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EBENSBURG ALLEGHANIAN EBENSBURG, PA 1861   21 Feb 1861 Submitted by Cathy Baker DIED At his residence in Clearfield Township, on Saturday, the 9th last, Joseph Trexler, Esq., at the advanced age of 94 years. Esquire Trexler emigrated to this county about the year 1802, had settled on one of the wild cliffs of the Alleghany Mountains. By incessant toil and labor, he made the "wilderness blossom". Where he since opened a small clearing, with no neighbors but the screaming panther and the howling wolf, he dwelt, leading a pure and blameless life, and died surrounded by his immediate descendants, and one of as prosperous and a happy a neighborhood, as can be found in the Commonwealth. He has gone to his eternal reward. May our end be like his.