Person:Abraham Rausch (1)

There seems to be a significant number of people with the RAUSCH surname, related to the Urbana pioneers, who also lived in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and who migrated from Baumholder. Could Abraham have been related to them? Baumholder is not a very large place! PETER RAUSCH born 1829, and married to Christina Keafaber, was also buried at URBANA. Could they have been brothers? Anybody know? Could Charles RAUSCH born circa 1826 have been another brother? He was a Palatine, and buried in the Stone Creek Cemetery, so it looks like there could be a connection.

"White Creek's" connection to the Abraham Rausch "tree", is through daughter Mary E. Rausch, who married "Christopher" Hettmansperger. Their daughter Anna Mary, married Charles Keaffaber, whose mother was a GEIBEL. Geibels in this line are from Waldgrehweiler, the central tiny village in this story.

There is a question of Abraham actually being buried in the Urbana Cemetery. Ron Woodward (the Wabash Co. Historian) and others, have Abraham buried in the Fisher Cemetery, along with his wife and a Peter Roush (1859-1880). All with the surname spelled ROUSH. They, and Thomas and Margaret Vanduyne, are the only ones from this cemetery (south of St. Peter's in Urbana) who are named in WeRelate.org, from the Fisher Cemetery.

--White Creek 18:22, 22 October 2012 (EDT)

URBANA CEMETERY 1963

1. ↑ Wabash County Historical Society (Indiana); Linda Robertson; and North Manchester Historical Society (Indiana). Wabash County history, bicentennial edition, 1976, Wabash, Indiana. (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, c1976).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Haupert, James. St. Peter's Cemetery Records
   1978.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 "Application for Citizenship" by Robert McPherson.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 "Declarations of Intention and Application for Citizenship"
   1854-1929.

   Wabash County, Indiana
   
   This book at the Wabash Carnegie Library, states that Abraham was from Baumwelter (it means Baumholder). It says Abraham filed "Declaration of Intention" on June 30, 1855. It says he was age 33, so that is consistent with a birth year of 1821.