Orpah Lake (1810)

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Roach — married 26 Mar 1836 in Cecil County, Maryland

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Biography

Orpah was born in 1810. She is the daughter of James Lake and Anne Segars.

She married Richard Roach in 1836. ^[1]

Orpah and Richard had five children, but only two seem to have survived to adulthood. ^[2]

By 1870 she was living in Election District 5, Cecil County, with her husband, son, and daughter. ^[3]

By 1880 she was widowed and living in North East, Maryland with her son and daughter. ^[4]

At the 1900 census she was 90 years old and still living with her daughter, son, and daughter-in-law. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Maryland Indexes (Marriage Licenses and Records, Index 1649-1886, S1397, SE27-90)
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M329-ZFK : accessed 29 November 2017), Orpah Roach in household of John F Roach, Election District 5, (south part) Northeast, Charleston towns, Cecil, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20, sheet 21B, family 439, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,620.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN38-CTT : 12 April 2016), Orpah Roach in household of Richard Roach, Maryland, United States; citing p. 34, family 260, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,082.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNQJ-K4R : 7 September 2017), Orpah Roach in household of John F Roach, North East, Cecil, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district ED 13, sheet 166C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0507; FHL microfilm 1,254,507.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M329-ZFK : accessed 29 November 2017), Orpah Roach in household of John F Roach, Election District 5, (south part) Northeast, Charleston towns, Cecil, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20, sheet 21B, family 439, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,620.

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