The son of Frederick Rake (1842 - 1911) and Mary Jane Phillips, Albert married Rosa Belford (1/29/1880 - 7/5/1967) having fourteen (14) children:

Claude (12/15/1900 - 6/13/1960) married Lora Reed having three children: Edna (5/18/1924-?); Ronald 4/4/1926-?); & Patty 11/26/1936-?) married Oral Gulley.

Frank (7/2/1902 - 2/21/1998) married Ethel Bennington.

Sampson (Sam) (5/3/1904 - 4/14/1974) married Elizabeth Hamilton (8/25/1905 - 7/18/1952).

Tom (2/20/1906 - 8/27/1934).

Nellie (12/23/1907-?) having two children: Roy Dale Webb (12/31/1934 - 3/5/2008) married Bonnie Reeds & Elsie Mae Webb (8/1/1944-?) married Roger Willoughley.

Gladice (7/31/1909-?) married Ray Stanley having one daughter Betty.

Sarah (6/2/1911-?) married Howard Davis having one daughter Branda Davis (4/4/1943-?) married Ronald Hall.

Lucy (3/28/1913-?) married Denver Hale

Benjamin (5/12/1914 - 7/5/1914)

Clyde (8/29/1915-?) married Freda Layberger having seven (7) children: Frank; William; Clyde; Jane; Judy: Joy & Diane.

Fred Roy (5/18/1918 - 4/28/2004) married Thelma Williams having five (5) children: Denver (1/17/1938-?); Evilane (3/31/1940-?); Leroy (10/29/1943-?); Mona Lou (8/6/1950-?) & Mike (5/27/1957-?)

Helen (8/18/1919-?) married Earl Wright having five children: Beverly (1/19/1939-?) married Ronald Cottle; Bill (1/3/1942-?) married Linda Smith; Danny (5/11/1943-?) married Wilma Sims; Elaine (9/16/1947-?) married Mark Hartline; & Larry (5/17/1951-?) married Priscella Phipps.

Flocie (9/12/1922-?) married Ernest Percell having three children: Barbara (11/24/1939-?); Harold (1/31/1943-?) married Dottie Shaff; Kay (3/12/1945-?).

Wilber (8/24/1925 - 2/4/1985).

Albert Thorten Raike's father is Fredrick Rake (1842 - 1911).

Fredrick's father is Jacob Rake (1808-?). Jacob and Lovice Barnhart (1810-?) were married 9/25/1828 having eleven (11) children. Albert Thorten's father (Fredrick) is a brother to my great-grandfather John Rake (1834 - 1902). Albert & John's father is Jacob Rake. The spelling of our last name from Rake to Raike was change by Jacob.

Jacob is the son of Abraham Rake (1780 - 2/9/1869) and married Suzanne Simion (1783 - 12/6/1862) married in 1800. Both Abraham & Suzanne were born in Washington County, PA and died in Monroe County, OH although no location of their gravesite is known.

Abraham is the son of Johann Phillip Racke (1736-?) born in Albisheim, Bayern, Germany and married in 1766 but no information is available on his wife.

Johan Phillip is the son of Johann Jacob Racke (1695-?) born in Bayern, Germany and Anna Margaretha Morgensterns (1699-?) also born in Bayern and married in 1716.

ALL THIS INFORMATION WAS RESEARCHED BY MY NEPHEW SAMUEL EUGENE RAIKE AND PROVIDED FOR ALL TO SEE AND HOPEFULLY HELP YOU IN YOUR GENEALOGY QUEST.

Headstone photo courtesy of Janice "Hay" Stamper