Another Rauh Who Migrated to Alva, Oklahoma

Our museum has what might be a rather unexpected set of church records from Zion Lutheran Church in Alva, Oklahoma. We have them partly because they contain so many entries of people who had their start in Perry County before migrating to Alva. A few of us at the museum refer to churches such as Alva, Oklahoma as “Perry County suburbs” because so many Perry County natives migrated there and helped establish that congregation. I will tell another Alva, Oklahoma story today. We begin with the groom.