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Mr. Sargeant maternal grandfathers was Col. Antoine François Joseph Vera, of French parents, who was born in Brussels, the capital of Belgium on Dec. 9, 1795 He served in the army, a required by the laws of the country, and when nineteen year of age participated in the battle of Waterloo and witnessed Napoleon's sun set forever. In 1816 Colonel Vera sailed for New York, finally located in Beaver county, Pa, and was married, on July 14, 1822, to Eliza Couch, of Allegheny county, Pa., daughter of Joseph and Catherine Connor Couch. Their first home was at Beavertown, where he served one term as county commissioner and in 1837 he had the brick made on the ground and erected a dwelling-house and brewery at Bridgewater. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Bridgewater until their deaths, he dying on June 4, 1858, at the age of fifty-six year and she on Jan. 10, 1867, at the age of seventy-one years.

 

Source : (collective work) : Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania : personal and genealogical, with portraits.; Madison, Wis.: Northwestern Historical Association, 1904, 1090 pgs.