Robert Shafer Delauder ^{4 5 6 7}

  Baptism Notes:

Baptized in Christ Reformed United Church of Christ, Middletown, Maryland 1830 -1996 by Patricia Fogle. Baptized & Recorded by Rev. A. P. Freese Aug 1842-Nov. 1845. Pg. 13.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in Middletown District, Frederick County, MD on 20 June 1860. ⁶

1860 US Census
Page 64, Roll 474, Dwelling 458, Family 488
Middletown District, Frederick County, Maryland
Robert S. Delawder..15..MD
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Middletown, MD on 9 January 1920. ⁴

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 66, Dwelling 193, Family 209, Roll 672
Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland
Broad Street; Home owned, no mortgage
Robert S. Delauder..Head..74..MD
(Living with 2nd wife, widowed daughter, and 2 grandchildren.)
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• His obituary was published in the Frederick News on 22 March 1924 in Frederick, MD.

⁷ ROBERT F. DELAUDER, retired farmer, and Civil war veteran, died this morning at 3 o'clock at his home in Middletown of a complication of diseases, aged 78 years, 10 months and 26 days. He had been in failing health for some time.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ada Delauder; two sons, Stanley, near Jefferson; Robert C., Jersey City, N. J., and one daughter, Nora, at home; one sister, Mrs. Joseph Hanon, Rockford, Ill.; and one brother, John 0. Delauder, New York.

Mr. Delauder was a Civil war veteran and served in Co. A, 13th Division, Maryland Volunteer Infantry.

Funeral Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with services conducted by Rev. J. S. Adams, pastor of the Middletown Reformed church, officiating.
Pallbearers were: Edward Ifert, Charles Danner, Maurice Holter, Walter Beachley, John Bussard and Calvin Coblentz. Interment in the Reformed cemetery, Middletown. C. T. K. Gladhill, funeral director.

(Source: Frederick News, Frederick, Maryland, 22 Mar 1924)
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• He was buried on 24 March 1924 in the Christ Reformed Cemetery in Middletown, MD.

Find A Grave Memorial #41013096
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Robert married Callie Hersperger Willard, daughter of Abraham Willard and Harriett Hersperger, on 13 November 1873.^{1 2 3} (Callie Hersperger Willard was born on 23 July 1851 in , Frederick County, MD,^{2 3} died on 21 February 1876 in , Frederick County, MD ² and was buried after 21 February 1876 in Middletown, MD.)

Robert next married Ada Florence Barrick on 25 February 1879.^{1 4} (Ada Florence Barrick was born on 24 June 1856 in , Frederick County, MD,^{1 3 4 8} died on 7 June 1937 in , Frederick County, MD ^{1 3 9} and was buried on 9 June 1937 in Middletown, MD ⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Middletown, MD on 9 January 1920. ⁴

1920 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 66, Dwelling 193, Family 209, Roll 672
Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland
Broad Street; Home owned, no mortgage
Robert S. Delauder..Head..74..MD
Ada F. Delauder..Wife..63..MD
Nora L. Zecker..Dau..37..MD..Wd..Seamstress, Home
Lynden B. Zecker..GSon..7..MD
Rhoda M. Zecker..GDau..4..MD
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