Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Souder, Reuben
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   REUBEN SOUDER farmer, P.O. Richland, was born in the old 
homestead in 1824.  His grandfather came from Montgomery 
county, and had seven children.  The youngest son, John, 
married Margaret, daughter of Abraham Clymer, of this 
county.  He died in 1873 and his wife in 1877.  They had 
sixteen children.  Those now living are:  Lena, Henry, 
Elizabeth, Abraham, Reuben, Nancy, Polly, John, Clayton and 
Lydia.  Three of the daughters are married.  Reuben Souder 
has never married.  He lives with two brothers and two 
maiden sisters on the old homestead, which he owns.