1778 Jacob Roudebush was born on September 15 near Hagerstown, Maryland. [1] [2] [3]
1781-1784 Elizabeth Hartman was born on May 22, about this time, based on her age at death. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
1807-10 Jacob Roudebush was taxed in Clermont County, Ohio. [9] [10] [11]
1808 Jacob Roudebush and Elizabeth Hartman were married on April 8 or 17. [12] [13]
1809 Son, William Roudebush was born about two miles northwest of the village of Boston, Clermont County, Ohio. [14]
1820 Jacob Roudebush lived in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio in a household with males: 2 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 4 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44). [15]
1830 Jacob Roudebush lived in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio in a household with males: 1 (under 5), 2 (5 thru 9), 1 (15 thru 19), 2 (20 thru 29), and 1 (50 thru 59); and females: 2 (10 thru 14), 2 (15 thru 19), and 1 (40 thru 49). [16]
1835 Jacob Roudebush died on May 25 and was buried at the Stonelick IOOF Cemetery, Stonelick, Clermont County, Ohio. [17] [18] [19] [20]
1838 John Page granted land to Elizabeth Roudebush. [21]
Elizabeth was described as a woman of great intellectuality, with a religious trend of mind. Left a widow with ten children, she lived to rear them all to man and womanhood and left the impress such as a saintly mother of her Christian talents might be expected to do. Mrs Elizabeth Hartman Roudebush's memory of places and things and power of description of what she had seen or known was not equaled by any person in the county. She was a woman of extraordinary mental temperament. [22]
1840 Mrs. Roudebush (first name unclear, age 50-60) lived in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio with 5 males and 3 females ages 10-40. [23]
1850 Elizabeth Roudebush (age 68, born in New Jersey) lived in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio, in a household with Ambrose Roudebush (age 25), Francis J Roudebush (age 23), and William R Rapp (age 3). [24]
1860 Elizabeth Roudebush (age 77, born in New Jersey) lived in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio, in a household with Francis J Roudebush (age 33), Sarah J Roudebush (age 26), Elmira Roudebush (age 7), Mary R Roudebush (age 5), Allen T Roudebush (age 2), and William Rapp (age 13). [25]
1860 Elizabeth Roudebush was taxed in Stonelick Twp, Clermont County, Ohio. [26] Son Francis was also taxed. [27] Son Ambrose was also taxed. [28] Son James was also taxed. [29]
1869 Elizabeth Roudebush died on July 5, at age 85y 1m 13d, and was buried at the Stonelick IOOF Cemetery, Stonelick, Clermont County, Ohio. [30] [31] [32]
A biosketch, with some oral [inaccurate] tradition, reports [33]:
Jacob Roudebush, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1777, and in October, 1806, purchased one hundred and fifty-nine acres of land from General James Taylor. He was married April 17, 1807, to Elizabeth Hartman and they had six sons and four daughters: William, Francis J., Daniel, James, John and Ambrose, deceased; Mary Ann, who married ex-Sheriff Michael Cowen; Rebecca, the wife of John Rapp; Paulina, the deceased wife of James Rapp; and Sarah, deceased. Jacob Roudebush died May 25, 1835, and his wife passed away July 5, 1869, after sixty-eight years' membership in the Baptist church. In his youth he had become a distiller but later successfully followed farming for many years. He was quiet and unassuming in manner and died universally respected. His wife's memory of places and things and her power of description of what she had seen or known was unequaled in the county. In the maternal line she was related to the Hutchinsons of Massachusetts and New York and was a descendant in the fifth generation of William Hutchinson who in 1626 came to America, settling in the Massachusetts colony. Her great-grandfather, William Hutchinson, was born in 1695 and his wife, Ann Von, was born March 6, 1700, in Amsterdam, Holland. When a child of six years she was kidnaped and brought to America. In 1723 she became the wife of William Hutchinson and their son William, born December 13, 1724, was married in 1754 to Catherine, born May 17, 1731. They had a daughter, Mary, born March 24, 1755, who became the wife of Christopher Hartman. Mr. and Mrs. William Hutchinson, Jr., also had four sons: Robert, Sylvester, Aaron and Ezekiel, who became Methodist preachers. The last named came to Ohio in 1806. The father of Christopher Hartman (father of Elizabeth, who was the mother of William Roudebush) was born in Livintzburg, Prussia, May 6, 1750, and in 1753 came to America with his father and four brothers. He wedded Mary Hutchinson in Mercer county. New Jersey, in August, 1776, and they had three sons and five daughters, of whom Elizabeth, born May 22, 1783, in Mercer county, New Jersey, became the wife of Jacob Roudebush, great-grandfather of Allen C. Roudebush. Another daughter, Rachel, became the wife of John Page. In 1795 Christopher Hartman removed by way of the water route to Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1801 became a resident of Williamsburg township, Clermont county, Ohio, there purchasing five hundred acres of land from General Lytle. It has been ascertained that Ann Von, the great-great-great-great-grandmother of Allen C. Roudebush, stolen and kidnaped from Holland, was of noble birth, belonging to one of the wealthy Dutch families, and was spirited away in hopes of securing a large reward for her return.
This family was named in an application for the Sons of the American Revolution. [34]
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[2] Byron Williams, History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio (1913), 60, [GoogleBooks].
[3] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Mary Ann Needham Hollifield, Ancestral Tracks to Clermont and Beyond Hutchinson, Abernathy, Shade, Needham (1996), 59, reports 1781, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial 94211041, [FindAGrave].
[6] Byron Williams, History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio (1913), 60, reports 22 May 1783, [GoogleBooks].
[7] J. L. Rockey and R. J. Bancroft, 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co, 1880), 513, reports 22 May 1783, left column, bottom, also page 547, [HathiTrust].
[8] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, 1807, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, 1809, [AncestryRecord].
[11] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, 1810, [AncestryRecord].
[12] J. L. Rockey and R. J. Bancroft, 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co, 1880), 522, right column, reports April 17, [HathiTrust].
[13] Byron Williams, History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio (1913), 60, reports April 8, [GoogleBooks].
[14] J. L. Rockey and R. J. Bancroft, 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co, 1880), 513, right column, [HathiTrust].
[15] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[16] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial 94193366, [FindAGrave].
[18] J. L. Rockey and R. J. Bancroft, 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co, 1880), 522, [HathiTrust].
[19] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[20] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] Clermont County, Ohio Deed Q38-457, [FamilySearchImage].
[22] Byron Williams, History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio (1913), 60, [GoogleBooks].
[23] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[24] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[25] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[26] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[27] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[28] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[29] Ohio, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[30] Find A Grave Memorial 94211041, [FindAGrave].
[31] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[32] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[33] Charles Frederick Gross, Cincinnati The Queen City 1788-1912, Vol. 4 (Cincinnati: S.J.Clark Publishing Company, 1912), 147, [HathiTrust].
[34] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].