When Rudolph Forry SR was born in 1767, in York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, John Laurence Furry, was 35 and his mother, Margaret Bieri, was 23. He married Elisabeth Catherine Lichtenberger in 1797, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 10 July 1841, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, York, Pennsylvania, United States.