WDC GenWeb - Descendants of Adam Roder
(Roeder, Reader, Reeder, Rader)
* Adam Roder b. abt 1645 d. bef 1723 Mardach, Rhineland, Pfaltz, Germany
m. Anna Maria b. abt 1644 d. Jul 18 1723 Maudauch, Rheinland, Pfaltz
* Rosina Barbara Roder
* (Johann) Adam Roder
b. 1669 Switzerland. d. Mar 23 1720 Mutterstadt Germany
m. Anna Katharina Tauber
b. Nov 12 1670 Switzerland, d. Apr 19 1751 Emmaus PA
Anna and her children came to PA about 1724, they travelled from
Mutterstadt to Manheim, then down the Rhine River to Rotterdam,
where they took a boat across the English channel and caught a
ship from London, and settled in Emmaus PA.
One source says Adam m. Catherine Deibert
* Anna Maria Margareth Roder b. 1703
* Johann Heinrich Roder b. 1704
* (Hans) Adam (Roder) Rader
b. abt 1706 Mutterstadt Germany, d. Apr 18 1773 Timberville VA
m. Anna Barbara Painter Aug 1724
b. abt 1708 d. aft 1773 Timberville VA
Anna may have m.1st Mr Bender
* Mathias Roeder
b. 1726 Philadelphia PA, d. Mar 13 1789 Timberville VA
m. Jessie Bender b. abt 1730 PA, d. Oct 24 1815 Rockingham Co VA
* Adam Roder b. abt 1751
* David Reader b. abt 1755
* John Reader b. abt 1760
* George Roder b. abt 1766
* Susanna Reader b. abt 1771
* Jesse Reader b. abt 1772
* William Reader b. abt 1774
* Thomas Reader b. abt 1776
* Adam (Roeder) Rader
b. abt 1727 Bethlehem PA, d. 1783 Augusta Co VA
Lived in Shenandoah Co VA
m. Margaret Marie Zimmerman d. aft 1795 Rockingham VA
* Maj. Michael (Reader) Rader
b. Mar 8 1749 Augusta Co VA, d. Jun 18 1839 Gay WV
one sourse says b. Rockingham Co WV
Rev. War: Pvt. in Shenandoah Volunteers. With his uncle
Anthony, brother Adam, and Capt. Abraham Lincoln (the
grandfather of President Lincoln) formed more companies of
volunteers. Part of Dunmore's troops in 1774 during march
to Point Pleasant. Jun 9 1778 sworn in as Justice of VA by
Patrick Henry. Came to Greenbrier Co VA abt 1790, settled
at Rader Valley near Lewisburg. Moved to Jackson Co WV abt
1800 and settled near Gay WV on a 1,000 acre farm where he
and his wife are thought to be buried, his monument is at
Mt Olive Cem, Gay WV
m. Catherine Long Dec 25 1769 Augusta or Rockingham Co VA
b. Feb 16 1753 Augusta Co, d. Jun 18 1839 Jackson Co
* Elizabeth (Reader) Rader
b. Dec 28 1771 Shenandoah Co VA, d. Feb 6 1795
First person to be buried in Old Stone Churchyard at
Lewisburg VA
m. Andrew Holeman Nov 24 1791 Shenandoah Co
* Katherine Reader b. Sep 29 1773 Shenandoah Co VA
m. Andrew Ruddell Dec 10 1793 Shenandoah Co, b. abt 1771
* Susannah (Reader) Rader
b. Dec 29 1776 Rockingham Co VA, d. Jan 7 1857 Mason Co WV
m. Michael Kountz Dec 18 1802 Jackson Co WV
* Abraham (Reader) Rader
b. Jan 20 1778 Rockingham Co VA, d. Jan 7 1858
buried Old Stone Chruchyard, Lewisburg VA
m. Jemimia Howell bef 1813
b. Dec 25 1769 Botetourt Co VA, d. Dec 20 1813
m. Harriet Grenshaw Beck 1813-46, d. May 19 1846
* James Howell Reader
* four sons d. during Civil War
* James Miller (Reader) Rader
b. Jan 28 1782 Rockingham Co VA, d. Jan 12 1839
m. Hannah Cannady Allen Jun 6 1805 Mason Co WV
b. Jan 19 1791 Mason Co, d. Apr 27 1861 Jackson Co WV
* Phillip (Reader) Rader
b. Mar 26 1784 Timberville VA, d. Dec 15 1853 Akron IN
m. Elizabeth Siddon Jan 30 1812 Montgomery Co OH
* Mary "Polly" (Reader) Rader
b. 1786 Timberville VA, d. 1821
m. James Rayburn May 10 1807 Mason Co WV
b. Oct 11 1783 Greenbrier Co VA
d. Aug 8 1840 Mason Co WV
Descendants of Mary Rader and James Rayburn
* Michael (Reader) Rader Jr
b. Feb 12 1786 Timberville VA, d. Mar 18 1861
In the War of 1812
m. Katherine Roush Feb 23 1813 Gallia OH
b. Jun 18 1793 d. Jul 6 1886 Ripley WV
[d/o George Roush b. 1761 d. 1845, and Catherine
Zerkle b. 1763 d. abt 1813. George s/o
John Adam Rausch b. 1711 d. 1786 and Susannah _
* George Washington Rader b. 1814 d. 1868
m. Nancy Jane Miller Apr 7 1840
[d/o Stephen Miller and Sarah _]
* Elizabeth Ellen A E Rader b. 1846 d. 1928
buried Mt Olive Methodist Church
m. Charles P Shinn Feb 19 1866, b. 1843 d. 1921
Descendants of Elizabeth Rader and Charles Shinn
* Corp. Joseph Rader
b. Oct 21 1790 Botetourt Co VA
d. Nov 27 1880 Big Run, Wirt Co WV
Joseph, his wife and their children are buried in
unmarked graves, Good Hope Bapist Cem, near Reedy WV.
Fought in War of 1812
m. Martha Rayburn Aug 8 1813 Mason Co WV
b. Nov 9 1791 Greenbrier Co WV
d. Jun 15 1881 Wirt or Jackson Co WV
* Bennet Rader
m. Nancy Ann Elizabeth (Ann Eliza) Cobb
b. 1828 Kanawha Co WV, d. 1887 Mason Co WV
* Lewis A Rader b. Mar 9 1847 Kanawha Co WV
Civil War: Enlisted Mar 1863 in Co. I, 13th WV
Inf. and served two years and four months
m. America Geary Apr 22 1868 Roane Co WV
b. Nov 24 1849 Kanawha Co VA
* Una M Rader
b. Sep 25 1870 Roane Co WV
d. Aug 12 1871 Roane Co
* Alton C Rader b. Jun 2 1872 Roane Co WV
* Emory Rader b. Apr 11 1875 Roane Co WV
* Lillie Lee Rader b. Mar 27 1878 Roane Co WV
* Flora W Rader b. Jun 25 1879 Roane Co WV
* Icy G Rader b. Feb 26 1882 Roane Co WV
* Joseph P Rader b. 1849
* Benjamin Rader b. 1850
* Madison Clark Rader b. 1853
* Margaret Susanna Rader b. 1855 Kanawha Co WV
* Susanna Rader b. 1855 Kanawha Co WV
m. Charles Price Jul 1888 Kanawha Co
* Andrew J Rader b. Apr 10 1858 Kanawha Co WV
* Sarah Anne Rader b. Jul 5 1861 Kanawha Co WV
* Willford Cade Rader b. Jul 13 1865 Kanawha Co WV
m. Mattie Beard
* Susan Rader
m. Mordecai Thomasson
* Catharine Rader
m. Humphrey Mountz
* Nancy Rader
m. Mathias Benson Armstrong
* James Rader
* William Allen Rader
m. Elizabeth Callow
m. Elizabeth Conrad
* Andrew Jackson Rader
m. Sophronia Givens
* Henry Rader
* Mariah Rader
b. Oct 13 1815 Mason Co WV
d. Oct 3 1875 Wirt or Roane Co WV
m. Macklin Walker Jul 18 1833
b. 1808 Kanawha Co WV, d. 1844 Jackson Co WV
2nd husband of Mariah Rader:
m. Levi Pickerell Jr b. Dec 10 1822 Fraquier Co VA
[s/o Levi Pickerell Sr b. abt 1774, and m. Jan 12
1809 Susannah Rosannah Hitt b. abt 1790 Fauquier
Co VA. Other child: Lucy Pickerell m. Thomas Maze]
* Anna Eliza Pickerell b. Mar 11 1849 d. Aug 26 1882
m. John Wesley Sims
* Mary Sophronia Pickerell b. 1851 d. 1931
m. Peter George b. 1856 d. 1937
* Andrew Jackson Pickerell b. 1852 d. Nov 30 1917
m. Susan Elizabeth Sims Mar 8 1872
b. Nov 14 1853 d. Jul 1897
* Lillie Ellen Pickerell b. Dec 3 1873
m. Charles Creed Brown
b. May 5 1871 d. Feb 29 1936
* Roxie Hazel Brown b. Oct 23 1899
m. Harry Russel Tebay b. Jun 1898
* Levi Orlando Pickerell
b. Dec 2 1875 Roane Co WV, d. 1938 Kanawha Co WV
m. Cora Violet Dennis Nov 18 1903
b. Dec 6 1880 WV, d. Aug 12 1958 WV
* George Martin Pickerell b. Jun 1 1879 d. 1958
m. Mary Louise Wilhelm Jun 18 1904 Wood Co WV
b. Mar 3 1877 d. Feb 14 1961
* Lenna Leona Pickerell b. 1881
* Lula May Pickerell b. Mar 20 1884 d. Jan 23 1968
m. Walter Histon Sams Jun 19 1904 Wood Co WV
b. Aug 3 1880 d. Mar 22 1947
* Minnesota Pickerell b. Mar 17 1887 d. Jul 15 1939
m. Howard Frank Jones Nov 6 1911 Wood Co WV
b. Aug 25 1890
* Tennessee Pickerell b. Mar 17 1887
* Ezra Clyde Pickerell b. Aug 5 1889
* Orville Clay Pickerell b. 1892
* Maude Ocial Pickerell b. Jan 1 1894
* Harriet Lucinda Pickerell
b. Mar 23 1856 d. Sep 21 1918
m. Marcellus Williams Mar 30 1882
* Benjamin Franklin Pickerell b. 1860 d. 1939
m. Mary F Seaman Sep 12 1880 Roane Co WV
b. 1861 d. 1932
* Martha Ellen Pickerell
m. David Stalnaker
* three children
* Harriet Rader b. Dec 15 1818
m. James Madison Ashley
m. Renfrew Salsathiel Sleeth
* Philip Rader b. Aug 1 1825
m. Hulda Conrad
* Samuel Randolph Rader b. 1853
m. Susan Louisa Cain
* Leander Barr Rader b. Jan 16 1873 d. Feb 28 1943
m. Susan Ellen Sims Apr 12 1900
b. Oct 6 1880 Master Fork, Roane Co WV
d. Sep 20 1924
* Minnie Estle Rader b. Jan 18 1887
m. Granville Barr Sims Apr 7 1910 Palestine WV
b. Oct 15 1878 Master Fork, Roane Co WV
d. Oct 31 1957
* Vincent Rader
* George Rader
* Otto Rader
* Herbert Rader
* Laura Rader
* Henry Rader
* Jacob Reader b. Oct 21 1790 Botetourt Co VA
* Shadrach Reader b. abt 1752 Bethlehem PA
* Martin Reader b. abt 1753
* Conrad Reader b. May 20 1754
* Henry Rader b. abt 1756
* Susanna Reader b. abt 1761
m. Lawrence Houdeshell
* Adam Reader b. Feb 4 1761
* John Reader b. abt 1766
* Reuben Reader b. abt 1769
* Margaret Reader b. abt 1771 Shenandoah Co VA
m. Robert Shanklin Apr 28 1795 Rockingham Co VA
* Catherine Rader b. aft 1731 Bethlehem PA
* Capt. Anthony Rader
Served in Rev. War. Married and moved to Greenbrier Co WV
m. Dorothy Alexander
* Michael Rader
m. Margaret McClung
* John Rader
m. Elvira Lemasters
[d/o Benjamin Lemasters and Rebecca Martin]
* John Rader b. aft 1731 Bethlehem PA, d. bef 1773 Augusta Co VA
* Rachel Rader b. abt 1732 Bethlehem PA, d. bef 1773
* Samuel Reader b. abt 1740 Bethlehem PA, d. bef 1773
* Elizabeth Reeder b. abt 1742 d. aft 1773
* George Reader b. abt 1743
* Johann 'Hans' Michael Roder b. abt 1714
* Louisa Roder b. 1716 d. bef 1724 Germany
* Maria Catharina Roder b. Mar 20 1719
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