Martha (Dubs) Runkle (1821 - 1886)

Born Aug 1821 in Manheim Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Runkle — married about 1845 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 28 Aug 1886 at about age 65 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Martha (Dubs) Runkle has German Roots.

Martha (Dubs) Runkle was a Pennsylvanian.

Martha, daughter of Jacob Dubbs Elisabeth Motter, was born in August 1821, ^[1][2] probably in Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania.

About 1845 she married Daniel Runkle,^[1][3] son of Jacob George Runkle and Catharine Swartz. They had no children.

In 1850, Daniel (age 28, carpenter) and Martha Runkle (27) owned a home in Manheim Township next door to her parents and siblings.^[4]

After her father's death in 1851,^[5] her widowed mother Elizabeth Dubs (62) moved into the Manheim Township home (valued at $3,500) with Daniel (39, farmer) and Mattie Runkle (38).^[6] A teenager named Daniel Snyder (13) also sheltered with them and probably helped around the farm in 1860.^[6] Daniel's father Jacob (72, farmer) and mother Catharine (73), who was now suffering from insanity, lived two doors away from them.^[6]

Her mother did not die until 1878,^[7] but she did not stay with the Runkle's in 1870, when only Daniel (age 49, farmer) and Martha (49) lived in the Manheim Township home (now valued at $8,000).^[8] The 1880 record notes that Martha (58) cannot write and that Daniel (58) had retired from farming.^[9]

Martha died 28 August 1886 at age 65 years, 16 days.^[1] She was buried at Dubs Cemetery in Manheim Township.^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, database, FamilySearch (1 October 2020), Martha Runkle.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 26 December 2020), memorial page for Martha Runkle (unknown–28 Aug 1886), Find A Grave: Memorial #11074132, citing Dubs Cemetery, Marburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by becca (contributor 46790969).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, database, FamilySearch (1 October 2020), Martha Runkle in entry for Daniel Runkle.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (12 April 2016), Martha Runkle in household of Daniel Runkle, Manheim, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 148, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, database, FamilySearch (1 October 2020), Jacob Dubs.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch (12 December 2017), Matta Runkle in entry for Daniel Runkle, 1860.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, database, FamilySearch (1 October 2020), Elizabeth Dubs.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch (12 April 2016), Martha Runkle in entry for Daniel Runkle, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 2, family 17, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,968.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch (15 July 2017), Martha Runkle in household of Daniel Runkle, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 15, sheet 81C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 1206; FHL microfilm 1,255,206.

Acknowledgement

This profile was created, researched and initially written by Kathy Rabenstein (unrelated).