Rachel (Moore) Dunmire (abt. 1838 - 1898)

Born about 1838 in Pennsylvania, USA

Wife of Henry Dunmire — married 1864 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA

Died 21 Dec 1898 at about age 60 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Rachel was born circa 1838 in Pennsylvania.^[1] She was the daughter of Jacob Moore and Susannah Shirley.

She married, as his second wife, Henry Dunmire in 1864 in Armstrong County.^[2]

Rachel died on 21 December 1898 in Armstrong County, and she is buried there in the Maysville Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Rachel was aged sixty when she died. The date is consistent with her age in the 1850 census, when she lived in her parents' household. Burke Stoughton, "Rachel Dunmire," Memorial no. 35308909, posted 29 March 2009; memorial with photograph, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35308909/rachel-dunmire : accessed December 2018). 1850 U.S. Census, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Kiskiminetas Township, stamped page 328, dwelling 333, family 336, Jacob Moore household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PW7-THK?i=46&cc=1401638 : accessed December 2018); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 749.
2. ↑ Samuel T. Wiley, ed., Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), 612; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/26663/dvm_LocHist011309-00309-0?pid=588&backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/37835005/person/192059423987/gallery&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Eui11796&usePUBJs=true : accessed December 2018).
3. ↑ Burke Stoughton, "Rachel Dunmire," Memorial no. 35308909, posted 29 March 2009; memorial with photograph, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35308909/rachel-dunmire : accessed December 2018). Rachel's full date of death is carved on her grave stone.