Rachel Shiles Hitch ¹

Rachel S. Hitch was a Presbyterian. Her husband was a farmer and a Democrat.

Excerpt from a letter of Benjamin Hardy Hitch, nephew Rachel Shields Hitch (5) above, dated Penshurst, KY. Mar. 7, 1899; -

From "A Hitch Orchard" compiled by Daisy Bell Hitch in 1931: "My Aunt Rachel Hitch, Mr. Phoebus corresponded, was the youngest child of my grandfather, Joseph Hitch. She married Mr. C.A. Wanderlor, a very prominent man of the county. She died in 1862. She left two children, one died in infancy. The other lived to be married but died shortly afterwards. "Aunt Rach" (as we called her) was truly loved by all who knew her."

A newspaper account of a centennial celebration of the anniversary of the settlement of the Hitch family in Pendleton Co., KY. taken from "The Pendletonian", Falmouth Co., KY. dated July 9, 1908. Celebration July 4, 1908.

"Rachel Shields was born March 13, 1828, was united in marriage to C.A. Wanderlor, Nov. 30, 1857. To them were born two daughters. Cora lived to be grown and married Ben Wheeler but is now dead. Annie died in childhood. One grandchild is living."

She died at 1:00 pm of cholera-morbus.

Rachel married Cassius Augustus Wanderlohr, son of Frederick A. Wanderlohr and (?) Reynolds, on 30 Nov 1857.¹ (Cassius Augustus Wanderlohr was born on 18 Jan 1820 in Franklin Co., PA,⁵ died on 09 May 1897 in Falmouth, Pendleton Co., KY ⁵ and was buried about 12 May 1897 in Butler Cemetery, Pendleton Co., KY.)