My Raffensperger Ancestry


While I trace this one path through the Raffenspergers, my family includes Donnellans, Swansons, Agnellos, Gallaghers, Merrows, Taylors, and many others. To me this diversity is at the heart of being American, both in mind and in ancestry.

Raffensperger, Peter
Birth : Circa 1710
Buried: ?


-Married-
Juliana, UNKNOWN
Birth : Circa 1710
Buried : ?

Children:

Raffensperger, Juliana
Raffensperger, Christiana
Raffensperger, Christian
Raffensperger, Catherine
Raffensperger, Jacob
Raffensperger, Marie Elizabeth

Raffensperger, Peter

Raffensperger, Peter
Birth : 25 MAR 1762
Death : 12 DEC 1828
Buried: Flohrs Church, Adams County

- Married -

Catherine Ruth
Birth : 9 JUL 1770
Death : 12 MAR 1833
Buried: Flohrs Church, Adams County

Children:

Raffensperger, John
Birth : ABT 1795
Raffensperger, Mary
Birth : ABT 1795
Raffensperger, Peter
Birth : ABT 1795
Raffensperger, Martin
Birth : ABT 1795

Raffensperger, Jacob
Raffensperger, Jacob
Birth : 15 APR 1801
Death : 7 MAR 1875
Buried: Gettysburg, PA
- Married -
Miller, Catherine
Birth : 15 NOV 1814
Death : 28 DEC 1879
Gettysburg, PA

Children:

Raffensperger, P. Edward
Raffensperger, Anna
Raffensperger, Eliza
Raffensperger, Alice
Raffensperger, Louisa
Raffensperger, Jennie
Raffensperger, Emma L.
Raffensperger, Martha M.
Raffensperger, John M.

Raffensperger, William Anderson
Raffensperger, William Anderson
Birth : 18 JUL 1840
Death : 12 DEC 1900

- Married -
Meyers, Clara E.
Birth : 1847 Greenmount, Pennsylvania
Death : 1926 Greenmount, Pennsylvania

Children:

Raffensperger, Harry Singleton
Raffensperger, Harry Singleton
Birth : 7 FEB 1870 Arendtsville, Pennsylvania
Death : 2 NOV 1955 Greenmount

- Married -
Taylor, Lena Elizabeth
Birth : 12 AUG 1863 Menallen Twp., Pennsylvania
Death : 7 JAN 1923

Children:

Raffensperger, Laura May
Raffensperger, Bessie Kate
Raffensperger, Harry Keiffer
Raffensperger, William Arnold
Raffensperger, Clara Ruth
Raffensperger, Paul Edwin
Raffensperger, Margaret Anna
Raffensperger, John Anderson

Raffensperger, George Taylor

Raffensperger, George Taylor
Birth : Arendtsville, Pennsylvania 1898
Death: Gettysburg, PA 1992

- Married -

Merrow, Catharine
Birth : Curwensville, Pennsylvania 1892
Death: Gettysburg, PA 1964

These were my grandparents

In memory of Shirley Ann Raffensperger