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Some Rabenold/Rabenolt information that may be of interest to people in this forum:
The source is COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CENTRE, CLEARFIELD, JEFFERSON AND CLARION, CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co, 1898), pp. 435, 468.
p. 435: "In the spring of 1851, in Union County, Penn., John H. Garthoff was married to Miss Caroline Robenold, who was born in Lehigh County, Penn., January 23, 1829, a daughter of Solomon and Mary (Ocker) Robenold. Her father was born May 5, 1798, in Northampton County, this State, a son of Michael Robenold, and throughout life followed the occupations of shoemaking and farming. When Mrs. Garthoff was eight years old her father removed with his family to Union County, where his wife spent the remainder of her life upon a farm which he had there purchased, dying at the age of fifty-five years. A few years later he removed with his family to Union County, where his wife spent the remainder of her life upon a farm which he had there purchased, dying at the age of fifty-five years. A few years later he removed to Nittany Valley, Centre County, where he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Vonada, until he, too, was called to his final rest at the ripe old age of eighty years. He was interred in the cemetery of Zion, Centre County, while his wife was buried at Laurelton, Union County. Both held membership in the Lutheran Church, and he was a Democrat in politics. In their family were the following children: Lucy, wife of Adam Vonada, of Zion; Jonathan, a tanner and farmer, who died in Missouri; Caroline, the mother of our subject; William, a farmer, who died in Orangeville, Ill.; Sarah, wife of George Kauffman, of Zion, Centre County; David, who died from sickness contracted while in the army; Solomon, who was a member of an Illinois regiment, and also died in the army; and Christia Ann, wife of Daniel Royer, of Valley Falls, Kansas."
p. 468: "[Lucy Rabenolt] was born in Lehigh County, Penn., March 21, 1824, the daughter of Solomon and Mary (Ocher) Rabenolt, and a grandaughter of Michael Rabenolt, a farmer in the same county. Both parents were natives of Lehigh County, and they removed to this section some years after their marriage, the mother dying in Union County, and the father in Centre County. They had eight children: Mrs. [Lucy Rabenolt] Vonada, Jonathan, William, David, Solomon, Sarah (who married George Kauffman, a farmer of Centre County), Caroline and Christian. Of these but three are living -- Mrs. Vonada, Caroline, widow of John Garthoff, residing in Coburn, Penn., and Christian, who lives in Kansas."
I'm descended from Sarah Rabenolt -- who, by the way, was alive at the time this book was written (the information in it clearly needs to be viewed as not always gospel truth), having died March 31, 1911 in Zion.
It's fascinating to me that Sarah came from a Lutheran family, because George Kauffman was Amish, and she adopted the Kauffman family's strict Amish ways. I have a striking photograph of the family and other information, should any other of their descendants wish to see it.
It's also very striking that Solomon Rabenolt and his wife lived apart for so much of their lives ... no doubt there's quite a tale there, probably lost to history unless it was somehow passed down through oral tradition.
Many thanks to Mark Alan, by the way, for posting the information on Michael Rabenold and Christina Haas.
All best,
Leslie Kauffman
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