Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Henry Rumbaugh and Mary Palmer




Husband Henry Rumbaugh 1

           Born: Abt 1781 - Lancaster Co, PA
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           Died: 1865 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: [Unk] Rumbaugh (      -      )
         Mother: 


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Charlotte Smith (      -1844) 1



Wife Mary Palmer 1

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Mosier (      -      ) 2


Children
1 M Adam Rumbaugh 2

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Rumbaugh


He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was brought by his parents to Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, where he resided until his death. By occupation he was a farmer, owning six hundred acres of land; he also owned and operated a distillery and a grist-mill. He served a number of years as Overseer of the Poor for Westmoreland County. A devout Christian and earnest member of the Lutheran church.

He was a farmer by occupation, a whig and afterwards a republican, and was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He owned a farm of two hundred acres of land, ran a grist-mill and died in Mt. Pleasant township, of which he had been a resident for many years.

He had three sons and three daughters with his first wife; one son with the second.

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Sources


1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 505.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 506.


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