BIO:  Emanuel RUDISILL, Mountpleasant Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 489

EMANUEL RUDISILL, farmer, P. O. Gettysburg, was born August 20, 1827, in 
Heidelberg Township, York Co., Penn.  The family was originally of French or 
German descent.  Three brothers came to Pennsylvania at an early date, one 
settled near York, one in Lancaster County, and one near Jefferson, in York 
County.  Our subject’s grandfather, Andrew Rudisill, was born and reared in York 
County, and was a son of Worley Rudisill, who was born at Codorus, same county.  
Andrew Rudisill was a poor boy when he started out in life for himself; was a 
shoe-maker by trade; became quite wealthy, and gave each of his four sons a 
homestead farm near Hanover, York County.  He was an industrious man, a 
remarkable character, and was a representative citizen of York County.  He 
married Miss Elizabeth Wildesin, a descendent of one of the oldest families in 
York County, where her father’s brothers used to hunt with the friendly Indians 
in an early day.  Mrs. Andrew Rudisill died in York County when over one hundred 
and eleven years of age (when one hundred and three years old she would still go 
out fishing, and she kept all her faculties till the last).  To Andrew and 
Elizabeth Rudisill were born four sons and three daughters, who lived to a good 
old age:  Mary was ninety-one years and some months, John was ninety-one, Andrew 
was over ninety-one, Eve was eighty-six, Jacob was sixty-two, Henry, who is 
still living, is about eighty-eight, Elizabeth was fifty years old when she 
died.  Of these, Jacob, who was also a farmer, married Christiana Lohr, who was 
seventy-two years old at her death.  They both died in Hanover, Penn.  They had 
six children:  Jacob, Emanuel, Rebecca, Christiana, John and Abraham.  Of these, 
Emanuel Rudisill was educated near home and has been a farmer all his life; he 
now owns 280 acres of land in Mountpleasant Township, this county.  He was 
united in marriage with Leah Spangler, born in York County, Penn., daughter of 
Zachariah Spangler.  Twelve children were born to this union, all now living:  
Spangler, Alice, Worley, Charles, Martin, Frank, Jacob, Alverta, Katie, Andrew, 
Minnie and Rebecca.  Mr. and Mrs. Rudisill are members of St. James Lutheran 
Church.  Politically he is a Democrat, but is no office seeker, preferring a 
quiet life.