Valley Girl Views: Eccentric Match Peddlar Found Dead In Ranglers Orchard, 1877

Friday, October 2, 2020

Eccentric Match Peddlar Found Dead In Ranglers Orchard, 1877

On October 2, 1877, Rosanna Hartman, an eccentric match peddler, was found dead in Rangler's Orchard. She had $149 in coins around her waist. Age 70.

Based on that:

Rosanna Hartman Born Abt 1807, Died 1877

I have not found any other mentions of "Ranglers Orchard", however, there are quite a few to "Ranglers Grove", which was later referred to as the grounds of the Milton Rod & Gun Club. The Sunbury Gazette however, named the orchard as that of Peter Raugler - not Rangler. As to which is correct, I simply do not know.

The Sunbury Gazette reported, in 1877:

A SINGULAR CASE. -Rosannah Hartman, better known as the old match woman, and who has been for many years a pauper in Turbut township, also wandering about selling matches and thus picking up a few pennies, was found dead in the orchard of Peter Raugler on Thursday morning last, She was very eccentric and a terror to children who did not know her, but really perfectly harmless. Esquire D. W. Wadenhamer,

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That's all I've been able to find. I feel like there's probably a story here, and the genealogist in me can't help but think that someone out there may appreciate that tidbit of information, so I am posting it here. Hopefully some day I will find more information, or someone will contact me with "the rest of the story".

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