Person:Josiah Rodenbaugh (2)

Watchers
Josiah Rodenbaugh
d.Aft 1866 CA?
  • HJosiah Rodenbaugh1817 - Aft 1866
  • WMary McElroyAbt 1820 - Bef 1866
m. Nov 1839
  1. Mary Elizabeth Rodenbaugh1840 - 1883
  2. James H RodenbaughAbt 1841 - 1880
  3. William S. RodenbaughAbt 1847 - 1866
Facts and Events
Name Josiah Rodenbaugh
Gender Male
Birth? 16 Feb 1817 Lebanon, Hunterdon, NJ
Marriage Nov 1839 Warren County, NJto Mary McElroy
Death[1] Aft 1866 CA?

In 1840 he appears in Bennets Bagore, Hunterdon, New Jersey


Note: On 30 Jan 1850 he bought 50 feet frontage property on Front St. in West Haven. On 4 Aug 1851 he sold off 25 feet of this.

Note: Isaac T. Rodenbaugh gives his date of birth as 16 FEB 1817. John Todd gives his date of birth as 16 FEB 1818 and states that he was killed in an accident in California. John Emmet Todd gives marriage date as Nov. 21, 1839. IGI on FamilySearch gives marriage date of 13 Nov., 1839.


Notes by John Emmet Todd, 1896: "Josiah Rodenbaugh. Born Feb. 16, 1818. Married Mary McElroy Nov. 21, 1839. She died, and he married again. Lived up until that time at Galesburg, Ill. Was an engineer on the C. B. and Q. R. R. Went to California about 1866 and disappeared. Was vaguely heard of as being killed in a wreck some years after. Josiah had two children by his second wife, but I cannot learn anything of them."

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