Re: George Rumbaugh and Ann Hofer
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Re: George Rumbaugh and Ann Hofer
Jackie Fisher 3/18/01
George Rumbaugh's parents were David and Eva? Rumbaugh. From Germany ?, to Elizabethtown, Mt. Joy Township, Lancaster Co., PA.
from "Historical Sketch 1753-1888 of the Rumbaugh Family- written in 1888 byJohn Alonzo Clark Rumbaugh (b. Dec. 6, 1838)
On May 17, 1828, George Rumbaugh died and was buried in the romantic Millerstown cemetery, aged 75 years. His wife and life long help mate and companion, survived him but three months, when she died, 1828 also, aged 73 years; and she lies by his side in the same cemetery. George was a powerfully built, bowlegged man and there are evidences that he was the country school teacher as well as a farmer. He is said to have been brought, an infant in arms by his parents from German, who were, perhaps among the earliest settlers of these parts along the beautiful Juniata. The English and the Scotch settlers remained along the river banks and the sturdy Germans pushed out into the wilderness among the Indians to clear land for farms. In those days, the Indians, urged on by the French at Pittsburgh to annoy the English settlers, would frequently stampede the whole country to the more Eastern settlements. A hickory tree is still standing and vigorous in the church yard out in Wild Cat Valley where in Indians were wont to cremate their unhappy victims. The German settlers were mostly Lutherans,and very devout and industrious, and the whole country hereabout displays the early energy and hard work of these hardy people. No doubt these frontiersmen took a lively interest in the Revolutionary War., and spilled some of their blood that the cournty might be freed from the English Yoke.