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RAFFENSPERGER,
CHARLES IRVING
Born:
10-12-1872 Perry County PA married: M. Pearl
Stambaugh
Died: 3-6-1950 Newport PA obit:
1956,81
1900 license, recommended by Pleasant Point on
the Perry circuit
1902 ordained deacon
1904 ordained elder
Interment:
New Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA
Obit:
1950,95
1899-00 Perry circuit
1900-02 Hagerstown
1902-04 Hagerstown & Cherry
Run mission [Cearfoss charge]
1904-05 Newport
1905-08 Hellam
1908-09 Mt. Holly Springs
1909-13 Baltimore Grace
1913-18 Williamsport First
1918-23 Berwick Bower
Memorial
1923-25 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1925-30 York Bethlehem
1930 Winfield (ending 6/30)
1930 retired (beginning 6/30)
Note:
Charles I. Raffensperger is the father of Clifford I. Raffensperger and John G.
Raffensperger.
RAFFENSPERGER,
CLIFFORD I.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1918 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note:
Clifford I. Raffensperger is the son of Charles I. Raffensperger and brother of
John G. Raffensperger.
RAFFENSPERGER,
JOHN G.
Born: married:
Died: 7-21-1953 obit:
1920 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John
G. Raffensperger is the son of Charles I. Raffensperger and brother of Clifford
I. Raffensperger.
RAIDABAUGH,
PETER W.
Born:
3-9-1849 Lewisburg PA married: Sarah
W. Walter
Died: obit:
1869 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1869-70 Block House
1870-71 Columbia
1871-72 Buffalo
1872-75 Glen Rock
1875-76 White Deer
1876-77 Danville
1877-78 North Danville
1878-79 Danville
1879-80 located
1880-83 York King Street
1883 superintendent,
Lewisburg District (resigned)
1883-87 editor, The Living
Epistle and English Sunday School literature [Cleveland OH]
1887-88 assistant editor, English Sunday
School literature
1888 transfer to Ohio Conference
1888-89 located
1889-91 pastor, Friends Church in Cleveland
OH
1891 withdrew to join the Friends
[Quaker] Church
1891-03 editor of various denomination
publications
1903-13 editor of various denomination
publications and pastor, Friends Church in Bridgeport IN
Note:
P.W. Raidabaugh left the Evangelical denomination because of the denominational
split. He continued as a pastor and
editor of denominational material for the Friends Church. The 1914 History of Hendricks County, pages
688-691, gives a biographical sketch and picture of Rev. and Mrs. Peter W.
Raidabaugh.
RAKER,
WILLIAM LARUE
Born: married:
Marilyn _____
Died: obit:
1956 license, recommended by Williamsport St.
John's
1960 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1957 Warrensville
1958 Penn's Creek
1960-62 Columbia circuit
1962-65 Bellefonte Grace
1965-70 Baltimore Olive Branch (did not
finish last year)
1970 Rodgers Forge (started before
conference)
1970 transfer by boundary change to
Baltimore Conference
1970-76 Rodgers Forge
1976-85 Fallston
1985-92 Oxon Hill
1992-00 Baltimore Arnolia
2000 retired
Note:
William L. Raker is the author of the Evangelical portion of the 1968
Miller-Raker Histories of the
Pennsylvania and Central Pennsylvania Conferences.
RANK,
JACOB
Born:
1816 married:
Died: 7-12-1905 obit:
1837 license
ordained deacon
1842 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1838-39 Crawford
1839-40 Somerset
1840-41 Indiana
1841-42 Bedford
1842-44 Warren
1844-46 Clarion
1846-47 Indiana circuit
1847-49 Somerset
1849-51 Indiana circuit
1851-52 Bedford
1852 charter member of
Pittsburgh Conference
1852-53 Clearfield County
1853-57 superintendent, Allegheny District
1857-58 Harmony circuit
1858-60
1860-64 Harmony circuit
transfer to Des Moines
Conference
Note:
Jacob Rank is the grandson of Jacob Albright, founder of the Evangelical
Church. His mother Sallie Albright Rank
(Mrs. Noah) was the only daughter of Jacob and Catherine Cope Albright.
REAM,
HENRY H.
Born:
1840 married:
Caroline Elizabeth Jones
Died: 1924 obit:
[10/12/1842 – 8/30/1895]
married2:
Nellie L. Butler [1/13/1897]
1863 license obit2:
[3/31/1866 – 8/?/1935]
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment:
Borden – Elk Creek Cemetery, Woodhull NY
Obit:
1867-68 Liverpool
1868-69 Middle Creek
1869-71 York circuit
1871-73 Hagerstown circuit
1873-74 Dushore
1874-76 Wilmot
1876 located
withdrew from the
Church
Note: Henry H. Ream appears to have located to care
for his first wife, who became an invalid in 1876 and survived until 1895. After the death of his first wife, he appears
to have served Baptist churches in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.
REARICK,
ADAM
Born: married:
Julia Ann Gross
Died: 1905 obit:
1859 license
1861 ordained deacon
1863 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1906,31
1860-61 Lycoming
1861-63 Cherry
1863-65 Blockhouse
1865-66 Shrewsbury
1866-68 Baltimore McEldery
Street
1868-69 York Queen Street
1869-70 Washington DC.
1870-71 Baltimore McEldery
Street
1871-73 Union circuit
1873-76 Jersey Shore
1876 transfer to Pittsburgh
Conference
1876-78 ?
1878-79 located
1879 removed from the ministry
1888 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1888-90 Brush Valley
1890-92 East Liberty
1892 located
transfer by
denominational split to the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Association
1895-96 Williamsport Market Street and
superintendent, Central District
1896-97 Williamsport Market Street
1897-00 Philadelphia Germantown
1900-01 Germantown and Hatfield
1901-03 Easton
1903 retired, living in Warren PA
REARICK,
S.
Born: married:
Died: 1892 Madisonburg PA obit:
Interment:
Obit: [1915,64]
REDEKER,
CHARLES EDWARD
Born: 2-21-1871 Philadelphia PA married: Bessie Robina Gates
Died: 1955 obit:
1896 license
1900 ordained deacon
1902 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1898-99 Milton circuit
1899-00 Baltimore
1900-03 Hebbville
1903-04 Morgan circuit
1904 credentials granted
1911 moved to Vancouver BC
moved to Detroit MI
Note:
Charles E. Redeker was the organizer and first national president of the BPOE
in Canada and is the author of the 1937 Early History of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the
Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland.
REED,
ISAAC Y.
Born: married:
Emma H. Clark
Died: obit:
[d. 1934]
1862 license
1864 ordained deacon
1866 ordained elder
Interment:
Jacksonville Evangelical Cemetery, Walnit Bottom PA
Obit:
1863-64 Perry
1864-66 Gettysburg
1866-68 Big Spring
1868-70 Cumberland
1870 located
withdrew from the
Church
Note:
Isaac Y. Reed became a homeopathic physician and practiced in Chambersburg from
about 1872 to about 1876. He reportedly
practiced in Carlisle before that and in Leesburg, where is is said to have
died, after that.
REED,
JAMES P.
Born: Milroy married:
Died: obit:
1937 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1939-43 Mount Rock
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-49 Liberty
1949-52 State College
1952-54 without assignment, living in State
College
1954-56 Union circuit (ending Dec 1956)
1956-59 without appointment, living in State
College (beginning Dec 1956)
1959 located, page 101
Note:
James P. Reed performed a wedding 2/11/1961 at Trinity UCC in Turbotville PA.
REEN,
C.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1875 license
1881 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
REESER,
ADAM L.
Born: 9-15-1831 near Dushore PA married:
Anna Mary Seitz
Died: 2-23-1906 Lewisburg PA obit: 1886,13
married2:
Elizabeth Miller
1853 license obit2:
1935,86
1855 ordained deacon
1857 ordained elder
Interment:
Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: 1906,70
1853-54 Columbia
1854-55 Shrewsbury
1855-56 Luzerne
1856-57 Union
1857-59 Cumberland
1859-60 Perry
1860-62 York Queen Street
1862-64 Union
1864-69 located
1869-70 Conewago
1870-71 Lock Haven circuit
1871-72 Jersey Shore
1872-75 suprintendent, Carlisle
District
1875-78 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1878-83 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1883 located
Note: Adam
L. Reeser is the brother of William Reeser and is the
father of James C. Reeser. An obituary for A.L. Reeser
appears in the March 7, 1906, issue of The
Evangelical, page 157.
REESER,
GEORGE LEROY
Born:
3-8-1893 Warrensville PA married: Alda Ada
Simmons
Died: 3-6-1963 obit:
1977,271
1913 license, recommended by Mt Zion on the
Warrensville charge
1915 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment:
Riverview Cemetery, East Prospect PA
Obit: 1963,103
1913-15 Unityville
1915-18 Columbia circuit
1918-21 Hanover circuit
1921-27 Yorkana
1927-30 Hebbville
1930-40 Mifflinburg
1940-52 East Prospect
1952 retired
REESER,
JAMES CLINTON
Born:
7-16-1856 New Berlin PA married: Anna A.
Musselman
Died: 6-11-1930 Mechanicsburg PA obit:
1939,85
1877 license, recommended by Lewisburg
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment:
Churchtown, Cumberland County PA
Obit: 1931,74
1877-78 Cumberland
1878-79 Nittany Valley
1879-81 Newberry
1881-84 Williamsport Bennett
Street
1884-87 Hagerstown
1887-89 Newport and Patterson
1889-91 Big Spring
1891-94 Carlisle
1894-95 Hagerstown
1895-99 Berwick
1899-03 York Trinity
1903-07 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1907-11 superintendent, Center
District
1911-15 Lewistown Grace
1915-19 Berwick North
1919-20 York St. Paul
1920-22 Hanover
1922-27 Burnham
1927 retired
James C.
Reeser is the son of A.L. Reeser and a nephew of William Reeser.
REESER,
WILLIAM JOHN
Born:
11-8-1816 Union County PA married:
Sarah [Sallie] G. Martin
Died: 8-30-1906 obit:
[9/16/1819 – 7/18/1891]
1844 license
1847 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Colley Cemetery, Sullivan County PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1907,42
1844-45 Lycoming
1845-46 Buffalo
1846-47 Perry
1847-64 located
1864-65 Harford
1865-67 Conewago
1867-68 Hagerstown circuit
1868 located
withdrew
Note:
Williams Reeser is the brother of Adam L. Reeser and an uncle to James C.
Reeser. Following the 1894
denominational split, William Reeser identified with the East Pennsylvania
Conference of the Evangelical Association.
He located to settle on his father’s farm in Sullivan County. Later he moved to Colley and lived, at the
age of 86 years, with his daughter, Mrs. Winfield Potter of Lopez.
REICHARD,
LEMUEL S.
Born:
7-13-1865 York County PA married: Florence
Lavinia Hayward
Died: 2-13-1938 Baltimore MD obit:
1888 license, recommended by Trinity Church on
the Chanceford circuit
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment:
Baltimore MD
Obit:
1890-93 Wrightsville
1893-97 Baltimore Olive
Branch
1897-01 Baltimore Grace
1901-05 Glen Rock
1905-06 Lewisburg
1906 “transfer” to Presbyterian Church
Note:
Lemuel S. Reichard appears to have relocated to California. Mrs. Hayward was born in MD about 1875.
REICHLEY,
O.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1897 license
Interment:
Obit:
REITER,
EDWARD NATHANIEL
Born:
1-7-1924 married:
Grace Patterson
Died: 8-29-2001 Sidman PA obit:
1953 license, recommended by Pottersdale
Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
1956 ordained, Christian & Missionary
Alliance Church
Interment:
Richland Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: 2002,370
1953-56 student, Houghton College in Houghton
NY
1953-56
Riceville CMA, West Valley NY
1956-58 student, Asbury Theological Seminary
in Wilmore KY
1958-60 Paramus Community Church, Paramus NJ
1960-61 faculty, Christian School in Fall
River MA
1961 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1961-68 Paxtonville
1968-87 Milton St. Andrews
1987 retired
1987-94
Hendrickson-Mooresburg
REITMIRE,
W.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
Interment:
Obit:
1873 Jersey Shore
located
Note:
This surname is also given as REITMEYER.
REMALY,
FRANCIS EMERSON
Born:
6-25-1890 married:
Mary Erma Bieber
Died: 7-22-1997 obit:
1984,392
1916 license, recommended by Mazeppa
1918 ordained deacon
1920 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [1998,423]
1916-18 Wapwallopen
1918-22 Lopez
1922-26 Baltimore Grace
1926-33 Berwick Memorial
1933-43 Carlisle
1943-51 superintendent, York
District
1951-58 York St. Paul's
1958 retired
1959-75
associate, Carlisle First
REMER,
SIMON P.
Born:
5-24-1847 near Lewisburg PA married:
Martha Alice Flick
Died: 9-14-1924 York PA obit:
1913,70
married2:
Carrie McCreary
1868 license obit2:
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment:
Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: 1925,77
1868-69 Hughesville
1869-71 Orangeville
1871-72 Glen Rock
1872-74 Leesburg
1874-77 Columbia
1877-79 Dushore
1879-81 Milton
1881-82 located
1882-85 Bloomsburg
1885-86 White Deer
1886-88 located
1888-90 Lewistown
1890-93 Newport and Marysville
1893-94 Baltimore Memorial
1894-98 Alberton
1898-99 Williamsport St.
Paul
1899-02 superintendent, Center
District
1902-06 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1906-07 superintendent, Center
District
1907-09 Lemoyne
1909-11 Hanover
1911-15 Red Lion
1915-20 Juniata
1920-23 retired
REYNOLDS,
JESSE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1879 license
Interment:
Obit:
RHOADS,
HAROLD MOYER JR
Born:
1-14-1906 Pottstown PA married:
Frances Ellis
Died: 10-30-1978 Zanesville OH obit:
1931 license, recommended by Willow Grove,
Christian & Missionary Alliance
1933 ordained elder, Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church
Interment:
Obit:
1937-58 National Evangelist Youth &
Children
1958 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1958-63 Beavertown
1963-66 Rebersburg
1966-68 Nescopeck
1968 retired
Note:
Harold M. Rhoads is a brother to the wives of two ministers in the Christian
and Missionary Alliance Church: sister Alice is married to Rev. James L. Stahl
(1911-1996), and sister Ruth is married to Rev Neil E. Fye (1915-2003).
RHOADS,
WILLIAM WESLEY
Born:
9-17-1842 Chester County PA married:
Died: 3-31-1914 Sayre PA obit:
1907,58
1863 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: 1915,50
1870-71 Lycoming
1871-73 Hughesville
1873-75 Luzerne
1875-78 Wyoming
1878-81 Columbia
1881-84 Shrewsbury
1884-87 Milmont
1887-89 Perry
1889-92 Leesburg
1892-94 Hebbville
1894-97 New Berlin
1897-01 Center Hall
1901-02 Grover
1902-04 Dillsburg
1904-07 Mexico
1907-11 Howard
1911-12 West Nanticoke
1912-14 Lopez
Note:
W.W. Rhoads is the author of the gospel song “One Look at the Cross,” #72 in
the 1885 Gospel Jewels for Sabbath Schools.
RICKER,
JOHN HENRY
Born:
5-1-1876 Berkley County WV married:
Minerva Reed
Died: 10-29-1938 near Norristown PA obit:
[11/19/1881 – 11/7/1953]
1908 license, recommended by Carlisle First
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment:
Laureldale Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit: 1939,85
1908-11 Hanover circuit
1911-13 Lewisberry
1913-16 New Berlin
1916-17 McClure circuit
1917-20 Williamsport circuit
1920-24 Lock Haven mission
1924-25 Hellam
1925-27 Danville
1927-30 Columbia circuit
1930 located
RICKETS,
J.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1903 license
Interment:
Obit:
RIDALL,
ARCHIE FREDERICK
Born:
1-4-1894 near Berwick PA married: Hazel Mae
Smith
Died: 7-1-1996 obit:
[2/11/1896 – 3/?/1987]
1932 license, recommended by Nescopeck Free
Methodist Church
1946 ordained elder, Free Methodist
Church
Interment:
Obit: 1998,445
1944-50 Putnam Valley NY
1950-54 White Haven PA
1954 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1954-61 Leesburg
1961-69 South Williamsport
Christ
1969 retired
1969-1986
Outlet PA, Free Methodist
RIMERT,
JOHN MARLYN
Born: married:
Charlotte _____
Died: obit:
1950 license, recommended by Lewisburg St. Paul's
1955 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1949-50 Lewisburg Congregational-Christian
Church, Lewisburg
1951-54 Union circuit
1954-56 Pennsdale
1956-62 Mount Rock
1962-68 Selinsgrove
1968-74 Berwick St. Paul
1974-84 State College St. John’s
1984-91 Middletown Wesley
1991 retired
1992-93
interim, State College St. Peter’s UCC
1994-96
interim, Bellefonte St. John’s UCC
1996-97
Philipsburg Trinity
1997
Allport Gethsemane
1997-99
interim, Center Hall Trinity UCC
2001-02
State College St. Peter’s UCC
2004-06
State College St. Peter’s UCC
2006
Mt. Nittany (Feb – Jun)
RISHEL,
DAVID
Born: married:
Catharine Crotzer
Died: c1853 obit:
[7/9/1817 – 1/10/1866]
1842 license
1844 ordained deacon
1846 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1842-43 Columbia
1843-44 Clarion
1844-45 Somerset
1845-47 Union
1847-48 Pittsburg mission
Note:
David Rishel is a brother to Rachel Rishel Kehr (wife of Daniel Kehr), to Susan
Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and to Sarah Rishel Kreamer (wife of
John Kreamer).
RISHEL,
G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1857 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
RISHEL,
PETER HARPINE
Born:
1837 Columbia County PA married:
Abigail Heimbach
Died: obit:
[5/18/1835 – 4/24/1917]
married2:
Sarah _____
1863 license obit2:
1865 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1863-64 Gettysburg circuit
1864-65 York circuit
1865-66 Lock Haven circuit
1866-67 Center
1867-69 Blockhouse
1869-71 Columbia
1871-73 York circuit
1873-75 Prospect
1875-77 Lycoming
1877-78 Lock Haven
1878 moved to Rice County,
Kansas
Note:
Peter H. Rishel reportedly heard Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg
address. After moving to Kansas with his
wife and 8 daughters, he appears to have worked only as a farmer. He later divorced or left Abigail, married a
woman named Sarah and moved to Mississippi, where he died sometime after 1900.
RITTER,
JOSEPH FRANKLIN
Born:
12-19-1915 near New Kingston PA married: Dorothy June Shepler
Died: 4-26-1990 Ocala FL obit:
2008,425
1947 license, recommended by New Kingstown
1951 ordained elder
Interment:
Kutz’s Cemetery, Cumberland County PA
Obit: 1990,464
1947-53 Mount Rock charge
1953-61 Middleburg
1961-70 Northumberland Trinity
1970-80 Marysville Bethany
1980 retired
RIGERS,
B.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1924 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROHRBAUGH,
JAMES FRANKLIN
Born:
9-3-1885 Brodbecks PA married: Katie
Ellen Sterner
Died: 8-20-1956 obit:
1910 license
1914 ordained deacon
1916 ordained elder
Interment:
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA
Obit: 1957,80
1912-16 West Nanticoke
1916-17 Sonestown
1917-22 Craley
1922-29 Felton
1929-33 Ringtown
1933-38 Hellam
1938-41 Leesburg
1941-43 McClure
1943-47 Lewisberry
1947-52 Bryansville
1952 retired
ROLAND,
HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1839 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1841 ordained deacon
1843 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1839-40 Center
1840-42 Somerset
1842-44 Union
1844-45 Columbia
1845-46 Center
1846-47 Pittsburg mission
1847-48 Union
1848-49 York circuit
1849-50 York Queen Street
went West
ROSENBERGER,
JACOB HENDRICKS
Born:
5-11-1875 Hatfield PA married:
Martha Fuss
Died: 2-9-1954 obit:
1959,106
1909 license, East Pennsylvania Conference EA,
recommended by Hatfield
1911 granted elder status, East
Pennsylvania Conference EA, based on 1907 ordination in the Baptist Chutch
Interment:
Good Shepherd Cemetery, Ellicot City MD
Obit: 1954,80
1909-13 Sugar Valley
1913-17 Lehighton
1917-22 Tamaqua
1922-23 Williamsport Market
Street
1923 transfer by denominational union
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1923-27 Enola
1927-32 New Freedom
1932-44 Alberton
1944 retired
ROSER,
M.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1907 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROSS,
DANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
Interment:
Obit: 1886,13
Note:
Daniel Ross was a local pastor on the Wyoming circuit.
ROSS,
J.N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROTAN,
CHARLES ALBERT
Born:
11-20-1845 Baltimore MD married: Kate Fort
White
Died: 5-24-1926 Baltimore MD obit:
? license
Interment:
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
United Brethren Church
1897 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
Note:
Charles A. Rotan is listed as local preacher in 1897, page 4.
ROW,
WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1869 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROWE,
LEON E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1958 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1957-60 Wellsville
1962-63 Enola
1963-66 student, Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
1966 withdrew, page 149
RUMBERGER,
DANIEL P.
Born:
8-25-1837 Wiconisco PA married:
Died: 3-3-1905 obit:
1873 license
? ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder, Michigan
Conference
Interment:
Scottville MI
Obit: Michigan Conference 1905,37
1871-72 Baltimore circuit
1872-73 Liberty
1873-74 Center
1874-75 Sugar Valley
1875 transfer to Michigan
Conference
1875-77 Whitehouse
1877-79 Monroe
1879-81 Ludington
1881-82 Riverton
1882-83 Greenbush
1883-84 Eureka
1884-86 Fremont
1886-88 West Unity
1888-90 Whitehouse
1890-91 Riverton
1891-93 Byron
1894-96 Ridgeway
1896-98 Whitehouse
1898 retired
RUMMEL, CHARLES LESLIE
Born: 9-26-1913 nearMount Union PA married: Sarah E. Secrest
Died: 1-26-1988 obit: [9/16/1916 - 5/7/1991]
1942 quarterly conference license
1945 license, Allegheny Conference
1955 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Nebo Cemetery, Shirleysburg PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988,374
1943-46 Knoxdale
1947-53 Houserville (in Central Pennsylvania Conference beginning in 1951)
1953-64 Franklin Grace
1964-77 Somerset Grace
1977 retired
1986-87 Spruce Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Charles Rummel continued to serve Houserville following its 1951 transfer into the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference. This surname is also rendered ROMMELL.
RUNYAN, ROBERT WILBUR
Born: 6-10-1850 Watsontown PA married: Frances E. Buttorf
Died: 1-28-1935
1872 license
1874 ordained deacon
1883 ordained elder
Interment:
Gray’s
Obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1935, 239
1872-73 Conewago circuit
1873-74
1874-75 Perry circuit
1875-76 apparently no appointment
1876-77 Millerstown circuit
1877-78 Hughesville
1878-83 located
1883-84
1885-88 Lewistown
1888-90
1890-91 Alberton MD
1891-93
1893 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church
1893-97 Mercersburg
1897-02 Half
Moon
1902-04 Woodland-Bradford
1904-06 Morrisdale
1906-09 Muncy
1909-13 Sinnemahoning
1916-18 Flemington
1818-21
1921 retired
Note:
Robert W. Runyan is a brother to Marion J. Runyan (1853-1930) of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
RUSS,
CHARLES ALBERT
Born:
5-4-1923 Salladasburg PA married: Rosemary
Sechrist
Died: 8-10-2007 obit:
1991,487
married2:
Jean Mase
obit2:
1944 license, recommended by Salladasburg Bethany
1949 ordained elder
Interment:
Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA
Obit: 2008,425
1945-46 Port Trevorton
1946-49 Windsor
1949-53 Liberty
1953-62 Williamsport circuit
1962-64 Lewisburg St. Paul’s
1964-73 Lewistown Grace
1973-88 Steelton Centenary
1988 retired
RUTH,
ADAM C.
Born: 2-19-1906
Sinking Springs PA married:
Hattie Cordella Carl
Died: 10-4-1968 New Cumberland PA obit: 1982,392
1924 license, East Pennsylvania Conference:
recommended by Mohnton Calvary
? ordained deacon
1929 ordained elder
Interment:
Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: 1969,208
1924-28 student, Albright College at Reading
PA
1928-29 student, Evangelical School of
Theology at Reading PA
1929 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1929 Grover (ending 9/29)
1929-34 State College (beginning 9/29)
1934-39 Hanover Grace
1939-46 York Christ
1946-57 Berwick Bower Memorial
1957-64 York Grace
1964 retired
RYDER,
JOHN HARRISON
Born:
4-9-1872 near Sonestown PA married:
Mary Belle Huston
Died: 6-11-1927 obit:
1964,83
1898 license
1903 ordained deacon
1905 ordained elder
Interment:
Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: 1928,89
1902-05 Dorsey
1905-09 Grover
1909-13 Wayland
1913-16 Glen Rock
1916-22 York Zion
1922-26 Hagerstown
1926 retired