Stafford Raydure    

STAFFORD RAYDURE, farmer, P.O. Evansburg, was born March 22, 1809, in Randolph, Orange Co., Vt.; son of Samuel and Lucy (Chase) Raydure, who were parents of the following children: Sophronia, Ellen, Samuel, Jr., Ziba, Abner, and Stafford, all now deceased but Abner and Stafford. Our subject was married April 1, 1832, to Desolate Quigley, born in Vernon Township, this county, April 1, 1805. To this union were born nine children, one deceased. Those now living are Rosanah, wife of Henry Werts, (have ten children); Lucy, wife of Eugene Sterns (have five children living and one deceased); Caroline, wife of Samuel Scott (have four children and reside in Nebraska); Dudley C., married to Caroline Scouden (have six children); Cordelia, wife of Alonzo Shepherd (have one daughter and reside in Nebraska); Mary, wife of Charles Shellito (have three children); Winfield Scott, married to S. Brown (have two children); Zachary Taylor, married to Etta Williams (have one daughter). Mr. Raydure first studied for the medical profession. Coming to this county in 1832, he engaged in lumbering and farming. He has been very successful and owns a large tract of land. At one time he was candidate for the Legislature from this county, coming within eleven votes of election, and would, no doubt, have been successful but over 400 votes were cast with his name misspelled Laydure instead of Raydure. His wife, though seventy-nine years old, is active in mind and body and is able to do a large washing. Mr. Raydure and wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the I.O.O.F.; in politics he is a Greenbacker.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 991. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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