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DANIEL RAUDABAUGH. South Middleton township, Cumberland county, can boast of a number of substantial men whose families have been prominent in the history of the county and State, and among them may appropriately be placed Daniel Raudabaugh, of that township.

The father of Daniel Raudabaugh was Samuel Raudabaugh, who was born in 1813 in Frankford township, Cumberland county, received a common school education, and was engaged in farming in the township of his birth until his death in 1884. His brothers and sisters were as follows: John married and died in the West; Henry married and died in Ohio; Rebecca married and died in Franklin county, Pa.; Nancy married and died in Frankford township, Cumberland Co., Pa.; Barbara married and died in Frankford township, Cumberland Co., Pa. Samuel Raudabaugh married Mollie Hohn, and their children were: John, deceased; Harry, who married Catherine Berry, daughter of Samuel Berry; Eliza, deceased; Samuel, who married Ellen Oiler, daughter of Daniel Oiler; Barbara, who died in 1903; Daniel; Lydia, who married Simon Heiser; Andrew, who married Eliza J. Kennedy; Mary A., who married Benjamin Weitzel; Catherine, wife of Isaac Boldiser; Caroline, who married Abraham Thumma; William, who married Mary Walters, daughter of Jacob Walters; Nancy, Mrs. David Oilman; Sarah, deceased wife of David Souders; Jacob, of Frankford township; and Lizzie, who married John Cayman.

Daniel Raudabaugh was born Jan. 8, 1846, in Frankford township, Cumberland Co., Pa., and attended the public schools of that township, thus continuing until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he left to work upon the farm. In 1868 he married Mary Yarlets, daughter of Jonas Yarlets, and for ten years farmed in Frankford township, at the expiration of that time going to Virginia, where he remained seven years, successfully engaged in farming. However, his heart longed for his native county, and he returned to Frankford township, living there until 1891, when he removed to South Middleton township. In 1899 he purchased a farm of 136 acres about a mile southwest of Carlisle, where he is now living, being a prosperous, ambitious farmer. Public-spirited, and a man highly esteemed by all who know him. He is a Republican politically, and though not an office seeker has served as supervisor.

Mr. and Mrs. Raudabaugh had children as follows: Elcetta is at home; Samuel married Agnes White, daughter of John and Jane White, and lives in South Middleton township; Jonas married Mary Bear, daughter of John and Mary Bear, of Frankford township; Mary A. married Levi Shover, and lives in South Middleton township; John married Fannie Deitch, daughter of John Deitch, of South Middleton township; Daniel married Lillie White, daughter of John White, and lives in West Pennsboro township; Charles married Ella Witters, daughter of Jacob Witters, and lives in South Middleton township; Fannie married John Burr, and lives at Harrisburg; Joseph married Fannie Burr, daughter of Fred Burr, and lives in Iowa; George married Bertha Shetron, daughter of Peter and Martha Shetron, and lives on his father’s place; Frank married Ada Shugarts, daughter of William Shugarts; Clarence, is deceased; Mohala is at home. The mother passed away Dec. 6, 1895, aged fifty-one years. She was a member of the United Brethren Church at Springville, where she is interred. On March 22, 1904, Mr. Raudabaugh formed a second union with Anna McCachran, widow of John McCachran.