeared from s