BIO: Nancy Drawbaugh, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLVI.

                            FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP. 

477  FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP.

  MRS. NANCY DRAWBAUGH, Bloserville, is descended from one of the old 
families of the county, as was her husband, John Drawbaugh, whose 
grandfather came from York County a great many years ago and settled in 
what is now Lower Allen Township.  One of his sons, George, was the 
father of John, the husband of Nancy.  George was born in 1801 and died 
March 10, 1866.  He was married, in 18_2, to Barbara Bloser, of North 
Middleton Township, where he was then living.  She died in June, 188_.  
He was a wagon-maker and a farmer in Frankford Township, but sold out 
and moved to another place, which he owned, in South Middleton, near 
Carlisle.  By careful management and industry he acquired a competence.  
He was enabled to give his later children a start in life, and at his 
death left a fine estate.  He had seven children:  John (husband of our 
subject), born November 26, 1823; William, married to Margaret Ebright, 
who died, leaving six children, and he then married Mrs. Maria Elliott, 
who has one child - they live in this township; Elizabeth, wife of John 
Bowman, who lived with her father until his death; Alexander Cornman, 
married to Emma Roberts, living in West Virginia; George B., married to 
Eliza Basehore, living in West Pennsborough Township; David Porter, who 
died unmarried; and Ellen, wife of David Hemminger, county treasurer.  
In early life John worked on his father's farm, and three years after 
his marriage moved to a farm in West Pennsborough Township, where they 
lived eleven years, when he bought a farm in North Middleton Township.  
Here they lived four years, and selling this property removed to a farm 
owned by his father, in West Pennsborough Township, where they lived 
three years, and then bought and removed to the farm, where he died, 
October 7, 1882, and where his widow and surviving children now reside.  
He was an honest hard-working man, who provided well for his family, 
and lived and died with the respect of the entire community.  January 
25, 1844, he married Miss Nancy Ziegler, born July 15, 1819, a daughter 
of William and Margaret (Adams) Ziegler, of this township and Mifflin.  
They were an old and well-known family, many of whom are to be found 
all over the county.  Mr. and Mrs. Drawbaugh had nine children:  
Ezemiah C., born June 25, 1845, the wife of Solomon W. Lehn, living in 
North Middleton Township, this county; Anna Maria, born August 15, 
1847, living with her mother; Catherine Agnes, born October 28, 1849, 
and died December 6, 1864; Samuel Wilson, born December 18, 1852, 
married to Sarah Barrick, and died October 9, 1882; Margaret Grizel, 
born December 9, 1853, wife of Martin Foos, and living in Harrisburg; 
William Edgar, born November 3, 1855, and married to Isabel Sharp, and 
living in Newton Township; George Albert, born July 2, 1857, and died 
November 6, 1882; John Freeman, born February 13, 1860, and died 
October 4, 1882; and David Porter, born August 23, 1862, unmarried and 
living with his mother (he teaches the school at Bloserville, and is a 
young man of exemplary habits and character.)  The history of this 
family contains a sad record of the ravages of death; the father, John, 
the sons, John Freeman and Samuel Wilson, dying within one week, and 
another son, George A., following them to the grave in less than a 
month.  The widow lives in retirement with her unmarried son and 
daughter in a new house on a part of the farm, which she has rented, 
and in the evening of her days is enjoying a well-earned rest from 
active cares.  She is a member of the Lutheran Church.