tennessee

Index #2 is for known members of the family of Stephen W. Rutledge born 1833 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Have you seen the book "Chosen Exile, The Life and Times of Septima
Sexta Middleton Rutledge American Cultural Pioneer" by Mary Bray
Wheeler and Genon Hickerson Neblett? Septima and henry Middleton
Rutledge married and left Charleston to establish a country seat on
the Elk River in Franklin County, Tennessee. You might find some
clues in this book

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WM. M. RUTLEDGE was born in Roane County, Tenn. in 1848, and is one of a
family of six children born to Geo. P. and Delia (Tedford) Rutledge. The father
was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., June, 1813, and followed farming in that
and Blount Counties until about 1861, when he moved to Spalding County, Ga.,
and from there in 1865, to Huntland, Franklin Co.,Tenn., at which place he
embarked in merchandising, and continued that until a short time before his
death, which occurred in February, 1884. The mother, a native of Alabama,
preceded him May 11, 1878. Wm. M., the subject of this sketch, remained with his
parents until their death, and in 1878 he began merchandising for himself, and
in partnership with Geo. C. Rutledge carries a splendid line of general
merchandise at Huntland, this county. In November, 1879 he married Martitia
Staples, daughter of Jno. W. Staples, of this county. This marriage has been blessed
by the birth of two children, both girls: Roxie and Nettie, both still
living. . Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge are active members of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Rutledge has always been a Democrat, and is a strong advocate of
the principles of prohibition

NameHome in 1850Estimated Birth YearBirth Place
(City,County,State)
Elizabeth RutledgeSubdivision 7, Claiborne, TNabt 1800Virginia
John RutledgeSubdivision 7, Claiborne, TNabt 1842Tennessee
Nelson RutledgeSubdivision 7, Claiborne, TNabt 1839Tennessee
Thomas RutledgeSubdivision 7, Claiborne, TNabt 1770Virginia

NameHome in 1860Age in 1860Birth YearBirthplaceGender
(City,County,State)

Thomas RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN94abt 1766VirginiaMale
Priscilla RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN57abt 1803North CarolinaFemale
Nelson RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN22abt 1838TennesseeMale
Mary RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN24abt 1836TennesseeFemale
Cermlia RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN2abt 1858TennesseeFemale
Nelson RutledgeSubdivision 9, Claiborne, TN20abt 1840TennesseeMale

Hope this helps a bit!

Cyndi Rutledge

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Rutledge <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [RUTLEDGE] Tennesee Rutledge Families

I would like to hear from anyone researching any
Rutledge family in the Old Tazewell, TN area. My
husband's ancestors lived there during the Civil War.
I have no names and have no living family member who
can help me.

I know his grandfather Rutledge served in the Civil
War, likely as a Confederate soldier. His rifle was
engraved "Tower of London," which suggests gun runners
were successful in getting it through the northern
blockade of a southern port. I know he was last
stationed along the Kentucky River at Camp Nelson in
Garrard County.

I see amost no Rutledge postings from TN. Anyone know
present day county for Old Tazewell area?

Helen B. Rutledge

Civil War links to pension records for surname Rutledge by Tennessee Genealogical Society.

Title	Year
Rutledge, Margaret P.	1896
Rutledge, Alex.	1896
Rutledge, Anthony.	1894
Rutledge, Margaret J.	1889
Rutledge, Nannie.	1887
Rutledge, No Name.	1887
Rutledge, Thomas W.	1886	Could be our Thomas W.
Rutledge, Martha L.	1884
Rutlege, Zilpha M.	1874
Julia.	1862

My Rutledge brick wall is:

William Rutledge (abt 1770 - after 1812) probably TN
m. 1801 to Jane Larkin (28 Oct 1777 - 5 May 1859)

Parents of
A. N(elson) Rutledge (abt 1812 - 1865)
m. abt 1853 to Rosanna Counts (abt 1835 - 1872)

The family of A. Nelson Rutledge was living in Franklin TN in 1860.

-- Dave

Someone sent me the marriage information on a James Rutledge and a Namcy
Armstrong. Bond date 16 Jan 1811 with bondsman James Porsch in Maury County, Tn.
I have a mystery James and John Rutledge (brothers) who I am trying to locate
their parents and other siblings. My James and John appear to have been born
in Tn.

My question is this..............Is anyone here related to this James
Rutledge and Nancy Armstrong. If yes, do you show them with children named James and
John? My James was born in 1813 and John much later.

Since James and Nancy were married in 1811 and my James was born 1813, this
would be about the correct dates.

Thanks so much,
Terrie

[email protected]

This is Arthur Middleton Rutledge (b. 1817 d. 1876).
Grandson of the two Declaration signers Edward
Rutledge and Arthur Middleton. He was a great
benefactor/founder for the University of the South in
Sewanee TN. He was a Major for the Confederacy. This
comes from "Chosen Exile: The Life and Times of
Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge, 1980 Mary Bray
Wheeler and Genon Hickerson Neblett".

Pat

--- Kermit Rutledge <[email protected] wrote:

(Quote:)
On May 29, 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued a
proclamation granting
amnesty to all persons who participated either
directly or indirectly in
the recent rebellion. All rights and property,
except for slaves, were
to be restored upon taking the oath to support and
defend the
Constitution of the United States of America.

There were 14 classes of people who were excluded
from the Amnesty
Proclamation. In order to obtain a pardon, these
people had to formally
request a pardon from the President.

Index to Pardon Petitions and
Related Papers Submitted in Response to President
Andrew Johnson's
Amnesty Proclamations of May 29, 1865, ("Amnesty
Papers") Extracted from
National Archives Microfilm M1003 - Roll 50
TENNESSEE

Name: Arthur M. Rutledge
County: Franklin
Filed: 15 July 1865
Pardoned: 18 Sept 1865
Applied: 7 July 1865
Oath of Allegiance Card Included: Yes
***Additional Information: Graduated from West Point
in 1837

Under the new proclamation, 14 classes of persons
were excepted from the
general amnesty. Johnson incorporated Lincoln's
seven exceptions with a
few alterations and added the following:
**1) individuals who had absented themselves from
the United States in
order to aid in the rebellion,
**2) graduates of West Point or Annapolis who served
as Confederate
officers,
**3) ex-Confederate governors,
**4) person who left homes in territory under U. S.
jurisdiction for
purposes of aiding the rebellion,
**5) persons who engaged in destruction of commerce
on the high seas or
in raids from Canada,
**6) voluntary participants in the rebellion who had
property valued at
more than $20,000, and
**7) persons who had broken the oath taken under the
provisions of the
proclamation of December 8, 1863.
Johnson indicated he did not wish to deny
pardon to many in
the excepted classes, but he "intended they should
sue for pardon, and
so realize the enormity of their crime." There were,
however, motives
other

This Rutledge family isn't from Tennessee. They are from Charlotte Co., VA.
They do carry many of the same names of later generations in Tennessee (i.e.
David, Synthia). I believe that David Rutledge's brother may be John who
went to Tennessee in early 1800's. Possibly the same John that murdered
William Loggins, Jr. in Tennessee. John was married to Sally Loggins in
1794 in Charlotte County, VA. From internet info. Sally and William were
probally cousins.

I really wish I could find something to connect the Charlotte Co., VA and
the Tennessee Rutledges.

Linda (from Southside VA)

Wonder if this would help with the Tennessee Rutledge in Bedford County, it
seems
that at one time I believe Bedford could have been part of Davidson Co. or
vice versa.

Descendants of Henry Middleton Rutledge

Generation No. 1

1. HENRY MIDDLETON4 RUTLEDGE (EDWARD3, JOHN2, THOMAS1) was born 05 Apr
1775 in Camden Kershaw Co. South Carolina, and died 20 Jan 1844 in Nashville,
Davidson County Tennessee. He married SEPTIMA SEXTA MIDDLETON 15 Oct 1799
in Sullivans Island South Carolina. She was born 15 Oct 1783 in South
Carolina, and died 12 Jun 1865 in Nashville, Davidson County Tennessee.
Notes for HENRY MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE:
Minnie Rutledge a neice of Francis B. Fogg.
Children of HENRY RUTLEDGE and SEPTIMA MIDDLETON are:
i.       EDWARD5 RUTLEDGE.
2.               ii.       WILLIAM RUTLEDGE, b. 1796, South Carolina; d.
1862.
iii.       MARY MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE, b. 18 Jun 1801, Charleston South
Carolina; d. 12 Mar 1872, Nashville, Davidson County Tennessee; m. FRANCIS BRINLLEY
FOGG, 11 Nov 1823, Nashville, Tennessee.
3.              iv.       HENRY ADOLPHUS RUTLEDGE, b. 08 Aug 1805, Charleston
South Carolina; d. 23 Sep 1883, Rutledge Place Selma Dallas County
Tennessee.
v.       EMMA MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE, b. 1812; d. 13 Apr 1853; m. DANIEL BLAKE.
4.              vi.       ARTHUR MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE, b. 01 Apr 1817; d. 17
Jun 1876, Sewanee Franklin County Tennessee.

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM5 RUTLEDGE (HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3, JOHN2, THOMAS1) was
born 1796 in South Carolina, and died 1862. He married MARY WILLIAMS 1814.
She was born 1797, and died 1869.
Children of WILLIAM RUTLEDGE and MARY WILLIAMS are:
i.       GEORGE6 RUTLEDGE.
ii.       JOHN RUTLEDGE.
iii.       ROBERT RUTLEDGE.
iv.       JOSIAH RUTLEDGE.
v.       ELLEN RUTLEDGE.
5.              vi.       RICHARD WILLIAM RUTLEDGE, b. 27 Dec 1816; d. 13 Aug
1889.
3. HENRY ADOLPHUS5 RUTLEDGE (HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3, JOHN2, THOMAS1)
was born 08 Aug 1805 in Charleston South Carolina, and died 23 Sep 1883 in
Rutledge Place Selma Dallas County Tennessee. He married CAROLINE BELL
NICHOLSON 24 Nov 1831 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was born 12 Apr 1812 in
Davidson City Tennessee, and died 23 Dec 1878 in Selma Dallas County Tennessee.
Children of HENRY RUTLEDGE and CAROLINE NICHOLSON are:
i.       EMMA PHILADELPHIA6 RUTLEDGE, b. 06 Aug 1833, Nashville, Davidson
Co. Tennessee; d. 28 Nov 1863, Talladega, Talladega Alabama; m. EDWIN C.
TURNER.
ii.       SEPTIA SEXTA MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE, b. 03 Feb 1836, Talladega,
Talladega Alabama; d. 26 Mar 1920, Jacksonville, Calhoun Alabama; m. JOHN H. FORNEY,
05 Feb 1863, Talladega, Talladega Alabama.
4. ARTHUR MIDDLETON5 RUTLEDGE (HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3, JOHN2,
THOMAS1) was born 01 Apr 1817, and died 17 Jun 1876 in Sewanee Franklin County
Tennessee. He married ELIZA LIGHT 04 Nov 1851 in Warren County Kentucky. She
was born 1828, and died 1865.
Children of ARTHUR RUTLEDGE and ELIZA LIGHT are:
6.                i.       ELIZABETH6 RUTLEDGE.
7.               ii.       EMMA RUTLEDGE.
8.              iii.       ARTHUR MIDDLETON RUTLEDGE.
iv.       JOSEPH H. H. RUTLEDGE, b. 1859; d. 1876.

Generation No. 3

5. RICHARD WILLIAM6 RUTLEDGE (WILLIAM5, HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3,
JOHN2, THOMAS1) was born 27 Dec 1816, and died 13 Aug 1889. He married EMILY
KIRBY 30 Oct 1844 in McDonough County Illinois. She was born 03 Apr 1828, and
died 13 Aug 1889.
Children of RICHARD RUTLEDGE and EMILY KIRBY are:
i.       WILLIAM7 RUTLEDGE.
ii.       FRANCES E. RUTLEDGE, m. WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, 10 Jan 1872,
Chareton County Missouri.
iii.       RICHARD WARREN RUTLEDGE.
iv.       CHARLES FRANKLIN RUTLEDGE.
v.       ROBERT THOMAS RUTLEDGE, b. 1849.
vi.       JOHN BARKER RUTLEDGE, b. 1850.
vii.       GEORGE FINLEY RUTLEDGE, b. 19 Sep 1854.
viii.       JOHNSON KEITH RUTLEDGE, b. Oct 1857.
ix.       LYMAN JAMES RUTLEDGE, b. 21 Oct 1858.
x.       EDWARD I. RUTLEDGE, b. 1863.
xi.       HARRY N. RUTLEDGE, b. 17 Jan 1868.
xii.       EMMA LUELLA KATE RUTLEDGE, b. 30 Jul 1870.
6. ELIZABETH6 RUTLEDGE (ARTHUR MIDDLETON5, HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3,
JOHN2, THOMAS1) She married HENRY E. YOUNG.
Child of ELIZABETH RUTLEDGE and HENRY YOUNG is:
9.                i.       ARTHUR R.7 YOUNG.
7. EMMA6 RUTLEDGE (ARTHUR MIDDLETON5, HENRY MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3, JOHN2,
THOMAS1) She married HENRY A. M. SMITH.
Child of EMMA RUTLEDGE and HENRY SMITH is:
i.    J. J. PRINGLE7 SMITH, m. HENNINGHAM ELLETT.
8. ARTHUR MIDDLETON6 RUTLEDGE (ARTHUR MIDDLETON5, HENRY MIDDLETON4,
EDWARD3, JOHN2, THOMAS1) He married ROSALIE WINSTON 1893.
Children of ARTHUR RUTLEDGE and ROSALIE WINSTON are:
i.       ARTHUR MIDDLETON7 RUTLEDGE.
ii.       WINSTON UNDERWOOD RUTLEDGE.
iii.       EDWARD RUTLEDGE.

Generation No. 4

9. ARTHUR R.7 YOUNG (ELIZABETH6 RUTLEDGE, ARTHUR MIDDLETON5, HENRY
MIDDLETON4, EDWARD3, JOHN2, THOMAS1) He married NANNY CONNOR.
Children of ARTHUR YOUNG and NANNY CONNOR are:
i.       ARTHUR MIDDLETON8 YOUNG.
ii.       JAMES CONNOR YOUNG.
iii.       JOSEPH RUTLEDGE YOUNG, m. JULIA GRIMKE.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Donal O'Kelly" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: [RUTLEDGE] Bible record and letter

Added to Most Wanted documents section today, a bible record of a Rutledge
family in Tennessee and somehow related to a John Rutledge.

I receive new documents like this one nearly every week.

Do these Rutledges belong to you?

There is a letter to J.H. Rutledge at the bottom of the page.

Cousin Don

Copied from the Bible of JOHN HUNDLEY RUTLEDGE

BIRTHS:

John H. Rutledge the son of David and Sintha Rutledge was Born May 30th
1824
Julian Rutledge the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rutledge was born Feb. 27,
1897

MARRIAGES:

John H Rutledge and Ann H. Grile was married May 6th 1875
D.C. Hutchinson and S. A. Grile was married Sept. 22, 1880
G. R. Jones and A. R. Grile was married Oct. 31st, 1880
D. S. Grile and E. H. Jones (unclear spelling) was married April 20th,
1881

DEATHS:

David Rutledge died October 19th, 1856
A. C. Jones Died February 17th, 1870

Mrs. Synthia Rutledge died Sept 19th, 1874
Cpt. Wm. H. Stokes died Feb 28th, 1877
Albert E. Grile died May 4th 1877
Park H Rutledge Died February 17th 1881
Clary Newcomb died Dc. 25th, 1883
Syntha J. Newcomb died May 9th, 1888
Joseph Newcomb died Jan 16th, 1888
Sarah F. Collins died July 12th, 1896
Jack Yeats died March 17, 1897 (date unclear)
Julian Rutledge died June 21, 1907
John H. Rutledge died Oct. 1907

In the Bible an original postcard written by D T Newcomb to John Rutledge
was found.
It's postmark was "Rich. & Dan and dated MAR 26"
The Postage was one cent
The Address was:
    J.H. Rutledge
    Randolph
    Charlotte County Va

It was dated March 26, /83 and read as follows (Please note that there was
no punctuationin the postcard):

J H Rutledge Dear Sir
I have not heard from you in some time Please write to me and let me hear
how mother isThe last letter I had from you stated you would write to me
every week That has been three weeks ago Let me know how you all are I
got a letter from Josh Ferrell a day ortwo ago He wants to come back to
Va I have been troubled with the rheumatism for too weeks so that I can
hardly get about though I have been attending to my business all the time
but it is about all I can do I have got the Widow Toombs staying at my
house Been there four weeks Lizzie has gone to housekeeping three weeks
today

D T Newcomb

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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume
64
page 289
Mrs. Fay Thomas Case.
DAR ID Number: 63864
Born in Thomasburg, Tenn.
Wife of Frank Harden Case.
Descendant of George Descenda.
Daughter of Jacob Thomas and Mary McClellan, his wife.
Granddaughter of George Granddau McClellan and Adeline Anderson, his wife.
Gr-granddaughter of William Anderson and Jane Gr-grand, his wife.
Gr-gr-granddaughter of George Gr-gr-gr and Annis Armstrong, his wife, m.
1802.
George George (1755-1813) served in the Revolution and was engaged in the
battle of King's Mountain. He was born in Ireland; died in Blountville, Tenn.
Also _No. 49791_
(http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=drev&f5=49791) .

The IN Rutledge family is very interesting. My William b 1795 (1850 census
and prior census agree) I understood in TN. However I find him in Jennings Co.
IN in 1820 and then in 1830 in Harrison Co. IN. He is in Buchanan Co. MO
Rush Twp. for the 1850 census having with him children born in IN and MO. I
believe he married Diantha Trindell in Jennings Co she was a widow maiden name I
believe was Eastman. I later find no wife with Wm in MO though he had a son in
1846-7 there so I assume she died before the census of 1850. The two
youngest sons are found with E. D. and Buerll Eastman in TX in 1860. I have done
this off the top of my head but if there is a chance there is a connection I will
be happy to check dates etc. and post more completely. Ginny in Wyoming

Hello Rutledge Readers,
I actually posted this Message back in 2005 and I am still searching for these same Rutledge descendants. However, I wanted to re-post my message because I am changing my email address and wanted to let others know what my new email address will be in case they have information concerning my Rutledge's. So after 02/19/2006, please email me at :

[email protected]

Thanks everyone, William Hale

I found my gr-gr-grandfather Caleb W. Rutledge was living in McMinn
county,TN on the 1850 and 1860 census with wife Eliza, their children -
Elizabeth, William and Thomas. I found where he had married Eliza Ann Berry
in Claiborne County,TN in the 1840's. I also have information that he was
most likely born in Virginia about 1825. I was never able to find this
family on any kind of 1870 census.

The next time I picked up Caleb or C.W. Rutledge was on the 1880 Rockcastle
County,KY census. However, I believe that Caleb and wife moved back to
Claiborne County,TN area by the 1890's and that they must have died there
sometime in the 1890's.

Their children Elizabeth, William, Thomas, and Lula would marry and stay in
the Rockcastle, Laurel and Bell county area of Kentucky. I believe oldest
daughter Elizabeth Rutledge married William Barger and can be found on the
1880 Rockcastle county,KY census. William and his family (second wife) can
be found on the 1880 Rockcastle Co.,KY census and then again on the 1900
Laurel Co., KY census. Thomas and wife Eva can also be found on the 1900
Laurel Co,KY census. Youngest daughter Lula born about 1864 and married in
1884 can also be found in Laurel Cop., KY 1900 census.

From William's 1880 Rockcastle CO.,KY census you'll see he has a son named
Charles. If you now jump to the 1910 Bell County,KY census you'll see
Charles or Charley is married and has three kids (it says 2 kids, but 3 are
listed). Son Oscar E. is one of these children.

Next I was able to get a 1960 obituary on Oscar E. Rutledge who was one of
the 3 kids from the 1910 Bell Co., KY census :

Oscar E. Rutledge's obituary appeared on

Wednesday, June 22, 1960, edition of the Louisville,Kentucky
Courier-Journal, on

page 12. It read:

"Oscar E. Rutledge, 51, a foreman for the Raymond Krauth sheet-metal firm

at Baxter and Rogers, suffered a heart attack there Tuesday morning and

was dead on arrival at a hospital. Rutledge, 2125 Maple, had been ill

since October. Survivors are his wife, the former Virginia Gordon; two

sisters, Mrs. Cleo Tyrell, Mitchell, Kentucky, and Mrs. Leona Brooks,

Cincinnati, and a brother, Charles Rutledge, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The body will be at Rafterman's, 2114 West Market, after 2 pm Wednesday."

I tried looking up email address and phones numbers.Yes, I made some
telephone calls to these area's in hope's of reaching his sibling's
family's. But no luck.

So that's where I'm at on my Rutledge's. I do know where some of them were
as late as the 1960's, but have not been able to pick up their trail from
there.

But I know that some of their decendants have to be out there somewhere and that is why I am posting this information.

William

Assorted un-indexed information about Rutledge in any war.
This record is picked up by our search engine.

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(Quote:)
On May 29, 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation granting
amnesty to all persons who participated either directly or indirectly in
the recent rebellion. All rights and property, except for slaves, were
to be restored upon taking the oath to support and defend the
Constitution of the United States of America.

There were 14 classes of people who were excluded from the Amnesty
Proclamation. In order to obtain a pardon, these people had to formally
request a pardon from the President.

Index to Pardon Petitions and
Related Papers Submitted in Response to President Andrew Johnson's
Amnesty Proclamations of May 29, 1865, ("Amnesty Papers") Extracted from
National Archives Microfilm M1003 - Roll 50 TENNESSEE

Name: Arthur M. Rutledge
County: Franklin
Filed: 15 July 1865
Pardoned: 18 Sept 1865
Applied: 7 July 1865
Oath of Allegiance Card Included: Yes
***Additional Information: Graduated from West Point in 1837

Under the new proclamation, 14 classes of persons were excepted from the
general amnesty. Johnson incorporated Lincoln's seven exceptions with a
few alterations and added the following:
**1) individuals who had absented themselves from the United States in
order to aid in the rebellion,
**2) graduates of West Point or Annapolis who served as Confederate
officers,
**3) ex-Confederate governors,
**4) person who left homes in territory under U. S. jurisdiction for
purposes of aiding the rebellion,
**5) persons who engaged in destruction of commerce on the high seas or
in raids from Canada,
**6) voluntary participants in the rebellion who had property valued at
more than $20,000, and
**7) persons who had broken the oath taken under the provisions of the
proclamation of December 8, 1863.
Johnson indicated he did not wish to deny pardon to many in
the excepted classes, but he "intended they should sue for pardon, and
so realize the enormity of their crime." There were, however, motives

No success stories here yet. I did most of all of my postings on my
Rutledge's-Lrootsweb.com back in May of this year, but I have not been
contacted by any Rutledge family members. Here's a little information from
those posting and what I already knew and some new information that I've
learned since then.

I found my gr-gr-grandfather Caleb W. Rutledge was living in McMinn
county,TN on the 1850 and 1860 census with wife Eliza, their children -
Elizabeth, William and Thomas. I found where he had married Eliza Ann Berry
in Claiborne County,TN in the 1840's. I also have information that he was
most likely born in Virginia about 1825. I was never able to find this
family on any kind of 1870 census.

The next time I picked up Caleb or C.W. Rutledge was on the 1880 Rockcastle
County,KY census. However, I believe that Caleb and wife moved back to
Claiborne County,TN area by the 1890's and that they must have died there
sometime in the 1890's.

Their children Elizabeth, William, Thomas, and Lula would marry and stay in
the Rockcastle, Laurel and Bell county area of Kentucky. I believe oldest
daughter Elizabeth Rutledge married William Barger and can be found on the
1880 Rockcastle county,KY census. William and his family (second wife) can
be found on the 1880 Rockcastle Co.,KY census and then again on the 1900
Laurel Co., KY census. Thomas and wife Eva can also be found on the 1900
Laurel Co,KY census. Youngest daughter Lula born about 1864 and married in
1884 can also be found in Laurel Cop., KY 1900 census.

From William's 1880 Rockcastle CO.,KY census you'll see has a son named
Charles. If you now jump to the 1910 Bell County,KY census you'll see
Charles or Charley is married and has three kids (it says 2 kids, but 3 are
listed).

Next I was able to get a 1960 obituary on Oscar E. Rutledge who was one of
the 3 kids from the 1910 Bell Co., KY census :

Oscar E. Rutledge's obituary appeared in the

Wednesday, June 22, 1960, edition of the Louisville,Kentucky
Courier-Journal, on

page 12. It read:

"Oscar E. Rutledge, 51, a foreman for the Raymond Krauth sheet-metal firm

at Baxter and Rogers, suffered a heart attack there Tuesday morning and

was dead on arrival at a hospital. Rutledge, 2125 Maple, had been ill

since October. Survivors are his wife, the former Virginia Gordon; two

sisters, Mrs. Cleo Tyrell, Mitchell, Kentucky, and Mrs. Leona Brooks,

Cincinnati, and a brother, Charles Rutledge, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The body will be at Rafterman's, 2114 West Market, after 2 pm Wednesday."

I tried looking up email address and phones numbers.Yes, I made some
telephone calls to these area's in hope's of reaching his sibling's
family's. But no luck.

So that's where I'm at on my Rutledge's. I do know where some of them were
as late as the 1960's, but have not been able to pick up their trail from
there.

William

Extracted from "The Handy Book":

TENNESSEE - State 1796 (16th)

North Carolina formally annexed Tennessee in 1776, as Washington County
(which covered the entire present state)

In 1784, North Carolina ceded Tennessee to the United States. When the
federal government refused to acknowledge the cession, the people of
Tennessee organized the State of Franklin. This lasted 4 years and
North Carolina regained control of the area again in 1789.

North Carolina again ceded the area to the U. S. in 1789, which formed
the Southwest Territory in 1790.

Tennessee became a state in 1796.

Other Notes:
Some early counties formed from Washington County: Sullivan, 1779;
Davidson & Greene, 1783; Carter, 1796.

Wayne County, TN was created in 1785 under the State of Franklin, and
included present Carter County and part of Johnson County. Wayne
County was abolished in 1788.

In 1788, there was a county called Tennessee. The county surrendered
it's name when Tennessee became a state in 1796. Montgomery and
Robertson counties were formed from Tennessee County in 1796.

Ref: Handy Book for Genealogists

My name is Donald R. Rutledge descended from Emanuel (about 1801).

I have run across reference to the subject book. I would like to check
the book but do not know where to find it. Would it be in a library and
if so maybe someone will be able to tell me where.
I live in Kingsport, Sullivan Co, Tn.
For those who may not know Sullivan Co adjoins Hawkins Co Tn, Greene
Co Tn Wasnington Co Tn. and Carter Co Tn. as Well as Scott Co Va.
and Washington Co Va.

Being in the Northeast corner of Tennesssee we are also close to the
state of North Carolina.

With regard to the book I saw it has information on " Jackson
Middleton Rutledge".

Any information will be appreciated.
Donald R. Rutledge, I sign
Don R.

Note: This is near where Stephen Rutledge was born in 1833, one record says Hawkins, another says Granger.

In a message dated 5/25/05 5:34:36 AM, [email protected] writes:

Flagg Springs, is the name of the plantation where the Rutledge Family
lived, and until recently was still in the hands of the family. I believe
it has now passed out of family hands.

Flagg Springs was divided by Edward Rutledge between his two sons, James and
George, George's part of it remaining under the old name, the other becoming
known as Black Oak Spring. I don't know about Flagg Springs, but Black Oak
Spring is now in the hands of a Mehler family. Someone on this list has been in
touch with the Mehlers, who say they still have some of the original documents
relating to the Rutledges. The original house still stands. It's near New Hope,
Virginia, on Route 616.

George died in 1823. His sister was the Sarah Rutledge who married George
McNeely. I understand the entire family -- or a major part of it -- left Augusta
Co. around 1835 and settled in Fulton County, IL.

Peter in California

Any information on my ancestor Nelson Rutledge, listed in the 1860 census of Claiborne, TN as "A. N. Rutledge, M, 48" would be appreciated.

He was married to Rosanna(h) Counts, born about 1835, with quite a few children including my ancestor Ann Rutledge, listed as "Elizabeth, F, 6" in the census. She was born in 1854.

I am particularly interested in first name, exact birth and death dates, other marriages (my records indicate he may have been married both before and after this marriage), and parents. Family tradition is that he was descended from the "founding father" Rutledges but I have found no evidence to substantiate this claim.

Database: Tennessee Civil War Regimental Histories

May 30, 2005
7:29 AM

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The Military Annals of Tennessee Confederate. First Series: Embracing a
Review of Military Operations with Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls.
Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls.
Third Tennessee Infantry
The roll of field and staff officers was as follows: Colonel, John C.
Brown; Lieutenant-colonel, Thos. M. Gordon; Major, Nathaniel F. Cheairs;
Adjutant, Thos. M. Tucker; Quartermasters, Ben P. Roy and J. L. Herron;
Commissary, B. L. Wilkes; Surgeons, Sam H. Stout and Jas. A. Bowers;
Assistant Surgeon, Wiley S. Perry; Chaplains, Marcus Williams and Thos.
H. Davenport; Sergeant-major, William Polk; Quartermaster Sergeants, J.
F. Alexander and J. W. Littleton; Commissary Sergeant, John S. Wilkes;
Ordnance Sergeants, Wallace W. Rutledge and Jas. J. Walker; Hospital
Steward, Eber Fry.
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The Military Annals of Tennessee Confederate. First Series: Embracing a
Review of Military Operations with Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls.
Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls.
Third Tennessee Infantry
Co. G, formerly Co. A: Captain, David Rhea; First Lieutenant, David S.
Martin; Second Lieutenant, John C. Lester; Junior Second Lieutenant,
Wallace W. Rutledge; rank and file 97 men, with recruits.
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The Military Annals of Tennessee Confederate. First Series: Embracing a
Review of Military Operations with Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls.
Cavalry.
Forrest's Escort
The company surrendered one hundred and seven privates and the following
officers: Capt., John C. Jackson; First Lieut., Nathan Boone; First
Lieut., Matthew Cortner; Second Lieut., Geo. L. Cowan; Acting Third
Lieut., John Eaton. Non-commissioned officers: First Sergt., M. L.
Parks; Second Sergt., W. Ed. Sims; Third Sergt., W. A. E. Rutledge;
Fourth Sergt., C. C. McLemore; Fifth Sergt., Wm. H. Matthews; First
Corp., H. J. Crenshaw; Second Corp., W. T. H. (Crittenden) Wharton;
Third Corp., P. C. Richardson; Fourth Corp., R. C. Keeble; Bugler, W. F.
Watson; Ensign, J. O. Crump.

Got a problem with the list? Write [email protected] for help.

Kate, I got most of my information on Rutledge/McKinney from Lynn
Dielman and Wilma McKinney. Lynn said they shared much info. Maybe
you can touch bases with them. I think Lynn's email is:
[email protected] and I believe Wilma's is: <[email protected]
It seems to me someone I was in contact with had an Abraham McKinney in
the ancestry. Good luck!
Marcia in CA
On May 30, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Kate Mullins wrote:

Will the person who is related to the McKinney's talk to me about that
family? I am a Rutledge from MS but lurk on this list a lot--not doing
Rutledge research but like the folks on this list. I am looking for
the McKinney's in TN and KY and what the tie is between the two--my
primary family if Prather--Eleanor Prather married Abraham McKinney in
KY and moved to MO--ring any bells? Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Quesinberry [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RUTLEDGE] Rutledge Family in McMinn County,TN 1850 -1860

I have Stephen W. Rutledge married to Mary Massey. Their daughter,
Flora Josephine Rutledge married Meldon Price McKinney. Their son,
Frederick Wilson McKinney married Alice Thomas. Their son, Elvin Harry
McKinney (my father) married Leah Pitcher. Their children, Charles
Frederick McKinney (married l. Barbara Mahoney, 2. Barbara ?
(adopted), Dennis Lee McKinney (married Lorrita Martin), myself -
Marcia Sue McKinney (married Paul Quesinberry), and Marilyn Jane
McKinney (married 1. Patrick Fisher, 2. Vincent Ford, and 3. Joseph
Cyrus). I can give you our childrens names, etc. if you want to go that
deep. I also have some brothers and sisters to my grands, and
gggrands, etc.

My dad, Elvin, and his brother Dalton, hopped a train to come from
Missouri to California. My dad was born in Pittsburg, Kansas.
On May 29, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Don Kelly wrote:

Marcia, can I have two or three paragraphs about your grandfather and
great grandfather?
Thinks for helping fill this out. All the kids then all the grandkids.
Don
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Quesinberry"
<[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [RUTLEDGE] Rutledge Family in McMinn County,TN 1850 -1860

Don, thanks for sharing. Stephen R. was my gg grandfather. I love
having all your research about him. Thanks!
Marcia in CA
On May 29, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Don Kelly wrote:

Good morning cousins. In case anyone missed it, there is a migration

page for the family headed by Stephen Rutledge (my 3gfather) in
which accumulation of birth records and other data indicates on of
Stephen's children was born in Alabama.

I assembled all of the information I had.....very carefully......and

posted it at:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~donkelly/RUTLEDGE/Rutstates/
Stephen_Rutledge/migration.htm

If anyone can add to this webpage, or have any corrections, or
better documentation, please send them on and they will be added.

Have a great holiday.

Cousin Don Kelly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Lynn"
<[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: [RUTLEDGE] Rutledge Family in McMinn County,TN 1850 -1860

Hi Kermit,
I was able to take a look at the header page on ancestry.com for
the Rutledge's in Claiborne County,TN in 1830 and 1840. But I don't

have a paid subscription to that site so I couldn't take a look at

the actual census records. So I wasn't able to make any kind of
connection that my Caleb would be related to these Rutledge's.
However, I'm betting that if Caleb got married in Claiborne in the

early 1840's that he would be related to some of the other
Rutledge's that lived there and showed up on the 1840 census. It
sounds like you might be on to something with the Caleb Rutledge
who lived in Green County,TN in 1840. And then with a name like
Caleb Rutledge, he could have very well been related to my Caleb
Rutledge. I also saw some of those Ratleges who lived in McMinn
County in 1850 and 1860. And I believe you may be correct when you

say they ended up spelling / or leaving their name as Ratlege and
not Rutledge. I believe that even today, that some of them
probably continue to spell their name as Ratledge. We're they
related ? The name sure sounds and looks to much alike for it to
be a just a coincidence, for them not to have been related. But I
do know that mine never changed the spelling of their name from
1850 and on. My Caleb Rutledge's spelled their name as Rutledge.
Now I can only take a guess as to when Caleb died. However, if I
were to take a educated guess based upon the information that I
have, I would say it was between 1890 and 1900. For one thing, I'm

pretty sure that I have some information around here somewhere
that says that Caleb filed his civil war papers in Kentucky in
1890.
Thanks,Bill

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kermit Rutledge"
<[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RUTLEDGE] Rutledge Family in McMinn County,TN 1850
-1860

Bill, since Caleb married in Claiborne County, have you looked at
the
Rutledges who were there in 1830-1840-1850? According to the
indexes,
there were one or two families each census year. I only found the
index, not the transcriptions, or I would have looked, myself.
And if I
remember correctly, there were a considerable number of Hursts.

There is a Caleb Rutledge on the 1840 Greene County, TN census.
Too old
to be your Caleb, but on the other hand, that is not exactly a
common
given name among Rutledges, so maybe something to do with a
naming-pattern? Also, a Benjamin Rutledge is on this census, next

door
to a Stephen Massey, and someone on this list has ancestors among
those
two families, I believe. (Benjamin Rutledge married Mary "Polly"
Massey).

All those Ratlage/Ratledge/Ratlege families in McMinn County have
me
wondering if they were indeed Rutledges, or if they should be
considered
an entirely different surname. Ordinarily, I would have suspected
enumerator misspellings, except cemetery records also reflect the

"Ra"
spelling.

Any idea where Caleb died? Do you know if they remained in KY,
after
1880?

Kermit Rutledge

RUTLEDGE MOST WANTED - "Brick Wall" listings:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~donkelly/index.htm
Contact Don Kelly at [email protected] to add your "brick wall"
ancestor.

Hi Cheryl and Larry,
I have Rutledge in MO but they arived earllier. Census information puts them
in Buchanan Co. MO in Rush Township by 1850 and further checking shows sons
born in 46 and 48 Mine were from TN according to earlier census info. William
the father says he was born in TN in 1795. His older children all show IL as
a birthplace so although family lore says that William's family came from the
Carolina's I sure have no proof. It does however look like the younger sons
went to TX and are found in or near Bellville. So my question is are you an
old line Texan Larry or just a recient homesteader? Ginny in Wyoming

This is a copy and paste, so it may be scrambled. Note the project is a
"private endeavor" and seems to have been compiled by the Brubakers
(e-mail below). Caleb Rutledge and Eliza Berry are listed, and also,
John B. Rutledge and Elizabeth Roark.
Ref: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnclaibo/
==================================
The Claiborne County Pioneer Project is a private endeavor to record the
genealogy of the residents of Claiborne County, Tennessee prior to 1910.
Over 82,000 individuals ("Index Last Updated 12/12/01") have been
documented as being born, lived or died in the county prior to 1910. A
current surname index is available for the asking by writing to Denny &
Marla Brubaker at [email protected]

Name - Birth - Death - Spouse

RUTLEDGE, Alexander abt 1854

RUTLEDGE, Caleb W. -
Eliza Ann BERRY

RUTLEDGE, Charlie abt 1854

RUTLEDGE, Corney G. -
A. J. CHADWELL

RUTLEDGE, Elizaabt 1851

RUTLEDGE, Elizabeth abt 1800

RUTLEDGE, John abt 1842

RUTLEDGE, John B.15 Aug 1853
4 Dec 1889 Elizabeth ROARK (RORARK)
RUTLEDGE, Nancy Wilbourne HOPPER (HOOPER)

RUTLEDGE, Nelson abt 1837
Mary (Lucy) E. KILLION

RUTLEDGE, Nelson abt 1840

RUTLEDGE, Sarah abt 1859

RUTLEDGE, Sarah - William MADDY

RUTLEDGE, T. - P. BALDWIN

RUTLEDGE, Thomas abt 1770

RUTLEDGE, Walter abt 1856

RUTLEDGE, William - Nancy ESTES

Hi Kermit,
I was able to take a look at the header page on ancestry.com for the
Rutledge's in Claiborne County,TN in 1830 and 1840. But I don't have a paid
subscription to that site so I couldn't take a look at the actual census
records. So I wasn't able to make any kind of connection that my Caleb would
be related to these Rutledge's. However, I'm betting that if Caleb got
married in Claiborne in the early 1840's that he would be related to some of
the other Rutledge's that lived there and showed up on the 1840 census. It
sounds like you might be on to something with the Caleb Rutledge who lived
in Green County,TN in 1840. And then with a name like Caleb Rutledge, he
could have very well been related to my Caleb Rutledge. I also saw some of
those Ratleges who lived in McMinn County in 1850 and 1860. And I believe
you may be correct when you say they ended up spelling / or leaving their
name as Ratlege and not Rutledge. I believe that even today, that some of
them probably continue to spell their name as Ratledge. We're they related ?
The name sure sounds and looks to much alike for it to be a just a
coincidence, for them not to have been related. But I do know that mine
never changed the spelling of their name from 1850 and on. My Caleb
Rutledge's spelled their name as Rutledge. Now I can only take a guess as to
when Caleb died. However, if I were to take a educated guess based upon the
information that I have, I would say it was between 1890 and 1900. For one
thing, I'm pretty sure that I have some information around here somewhere
that says that Caleb filed his civil war papers in Kentucky in 1890.
Thanks,Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kermit Rutledge" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RUTLEDGE] Rutledge Family in McMinn County,TN 1850 -1860

Bill, since Caleb married in Claiborne County, have you looked at the
Rutledges who were there in 1830-1840-1850? According to the indexes,
there were one or two families each census year. I only found the
index, not the transcriptions, or I would have looked, myself. And if I
remember correctly, there were a considerable number of Hursts.

There is a Caleb Rutledge on the 1840 Greene County, TN census. Too old
to be your Caleb, but on the other hand, that is not exactly a common
given name among Rutledges, so maybe something to do with a
naming-pattern? Also, a Benjamin Rutledge is on this census, next door
to a Stephen Massey, and someone on this list has ancestors among those
two families, I believe. (Benjamin Rutledge married Mary "Polly"
Massey).

All those Ratlage/Ratledge/Ratlege families in McMinn County have me
wondering if they were indeed Rutledges, or if they should be considered
an entirely different surname. Ordinarily, I would have suspected
enumerator misspellings, except cemetery records also reflect the "Ra"
spelling.

Any idea where Caleb died? Do you know if they remained in KY, after
1880?

Kermit Rutledge

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for Rutledge family members whose ancestors would have lived in McMinn County, Tennessee in 1850 and 1860 and then in Rockcastle County, Kentucky in 1880. To be more specific, I am looking for any of the descendants of the Caleb Rutledge family. This is how they looked on the 1850 and 1860 McMinn County,Tennessee census :

1850 census for McMinn County, Tennessee
#293

Caleb Ratledge 24
Eliza 24 (maiden name may have been Berry)
Elizabeth 5,
Wm. 4,
Thos. 1
Delilah Hurst 66 (unsure how or if she relates to the family)

1860 census for McMinn County, Tennessee
55-232

C.W. Rutlege, 35
Eliza A., 35 (maiden name may have been Berry)
Elizabeth ,14
William J., 13
Thomas L., 10
Sarah A., 3

I could not find this family on any kind of 1870 census. However, I am sure that I found them on a 1880 census in Rockcastle County,Kentucky :

1880 Rockcastle County Kentucky Census

CW Rutledge 56
Eliza Rutledge 54 (maiden name may have been Berry)
Lula Rutledge age 15

The Lula Rutledge on this 1880 Rockcastle County,Kentucky census is my great-grandmother.

It has been passed down thru the generations that my Rutledge's were directly related to The Edward Rutledge Family. Edward Rutledge was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Are there any Edward Rutledge family members out there who can confirm that this Caleb or C.W. Rutledge living in the McMinn County in 1850 and 1860, was a part of the their Edward Rutledge family ? Or that Caleb even belonged to their family at all ?

Now I know that there may not be anything to this story about a connection to the Edward Rutledge family. But this story has been passed down for many years and If there any members of the Edward Rutledge out there who is reading this and knows the answers to this question, I would like to hear from you.

I would also like to hear from any Rutledge Descendants out there who descend from C.W. Rutledge and Eliza (Berry?) Rutledge. So if you're out there, please also email me.

Best regards, Bill Hale

Guess I should have said Wm is not in MO in the 1860 census and we do find
his kids from KS to TX in that year. Wm. would have been 65 so he may have
died. I do know he was not with his son Loyd Amos Rutledge in Doniphan Co.KS and
I am looking for the rest of the kids. The only mg I have for his daughters
is for Elizabeth. Caroline should have married soon after 1850. Thanks so
very much. Ginny

Database: Missouri Marriages to 1850

April 4, 2005
8:48 PM

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Spouse 1 Spouse 2 Marriage Date Marriage Location

Mcroberts, Elizabeth <javascript:goe88d940() Rutledge, William S. 25
Dec 1850 Missouri
Jefferson County
Halcomb, Caroline <javascript:goe88d941() Rutledge, William 09 May
1843 Missouri
Livingston County

Database: Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900

April 4, 2005
8:50 PM

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Name Spouse Marriage Date County State

WILLIAM RUTLEDGE <javascript:gocc2f600() MARY IMBODEN 5 Apr 1860
Iron MO
WILLIAM A. RUTLEDGE <javascript:gocc2f601() LUCY ADKINS 15 Feb 1877
Reynolds MO

Database: Audrain County, Missouri Marriages, 1870-1917

April 4, 2005
8:51 PM

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Groom's Name Bride's Name Marriage Date
Volume and Page

William R. Rutledge <javascript:go1f09b20() Miss Rebecca Rutledge 1
Nov 1886 2-124

Database: Livingston County, Missouri Deeds, 1855-57, Volumes 2, 3, 5, 6

April 4, 2005
8:54 PM

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Page 121 Ind. 1 April 1843 - Between Wm. M. Rutledge, and John Morin

Database: St. Louis, Missouri Directories, 1889-1890

April 4, 2005
8:56 PM

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Name Location 1 Location 2 Occupation

William Rutledge <javascript:go9e836c0() r. 2643 Lucas avenue
salesman
William A. Rutledge <javascript:go9e836c1() r. 2805 S. King's
Highway
William A. Rutledge <javascript:go9e836c2() corner Broadway & Locust
r. 21 S. 16th engineer
William V. Rutledge <javascript:go9e836c3() 1314 Pine physician
William A. Rutledge; William M. Horton <javascript:go9e836c4() 801
Locust Real Est. Agts.

[email protected] wrote:

Sorry there is no fit there-William Rutledge and his kids left IN in 1845-6.
After that it would have been MO or possibly eastern KS. Thanks for trying
though.. Ginny

Think I found him!!!!! I found no trace of him in 1820, 30, or 40

Database: 1850 United States Federal Census

April 4, 2005
9:07 PM

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Name: Wm Rutledge
Age: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1795
Birth place: Tennessee
Gender: Male
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): Rush, Buchanan, Missouri
Page: 125
Roll: M432_393

Wm. Rutledge, 55, farmer b. Tenn
Elizabeth 27, b. Ind
Caroline 23, Ind
Jackson 25, Ind
Amos 20, Ind
Priscilla 15 Ind
Cicero 12, Ind
Adrian 7, Ind
Gustus 4, Mo.
Gerald 2, Mo

[email protected] wrote:

Sorry there is no fit there-William Rutledge and his kids left IN in 1845-6.
After that it would have been MO or possibly eastern KS. Thanks for trying
though.. Ginny

Date Published: January 31, 2005
Volunteer archivists on treasure hunt through Hawkins County Courthouse
Author: JEFF BOBO

ROGERSVILLE - They say that one man's junk is another man's treasure.

In Rogersville, there's a treasure hunt going on every day for a group of volunteers who are sifting through the tons of documents dating back into the 1700s which until now have been piled like junk in no particular order in the basement of the 169-year-old Hawkins County Courthouse.

The Hawkins County Archival Project has been under way for about three weeks since moving into the former state employment office location at 955 E. McKinney Ave., which is owned by the county.

About 30 volunteers sort through the endless boxes of documents as their schedule permits.

On Monday, there were about eight people participating in the painstaking process, which involves reading the mostly handwritten records, cleaning the aging paper, recording it by year, and then recording it again by alphabetical order of the principal parties involved.

It may sound like tedious work, but volunteers were having a ball Monday, as every new document told a long forgotten tale of what life was like in Hawkins County 150 years ago.

For example, volunteer Martha Lane ran across a series of circuit court records relating to a lawsuit over "an iron gray mare" that was taken by Confederate soldiers from a woman named Matilda Shanks in 1864 and "allegedly" wound up in the possession of a fellow named Thomas Gibson several years after the Civil War ended.

The court battle must have lasted a long time, because Lane found page after page of subpoenas, motions and affidavits supporting Shanks' claim that the mare was taken illegally and Gibson's contention that he acquired the mare legally. Records indicate it was difficult to prove that Gibson's iron gray mare was the same one taken from Shanks years earlier by the Confederate soldiers.

Lane hadn't come across a court decision in the case by midday Monday. But, judging by the stack of briefs in the case, she joked that she'd be surprised if the mare hadn't died of old age by the time the case was settled.

Another interesting find Monday involved a petition filed in October 1861 on behalf of a 47-year-old freed former slave named Leland Breeden seeking to "relinquish his free status" and "enter back into servitude" of a man named W.C. Kyle. The petition doesn't offer any reason why Breeden would make such a request, but he sets his own value at $450. The petition was denied by the court.

Volunteers were also interested to find another case Monday involving a free black man named Ambrose Hopkins who was ordered by the circuit court in 1858 to leave Hawkins County and the state and never return because he had illegally voted in a Hawkins County election held in 1845. Apparently Hopkins didn't obey the court order, because Hawkins County Archivist Jack Goins found another document from 1863 in which Ambrose's wife was suing him for divorce.

The group working Monday also had a laugh over an 1850 court document found by Lane where a man accused of stealing and killing 10 chickens - valued at a total of $1 at the time, according to the records - was fined $1,000 by the court. Lane speculated that $1,000 in 1850 must have been more like $100,000 in modern value, making those 10 chickens among the most expensive in history.

Volunteer Albert Parker found a 1860 bank note from the Branch Bank of Tennessee at Rogersville, which he found interesting considering the bank folded during the Great Depression.

His wife, Noreeda Parker, came across some promissory notes from 1866 sealed with 10 cent and 25 cent George Washington stamps that would probably make any stamp collector's mouth water.

There is evidence, however, that stamp collectors have already raided the courthouse basement at some point, as Noreeda Parker also found an envelope from the same era with the section where the stamp would be neatly cut out.

The Hawkins County Commission voted late last year to provide the McKinney Avenue location to the county archivists after the state employment office announced it was moving to another location in Rogersville at the first of the year. A permanent archive location was one of the requirements for a $5,000 state grant awarded to the county last year to help pay for acid-free storage folders, cleaning materials and containers for the old documents.

Goins, who was appointed county archivist by County Mayor Crockett Lee, said Monday his volunteers have made a slight dent in the tons of documents stored in the courthouse basement. He estimated that at the group's current pace it will take about two years to sort through everything, index it all in a computer, and file it by year and name.

Records will also be photographed and stored on microfilm, with a copy to be sent to Nashville for storage in state archives.

By the time they've completed the job, Goins anticipates the McKinney Avenue location will have become a popular tourist attraction in Rogersville for genealogy and history buffs.

"We've got documents dating back to 1795, and we're going to archive everything up to 1950," Goins said. "We're trying to do everything in 10-year increments except for 1795 to 1810, which is more rare, so we'll do that batch in 15. There's a lot of history in these old boxes, and right now we've really barely scratched the surface.

"By the time we're done, you can give us a name and we ought to be able to point out for you every document here that contains that name. "

There will be finds with significant historic value above chicken thievery, Goins said, such as the original Tennessee land grants to Joseph Rogers, the founder of Rogersville, dating back into the 1790s which have already been discovered.

In the first three weeks of the project, however, they've mainly been going through circuit court records from the mid-1800s, and most of the finds so far are generally of a more personal nature.

For example, Goins was surprised to find a record of one of his ancestors, his great-grandfather's brother's son, John Minor Jr., who was charged with using profanity in a public assembly in the 1850s. More surprising was the fact that the warrant quoted what Minor was accused of saying, which was shocking even by modern-day standards.

"That went to circuit court, so it must have been a pretty serious crime," Goins said. "I don't know what they fined him because we haven't gotten that far yet. I found another one the other day for the same charge against the brother to my great-great-grandfather for interrupting a church service with profanity, and what he said was even worse."

Goins was quick to point out that he didn't take after that branch of his family tree, at least as far as use of language is concerned.

Descendants of George Rutledge

Hi, who is working on this line?

I am directly descended from

1. GEORGE RUTLEDGE & Nellie (Born 1690 Scotland  Tyrone, Ireland

Barbados)

2. THOMAS RUTLEDGE 
 &
 Jean Armstrong (Died 1785 in Augusta Co.,

Virginia)

3. GEORGE RUTLEDGE & Elizabeth Brown (Born 1745 Roanoke, Roanoke Co.,

VA.; Died 1821 Montgomery Co., VA.

4. ELIZABETH BROWN RUTLEDGE & Hugh Gibson (Born 1781 Montgomery Co.,

VA.; Died 1845 Cole Co., MO.

5. Charles Taylor Gibson & Virginia Gamble

6. Elizabeth Rutledge Gibson & Richard Earickson Perry

7. John Dietz Perry & Elgie Gladys Wellan

8. Charles Gibson Perry & Kristin Elizabeth Granger

9. Robert Mathew Perry.

1 George Rutledge b: Abt. 1690 in Scottland

. +Nellie Gamble

...... 2 Thomas Rutledge d: 10 Oct 1785 in Augusta Co., VA. Age at death: ?

.......... +Jean Armstrong b: in Tyrone Co., IRE.

.............. 3 Mary Elizabeth Rutledge

.................. +Robert Young b: 1741 in Augusta Co., VA. d: 1792 in Wash. Co., TN Age at death: 51 est.

...................... 4 Thomas Young b: in VA.

.......................... +Mary Rutledge

...................... 4 Joseph Young

.......................... +Esther Crockett

...................... 4 Elizabeth Young

.......................... +? Gilleland

...................... 4 Martha Young

.......................... +? Coohedy

...................... 4 John Young

...................... 4 [2] William Young b: Abt. 1790 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +[1] Jane E. Rutledge b: 01 Apr 1793 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 04 Sep 1830 in IN Age at death: 37

...................... 4 Robert Young

...................... 4 Charles Young

...................... 4 Jane Young

.......................... +? Long

...................... 4 Margaret Young

.......................... +? Bates

...................... 4 Mary Young

.......................... +? Digby

...................... 4 Agnes Young

.......................... +Henry

...................... 4 James Young

.......................... +Elizabeth Long

.............. 3 Thomas Rutledge b: in Augusta Co., VA. d: Abt. 1807 in Augusta Co., VA. Age at death: ?

.................. +Deborah Riddle b: Bef. 1760 d: Aft. 1807 Age at death: 47 est.

...................... 4 George Rutledge

.............. 3 Jean Rutledge b: 1742 in Augusta Co., VA.

.................. +Jonathan Brooks

.............. 3 John Rutledge b: 10 Mar 1743/44 in Augusta Co., VA. d: Bef. Mar 1815 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 71 est.

.................. +Martha Allison d: Bef. 1825 in VA. Age at death: ?

.............. 3 George Rutledge b: 03 Feb 1744/45 in Roanoke, Roanoke Co., VA. d: 29 Apr 1821 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 76

.................. +Elizabeth Brown

...................... 4 William P. Rutledge b: 1777 in Roanoke, Montgomery Co., VA. d: in Roanoke, Montgomery Co., VA.

.......................... +Mary b: Abt. 1780 in VA.

.............................. 5 William P. Rutledge b: Abt. 1800 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: Bef. 04 Oct 1852 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 52 est.

.................................. +Margaret S. b: Bef. 1820

...................................... 6 Elizabeth Ann Rutledge b: Abt. 1837 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 Margaret Jane Rutledge b: Abt. 1838 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 George Washington Rutledge b: Abt. 1840 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 Charles Blane Rutledge b: Abt. 1842 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 Joseph Gray Rutledge b: Abt. 1846 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 Joshua Brown Rutledge b: in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................................... 6 Thomas Jefferson Rutledge b: in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................... 4 Joshua B. Rutledge

...................... 4 Elizabeth Brown Rutledge b: 15 Dec 1781 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 11 Mar 1845 in Cole Co., MO. Age at death: 63

.......................... +Hugh Gibson, Capt. b: 20 Oct 1784 in Mercersburg, Franklin Co., PA. d: 1853 in Tuscumbia, Miller Co., MO. Age at death: 69 est.

.............................. 5 James Rogers Gibson

.............................. 5 George Rutledge Gibson b: Abt. 1812 in Christiansburg, Montgomery Co., VA. d: 1861 Age at death: 49 est.

.............................. 5 Elizabeth Jane Gibson b: 16 Apr 1816 in Christiansburg, VA. d: 08 Aug 1867 in Vincennes, Ind. Age at death: 51

.................................. +William Rosebrough McCord b: 02 May 1809 in Madison Co., KY d: 27 Jan 1881 Age at death: 71

...................................... 6 William Rosebrough McCord, Jr. b: 1842 in Knox Co., IN d: Bef. 1911 Age at death: 69 est.

.......................................... +Dora Chambers

...................................... 6 Isadora McCord b: 1845 in Knox Co., IN

.......................................... +Smiley N. Chambers

...................................... 6 Mary C. McCord b: 18 Jun 1849 in Knox Co., IN d: 1928 Age at death: 79 est.

.......................................... +Joseph F. Harris

...................................... 6 Charles G. McCord b: 21 Mar 1851 in Vincennes, Knox Co., IN d: 15 Mar 1914 in Vincennes, Knox Co., IN Age at death: 62

.......................................... +Eleanor M. Drish b: 12 Mar 1857 in Carlinville, Macoupin Co., IL d: 1923 Age at death: 66 est.

.............................. 5 Joseph Miller Gibson b: 12 Jul 1818 in Christianburg, VA. d: 07 Feb 1867 in Cooper Co., Mo. Age at death: 48

.................................. +Martha Hill b: 10 Mar 1832 in Cooper Co., Mo.

...................................... 6 Liliah Elizabeth Gibson

.............................. 5 Edward H. Gibson b: Abt. 1820 in Virginia

.................................. +Lucinda b: Abt. 1821 in Tennessee

...................................... 6 Leona Gibson b: Abt. 1844

...................................... 6 Nancy Gibson b: Abt. 1845

...................................... 6 Mary Gibson b: Abt. 1848

.............................. 5 John Hoge Gibson b: 1822 d: 1885 Age at death: 63 est.

.................................. +Mary A. Hill b: 1818 d: 1899 Age at death: 81 est.

...................................... 6 James Gibson b: 1849

.......................................... +Mary Todd Pence b: 1859

.............................. 5 Charles Taylor Gibson b: 16 Feb 1825 in Christiansburg, VA. d: 27 Oct 1899 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO Age at death: 74

.................................. +Virginia Gamble b: 02 Oct 1830 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO d: Dec 1907 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO Age at death: 77 est.

...................................... 6 Louise Gibson b: 16 May 1852 d: Dec 1927 Age at death: 75 est.

.......................................... +Luther H. Conn b: Sep 1841 in KY. d: Aft. 1920 Age at death: 79 est.

...................................... 6 Victor Rutledge Gibson b: 07 Aug 1854 d: 1911 Age at death: 57 est.

...................................... 6 Archibald Gibson b: 18 Sep 1856 d: 1881 Age at death: 25 est.

...................................... 6 Preston Gibson b: 19 Sep 1858 d: 1920 Age at death: 62 est.

...................................... 6 Charles Eldon Gibson b: 28 Oct 1860 d: 1918 Age at death: 58 est.

.......................................... +Mary P. Gilbert

...................................... 6 Elizabeth Rutledge Gibson b: 28 Oct 1862 d: May 1951 Age at death: 88 est.

.......................................... +Richard Earickson Perry b: 02 Dec 1860 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO. d: 1930 Age at death: 70 est.

...................................... 6 Gerolt Gibson b: 29 Dec 1864 d: Jan 1960 Age at death: 95 est.

...................................... 6 Easton Rutledge Gibson b: 14 Dec 1874 in MO. d: 08 Dec 1944 in Monterey, CA. Age at death: 69

.......................................... +Elizabeth Sophia Durham b: Abt. 1881 in MO.

...................... 4 Edward Rutledge

...................... 4 Jane R. Rutledge b: in Montgomery Co., VA. d: Bef. 1807 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: ?

.......................... +John Hoge

.............................. 5 Eliza A. Hoge

.............................. 5 Jane R. Hoge

...................... 4 Lucinda Rutledge b: in Montgomery Co., VA. d: Oct 1858 in Caledona, Wash. Co., MO. Age at death: ?

.......................... +Johnathan Hatton b: Bef. 1785 d: Bef. 1823 Age at death: 38 est.

.............................. 5 Harriett Hatton b: in VA.

.............................. 5 George R. Hatton b: Abt. 1808 in VA.

...................... *2nd Husband of Lucinda Rutledge:

.......................... +William Gibson b: Bef. 1801 in PA d: Dec 1843 in Carroll Co., VA Age at death: 42 est.

.............................. 5 Silas Newton Gibson b: Apr 1824 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 18 Nov 1901 in Rosenburg, Douglas, OR Age at death: 77 est.

.................................. +Sarah Brown Lucas

.............................. 5 Mary Gibson

.................................. +William C. Long

...................... 4 Mary Rutledge b: in Montgomery Co., VA.

.......................... +John Evans b: Abt. 1774 in VA. d: Aft. 1850 Age at death: 76 est.

.............................. 5 George Evans Evans b: 18 Jul 1813 in VA. d: 1895 Age at death: 82 est.

.................................. +Eliza Ellen Wall

.............................. 5 Jonathan Tosh Evans b: 09 May 1816 in VA.

.................................. +Catherine Trigg

.............................. 5 Thomas B. Evans b: Abt. 1818 d: Bef. 1891 Age at death: 73 est.

.................................. +Ann Elizabeth Thomas

.............................. 5 John L. Evans b: Abt. 1820 d: 1854 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 34 est.

.............................. 5 Harriet J. Evans

.................................. +Moses Hoge

.............................. 5 Lucinda A. Evans

.................................. +S. Joseph Shanklin

.............................. 5 Catherine Evans b: Abt. 1826

.................................. +? Woolvine

.............................. *2nd Husband of Catherine Evans:

.................................. +? Ross

.............................. 5 Virginia P. Evans b: Abt. 1828

.................................. +James Wilson

.............................. 5 Margaret Rosanna Evans b: Abt. 1829

.................................. +John R. Charlton

.............................. 5 James Evans b: Abt. 1830

.................................. +Ellen Spickard

.............................. 5 Edward H. Evans

.............................. 5 C. W. Evans

.................................. +Mary J. Taylor

...................... 4 Nancy Rutledge d: Abt. Sep 1822 in Augusta Co., VA. Age at death: ?

...................... 4 Elizabeth A. Rutledge

.......................... +? Hoge

.............. 3 Elizabeth Rutledge b: Nov 1746 in Augusta Co., VA.

.................. +William Armstrong

.............. 3 James Rutledge b: 29 Jan 1747/48 in Augusta Co., VA. d: Bef. 1834 in VA. Age at death: 86 est.

.................. +Jane Finley d: Apr 1834 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: ?

...................... 4 Thomas Rutledge b: Abt. 1787 in Augusta Co., VA.

...................... 4 Jane Rutledge b: 05 Feb 1790 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 10 Jan 1825 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 34

.......................... +William Carson

.............. 3 Ann Rutledge b: 1755 in Augusta Co., VA.

.................. +James Henderson

.............. 3 Katharine Rutledge b: Abt. 1759 in Augusta Co., VA. d: Bef. Oct 1808 Age at death: 49 est.

.................. +Stephen Riddle b: 19 Mar 1765 in VA. d: 1816 Age at death: 51 est.

...................... 4 John Ruddell b: 1797 d: 10 Oct 1823 in VA. Age at death: 26 est.

.......................... +Naomi Pepper

.............. 3 Edward Rutledge b: 10 Mar 1761 in Augusta Co., VA. d: 30 Jun 1836 in Montgomery Co., VA. Age at death: 75

.................. +Ann Gillespie b: 28 Jun 1769 d: 06 Feb 1833 Age at death: 63

...................... 4 William E. Rutledge b: 08 May 1788 in VA. d: 12 Aug 1845 in VA. Age at death: 57

...................... 4 Thomas E. Rutledge b: 04 Jan 1791 in VA. d: 22 Dec 1872 in IN Age at death: 81

.......................... +Attelia Peery

...................... *2nd Wife of Thomas E. Rutledge:

.......................... +Hannah B. Caldwell

...................... 4 George Finley Rutledge b: Abt. 1794 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 29 Mar 1851 in Chapel Hill, Cedar Co., MO Age at death: 57 est.

.......................... +Margaret A. Murray

...................... 4 Rosy Ann Rutledge b: 30 Aug 1798 in Montgomery Co., VA.

...................... 4 James Rutledge b: 05 May 1801 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 12 Feb 1847 in Caledona, Wash. Co., MO. Age at death: 45

.......................... +Nancy Ann Thompson

...................... 4 John Rutledge

...................... 4 Mary Rutledge b: 01 Apr 1806 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 02 Feb 1842 Age at death: 35

.......................... +? Thompson

...................... 4 Robert Finley Rutledge b: Abt. 1808 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: Aft. 1847 in MO. Age at death: 39 est.

.......................... +Lydia Thompson

...................... 4 [1] Jane E. Rutledge b: 01 Apr 1793 in Montgomery Co., VA. d: 04 Sep 1830 in IN Age at death: 37

.......................... +[2] William Young b: Abt. 1790 in Hawkins Co., TN.

...... 2 Catherine Rutledge

.......... +William Marshall

...... 2 William Rutledge b: Abt. 07 Jan 1727/28 in Tyrone Co., IRE. d: 16 Aug 1790 in Augusta Co., VA. Age at death: 62 est.

.......... +Eleanor Caldwell b: Abt. 1732

.............. 3 Nancy Rutledge b: 18 Jan 1754 in Augusta Co., VA. d: 16 Feb 1840 Age at death: 86

.................. +Robert Cowan b: 1750

...................... 4 Mary Cowan

...................... 4 Eleanor Cowan

...................... 4 James Cowan

...................... 4 William Cowan

.......................... +Nancy Susong

...................... 4 Andrew Cowan

...................... 4 George Rutledge Cowan

...................... 4 John Cowan

.............. 3 Jean Rutledge b: Abt. 1755 in Augusta Co., VA.

.............. 3 Mary Elizabeth Rutledge b: Abt. 1760 in Augusta Co., VA.

.............. 3 George Rutledge b: 13 Apr 1761 in Augusta Co., VA. d: 01 Jul 1813 in Blountsville, Sullivan Co., TN. Age at death: 52

.................. +Annis Armstrong b: 18 Sep 1764 in Stony Point, TN. d: 06 Nov 1834 in Blountsville, Sullivan Co., TN. Age at death: 70

...................... 4 William Rutledge b: 01 Feb 1789 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +Almira Casewell

...................... 4 Mary Caldwell Rutledge b: 04 Dec 1790 in Hawkins Co., TN. d: 1867 in TN. Age at death: 77 est.

.......................... +James Samuel Powell

...................... 4 Priscilla Rutledge b: 27 Jan 1792 in Hawkins Co., TN. d: Abt. 1833 Age at death: 41 est.

.......................... +David Maxwell

...................... 4 Eleanor Rutledge b: 06 Feb 1794 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +J. Benjamin Powell

...................... 4 Sarah Rutledge b: 15 Mar 1796 in Hawkins Co., TN. d: 11 Jun 1823 in AL Age at death: 27

.......................... +Richard Clayton

...................... 4 George Washington Rutledge b: 25 Jan 1798 in Hawkins Co., TN. d: 15 Dec 1840 in TN. Age at death: 42

.......................... +Sarah Caswell Cobb

...................... 4 Elizabeth Rutledge b: 16 Nov 1799 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +David Larkins

...................... 4 Jenny Rutledge b: 20 Nov 1801 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +William Anderson

.............................. 5 Adaline Anderson

.................................. +George McClellan b: 1826

...................... 4 Annie Armstrong Rutledge b: 27 Dec 1804 in Hawkins Co., TN. d: 23 Feb 1837 Age at death: 32

.......................... +Samuel Rhea

...................... 4 Nancy Rutledge b: 22 Mar 1806 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +G. W. Netherland

...................... 4 Louisiana Armstrong Rutledge b: 08 Jan 1809 in Hawkins Co., TN.

.......................... +Samuel M. Hughes

.............. 3 Robert Rutledge b: 13 Oct 1764 in Lunenburg, Augusta Co., VA. d: 16 Sep 1853 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., TN. Age at death: 88

.................. +Catherine Crockett b: 18 Nov 1771 in Wythe, Augusta Co., VA d: 1839 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., TN. Age at death: 68 est.

...................... 4 Jane Jinny Rutledge b: 24 Dec 1797 in Sullivan Co., TN d: 22 Mar 1810 in MS Age at death: 12

.......................... +William Rutledge

...................... 4 Nelly Rutledge b: 01 Mar 1799 in Sullivan Co., TN d: 22 Oct 1834 in Athens, AL Age at death: 35

.......................... +George Keyes

...................... 4 William R. Rutledge b: 12 Jun 1801 in Sullivan Co., TN d: 12 Jul 1861 in Sullivan Co., TN Age at death: 60

.......................... +Elizira Crockett

...................... 4 Priscilla Rutledge b: 29 May 1804 in Sullivan Co., TN d: Abt. 1804 in TN. Age at death: 0 est.

...................... 4 John Crockett Rutledge b: 22 Sep 1806 in Sullivan Co., TN d: Feb 1875 in TN. Age at death: 68 est.

.......................... +Sarah Caswell Cobb

...................... 4 Samuel Rutledge b: 03 Sep 1808 in Sullivan Co., TN d: 1891 in Sullivan Co., TN Age at death: 83 est.

.......................... +Elsie O'Dell

...................... 4 George Powell Rutledge b: 11 Jun 1813 in Sullivan Co., TN

.......................... +Delia Finley Telford

...... 2 John Rutledge d: 17 Oct 1751 in Augusta Co., VA. Age at death: ?

This link to Rutledge cemetery at Bethany Cemetery in Shelby County Tennessee. We place some of our group in Shelby County, so these could be related. Let's try to post more cemeteries for Tennessee. Just send them here. Located at lat N350649, Long W0894139; USGS 7.5 map says N35 W89 as an approximate location. That is near the town of Cordova.

Please, please keep us informed. Jackson Middleton is supposedly the father
of Thomas Rutledge who is my 4th great grandfather. I would love to see
this validated!

Julie Rutledge Bates
[email protected]

North Carolina

This is some information I have received over the years for the families of
John and Wilson.
Mike Rutledge, Boaz AL

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WILSON (W.A.) RUTLEDGE
Born ca 1803) in NC
Died 21 Feb. 1863 of typhoid fever while
A POW-CSA, Camp Douglas, IL.

MARRIED TWICE:
(1) md ca 1829 possibly in Monroe Co. TN. She has not been identified; no
marriage record found.
ISSUE: 3, possibly 4, sons, and 1 daughter.

2) md 1840 (per 1850 census taker), to a woman named Jane who possibly was
Jane Nations. A Pate descendant said she was ' referred to as "Grandma
Nations Rutledge" by older members of the family which would indicate that
she was not their grandmother by blood.
ISSUE: 2, possibly 3, sons and 3 daughters.
Again, no marriage record has been found. Early Monroe Co. TN and Cherokee
Co. AL are "burned" counties.

WILSON RUTLEDGE owned 320 acres in Independence Co. AR in 1859- BY 1860
census he was in Saline Co. AR. After the start of the Civil
War he joined. a CSA unit in Saline Co. where he is shown on the roster of
Co. B, Arkansas 1st (Crawford's) Cavalry as Wilson Rutledge, Sgt. The
original CSA record is filed as "W.A. Rudley." He was taken prisoner on 11
Jan. 1863 at Arkansas Post, AR and imprisoned at
Camp Douglas, IL where he died of typhoid fever on 21 Feb. 1863- There were
no muster roll cards dated prior to his capture so the date of enlistment is
unknown. (Buried as W.A. Rudley in Oak Woods Cem. Chicago IL, Confederate
monument)
If JANE RUTLEDGE, wife #2, followed an old custom, then her first daughter,
Martha, may have been named for the deceased wife. HUGH RUTLEDGE named a
daughter MARTHA LUCINDA. Could this have been for his mother and sister?

There are many JOHN RUTLEDGE descendants in Independence Co. AR and the
chronicler of this line shows my (Lucinda) Jane Rutledge as his daughter
even though she is not listed in the family Bible. My research has proved
this to be incorrect. John Rutledge possibly was her uncle. Jane may have
made her home with this family between the 1850 census and, her marriage to
Tom Pate in 1859-

WILSON RUTLEDGE'S SON, JAMES CALVIN, known as CALVIN, was born ca 1840; the
year Wilson married his second wife. The fact that Calvin was enumerated
with Tom and Jane R. Pate in the 1860 Indep Co. AR census makes me wonder
whether he was a son by the first wife. However, in 1870 he is living with
his family adjacent to Ja(i)ne Rutledge and her children in Jefferson Co.
AR. Calvin Rutledge also served in the CSA but in a different outfit than
Wilson.

As a side note, Columbus (Lum) Knox Polk Rutledge, son of the above John
Rutledge and Rebecca Parsons, married Mollie Pate, sister to my Grandfather
Tom Pate. One of John's sons, G.C. (Gilbert Calloway Lorenzo Huston
Rutledge) bears a striking resemblance to a photo of Hugh Rutledge. Oh,
that other mothers were as careful in recording their children's full names
as was Rebecca!

As compiled October 1994 by Jimmie Jean Pate Bowman, granddaughter of Thomas
H. Pate and Lucinda Jane Rutledge.

Jimmie Jean Pate Bowman, b 8-23-25 Newport, AR, 8th child

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Rutledge Information:
1830. MONROE CO TN p 80, line 7 Fed. Census:
RUTLEDGE, WILSON males 1 (20-30) fem. 1 (15-20)

1840: CHEROKEE CO AL Northern Dist page 132 Fed Census:
RUTLEDGE, WILSON males 2 (00-05)       fem. 1 (00-05)
   1 (05-10)            1 (20-30)
1 (10-15)
1 (20-30)

1850: SALINE CO AR Dist of Saline, 12 Oct Fed Census:
RUTLEDGE, WILSON          47 m NC md,. 1840 Farmer
                       JANE               29 f TN
ANDREW JAMES       18 m TN             Laborer
JOEL W.         16 m TN          Laborer
THOMAS H.       14 m TN   Laborer
LUCINDA J.      13 f AL
JAMES C.                    10       m          AL
MARTHA                      8        f            AL
SARAH                        6        f             AL
ABRAHAM                   3       m             AR
ROBERT                     I         m             AR

1859. FLORAL, AR COMMUNITY.
     WILSON RUTLEDGE treated. by Dr. Allen (Indep.Co.AR Chronicle Jan 1961
P32 et seq)

1860. SALINE CO AR FRANKLIN TWP:
             RUTLEDGE, WILSON       55 m NC Farmer
                       JANE            39             f           TN
                       SARAH        16             f            AL
                   ABRAHAM      12             m          AR
                     ROBERT       10             m          AR
                     DEBBEY A.* 8            f             AR

1863. CSA FILE NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
     W. A. RUDLEDGE Co. B Crawford's Regt appears on a
     roll of Prisoners of War, Camp Douglas, Ill. Deceased
     Feb. 21, 1863, Camp Douglas, U.S., Typhoid fever. Captured Jan 11,
1863, Arkansas Post, AR. Original filed as W. A. RUDLEY. (Also shown on
other cards as W. A.Rudridge and. W. A. Rutledge). Sergeant - Sergeant.
Also shown on roster of Company B lst (Crawford's) Arkansas Cavalry as
RUTLEDGE, WILSON SGT. (Along the Road to Glory by Anthony C. Rushing.)

1870: . JEFFERSON CO AR BOLIVAR TWP p 412 Plum Bayou PO 25 Jul:
     #5-5 -RUTLIGE, JAINE       50          fw Keep house $2000 $200 TN
   SARAH      25    fw                                AL
ABRAHAM 20    mw   farmer               AR
ROBERT    14    mw   farmer               AR
MARY E.* 8    fw                                AR

1880: JEFFERSON CO AR PASTORIA TWP p 14 7 Jun:
#155-158; RUTLEDGE, JANE    head     wf      61    kp house            TN IRE
                    ROBERT son           wm      28     farm
AR TN
                      MARY E.dau           wf      26    w/farm
AR TN

1870: #6-6: JEFFERSON CO AR BOLIVAR TWP
            RUTLEDGE, J.C.    age 30    AL
                     EMMER                24     AR
                     MARY                    3      AR

JANE & FAMILY NOT FOUND BEYOND 1880 CENSUS

MISCELLANEOUS (RUTLEDGE) Contd.

1840 CHEROKEE CO. ALA. p 124 - Federal Census
       line 4, JAS.RUTLEDGE males 1 (20-30) fem. 1 (6o-7o)
index shows "Ruthledge"     1 (60-70)
      (
     line 5s JAS. RUTLEDGE males 1 (30-40) fem. 1 ( - 5)
     (index shows "Ruthledge"                    1 (20-30)

Note: Wilson Rutledge was enumerated on page 132. North - Dist.

1850 CHEROKEE CO. ALA. 26th Dist. Roll 3, Federal Census

#555, RUTLEDGE, JAMES       47   NC
       MARY A.     31      NC
      SARAH C.     12      AL
        JOHN S.     10       AL
      JAMES A.      6       AL
        LYDIA C.     3       GA.
                              THOMAS B. 8,/.I2 GA
              RUTLEDGE, THOMAS 40    NC (Shown as Ruttage)

#685   RUTLEDGE, JOHN   39 NC
                                    REBECCA 36 TN
                                   GILERT    14 AL
                                   FRANCIS    11 AL
                                   LUTHY E 7 AL
                                  COLUMBUS 5 AL
                                  AMANDA L. 3 AL

? This is the John Rutledge of Independence CO. AR. If Lucinda Jane
Rutledge had been his daughter she should have been included at about age 11
on this census.
? On the 1840 census above, the elder James Rutledge is undoubtedly the
James of the 1830 Monroe CO. TN census which leads to speculation that he
was the father of :

WILSON RUTLEDGE. b. ca 1803 NC
JAMES RUTLEDGE b. ca 1803 NC (Mike Rutledge Bible says 1802)
                                                THOMAS RUTLEDGE b. ca. 1810
NC
    JOHN RUTLEDGE b. ca.    1811 NC

Cherokee CO. AL was created in 1836 from the 1835 Cherokee Cession. County
records burned in 1882 ( burned twice) but census records are available from
1840.

1830 Monroe CO TN Census page 80
Rutledge , James
Males 1 (10-15) females 1 (10-15)
           2 (15-20)      1(50-60)
           1 ( 50-60)

Kathye,

Good to hear from you. Pardon for my posting on the list but what email do
I use for you? I will send the Roark Massacre information to you. I appear
to be mission part 4. (there are 4 parts) However, our connection is on
part 3.

I had never heard about John being born in Alabama, interesting. (I'll
update my record on this) Wonder what took them there? I do know why my
grandfather was born in Texarkana, AR. According to Aunt Mildred, John &
Elizabeth went to Texas to buy cattle and had to stop for the event!

Dad wants to know which of Tom's kids you are descended from. He knew some
of them when he was young.

I plan to get a copy of John B.'s obituary. I wish I knew when Elizabeth
died. My guess is the mid to late 1920's considering my dad saw her when he
was little and she was getting up in years then. Would you like a jpeg of
the photo with Elizabeth? I have sent one to Kay Martin and also to John
Rutledge for the webpage.

I contacted East TN Roots to post about Thomas Rutledge (Stephen's father)
They will send me what info they have on Pearl. She died 5 months ago but
they have info on her daughter. I would love to get copies of the photo's
of Stephen & Mary Massey. The original diary (typewritten, the original
original was destroyed in a flood) is in the TN State archives under Johnie
Reb.

I knew Mary Massey was part Cherokee. I don't know the percentage. Kay
said you had a photo of her mother. Could you send me a jpeg or send a copy
to the website?

I think the earlied date for John's death is likely correct. Simply because
dad's dad went to work at the age of eight which would be 1889 or 1893.
(Dad insists 1885, records say 1882 My half sister Mary is going to check
his tombstone and burial records and see what they say).

This is long, and I apologize to list for running off at the mouth but there
is so much to share and many fascinating stories with family.

Kathye as soon as I know what email to use I will forward stuff about the
Roark massacre. It is quite an interesting read.

Good to hear from you,

Julie

[email protected]

Julie,

Thank you for the information. I would really like to hear the story of
how Elizabeth Roark's great-grandmother was killed by Indians. Which
grandmother was that? Did you know her uncle married an Indian?

I have to apologize for the problem with your grandfather's wife's name.
I
took the information verbally and I guess I got confused with too many
"hers" and "hims" and "hes" and "shes." I've since changed it in my
records, but of course everyone who has an old copy of my line will have
it
wrong as well.

I am correcting the things I had wrong that you've supplied sources for,
but there are important differences you should know about as well.

1.      Although most of the family information says that John B. Rutledge
was born in Lawrence Co., TN, that is not what is reported on the 1860
census. On that census it gives his place of birth as Alabama. I have a
copy or two that I made straight from the microfilm and it clearly is
AL. The other children are born in TN, as are Mary and Stephen.

2.      John's death date is the same as what I have, and it came from
Pearl Rutledge, who says she got it from Stephen's obituary. However,
there is an article in the Dent County history book that gives his date of
death as April 8, 1905 at the Ed Morrison home in Dent County, MO. The
following is on page 525 in Ozark Heritage, Dent County, Mo cemeteries &
families Vol III, 1994:

RUTLEDGE, JOHN W. 1848-4/8/1905 at the Ed Morrison home, s/o Stephen W
Rutledge of Tyrone, Texas Co.; md. Elizabeth Roark, 1870, Dent Co., worked
on Cook farm at Cook Station.

Note that they have his middle initial different from what we've commonly
known it by. Still......it makes you wonder, doesn't it?

I also have his burial at the Pinto-Watson cemetery in Dent Co. The same
source gives:
Pinto-Watson Cemetery - On Meramec River, Martin Hart farm. Located in
Short Bend Township, Dent Co. close to Crawford Co line near Cook
Station -
also referred to as old Taff Graveyard.

3.      I have different birth dates for the children of John and
Elizabeth:
Mary Elizabeth RUTLEDGE b: 12/1/1870   d: 6/6/1947
Eliza A. RUTLEDGE       b: Abt. 1872
Rose A. RUTLEDGE        b: Abt. 1875
Oritha RUTLEDGE b: 2/2/1877    d: 2/12/1961
Thomas Gilbert Henderson RUTLEDGE       b: 9/27/1877     d: 1/11/1963
Olive RUTLEDGE b: Abt. 1878
Nancy RUTLEDGE b: Abt. 1880
Charles Millard RUTLEDGE        b: 9/7/1885      d: 2/19/1961

These dates came from the census records:
A census abstract of the 1880 census in Cass Twp, Texas Co. MO shows:
296 Rutledge, John B.    hd     28        TN
                      Elizabeth         wf     34        TN
                        Mary E.           d         9       MO
                        Eliza A.           d         8       MO
                        Rosa A.           d        5       MO
                        Oritha               d        3      MO
                        Olive                 d         2      MO

4.      Thomas Gilbert Henderson RUTLEDGE married Margaret Octavia Bell
SISK. She was b: November 4, 1880 in Missouri & d: January 13, 1939 in
Oregon County, Missouri. Margaret Octavia Sisk (called Tavie by family)
was the daughter of David Sisk and Nancy Poindexter. She was 1/2 or more
Cherokee Indian--David Sisk being full Cherokee and Nancy Poindexter being
a descendant of the Cherokee Poindexter/Pledge line on two lines.

Children of THOMAS RUTLEDGE and MARGARET (Tavie) SISK are:
          i.       DOLLIE7 RUTLEDGE5.
6.      ii.     MINNIE RUTLEDGE, b. September 3, 1901; d. June 23, 1974.
          iii.    STELLA RUTLEDGE5, b. October 13, 19045; d. December 25,
19385; m. WILLIE STEVENS5.
7.      iv.     DELIA LETA PERSILLIA RUTLEDGE, b. July 26, 1907, Oregon
County, MO; d. January 11, 2001, Thayer, Oregon Co, MO.
8.      v.      JAMES LEWIS RUTLEDGE, b. June 8, 1914, Oregon County,
Missouri; d. October 8, 1964, Oregon County, Missouri.
9.      vi.     FLORENCE LOUELLA RUTLEDGE, b. February 11, 1920, Oregon
Co., MO.
          vii.    LAWRENCE RUTLEDGE5, b. Abt. 1923; m. BETTY5.
          viii.   RUBY JEWELL RUTLEDGE5, b. August 23, 19255; m. NORMAN
BRIDGES5, June 22, 19455.

I sure wish your grandfather's family Bible would surface! I don't know
what happened to Grandpa Tom's Bible. I keep forgetting to ask Mom's
cousin if she would know. He lived with Mom's aunt and uncle the last few
years of his life, so her parents probably had it at that time.

Kathye

At 04:39 PM 3/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
Hi all! My apologies to those not on my line. I keep seeing incorrect
information for my grandfather's line (likely some cousin's guessimates)
which have spread all over the place so I at least would like to correct
it
here. As I also have some information others may not have on my
greatgrandfather's line I'll start there.

John B. Rutledge b. 15 Aug. 1853 Lawrence Co. Tn. d. 4 Dec. 1889 ( I
have
seen Dent and other counties in MO. listed.

m. Elizabeth Roark b. 1847 TN.
                                  d. She was alive when my dad was young
so
my guess is sometime after 1925. But this is a guess
        I recently received an accounting of how her great grandmother was
killed by indians         if anyone is interested.

Children:

Mary Elizabeth b. 1 Dec. 1870   d. 6 June 1947 Pittsburg, OK.
          m. Obadiah Goodman (Kay Martin's line so she's the expert on
her)

Eliza b. 1876

Oritha b.1876    m. George James

Rosie b. 1876 m. (1) Sam Traw (2) ? Johnson.   my grandfather left
the
family bible in her keeping in the 30's I hope a descendent finds the
list
one day.

Olive

Nancy

Thomas Gilbert b. 27 July 1872 d. 11 Jan. 1963
          m. Margaret Fisk or Sisk 4 Nov. 1880 d. 13 Jan. 1939 both are
buried at the Myrtle Freewill Bapt. Church in Myrtle MO. ( Kathye Hyde's
line)

Charles Millard Rutledge (my paternal grandfather) b. 7 Sept. 1882 in
Texarkana, AR.
    d. 19 Feb. 1961 in Morefield, AR. buried in Myrle Freewill Baptist
Cemetary, Myrtle MO.    m. 23 Dec. 1906 Grandin, MO.
          m. (1) Mertie May Thompson b.21 July 1891 d. 16 Aug. 1927 in
Granite City, IL
              (2) "Miss Ida"   m. 1933?
          Children:
              Elzora May b.7 Jan. 1908 d. 1918 ( the year of the flu
epidemic)
              Flossie Mildred b.25 April 1910 d. mid 1980's in MO.
                      m. Milburn Black
              Goldie Ellen    b.12 April 1913 m. Ray Steiner still
living.
              Cecil Morgan (my dad) b. 12 July 1917 Wirth, AR. still
living
                      m. (1) Hazel Taylor div. early 1950's Batesville,
AR
                           (2) Chelsea Estel Clark b. 29 Oct. 1921 m.
22
Oct. 1956 in MI
                                   d. 19 Aug. 1998 Maryville, TN

These are the facts that I know. I have my grandfather's death record,
obituary, and original marriage licence. I also have my dad whose memory
is
pretty sharp. So if you need to update your records please do so. I
keep
finding new places where my grandfather's date of birth is wrong and he's
listed as being married to his daughter Mildred.

Thanks,

Julie

Kathye

At 04:39 PM 3/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
Hi all! My apologies to those not on my line. I keep seeing incorrect
information for my grandfather's line (likely some cousin's guessimates)
which have spread all over the place so I at least would like to correct
it
here. As I also have some information others may not have on my
greatgrandfather's line I'll start there.

John B. Rutledge b. 15 Aug. 1853 Lawrence Co. Tn. d. 4 Dec. 1889 ( I
have
seen Dent and other counties in MO. listed.

m. Elizabeth Roark b. 1847 TN.
                                  d. She was alive when my dad was young
so
my guess is sometime after 1925. But this is a guess
        I recently received an accounting of how her great grandmother was
killed by indians         if anyone is interested.

Children:

Mary Elizabeth b. 1 Dec. 1870   d. 6 June 1947 Pittsburg, OK.
          m. Obadiah Goodman (Kay Martin's line so she's the expert on
her)

Eliza b. 1876

Oritha b.1876    m. George James

Rosie b. 1876 m. (1) Sam Traw (2) ? Johnson.   my grandfather left
the
family bible in her keeping in the 30's I hope a descendent finds the
list
one day.

Olive

Nancy

Thomas Gilbert b. 27 July 1872 d. 11 Jan. 1963
          m. Margaret Fisk or Sisk 4 Nov. 1880 d. 13 Jan. 1939 both are
buried at the Myrtle Freewill Bapt. Church in Myrtle MO. ( Kathye Hyde's
line)

Charles Millard Rutledge (my paternal grandfather) b. 7 Sept. 1882 in
Texarkana, AR.
    d. 19 Feb. 1961 in Morefield, AR. buried in Myrle Freewill Baptist
Cemetary, Myrtle MO.    m. 23 Dec. 1906 Grandin, MO.
          m. (1) Mertie May Thompson b.21 July 1891 d. 16 Aug. 1927 in
Granite City, IL
              (2) "Miss Ida"   m. 1933?
          Children:
              Elzora May b.7 Jan. 1908 d. 1918 ( the year of the flu
epidemic)
              Flossie Mildred b.25 April 1910 d. mid 1980's in MO.
                      m. Milburn Black
              Goldie Ellen    b.12 April 1913 m. Ray Steiner still
living.
              Cecil Morgan (my dad) b. 12 July 1917 Wirth, AR. still
living
                      m. (1) Hazel Taylor div. early 1950's Batesville,
AR
                           (2) Chelsea Estel Clark b. 29 Oct. 1921 m.
22
Oct. 1956 in MI
                                   d. 19 Aug. 1998 Maryville, TN

These are the facts that I know. I have my grandfather's death record,
obituary, and original marriage licence. I also have my dad whose memory
is
pretty sharp. So if you need to update your records please do so. I
keep
finding new places where my grandfather's date of birth is wrong and he's
listed as being married to his daughter Mildred.

Thanks,

Julie

RUTLEDGE DUDLY LIEUT. COL. NIXON'S REG'T MISSISSIPPI IL PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOSEPH LIEUT. COL. NIXON'S REG'T MISSISSIPPI MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE ABRAHAM 7 REG'T CAV. (STREETT'S), MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE ALEXANDER 3 REG'T (COPELAND'S) WEST TENNESSEE MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE ALEXANDER 4 REG'T (STEELE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE ANDREW T 28 REG'T (RUTLEDGE'S) SOUTH CAROLINA MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE BENJAMIN 1 REG'T (METCALFE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE BLANKS 6 REG'T (SHARP'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE BLANKS 98 REG'T (GREEN'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE CHARLES 1 REG'T (WYNNE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE DAVID 2 REG'T (CHEATHAM'S) W. TENNESSEE MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE DAVID 4 REG'T (GREENHILL'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE EDWARD 5 REG'T (MCDOWELL'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE EDWARD 7 REG'T, CAV. (STREETT'S), MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE ELIJAH 1 REG'T (HALL'S) TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE ELIJAH 3 REG'T (ROULSTON'S) WEST TENNESSEE MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE ELIJAH R 6 REG'T CAV. (MOORE'S), MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE ELISHA 13 REG'T (GRAY'S) KENTUCKY MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE EPHRAIM 41 REG'T (HUTCHINS') MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE FOUNTAIN 7 REG'T (FRANCESCO'S) KENTUCKY MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE GEORGE 75 REG'T (FEB., 1815), VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE HENRY BATTALION 3 (WOODFOLK'S) TENNESSEE MIL PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE HENRY 17 REG'T (FRANCESCO'S) KENTUCKY MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE ISAAC 1 REGIMENT (SUTTON'S), OHIO MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE JAMES 5 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILTIIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE JAMES 14 REG'T (MITCHISSON'S) KENTUCKY MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE JOHN NACE'S REGIMENT, MARYLAND MILITIA. 1 SERGEANT SERGEANT 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOHN 42 REGIMENT (SMITH'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOHN 49 REG'T (VEAZEY'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE JOHN BOWLING'S DETACHMENT GEORGIA MILITIA. SERGEANT SERGEANT 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOHN YOUNGBLOOD'S REG'T, SOUTH CAROLINA MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOHN 1 REG'T (WYNNE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOHN 3 REG'T (RUTLEDGE'S) SOUTH CAROLINA STATE TROOPS LT COLONEL
LT COLONEL 65 602
RUTLEDGE JOHN 10 AND 20 CONSOLIDATED REGIMENT, LOUISIANA MILITIA. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE JOHN E BATT'N ART'Y (DUNSCOMB'S), NEW YORK PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE JOSEPH 4 REGIMENT (BOOTH'S), GEORGIA MILITIA PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOSHUA 1 RIFLE REG'T (ALLEN'S), KENTUCKY VOLS. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE JOSHUA 9 REGIMENT (SIMRALL'S), MOUNTED, KENTUCKY OLS. SERGEANT
SERGEANT 65 602
RUTLEDGE JOSHUA 13 REG'T (GRAY'S) KENTUCKY MILITIA. SERGEANT SERGEANT 65
602

Contact Don Kelly at [email protected] to add your "brick wall" ancestor.
RUTLEDGE MICHAEL 3 REGIMENT (HAYE'S), OHIO MILITIA. CORPORAL CORPORAL 65
602
RUTLEDGE PETER 1 REG'T (BYRNE'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE ROBERT BATTALION 3 (WOODFOLK'S) TENNESSEE MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE RUSSEL DE CLOUET'S REGIMENT, LOUISIANA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE RUSSEL 2 REG'T (JENKINS'), GEORGIA VOLS. AND MILITIA, PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE SAMUEL DECLOUET'S REGIMENT, LOUISIANA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE SAMUEL MCCRORY'S REG'T, WEST TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE SAMUEL CAPT. BENJ. REYNOLD'S CO., MTD. RANGERS,TENNESSEE MILITIA.
PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE SAMUEL 3 REGIMENT (FEW'S), GEORGIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE SAMUEL J 2 REG'T (BENTON'S) TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE SHADRACH WATKINS' COMMAND, MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE SHADRACH 40 REGIMENT MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE SHADRACH 42 REGIMENT (SMITH'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE SHADRACH 49 REG'T (VEAZEY'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE THOMAS HOWARD'S DETACHMENT, SOUTH CAORLINA MILITIA. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE THOMAS 2 REG'T (THOMAS'S), GEORGIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE THOMAS 6 REG'T (SHARP'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE THOMAS 75 REG'T (FEB., 1815) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE THOMAS 98 REG'T (GREEN'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM ALENXANDER'S BATT'N RIFLEMEN, GEORGIA MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM GEN. LUCAS AND STAFF, OHIO MILITIA. BR INSPECTOR BR
INSPECTOR 65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM MCCRORY'S REG'T, WEST TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM FLYING CAMP (MCDOWELL'S), VIRGINIA MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM NASH'S REGIMENT, SOUTH CAROLINA VOLS. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM PRYOR'S DETACHMENT, VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM CAPT. RUTLEDGE'S MOUNTED CO., OHIO MIL. CAPTAIN CAPTAIN
65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM SHANCK'S DETACHMENT, PENNSYLVANIA MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 2 REG'T L. INF. (BACHE'S) PENNSYLVANIA MIL. PRIVATE
PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 2 REG'T (CHEATHAM'S) W. TENNESSEE MIL. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 2 REG'T (LILLARD'S) EAST TENNESSEE VOLS. PRIVATE
QUARTERMASTER 65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 3 REG'T (WIMBERLY'S), GEORGIA MILITIA PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 3 REG'T (WIMBERLY'S), GEORGIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 5 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 40 REGIMENT MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 42 REGIMENT (SMITH'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE
65 602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM 49 REG'T (VEAZEY'S) MARYLAND MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 65
602
RUTLEDGE WILLIAM E 4 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILITIA. LIEUTENANT LIEUTENANT 65
602

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Hello ! I just subscribed to the list so I will introduce myself briefly then go to my question. I am Julie (Rutledge) Bates. I am the daughter of Cecil Rutledge, grandaughter of Charles M. Rutledge and great grandaughter of John B. Rutledge who was the son of Stephen W. Rutledge. Looking at at the group sheets, I appear to be Kathye Hyde's second cousin.

My question. John B. Rutledge is listed as having died 4 Dec, 1889 when he would have been age 36. That fits with the knowledge my grandfather went to work for the railroad at the age of 8 (he was born 7 Sept. 1882). Does anyone know what happened to him?

Also does anyone know when and where his wife Elizabeth Roark died? I have picture from approx. 1911 where she appears and my dad remembers her from his childhood. But we don't have a date for her.

Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot and I apologize for running on.

Sincerely,

Julie Bates
[email protected]

Hi Jean...

I saw your post seeking info on Thomas Rutledge and a comment that a Thomas
Henry Rutledge moved to Collin Co., TX. and is buried in the Wilson Cemetery.
You also mention some Rutledges buried in Wilson Cemetery that you are
seeking add'l info on.... I think I may have info that will help you...The
folks you mention are, I believe, descendants of John M. Rutledge. These
Rutledges were from Cumberland Co. KY, and had strong ties to TN. They moved
later in life to Collin Co. TX and are buried in Wilson Cemetery.

We need to check dates of birth and death since several had the same names,
but I believe Hamilton C. Rutledge was a son of John M Rutledge. Ham was
born on Jan 11, 1848 in KY. He died Jan 22, 1934 in McKinney, Collin Co.,
TX. B.R. Rutledge is, I believe, Burley Rutledge, son of William and Alcey
(Willis) Rutledge.

At this point, I believe this William Rutledge was a son of John M Rutledge,
but I lack smoking gun proof on this point. William came from Cumberland Co
KY. He married Alcey Willis in Celina, TN on Feb 23, 1848. I believe Alcey
had a brother named Burley Willis, who served with her husband William in the
same company during the Civil War. Burley gave affadavits to help William
and Alcey prove claims for pensions, and I would assume they named their son
after Burley Willis. Most of my info on Wm and Alcey comes from war pension
files, obits, and info from descendants of this family who live in TX.

I have more on this family, and would be curious to see more on your Collin
Co. folk.. The ones I have data on had strong TN ties (Wm and Burly Willis
served in a TN Cavalry Unit and lots of the Willis family was in TN. One
confusing problem I've noted with county data from southern KY, like
Cumberland, and northern TN counties like Overton, is the Scott Line issue.
Often the data on my kin indicates they moved from KY to TN and back every
census. But it appears what actually happened is the state line moved back
and forth over them as KY and TN argued an error made in a boundry survey..
I'm not sure now that they actually moved at all...

Anyway.. let me know if you'd like more on these folk... I can send you an
attachment with more complete data.

One last point.... do you know if your Collin Co kin had ties to the Joseph
Rutledge Jr line of Walker Co. AL? I'm looking at the probability that John
M Rutledge was a son of Joseph Rutledge Jr.... the elusive Jack Rutledge
that is mentioned in Walker Co AL history, but nobody seems to have data
on.... John M went by the name Jack or Jackie and other clues lead me to
think he may be Jos Jr's son. I'd be interested to know if your folk have AL
ties...it might lead to info that the two groups were related.... John
Rutledge in Oregon

Sorry I mislead you.The Thomas Henry Rutledge buried at Wilson Chapel
is the son of John and Jane Gaw Brown Rutledge.
I know this because I
have copies of a letter and 4 post cards written between TH and his
mother Jane Rutledge in Pierce City, Mo. I have his death certificate
and it states he was born in Missiouri in 1850--no parents names were
listed because of a feud between the Browns, Gaws and Rutledges in
Jackson County, TN. Thomas Henry was the youngest son born of that
marriage. I also have a 5X7 photo copy of 5-6 adults that were listed
as children of Jane Gaw B Rutledge at the time of her death. (No date to
confirm the year but about 1874, more or less).

The other Rutledges I mentioned, I took photographs of every Rutledge
headstone and forwarded this information to the Ruts list with a cc to
Ron and Daryl Gardner. It was through them I learned BR's name was
Burley, but since this wasn't my line, I just wanted to let somebody
know of these vast family of Rutledges buried in McKinney's Wilson
Chapel Cemetery.

If you would like for me to send you a copy of the headstones of
particular Rutledge relatives of yours, send me your address and I will
be happy to forward this picture to you!

Jean

Kathye Hyde wrote:

Just a brief note before reading further on this topic...Jackson Middleton
Rutledge information came from the book The South Carolina Rutledge Family -
Their Kith and Kin by J. C. Harris, published by The Gregath Publishing
Company, Eastern Division, P.O. Box 1045, Cullman, AL 35056. He has been
mentioned on the list many times.

The book is still around, some of the list members have copies I believe. Some
of his lineages contain errors, as most books seem to, but the information from
Thomas Rutledge (father of our Stephen W. Rutledge) seems to be correct as far
as we have been able to determine. I believe he also had pictures from late
1800's and early 1900's of descendants of Jackson Middleton Rutledge. I don't
have the book but I would dearly love to borrow one for a month or so!

If anyone on the list has the book, could you please post whatever justification
J. C. Harris gives for Jackson M. Rutledge? I've heard he wasn't long on
documentation, but he had to have said something along the lines of...Great
Aunt Whatshername said.....

Kathye

Kay Martin wrote:

Hi Don and Everyone!

I'm back, however briefly this time around. I'd gotten Jackson M. from
... Marie? Kathye? This list? ...and thought he was more proven that he
evidently is. Rosalyn, I'm sorry if I lead you astray on that, but you are
in good hands here!
Kay

I hope the family of Mr. Harris doesn't object to my placing this
information from his book online.

The book has 639 numbered pages, with main portion of the book covering
pages 1-478, index 479-532, and various other listings thereafter.

Jackson Middleton Rutledge is not mentioned in the index.

Page 533, Other Rutledge families:

Mrs. Emma McGregor Webb of Clemson, SC
Mrs. John R. McGregor of Knoxville, TN
Mrs. Marie Kelly Privitt of Knoxville, TN
Mrs. Ruth Cordell Owen of Jackson, MS
Mrs. Earl H. Rutledge of Dunlap, TN
Mrs. Jamie Austin Hankins of Etowah, TN
Mrs. James L. Rutledge of Alberquerque, NM
Mrs. Dwight Rutledge of Branford, CT
Mrs. Frances Glenn Grant of St. Petersburg, FL
Mrs. Pearl Rutledge of Longview, WA
Mrs. Don Rutledge Edens of Nashville, TN
Mrs. Nancy Weaver Roland of Johnson City, TN
Mrs. Lora McGregor Auldridge of Lewisburg, WV
Mrs. Albert Austin of Cleveland, TN
Willim C. McGregor of El Paso, TX
Mrs. William Albert Austin of Cleveland, TN
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Rutledge Morton of La Follette, TN
All the above from the Jackson Middleton Rutledge family have
contributed to the genealogies listed in this section.

Page 534, The Sequatchie Valley Rutledges:

This family who also had origin in South Carolina is thought to be
closely related to the Rutledge Family whom this work features. There
are many who believe that Jackson Middleton Rutledge was the son of
Edward Rutledge. It is a fact that there was close association between
this family and the other descendants of Edward. I'm sorry that I
couldn't prove the relationship. The diary of Ann Manigault says that
Mrs. Edward Rutledge (S.C. Historical Magazine) gave birth to a son of
January 8, 1777. Could this be Jackson? So many in this family have
faithfully corresponded with the writer over the years, they must be
included in this work.

(Photograph of aqabout 20 people, with caption Jackson Middleton
Rutledge Descendants Family Reunion Townsend TN 1977).

Page 535, Copy of letter from Archibald Rutledge to Ednora (Rutledge)
Weaver, with a transcription of the same:
State of South Carolina
Office of Poet Laureate
Archibald Rutledge
Poet Laureate
175 Alabama St.
Spartanburg, SC
7 February 1966
My dear cousin,
Virginia Ravenel referred your kind letter to me.
All the Tennessee Rutledges are descenders from Edward, signer of the
Declaration. Jackson is his second son. His elder brother was Henry
Middleton.
I enclose a picture of our ancient home, Hampton, where I live most of
the time.
Ann Rutledge, the alleged sweetheart of Lincoln, came from Tennessee.
With affectionate remembrances,
Your devoted cousin,
Archibald Rutledge

Page 536:

Jackson Rutledge, b. SC 1777, m Sarah Lucy Singleton. They settled in TN
in land that was partly in Franklin Co. and partly in Coffey Co.

Their children were: Emanuel Rutledge, Lorenzo Dow Rutledge, Lucy
Rutledge, and Thomas F. Rutledge.

Pages 536-555 discuss Thomas and his descendants.

Pages 556-566 list Rutledge marriages and censuses in TN.

Pages 567-639 discuss other Rutledge families.

I haven't found any other reference to JMR in Mr. Harris' book.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Darryl

This is what I have for Stephen's children. The information came partly from
what Thomas Gilbert Rutledge (his grandson) told my mother, and partly from
research done by Pearl Rutledge, grand-daughter-in-law of Stephen Rutledge. I
have no actual original source material for any of this, except for that
provided by census data in TN and in MO.

Descendants of Stephen W. Rutledge

1. Stephen W. RUTLEDGE b: July 6, 1833 in Hawkins Co., TN
d: October 12, 1910 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
... +Mary Sarah MASSEY b: August 4, 1835 in Pikeville, Bledsoe Co., TN d:
December 29, 1909 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
..2 Mary J. RUTLEDGE b: April 28, 1852 in Lawrence Co.,TN
d: June 27, 1852 in Henryville, Lawrence Co.,TN
..2 John B. RUTLEDGE b: August 15, 1853 in Alabama ? (1860 TN census)
d: December 4, 1889 in Dent Co., MO
...... +Elizabeth ROARK b: 1847 in Tennessee
..2 Sarah Elizabeth RUTLEDGE b: October 28, 1855 in Giles Co., Tennessee d:
March 13, 1910 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
...... +John Gilbert MARSEE b: January 1849 in Kentucky d: 1937
..2 Virginia RUTLEDGE b: February 1, 1858 in Henryville, Lawrence Co., TN d:
October 11, 1859 in Henryville, Lawrence Co., TN
..2 Chelnessee Matrina RUTLEDGE b: March 15, 1860 in Lawrence Co, TN d:
November 29, 1937 in Lowell, Benton Co., AR
...... +Henry Mentlo OWEN b: 1858 d: 1930 in Lowell, Benton Co., AR
..2 James Harve RUTLEDGE b: October 23, 1864 in Lawrence Co., TN
d: November 1, 1927 in Washington, IN
...... +Mable QUAKENBUSH
..2 Jerome Pickard RUTLEDGE b: June 3, 1867 in Henryville, Lawrence Co., TN
d: October 28, 1940 in Rogers, Benton Co., AR
...... +Myrtle Augusta URBACK
..2 Flora Josephine RUTLEDGE b: May 29, 1869 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
d: in Pittsburg, KS
...... +Meldon MCKINNEY b: December 1856 in Missouri
..2 William Thornton RUTLEDGE b: February 3, 1872 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
d: August 13, 1950 in Henderson, Mills Co., IA
...... +Eliza Jane MORGAN b: March 28, 1878 in Owen Co., KY
d: December 20, 1967 in Henderson, Mills Co., IA
..2 Martha RUTLEDGE b: December 18, 1874 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
d: May 16, 1926 in Waco, TX
...... +Will WILKERSON
..2 Therresse May RUTLEDGE b: July 13, 1877 in Tyrone, Texas Co., MO
d: in Indiana
...... +Robert KIGER

I've heard it said that Thomas Rutledge's middle name was Franklin, but haven't seen it written that way. Likewise, I've heard Stephen's middle name given as Wilson but have only seen it written with the middle initial.

I grew up in Houston, MO, in Texas County. Tyrone is not far from any of the places I lived while I lived at home. My parents and all three of my brothers, and my Grandma, uncles and aunts still live in Texas Co. so it's still home even though I haven't lived there since 1981. Rutledge is my Mom's family, and they all moved away around the turn of the 1900s, all in different directions apparently. I, too, have to echo the words a strange family in connection with my Rutledge line. There are some real questions with some of Stephen's children....

My mother's great-grandfather was John B. Rutledge, the oldest son of Stephen and Mary Rutledge. Her grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Rutledge, was born in Texas County and lived there for awhile, but was not listed as a family member in the only census I've found for that family. That was the 1880 census. The 1890 census was lost and John B. Rutledge died in 1889. No one knows where his wife, Elizabeth Roark, disappeared to after John's death. There is some mystery about that, too, which will have to be explained in another post. At any rate, Thomas G. Rutledge became a preacher and moved to Oregon County, MO where he married, raised a large family and died in 1963. My mother adored him and spent many hours hearing about the family, but the Rutledges of Texas County and before were not very well taught.

Stephen W. Rutledge and Mary Massey Rutledge are buried in the Tyrone cemetery, near the dirt drive that leads from the county road to the farm on the other side of the cemetery. Stephen and Mary are right next to the road, with children and grandchildren behind them. Here are the stones that I recognized:

James H. Marsee Jan 27, 1884 - Feb 11, 1917

John G. Marsee 1849-1937

Sarah Marsee (wife of J. G.) 10-23-1855 - 5-7-1910 ** This is Sarah Rutledge (Stephen's daughter). Also, we had her death date as 3-13-1910

Virgle, Infant son of M.F. and J. F. McKinney died 7-6-1889 1 mo 10 day We had treasure on earth. He was our joy and pride. We loved him perhaps too well For soon he slept and died.

This was the son of Meldon and Flora Josephine (Rutledge) McKinney. She was the daughter of Stephen and Mary Rutledge.

Mary N. Owen dau of H.M. C.M. Owen born July 22, 1882 died Nov. 16, 1895 13 yr 3 m 25 day

This was the daughter of Henry Mentlow and Chelnessee Matrina (Rutledge) Owen. Chelnessee was the great-grandmother of Marie Kelly Privitt, Monty Kelly Ramsland and Don Kelly.

I have a list of land records from 1882 to 1908 between Stephen W. Rutledge and his children, and between a couple of the children selling land to each other. I will post those later. Right now, it's well past my bedtime, so I'll close with best wishes for a warm and healthy rest for all.

Kathye

Marie Kelly Privitt wrote:

Kaye, have you gone to Houston , Mo and area and research the Rutledge and Owen families? I was there a year ago but wasn't feeling well enough to do the Owen family also. If someone has not done all the records on Owen in that area, I will try to get up there in a few months when I am stronger . As soon as I can get to it I will send the records I found in Houston, Salem and Tyrone, MO. Marie

Monty Ramsland wrote:

Kathye When you have time, please catch me up on your family line. I have some gaps. I would also like a copy of the microfilm of the census of 1830 to 1870, I'll be glad to pay for them. If I can fill in any information for you I will. Let me know what you need. Thanks Monty Ramsland P.O. Box 25 Kenwood, CA. 95452

Monty Ramsland wrote:

I found a copy of Stephen's death certificate and in the place for his father is Wilson Rutledge of TN and ________ Wilson of TN. 1850 Census for Bledsoe County, TN states his father as Thomas Franklin Rutledge. Which is correct??? Monty

Stephen and Mary were married in December 1850 in Bledsoe County. Stephen was barely 17 and Mary was only 15. They moved to Giles or Lawrence Co shortly thereafter. However, on the 1860 census of Giles Co, TN, it shows John B. Rutledge born in Alabama. It also has a check mark in the race column. Kay Martin and I have speculated that one to death and the only explanation we could find was that, with him being a 6 year old boy, being out in the sun a lot, and being about 1/4 or so Cherokee, he probably LOOKED very much like an indian. Mary would probably have stayed in more, kept her face, arms and hands covered as much as possible to fade her color so she could blend in better.

The Alabama part is still a mystery. Personally, I think that's where they made their rendezvous with the mother ship that year.....

Kathye

Kathye Hyde wrote: ..2 John B. RUTLEDGE b: August 15, 1853 in Alabama ? (1860 TN census) I'm curious. Where'd that Alabama come from? Why would this one child have been born in a different state? And why Alabama? Rosalyn, on the hill

Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio,Middle District By Virtue of a Warrant to me directed of No 1832 Entered April 23, 1784 of said the 31st day November 1784 by John Armstrong Esq. Entry officer of claims for Western Lands,
I have surveyed for JOHN RUTLEDGE assignee of Roger Smith, Five Thousand Acres of land lying in Said district on the main fork of Elk River. Beginning at a black oak and hickory standing near the fott of Cumberland Mountain on the West side of Taylor Trace running north forty five degrees East hundred and ninety five poles to a dogwood. Thence north forty five deg. West eight hundred and ninety five poles to a Hickory then ninetyfive poles to a black oak and Hicory then south forty five East Eight hundred and ninety five poles to the beginning--Surveyed September 9th 1794.
The pages for these are: Pg 27-28, 30, 32, 34-35.
State of North Carolina No 317 To all to whom these presents shall come Greetings! Know ye that we have for and in consideration of the sum of ten pounds for every hundred acres hereby Granted, paid unto our Treasury by Thomas Savage Have given and granted unto John Ruthage Claims of the said Thomas Savage, Five Thousand Acres of land lying and being in our Middle District on the main fork of Elk River Joining to a survy of Said Rutledge by Virtue of a Warrant No. 1832.
Beginning at a black oak and Hickory the beginning corner of the said survey North forty five degrees, West eight Hundred and ninety five poles to a black oak and Hickory then South forty five degrees West to beginning of and ninety five poles--North forty five East eight hundred and ninety five poles to the beginning As by the plat hereunto assigned doth appear as with ----days woods ceatise mine minerals profite here is lamint (next page 33) have given and granted and by these present do give and grant unto John Rutledge assignee of said Roger Smith Five thousand acres of land in lying and being in our Middle District on the main fork of the Elk River.
Beginning at a black oak and Hickory standing near the fork of Cumberland Mountain on the West side of Taylor's Trace running North forty five degrees East eight hundred and ninety five poles to a dogwood, thence North forty five degrees West Eight Hundred and ninety five poles to a Hickory, Then South forty five West eight hundred and ninety five poles to the beginning--As by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear with all ways, wood, water, mined, minerals profits hesiitaments and appurtenances Gesidnss to belonging or in any ucise appertaining To hold to the said John Rutledge his heirs and assigns for ever.
Yielding and paying unto us such sums of money Yearly or our General Assembly from time to time may direct. Provided alway that the said grantee shall cause this grant to be enrolled in the Register Office in said Middle District, within the time limited.
There were 3 lines that were faint and I thought I could make them out. Am returning tomorrow for more information and will get back.
The North Carolina Land Grants referenced are #316, 317, 318 and 319 and No 1832.
Jean
Still looking for Thomas and spouse Matilda Rutledge!
Happy New Year! Stockley Donelson DS John Hutchings } William Donelson } SCC
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Email address is now SANDRA BOYD wrote:
Marilyn
Thank you for the information. I believe the Johnson Rutledge who married in IN was Johnson's son. Early History of Giles Co. states that John and William Rutlege and Joel Rutledge were early settlers of the county in 1807. From the way it was written, I believe William was Johnson's unmarried son. Johnson died sometime before 1821. In his estate settlement, his heirs are listed as Joel, William, Absalom, Johnson, Elijah (deceased), Elizabeth and Polly McKedy. All except Joel had removed to IN by 1821. A receipt for the transfer of Johnson 2's share of the estate was witnessed by John B. Rutledge and Elzey Rutledge. That is the only evidence I have of John B. being in Giles Co. before 1836 and I assume he was part of this family. John Boles and Elzey may have been Joel's sons but the Boles name is still a mystery. Joel married Susan West in NC.
I have not been able to connect the early TN Rutledges with this family but still hope to do so. That is why I was curious about Johnson's sisters.

Hello Jean, and hello to all Rutledge mailing list members. I just joined the mailing list and saw your message regarding unfiled papers resources for Civil War veterans. My late uncle Bill Rutledge of Enid, Oklahoma did a considerable amount of Rutledge research and determined that his grandfather, William C. Rutledge served as an officer in the Rutledge Rifles CSA artillery battery. This unit was formed in Nashville at the beginning of the war and fought with distinction in a number of battles, including Shiloh. From what I have been able to determine, the roster for this unit seems to have been destroyed or lost during the war. Available records I have found are fragmentary, although the TN State Library and Archives have an old picture of the Rutledge Rifles officers and apparently have a list of the names and ranks of the 11 men in the picture. Arthur Middleton Rutledge, the battery commander, is also in the picture seated 2nd from the left. My great grandfather is seated 3rd from the left. His resemblence to members of my family (including me!) is striking.
Does anyone have any information for me on William C. Rutledge? Also, does anyone have information on William G. Rutledge (1826-after 1898) from Sullivan County, TN? My uncle believed that he served in the CSA, too, and there is a TN CSA farrier (horse-master) of that name in the official rosters.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Jim, do you think you might be related to Sumner Co TN Rutledges, or to Henry M. or Fountain specifically? Is Weldmon sometimes known as Weldon? Check out the following notes. NOTES from Charlotte Co Ct House VA Marriage Bonds Minister Returns, Knorr pg. 74 9-11-1815 David Rutledge, Synthy Hundley, Sur Richard Rutledge 11-1-1794 John Rutledge Sally Loggins 4-1-1799 Richard Rutledge Jenny Milam, Sur John Rutledge 20-1-1808 Richard Rutledge Mary Newcomb, Sur David Rutledge 1-7-1809 Thomas Rutledge Betsey Going Sur James Brooke (?) 13-8-1804 Wm Rutledge Polly Hamblin Sur John Rutledge. Information from Charlotte County Personal Property, in charlotte County Court House, VA 1793 (no Rutledges) 1794 Rub Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, Tax 2 * Estate John Rutledge 1 white tither, 2 horses, pyramid shape tax * [Mathew, Jeremiah, Martin and Robert Wms still here * Daniel Walker 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 2] 1795 Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 2 * John Rutledge 1 white tither * [Luke Palmore, Williams', Walker here] 1796 John Rutledge 1 white tither * Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, tax 2 * Clary Rutledge 1 white tither * Richard Rutledge 2 white tithers, 1 horse, tax 2 (More information, unreadable) 1797 Clary Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse 1798 Clary Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 9 * John Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 9 * Richard Rutledge 1 white tither 1799 Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 * David Rutledge 2 white tithers * John (Jr?) Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 1800 States Jr.(2) Rutledge, 1 white tither * Unreadable * Clary Rutledge 2 white tithers, 1 horse, tax 12 * Richard Rutledge X * William Rutledge 1 white tither 1801 John Rutledge 1 white tither * Clary Rutledge 1 white tither * David Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 * Richard Rutledge (this is either 11 white tithers, or the recorder made 2 slashes for 2), 2 horses, tax 26 * Isaac Rutledge 1 white tither Find anything?? CBR I'm still trying to locate my Thomas RUTLEDGE b abt 1768 m Matilda BRANHAM. Living in/around Greenville Co., SC early in 1800s, d bef 1830 when Matilda was shown as head of household in Jackson Co., TN. I don't know if Thomas moved to TN with the rest of the family or not. I have been collecting everything I could find on Thomas RUTLEDGE and have found 3 whose dob fits. Thomas b 1768, s/o James and Jean FINLEY RUTLEDGE Thomas b 1768, s/o Joseph and Mary PASCAL RUTLEDGE Thomas b 1768, s/o John and Jane OFFICER RUTLEDGE Can anyone say for sure if any of these are possibles? probables? no way? From Rachel I received an e-mail last year on the family of James RUTLEDGE b 1671. He is the father of Joseph who m Mary PASCAL and he also had a son Thomas. Is anything known about this Thomas? Thanks for all you help.

Kathye.... I've been looking for add'l data on the James Rutledge you listed Civil War info on... What I've found is very sketchy.... In a book by Kathryn Owen, of Winchester, Clark Co., KY titled Civil War Days in Clark County, page 78... she writes: James Rutledge....enlisted October 1, 1862, at the age of sixty-two years. Was in Co. A., 11th Ky. Cavalry, Morgan's command. Was in prison at Camp Douglas for six months. Was honorably discharged about 1865. In addition she lists a John Rutledge of Clark Co. also. John Rutledge...Enlisted July 1862 in Cassells' Company, 2nd Ky. Cavalry, Morgan's command. Was honorably discharged April 1865. Most of her info came, I think, from the Clark County Chronicles Newspaper. I long thought these may be the sons of John and Valentine Rutledge of Clark Co. However, if the Owens info is correct, the James she lists as 62 in 1862 would be ten years older than James, the son of John and Valentine. Course, there is no shortage of James and Johns in Clark Co at this time, so its very possible my attempt to tie them to John and Valentine is in error... Did the geocities list any add'l clues re: pension info, etc? I've not been able to locate any at the KY State Archives. If you see more, I'd like to hear.... thanks for posting the URL.... John Rutledge in Oregon

In a message dated 10/29/1999 8:25:32 PM Mountain Daylight Time, writes:
I have a file R-TH-014, the family of Thomas/Peter Rutledge, 1768 NC - before 1830 SC or TN, m. Matilda.
I have Matilda BRANHAM, but Jean Buckley suggests Matilda PERRIN. I don't know which is correct. Was she previously or later married to someone in addition to Thomas?
Have I sent you a copy of R-TH-014? If not, let me know and I will send it. I'm missing a couple of (hundred) details.
Thanks, and best wishes, Darryl

No, I don't think I have that file. For a long time we were under the idea that Matilda had married a Branham before marrying Thomas/Peter RUTLEDGE and one theory was that her maiden name was PERRIN because she named a son that. I don't think we should discount a relationship to a family by that name, but recently one of our researchers had indications that the BRANHAM men mentioned in her will were her brothers and not her sons, therefore Matilda BRANHAM was her maiden name, she married Thomas/Peter RUTLEDGE in the late 1790s, and after his death married in TN a DAVIDSON (no issue). I would be interested in anything you might have, Thomas/Peter is our brick wall and several members of this list would be most greatful for a breakthrough.
Thanks so much,
Lynda

Anita, I found this on the Wall site under Texas, this seems to fit in with most of the dates we have plus it has some dates and places I don't have. What do you think? Michael Sheila 1860 Census, Lamar and Fannin Co. Males Born 1811-1847, Ages Eligible for Military Service in the Confederate Army RUTHLEDGE,S., fANNIN, aGE 23, BORN @1837,in TN, Occ, Farm Hand, Pct.Unk Dwl #879/900, worth 0/0 RUTLEDGE, John, Fannin,Co. Age 18, born @1842 in TN, Occup, unk, Pct unk, Dwg 879/900, worth ?/? RUTLEDGE, L.M., Fannin Co., Age 40, born 1820, in TN, occp, Carpenter, Pct Unk, Dwl 879/900, worth 0/300 RUTLEDGE, William, Fannin Co., Age 20, born @1840, in TN, Occp, unk, Dwl 879/900, worth ?/? I ... presume they were renting a house. William might be the William that later settled in Collin (McKinney) Co. TX. I believe these Rutledges descend from David Weldon Rutledge (ca. 1790 NC - ca. 1844 Rutherford Co. TN) and wife Angelina Williamson (ca. 1799 VA - 18.. Cape Girardeau Co. MO). L. M. is probably David's son Ludie Monroe (20 Mar 1820 Rutherford Co. TN - 6 May 1870 Fannin Co. TX). Monroe m/1 Rebecca L. Crowder (4 Jan 1822 VA - 1852 Marshall Co. TN), and they had 6 ch. Monroe m/2 Margaret Virginia Aldridge (7 Apr 1834 TN - 17 Mar 1899 Sulphur Co. OK). William is probably Monroe's son William Edward (27 Mar 1840 Rutherford Co. TN - 1...). William married Sarah J. Netherton (18..-1...). I don't know if this is correct, but one source suggested William was a twin, but the dates don't match any other children I have for Monroe. John is probably Monroe's son John Joel (25 May 1842 Hickman or Rutherford Co. TN - 25 Dec 1907 Kiowa Co. OK). John m/1 Mary E. Mollie Minton (22 Jun 1850 TN - 27 Dec 1878 Cook Co. TX), and they had 4 ch. John m/2 Martha Alice Phillips (1 Jan 1862 Valley Creek TX - 29 Jan 1929 Duncan OK). Well, it must be time to return to researching my Rutledge families! I found the following marriage listed on the Bledsoe County marriage records page, part of the GenWeb project: MILLER, Jessie H. married RUTLEGE, Nancy J. [date] 25 Sep, 1850 [source] Certificate contributed by Evelyn Grimes I am thinking (hoping) this is our Nancy Rutledge, the daughter of Thomas Rutledge and sister to my ggg-grandfather, Stephen W. Rutlege. I had been told our Nancy married a Mr. Miller, but had not been able to find out his name or what happened to them after she left home. In the letters Pearl Rutledge wrote, she mentioned they went to MO with Steven and his 2 other brothers, which we have yet to determine the identity of. Does anyone have anything further on this Nancy Jessie Miller? Kathye

The following is abstracted from the pension file of William Rutledge for service during the War of 1812, and posted in the hope it may be of interest to anyone working on Rutledges of TN or IN. File Brief: War of 1812: Soldier: William Rutledge, Widow: Sarah Rutledge, Service: Quarter Master of Col. Lillard's Regt., Tenn. Mil. Enlisted: Oct, 14, 1813 Discharged: Feb. 8, 1814, Bounty Land: #'s 92984-40-50 and 47240-120-55, Residence of Soldier: Hawkins Co. TN.in 1855, Residence of Widow: Near Fort Branch, Gibson Co., IN., in 1871, Maiden Name of Widow: Sarah Simms, Marriage of Soldier and Widow: In Tenn. Date not stated (More info below) Death of Soldier: After 1855, near Fort Branch, Gibson Co., IN. Supplemental Affidavit: Dated 7th day of April, 1871, Gibson Co., IN Sarah Rutledge, widow of William Rutledge who was a soldier in the War of 1812, on her oath says, that she is now old, and her memory is greatly impaired, that she is now unable to give the date of her marriage to her late husband William Rutledge or the date of his enlistment or discharge, or any further particulars as to his military service than is stated in her appllication for a pension herewith presented. She is however able to make this explanation, that at the time her said husband entered the army in the War of 1812, she had had three children by him. Subequent to their marriage, the youngest of which was an infant. Her husband served three months, and he came home after his discharge in the month of June, and the fall following, they removed from Tennessee to the territory of Indiana. She knows that her said husband drew his land warrants for the service aforesaid, or she drew them after his death and as to the date of her husbands enlistment she can state that the war did not terminate for about six months after his discharge, possibly nearly a year. Signed: Sarah Rutledge, her mark Attest: Stephen W. Mead and J.J. Rutchett (The comment by Sarah that her husband was discharged in June is a little confusing, since the Army Auditor states he was discharged in Feb. Possibly she just was confused, or his discharge was in Feb, but he didn't get home until June....in any event, it appears they moved to IN that Fall) Add'l Affidavit: Dated August 31, 1871 We Ezekiel Bonen and Jesse Douglass of Gibson County, Indiana on oath say.... attest they knew William and Sarah, he served in the War, etc. They continue..we further say that the said William Rutledge departed this life about the month of December, 1850, the exact time of his death we are unable to give, but that he did die about the time specified we well know, for we attended his funeral. John Rutledge in Oregon

And this follow up to Jim's email from our Kathye. CBR At 05:01 PM 10/7/97 -0400, Kathye Hyde wrote: Jim!!!!! I'm in near shock - that's *MY* Lorenzo Dow, son of Thomas Rutledge and Jane Hall Pope and brother of Stephen W. Rutledge. No proof, but I couldn't be more sure...name, date of birth, place of birth all match. All I have on his wife is her name, Nancy (taken from census records) and an estimated marriage date of 1877. What do you think? Is it a match? Thrilled and excited Kathye The Grainger County Library in Rutledge, Tenn. now has a Canon Microfilm Reader and Printer with a Coin Meter so all you genealogy researchers can copy records that are on microfilm in the library. The Grainger County Heritage Book Committee came together more than two years ago merely as acquaintances with Graninger County roots and certainly with no plans of it becoming a money making project. What evolved was the publication of Grainger County, Tenn. and Its People, 1796-1998. The sales of the book were overwhelming and we accrued a sizeable profit. As we worked with the people who submitted articles, we became aware of the condition of the records in our own county. It was a unanimous decision of the committee to help the people with roots here to access the records. In December 1998, we made a proposal to the city of Rutledge to use space in the Nance House for a library of county records using our money to aid in that project. To this date we do not know the status of that proposal. However, we made the decision to go ahead and purchase the Microfilm Reader and Printer as a part of this project for the Rutledge Library. This equipment will enable all interested people and genealogist to both view and print copies of county records on film in the library. Most of the records that are in the old school building are on microfilm in the library - Deaths, Deeds, Marriages, Court Records, etc. Library hours are Monday 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Wednesday and Friday 9:00 - 5:00 PM. The Court House in Rutledge is closed Wednesday afternoons. We hope you continue to enjoy the book and now the access to more of the County Records by using this equipment. The Grainger County Heritage Book Committee Louise Murphy, Sec./Treas. I think Anita and I are related somehow to these folks, just I can't prove it. As you notice, there is not a David Weldmon Rutledge to be had. Darn, darn, darn, Jim Subject: [RUTLEDGE-L] Henry M, Fountain, etc.-Sumner Co, TN these are Sumner Co, TN records (for those of you who don't get full subject lines!) found these on a new (for me) search engine--imagine my surprise to find Fountain, etc here!!! Hope it helps a little... https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnblch.htm History of Buck Lodge Church of Christ The following preachers held mettings and preached at Buck Lodge during the years from 1890 through 1920; ...Arthur Rutledge, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnt20r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the year 1820 Henry M. Rutledge 1000 Barrens Elijah Rutledge 30 Rock Creek https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/t1817r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the year 1817 Elijah Rutledge 35 Cumberland River Henry M. Rutledge 1520 Drakes Creek https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/t1822rst.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the year 1822 Rutledge, Elijah 90 Cumberland River https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/t1819r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the Year 1819 Henry M. Rutledge 1260 Drakes Creek Elijah Rutledge 90 Rock Creek https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnt21r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the year 1821 Henry M. Rutledge 1000 Drakes Creek Elijah Rutledge 90 Cumberland River https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnbp1.htm Bethpage Methodist Church Member's Names -- August 28th, 1861 36 B S Emily Mason (Rutledge written in later) https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/query010.htm#299 check out this query! I tried to email her but it's an old post--does anyone know Pamela?BELOTE, DUTTON, RUTLEDGE, WHITE posted by Pamela Duprest on Monday, June 30, 1997 Need any info on RUTLEDGE-specifically on family of Clarissa BELOTE who married William H. RUTLEDGE -they were married on 3/12/1829 in Sumner co and had the following children- Martha who married William H. WHITE, Fountain Rutledge, Louisa , Ophelus who married Wyllie DUTTON, Druella, Frances, Cornelia, H. B. and William-other than the marriages listed I have no other info on these RUTLEDGEs. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnfg12.htm The 7th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (see URL for info on this unit) Recruited at Hartsville, Trousdale County, then Sumner County, October 19, 1861. An (asteric)* after the name denotes continued service after becoming Company D in the 2nd, or officially, 22nd cavalry. James W. Rutledge* - Bugler. He enlisted in October 1861. In battle of Shiloh and several skirmishes. Discharged on disability at Tupelo, Mississippi on June 17, 1862. Chronic diarrhea and deafness, was from side view. Double barreled shotgun valued at $15 furnished by James Love. Rutledge, Fountain His enlistment expired on October 19, 1862. Rutledge, John W.* Listed as deserted on August 26, 1863, with Sidney Ray. He was equipped with a double barreled shotgun valued a $10, furnished by James Love. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/news1.htm Newspaper Tidbits 1819 - 1838 Microfilm Roll #1, Gallatin (Misc.), Date 1819 - 1901 Also, at the same time and place, I will sell all the right, title, claim and interest, that Elijah RUTLEDGE has to ninety acres of land, on Cumberland River, whereon said RUTLEDGE now lives; at the instance of Wm. CAGE Co. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/fg12b.htm 30th Tennessee Infantry Regiment 7th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, Company B Later Known Officially As Co. E, 22nd Cavalry Regiment Rutledge, E. W. P.* - Blacksmith, Deserted Aug. 1, 1863. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnacn7.htm 1830 Sumner County, Tennessee Census 1121 RUTLEDGE, ELIJAH 00010001 000200001 1078 RUTLEDGE, WILLIAM W. 00001 1001 https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/marrgrcl.htm Early Sumner County Marriage Records Through 1850, taken from surviving original bonds and licenses Crook, William m. Rutledge, Susan 15 August 1831 Scoggins, John https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnfg1.htm Sumner County, Tennessee In the Civil War 1st Artillery Battery - Captain Arthur M. Rutledge. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnfg3c.htm Rutledge, Richard J. - Sergeant. Enlisted on May 24, 1861 at Gallatin. In all battles to December 1864. Had Bright's Disease. Furloughed in December 1864. Went home to Sumner County and hid til the end of the war. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnbran.htm Writer Remembers Bransford And Its People The footlog was right in front of Mr. CARTER's house off the bluff towards the little bottom. On down to the Will RUTLEDGE house over on the right. Odell JACKSON's on the left (where I met my wife Nellie T. COLLINS). Mr. Jim JACKSON was in the Confedrate Army with my Dad. They would get together and talk long about when they were in the Civil War together. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/t1818r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the Year 1818 Elijah Rutledge 35 N Cumberland River Henry M. Rutledge by James Gwin agent 540 Drakes Creek waters https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnt16r.htm Record of the Taxable Property and Polls in Sumner County for the year 1816 Elijah Rutledge 90 N Cumberland River ok, that's it from this search place! Cyndi in Baltimore

Hello, Don,

It's wonderful to know Marie is doing okay, and best wishes on a full recovery.

Regarding your question about SC-TN connections, it is easily proven that some of the Rutledges in Middle TN are related to those of SC. Henry Middleton Rutledge, son of Edward the Signer, and wife Septima Sexta Middleton settled/managed several thousand acres along the Elk River which his uncle John Rutledge had been awarded as a result of his Revolutionary War activities, and subsequently sold to brother Edward.

However - to the best of my knowledge - it remains to be seen whether other Rutledges in East TN are connected to those of SC. If they are, it is further back than anyone has been able to prove. As you know there has been speculation on a possible Jackson Middleton Rutledge, but again absolutely no proof on him.

Referring to the family of George Rutledge (b. ca. 1690 Scotland) and wife Nelly Gamble, Mrs. Clarence A. Witcher of Bristol TN stated Rutledge of SC was a lineal relative of this family. I don't know what her proof was, or if it was speculation.

Many RML members have likely noticed my speaking of TN as though it was three distinct entities; here is the reason for that distinction. Quoting from the Tennessee Blue Book 1983-1984 p. 409, Natural Areas of Tennessee:

Tennessee is divided into nine topographical regions from east to west. They are usually listed as follows: Unaka Mountains or Great Smokies; Valley of East Tennessee; Cumberland Plateau; Eastern Highland Rim; Great Central Basin; Western Highland Rim; Valley of Tennessee River; Gulf Coastal Plain; and Mississippi Bottoms.

The highest peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains along the eastern border of the State reach an altitude of more than six thousand feet above sea level - the highest point in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains being located in the Great Smokies or the Unaka Range of the Appalachians.

The State is roughly divided into three general sections or Grand Divisions known as East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee.

East Tennessee is mountainous and rugged, seamed with valleys, chief among them being the Tennessee River Valley which runs obliquely across the State from northeast to southwest, broken by a series of ridges parallel with the trend of the Valley. The western part of this grand Division includes the Cumberland Mountains with an elevation of more than two thousand feet. East Tennessee is drained by the Tennessee, French Broad, Hiwassee, Watauga, Holston, Clinch, Powell, and Nolichuckey rivers and affluents.

Middle Tennessee lies west of the Cumberland Plateau and has an undulating or rolling surface, with level reaches, and an elevation ranging from five hundred to one thousand feet with the exception of that portion of the Cumberland Mountains which lie in Middle Tennessee, which reach an elevation of more than two thousand feet in places. This section is drained chiefly by Tennessee, Cumberland, Caney Fork, Buffalo, Duck, Harpeth, and other smaller rivers and streams.

In Middle Tennessee is located the Central Basin. This basin comprises more than five thousand square miles, and has been named by its admirers The Dimple of the Universe. Blue grass is indigenous to this section and the breeding of thoroughbred horses and purebred cattle and hogs has been carried on here for more than a century. Surrounding the Central Basin of Middle Tennessee is the Highland Rim, with an average altitude of about one thousand feet above sea level.

West Tennessee, which is divided from Middle Tennessee by the Tennessee River, comprises about ten thousand square miles of territory and extends from the Tennessee River on the east to the Mississippi River on the west, and includes about one thousand square miles of Mississippi River bottom lands.

Of such importance that TN is considered three entirely separate areas, in the 1960's and 70's, as you entered TN from NC travelling west on I-40 the State's welcome sign stated Welcome to the Three States of Tennessee.

These are all the Rutledges (and spelling variations) I have found in 1850 TN censuses. Listed are the county, which grand division of TN, head of household, age, state born, spouse, age and state born:

Wilson Co. (MT) - Alexander Rutledge, 64, b. VA, wife Nancy McLemore, 58, b. VA

Rutherford Co. (MT) - Alexander Coleman Rutledge, 32, b. TN, wife Louisa Carlton, 32, b. TN

Gibson Co. (WT) - Angeline Williamson Rutledge, 51, b. VA, widow of David Weldon Rutledge

Monroe Co. (ET) - Asberry Ratledge, 52, b. NC, wife Lucinda Clowers, 39, b. VA
Monroe Co. (ET) - Benjamin Ratledge, 48, b. NC, wife Mary Massey, 28, b. TN
Van Buren Co. (ET/MT) - Benjamin Franklin Rutledge, 35, b. TN, wife Priscilla Medley, 28, b. TN
Lewis Co. (MT) - Benjamin F. B. Rutledge, 55, b. NC, wife Elizabeth ...., 45, b. SC
McMinn Co. (ET) - Caleb W. Rutledge, 24, b. VA, wife Eliza Ann Berry, 24, b. TN
Shelby Co. (WT) - Charles Rutledge, 38, b. NC, wife Cath. ...., 33, b. NC
White Co. (MT) - Charley Rutledge, 29, b. TN, wife Manerva Moore, 30, b. TN
Wilson Co. (MT) - Daniel L. Ratledge, 46, b. NC, wife Malinda Johnson, 42, b. SC
Wayne Co. (MT) - E. A. Rutledge, 25, b. TN, wife Mary ...., 21, b. TN
Sumner Co. (MT) - Elijah B(ird?) Rutledge, 33, b. TN, wife Mary J. Curry, 25, b. ...
Gibson Co. (WT) - Elza (Elijah?) Rutledge, 46, b. NC, wife Judith Terrell, 47, b. KY
Hawkins Co. (ET) - Emanuel Rutledge, 49, b. VA, wife Sarah Kate (Wilson?), 44, b. VA
Lincoln Co. (MT) - George Rutledge, 36, b. NC, living alone
Knox Co. (ET) - George Powell Rutledge, 36, b. TN, wife Delia Finey Telford, 36, b. AL
White Co. (MT) - Henry Rutledge, 61, b. TN, wife Sarah ...., 55, b. KY
Lincoln Co. (MT) - Isaac Rutledge, 31, b. NC, wife Martha J. Waggoner, 25, b. TN
Haywood Co. (WT) - J. M. Rutledge, 30, b. TN, wife Mary E. ...., 35, b. TN
Sumner Co. (MT) - Jacob Rutledge, 48, b. KY, wife Elizabeth ...., 37, b. KY
Maury Co. (MT) - James Rutledge, 65, b. NC, wife Sarah (Mitchell?), 55, b. SC
Fayette Co. (WT) - James P. Rutledge, 39, b. GA, wife Mary S. ...., 31, b. TN
Lincoln Co. (MT) - Joel Rutledge, 76, b. NC, wife Mary Steelman, 63, b. NC (also listed Elizabeth Wilds, 88, b. VA - any connection?)
Dickson Co. (MT) - John Rutledge, 80, b. VA, wife (or dau?) Ann ...., 53, b. VA
Gibson Co. (WT) - John Ratledge, 43, b. NC, wife Ailsey Robinson, 39, b. NC
Shelby Co. (WT) - John Rutledge, 26, b. TN, wife Margaret ...., 21, b. AL
Wayne Co. (MT) - John Rutledge, 21, b. TN, wife Malissy ...., 14, b. TN
Giles Co. (MT) - John Boles Rutledge, 47, b. NC, wives Mary Elizabeth McCollough Goff and Mary Ann Courtney Wood deceased
Sumner Co. (MT) - John T. Rutledge, 39, b. TN, wife Lurana ...., 35, b. .. (also listed are Elijah, 61, and Temperance, 71)
Bledsoe Co. (ET) - Lorenzo Dow Rutledge, 36, b. VA, wife Mary Molsbee, 34, b. TN
Marshall Co. (MT) - Ludie Monroe Rutledge, 30, b. TN, wife Rebecca L. Crowder, 27, b. VA
Rutherford Co. (MT) - Mary .... Rutledge, 77, b. NC, widow of .... Rutledge
Warren Co. (MT) - Mary Dodson Rutledge, 44, b. TN, widow of William Rutledge
Haywood Co. (WT) - Mary .... Rutledge, 35, b. TN, widow of .... Rutledge
Marshall Co. (MT) - Obediah P. Rutledge, 25, b. TN, wife Caroline Tilman, 25, b. TN
Rutherford Co. (MT) - Pleasant Rutledge, 54, b. VA, wife Harriet Barlow, 45, b. VA
Wilson Co. (MT) - Richard Rutledge, 35, b. TN, wife Harriet Bush, 26, b. TN
Sullivan Co. (ET) - Sal Rutledge, 43, b. TN, wife Nancy ...., 39, b. TN (I haven't found anything else on this family, if anyone has info on them, please let me know)
Wayne Co. (MT) - Samuel J. Rutledge, 65, b. NC, wife Bethia R. Carter, 41, b. NC
Maury Co. (MT) - Samuel Rutledge, 31, b. TN, living alone
Lincoln Co. (MT) - Samuel Rutledge, 26, b. NC, wife Louisa Daniel, 21, b. TN
Sullivan Co. (ET) - Sarah Caswell Cobb Rutledge, 44, b. TN, widow of George Washington Rutledge, William Rutledge, and John Crockett Rutledge
Davidson Co. (ET) - Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge, 50, b. SC, widow of Henry Middleton Rutledge
Claiborne Co. (ET) - Thomas Rutledge, 80, b. VA, wife (or dau?) Elizabeth ...., 50, b. VA
Monroe Co. (ET) - Thomas Ratledge, 36, b. NC, wife Marella Griffith, 26, b. NC
Bledsoe Co. (ET) - Thomas (F?) Rutledge, 47, b. VA, wife Jane Hall, 27, b. TN
Marshall Co. (MT) - Thomas H. Rutledge, 33, b. GA, wife Sarah C. Vincent, 32, b. TN
Maury Co. (MT) - Thomas S. Rutledge, 41, b. VA, wife Frances E. ...., 37, b. NC
Henderson Co. (WT) - William Rutledge, 60, b. NC, living alone
Weakley Co. (WT) - William Rutledge, 40, b. TN, wife Lucretia A. ...., 25, b. TN
Rutherford Co. (MT) - William A. Rutledge, 27, b. TN, wife Sally A. Lyell, 23, b. TN
Shelby Co. (WT) - William D. Rutledge, 44, b. NC, widower of Mary Howell
Sumner Co. (MT) - William H. Rutledge, 47, b. .., wife Clerisy A? Belote, 40, b. ..
Marshall Co. (MT) - William O. Rutledge, 41, b. GA, living with Nancy, 68, b. VA (probably his mother)
Fayette Co. (WT) - William Richard Rutledge, 34, b. TN, wife Martha B. ...., 26, b. TN
Sullivan Co. (ET) - William Robert Rutledge, 50, b. TN, wife Elzira Crockett, 32, b. TN
Hawkins Co. (ET) - Wilson Rutledge, 22, b. TN, widower of ..... ..... (I haven't found anything else on this family, if anyone has info on them, please let me know)
Additional adults listed:

Gibson Co. (WT) - David N. Rutledge, 20, b. TN, at household of R. E. Bogle
Gibson Co. (WT) - James Rutledge, 25, b. TN, at household of William C. Crawford
Sullivan Co. (ET) - John Crockett Rutledge, 40 (44?), b. TN, at household of Lawrence Snapp
Sullivan Co. (ET) - Robert Rutledge, 87, b. VA, at household of Ann Wates
Weakley Co. (WT) - Susan Rutledge, 78, b. .., at household of W. Welden
Hope this helps clarify possibilities.
Best wishes,
Darryl

Pearl's husband had the original of the diary. Pearl had it typed. At a later date the original was distroyed in a flood (or something). The copy I have is a copy of the original typed copy. Pearl is elderly. Still does genealogy but I can't get a question answered anymore. She isn't able to get out and do her own searching anymore. Her health isn't very good anymore.

Also I am still here... Have put all email on zip-disk to look at later. Bought a newer MH and have been trying to get resettled. Painting, etc. Busy, busy, busy........Marie

I understand that Pearl wrote the first copy of Stephen's civil war diary. She received the original copy which had been damages by flood from a niece who had it for fifty years. That is approximately what happened. Pearl lives in Washington State, not far as it were from Sunny. I believe that Marie has corresponded in the past thirty years witth Pearl, so Marie would probably have the best current information. Stephen in old age gave his diary to one of his sons. Marie, Montez and Olene are my sisters. Don

Tina, both Marie and Rachell know a Pearl Rutledge who has a lot of oral history. I think she may be elderly. When they get back on list maybe they can help you. Also, Marie and Don K. are cousins... so he might know of her, too. Wouldn't it be interesting if their Pearl is also yours??????? Carol Brunner Rutledge At 08:08 PM 8/1/1999 -0700, Tina Sanders wrote: Carol or Marie, What was Pearl's maiden name? I have a Pearl Rutledge in my family, thus my curiosity... Thanks! Tina In a message dated 11/17/98 4:30:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Letter written by Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., 30 Sep 1946. Marie, Thank you for sending this. I have often wondered what the whole letter said. Pearl Rutledge quoted bits and pieces of it in a letter she wrote to another researcher, but I hadn't seen the entire letter.

I recently received from aunt who is 80 a number of family group sheets for the following Franklin Rutledge and Malinda Agnes Humphreys, John Rutledge and Margaret Williams, William Richard Rutledge and Elizabeth Williams, James Enos Rutledge and Eleanor Ralston, Edward Rutledge and Sarah Armstrong, Thomas Rutledge and Jean Armstrong, George Rutledge and Nelly Gamble, Edward Thomas Rutledge and Elizabeth Graem, John Rutledge, George Rutledge, and Cavan Rutledge, Places are Scotland, Ireland, Augusta Co. Va., Christchurch, S.C., Sullivan Co. Tn., White Co., Tn.,Washington Co., Tn., Montgomery Co. Tn., Spencer Co., Ind., Flagg Springs, Va., Table Grove, Ill, Fulton Co., Ill, and McDonough Co., Ill.

I asked her where she got them and she couldn't remember all of where she got them. I think a lot of it was when my Mother was living her and my Aunt made a trip east for family information, also he cousin Clifford Wilson who lives in McDonough Co., Ill. is a devout Morman so a lot probably came from the LDS church, and lastly my Grandmother had a very sharp mind and was a big letter writer and very inquizitive, she died at the young age of 99 years 10 months. I was born and raised in McDonough County and also spent time in Fulton County it is all very rich farm land. Also I notice the Rutledge's belived in large familys. So I can understand how they populated the United States far and wide. So to all who are sick or going for an operation remember Rutledges' live a long and proporus life. Regards; Jack

Annis Armstrong B/9/18/1764 Stoney Point, Hawkins Co., Tn. Father-William Armstrong B/1712 Enniskillen, Ire.

Father-William Armstrong B/1682 Enniskillen, Ire. M/Janey Gaffney Father-James Armstrong B/1640 Enniskillen, Ire M/Jane Beatty

Father-William Armstrong B/1565 Scotland M/Margaret Elliott (he is my 9th g,grandfather)

Alan C. Armstrong(son) B/1966 San Francisco, Ca. William L. Armstrong B/1929 Sedalia, Mo.(me) William L. Armstrong B/1903 Pauls Valley, Ok.

Thomas Armstrong B/1793 Warren Co., Ky. Joshua Armstrong B/1756 Paxtang, Pa.

Bill Armstrong Kingman, Az. -----Original Message----- From: Don Kelly To: William Armstrong Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Rutledge

Bill.....thank you so much. A comment and two questions: I have banged around quite a bit in Hawkins and adjacent counties, looking mostly for Owen and Rutledge, but also scrounging for other related families.

1) I found a bunch of Armstrongs who were slave owners in VA and TN.....at one point I found an Armstrong cemetery at a horseshoe bend in the Holsten river. I could again find it on a map if I had to.

2) Along the way I found the town Rutledge. None of us know who founded it, but the people in Rutledge say it was founded by a General Rutledge from Virginia. How does all of this fit into your records,......or does it fit at all?.

From: William Armstrong To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 3:02 PM

General George Rutledge B/4/13/1755 Tennessee D/7/1/1813 hawkins Co., Tn. married 1781 Stoney Point, Hawkins Co., Tn.

Annis Armstrong B/9/18/1764 Stoney Point, Tn. D/11/6/1834 same (Father-William Armstrong, Mother-Mary Caldwell) Children: All born in Tn.

11.Mary C. Rutledge B/12/4/1790 Sullivan Co., Tn. D/1867 Rogersville, Tn. married Abt 1807 Sullivan Co., Tn. Samuel Powel Bill Armstrong Kingman, Az.

SANDRA BOYD wrote:
Marilyn
Thank you for the information. I believe the Johnson Rutledge who married in IN was Johnson's son. Early History of Giles Co. states that John and William Rutlege and Joel Rutledge were early settlers of the county in 1807.
From the way it was written, I believe William was Johnson's unmarried son. Johnson died sometime before 1821. In his estate settlement, his heirs are listed as Joel, William, Absalom, Johnson, Elijah (deceased), Elizabeth and Polly McKedy. All except Joel had removed to IN by 1821. A receipt for the transfer of Johnson 2's share of the estate was witnessed by John B. Rutledge and Elzey Rutledge.
That is the only evidence I have of John B. being in Giles Co. before 1836 and I assume he was part of this family. John Boles and Elzey may have been Joel's sons but the Boles name is still a mystery. Joel married Susan West in NC.
I have not been able to connect the early TN Rutledges with this family but still hope to do so. That is why I was curious about Johnson's sisters.

Hi listmembers,
In the course of researching my Goff and Tarkington families, I was
directed to the web page of James Goff. This page is my line but it is also
full of Rutledges! These Rutledges seem to be from Virginia (early) and
then primarly Tenn. There are so many listed that I don't want to copy them
all.

When you get to this page, click on the first listing - Thomas John Sr. Goff
Hope you find someone interesting!!
Shirley Drake

Another Rutledge in Adams Co. IL that I am trying to connect into the
right family.
Any help or more information will be greatly appreciated.
Donna in cool wet OR

1. ANDREW H.1 RUTLEDGE was born Abt. 1815 in Tennessee1. He married
NANCY. She was born Abt. 1850 in NC2.

Children of ANDREW RUTLEDGE and NANCY are:
i. SARAH2 RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1842, Illinois
ii. MARY RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 18453.
iii. MATLIDA RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1852, Illinois

Notes
Early Records Index Adams Co. Ill. L-R, Gen. Soc. of Utah 1994.
p. 176 Role Date
Rutledge, A.H. C 11 Mar 1850
P-12 248 Intent to cheat
Film # 1,839,220

Rutledge, Andrew H. May 1849
FB-1 444 Fee Bill
Film 1,869,477 saw Salt Lake Sept 1994
Matter of Fee Bill Box 1 Case 444
Filing Date May 1849
Names Rutledge, Andrew H.
Dillon. Ira
Allen. William C

1860 Illinois Census
City of Quincy 6th ward
Census page 314
2437 14 Rutledge, Andrew 45 M W Wood Dealer TN
15 Nancy 50 F W NC
16 Sarah 18 F W IL
17 Mary 15 F W
18 Matlida 08 F W IL

Film 0967530 Adams Co. III Index /deeds
Vol 3 1850-55
Grantee Andrew Rutledge 16 310
H Kenoyer

In a message dated 9/4/99 7:41:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] Carol Morse writes:To: [email protected]
Found this on another list and thought I'd share it. If you need full
transcript, let me know

Jessie J. Rutledge, age 72, of Belleville, AR died August 8, 1999 at St.
Mary's Regional Medical Center in Russellville, AR. He was born in
Stafford, Yell County, Arkansas to Ezra W. and Mertie Corley Rutledge.

Carol in Okla surnames: Adkison-Byrns-Butler-Ellis-Foy-Haney-Isaacs-Kincannon-
Love-Morse-Patterson-Payne-Weir
Return-Path: RUTLEDGE-L-request@rootsweb

At 09:42 PM 8/10/1999 EDT, [email protected] wrote: Darn!
I found the wrong Fountain? Oh well--it was a bit of serendipity anyway... What clues do you have about Mr Mysterious the Elder? I'll keep posting and maybe he'll show up!

Not realted, but awfully curious! Cyndi in Baltimore

Actually Cyndi, Fountain is not Mr. Mysterious since we know quite a bit about him. However, he may be Mr. Miracle since he does not seem to have a father. Its this unknown father who is creating the problem. We do not have a clue! Carole G. wants to go back and examine the possibility of a John Rutledge she found in Ky. (Fountain named his son John). Also, there was a John Rutledge who served in a Major Fountain's regiment. Perhaps that is where the name came from - interesting, huh? Our Fountain Rutledge was born in Jessamine County KY (VA) in 1796. His mother was Elizabeth Allen Rutledge. She inherited land in Charlottes Court House Virginia, along with Walkers. She died around 1832.

There are 3 Fountain Rutledge's. 1) Our Fountain b. 1796, 2) the Civil War Fountain whom you found, and 3) Preacher Fountain, grandson to Our Fountain and brother to Carole and Donavon's great grandfathers. I believe but don't have proof that William Rutledge who married C.Belote and is the father of Civil War Fountain... is kin to Our Fountain. Perhaps brother. We have much more but don't want to belabor this! Thanks for helping. Carol

Hello, all,
Attached is a composite of all the censuses I have been able to locate on Emanuel, Thomas, and Lorenzo Dow Rutledge.
They appear to confirm the approximate dates I have given for the year of their births, all in VA, i.e. Emanuel - ca. 1801, Thomas - ca. 1803, and Lorenzo Dow - ca. 1814.
Best wishes, Darryl

1830 Census
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. 64, 1830 RA1a1 * Emanuel RUTLEDGE 2 0 0 0 0 1 Emanuel 0 0 0 0 1 Sallie
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. 11, 1830 R_ Henry RUTLEDGE 0 0 0 2 0 1
2 0 0 0 1
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. 51, 1830 R_ Sarah ( ) Rutledge 0 0 0 ?
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. 51, 1830 RA1a2
Thomas RUTLEDGE 1 0 0 0 1

1840 Census
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. ..., 1840 RA1a1 * Emanuel RUTLEDGE 190 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. ..., 1840 RA1a3 * Lorenzo (Dow) RUTLEDGE 211 1 0 0 0 1
2 0 0 0 1
Hawkins Co. TN, Dist, House no. , p. ..., 1840 RA1a2 * Thomas RUTLEDGE 204 1 1 1 0 0 1
2 1 0 0 0 1

1850 Census
Hawkins Co. TN, 9th Dist, Hse. 54/54, p. 360-B, l. 18, 19 Nov 1850 RA1a1
* [Amanuel] (Emanuel) RUTLEDGE M (W) 49 VA Wagonmaker
* Sarah (Kate WILSON) F (W) 44 VA --
* Thomas (K) M (W) 16 TN L m. FANSLER, BOYD
* Samuel (Crawford) M (W) [14] (11) TN -- m. Mary Matilda PALMER
* Robert (J) M (W) [12] (9) TN -- m. Catherine FANSLER
* [Barton] (Baxter S) M (W) [8] (7) TN -- m. COX, WARD
* (Richard) [Keene] (Kine) M (W) [4] (5) TN -- m. Mary Jane NORMAN
* Mary (W) F (W) [2] (1) TN -- m. James Hiram COX
Bledsoe Co. TN, 9th Dist, Hse. 228/228, p. 368-A, l. 35, 9 Sep 1850 RA1a3
* Lorenzo D(ow) RUTLEDGE M (W) 36 VA L
* Mary (MOLSBEE) F (W) 34 TN --
* Sarah A. F (W) 14 TN --
* George M (W) 12 TN --
* Elizabeth J. F (W) 11 TN --
* Charles M. M (W) 8 TN --
* Nancy C(atherine) F (W) 6 TN -- m. Andrew Wade DUTTON
* Valentine F (W) 4** TN --
* Mary W. F (W) 1** TN --
** - These are reversed in 1860, which is correct?
Bledsoe Co. TN, Eastern Dist, Hse. 250/250, p. 370-A, l. 7, 11 Sep 1850 RA1a2
* Thomas (F?) RUTLEDGE M (W) 47 (M3) VA Wagonmaker m. ..., others
* Jane (HALL) F (W) 27 (M2) TN -- m. POPE, RUTLEDGE
* Nancy J(ane) F (W) 19 TN -- m. ....... MILLER
* Stephen (W.) M (W) 17 TN L m. Mary MASSEY
* Sarah A(nn) F (W) 15 TN -- m. James R. MASSEY
* Joseph B. M (W) 12 TN --
* Mary F (W) 10 TN -- m. ...... BAUMAN/BOWMAN
* Cornelius M (W) 8 TN --
* Catharine F (W) 6 AR -- m. Frank SULLIVAN
* John M (W) 3 TN --
* Harriet (E.) F (W) 2 TN -- m. ....... HOWARD
Hawkins Co. TN, 17th Dist, Hse. 12/12, p. 447-B, l. 10, 29 Oct 1850 RA1a11?
(next door to Mary Christian) Wilson RUTLEDGE M (.) 22 TN F m. ...... ........ Mary F (.) 3 TN -- Ann F (.) 2 TN -- Jane F (.) 1 (twin)? TN -- Rutha F (.) 1 (twin)? TN --

1860 Census
Scott Co. VA, Estellville PO, House no. 352/352, p. 285, l. .., 2 Jul 1860 RA1a1 John HENSHER M (W) 44 TN F Mary (............) F (W) 34 SC HW William H. M (W) 9 MO -- James M. M (W) 7 TN -- Joseph E. M (W) 4 TN -- Mary A. E. F (W) 2 TN -- Martha MOSEBY F (W) 20 VA Spinster
* Emanuel RUTLEDGE M (W) 60 VA Wagonmaker
* Sarah (Kate WILSON) F (W) 53 VA KH
* Baxter S. M (W) 16 TN FH m. COX, WARD
* Richard K(ine) M (W) 14 TN -- m. Mary Jane NORMAN
* Mary W. F (W) 12 TN -- m. James Hiram COX John SINGLETON M (W) 67 VA FH
Warren Co. TN, McMinnville PO, Hse. 1060/1060, p. 478-B, l. 24, 15 Aug 1860 RA1a3
* L(orenzo) D(ow) RUTLEDGE M (W) 50 TN L
* Mary (MOLSBEE) F (W) 47 TN HK
* Elizabeth (J.) F (W) 20 TN --
* Charles (M.) M (W) 18 TN --
* (Nancy) Cathrine F (W) 16 TN -- m. Andrew Wade DUTTON
* Mary (W.) F (W) 14** TN --
* [Vitula] (Valentine?) F (W) 12** TN --
* Josephine F (W) 10 TN --
* Margaret F (W) 8 TN --
* Epsome M (W) 6 TN --
** - These two are reversed from 1850, which is correct?
Bledsoe Co. TN, Pikeville PO, Hse. 413/413, p. 409-A, l. 9, 17 Jul 1860 RA1a2
* Thomas [F.] RUTL[I](ED)GE M (W) 56 VA Cooper m. ......, others
* Jane (HALL) F (W) 38 TN -- m. POPE, RUTLEDGE
* Harriet E. F (W) 12 TN -- m. ....... HOWARD
* Emilie P. F (W) 10 TN --
* Benj(amin) F(ranklin) M (W) 8 TN -- m. Delilah Jane BOWMAN
* [Leroy W] (Lorenzo Dow) M (W) 7 TN -- m. Nancy Ann JAMES
* Martha W. F (W) 5 TN --
* Anderson Lee M (W) 2 TN -- m. Tennessee CAMPBELL
* Edwin F. M (W) 10/12 TN -- m. Margaret ..... (REED?)

1870 Census
Hawkins Co. TN, 7th Dist, New Canton PO, Hse. 114/114, p. 79-A, l. 30, 9 Aug 1870 RA1a1 |
* Emanuel RUTLEDGE M W 70 VA Wagonmaker |
* Sarah (Kate WILSON) F W 63 VA KH | John SINGLETON M W 77 VA -- |
Bledsoe Co. TN, 7th Dist, Fosters Crossroads PO, Hse. 78/78, p. 48-B, l. 33, 24 Jun 1870 RA1a2
* Thomas (F?) RUTLEDGE M W 66 VA Cooper m. WILSON, others
* Jane (HALL) F W 47 TN KH m. POPE, RUTLEDGE
* Harriet F W 21 TN --
* Emila P. F W 18 TN --
* Benjamin (Franklin) M W 17 TN -- m. BOWMAN, .......
* Lorenzo D(ow) M W 16 TN -- m. Nancy Jane JAMES
* Martha W. F W 14 TN --
* Anderson L(ee) M W 12 TN -- m. Tennessee CAMPBELL
* Edwin (F.) M W 10 TN -- m. Margaret REED
* Wiley B(lount) M W 8 TN -- m. WIGGINTON, CATE Sarah (.......) Ivey F W 56/86 TN As one of the family m. ....... IVEY

Jim Small sent this to the list, two years ago. CBR At 10:15 AM 10/7/97 -0400,
CBR wrote: Anyone know this family? Descendants of Azarriah S. James 1 Azarriah S. James b: Abt. 1833 in Bledsoe Co., Tennessee d: 1880 .. +Melvina Walker b: December 1834 in Bledsoe Co., Tennessee d: Aft. 1921 ......... 2 Nancy J. James b: Abt. 1854 ............. +Lorenzo Dow Rutledge b: Abt. 1853 in of Bledsoe Co., TN m: Abt. 1875 .................... 3 Male Rutledge b: July 03, 1876 d: July 04, 1876 .................... 3 Emmet Arthur Rutledge b: August 14, 1877 d: Dec. 26, 1884 .................... 3 Hester Ann Rutledge b: February 27, 1879 .................... 3 Earnest Luthar Rutledge b: January 08, 1881 d: Sept. 20, 1887 .................... 3 Bertha Ethel Rutledge b: January 21, 1883 .................... 3 Ida Merina Jane Rutledge b: Sept.11, 1884 d: Sept. 24, 1887 ......... 2 Eliz. James b: October 16, 1856 ......... 2 William James b: Abt. 1858 ......... 2 David Alexander James b: 1860 ......... 2 John James b: 1862 ......... 2 Tandy James b: 1864 ......... 2 Daniel Azarriah James b: April 1866 ......... 2 Charlie J. James b: April 1868 ......... 2 Alonzo N. James b: 1872 ......... 2 Walter B. James b: 1873 ......... 2 George W. James b: January 25, 1876 Source:SHARON K BURRIS 8304 CAPE VIEW AVE. NORFOLK, VA 23518-5904 Apparently not a Rutledge researcher, this was in a family history of Williams Howard and Walker. Jim

[RUTLEDGE-L] Rutledges in Missouri--just a few done so far... Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:54 PM Search
Lewis County, MO 1860 Federal Census 33 271 277
RUTLEDGE M 26 F Farmer 3,000 675 KY 34 271 277 RUTLEDGE M 64 F TN X 35 271 277
RUTLEDGE M A 26 F KY 16 309 318
RUTLEDGE Jno 32 M Tenant 675 KY 17 309 318
RUTLEDGE E R 29 F KY 18 309 318
RUTLEDGE Geo 10 M IN X 19 309 318
RUTLEDGE Jos W 4 M MO 20 309 318
RUTLEDGE A T 1 M I have a copy of the census page mentioned above and the abstract listed is in error. 33 271 277 RUTLEDGE M 26 F Farmer 3,000 675 KY this should read: 33 271 277 Fountain Rutledge 64 M Farmer 3000 675 KY the rest of the info is correct and I will send the correction to the website. Just for your info. the John Fox family listed ahead of Fountain Rutledge is, I believe, his daughter Elizabeth Rutledge who married John Fox in Hendricks Co., IN. 27 270 276 FOX John 33 M Tenant 325 UNKNOWN 28 270 276 FOX Eliza 36 F KY 29 270 276 FOX M J 16 F IN 30 270 276 FOX M 7 F MO 31 270 276 FOX L E 5 F MO 32 270 176 FOX T D 1 M MO and the Jno Rutledge is the son of Fountain Rutledge and the Jos. W. is actually John W. I just love initials! ughhhhhhhhhhhh http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/mo+index+85821247113+F
Lewis, MO 1870 Federal Census - Town of Canton 13 38 38
RUTLEDGE Marg 75 F W Keeps House 1,000 300 PA X X this should read: RUTLEDGE Mary 75 F W Keeps House 1000 300 PA X X she is widow of Fountain Rutledge. (I also have copy of actual census page.) 14 38 38 RUTLEDGE Mary A 35 F W At Home KY X X 15 38 38
RUTLEDGE Wm N 8 M W MO X 16 38 38
RUTLEDGE John T 5 M W these 2 boys are daughters of Mary A Rutledge 35 F W (father unk, death certificate states James Rutledge was husband, but family claims she never married!) I never believe abstracts and always seek to examine the actual document. I think these census on line are a great place to start! Carole G in CA

Hello, all,
Pearl is Pearl L. Wiley Rutledge, born ca May 1906, and the widow of Virgil H. Rutledge (16 Sep 1899 WA - 15 Aug 1987 Cowlitz Co. WA).
Pearl did a lot of research into the Rutledge family, as though it was her own blood line. I used to converse with her via letter. At the time she was staying with one of her daughters in Washington state. She was having a rough time from arthritis/rheumatism in her hands and was unable to continue writing, and it was rapidly becoming more of a hindrance. I haven't heard from her in 3 years or more. I haven't heard whether anyone else has either.
Virgil is the 3rd of 10 ch. born to William Thornton Rutledge (3 Feb 1872 Texas Co. MO - 13 Aug 1950 Mills Co IA) and wife Eliza Jane Janie Morgan (20 Mar 1878 Owen Co. KY? - 28 Dec 1967).
William is the 9th of 11 ch. born to Stephen W. Rutledge (6? Jul 1833 Hawkins Co. TN - 12 Oct 1910 Texas Co. MO) and wife Mary Massey (4 Aug 1835 Bledsoe Co. TN - 29 Dec 1909 Texas Co. MO).
Stephen is the 3rd of 17 to 20 ch. born to Thomas F? Rutledge (ca. 1803/04 VA - 1870? Bledsoe Co. TN). There is a question of whether Thomas married twice or three times, but Stephen is by his first wife, believed to be a Wilson, and probably died ca. 1843.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Darryl Gardner 532 Big Springs Rd. Rogersville, TN 37857

This is the last reference to L.D. Rutledge. CBR
At 08:17 PM 11/18/1998 EST, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 11/17/98 4:30:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Letter written by Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., 30 Sep 1946.
Marie, Thank you for sending this. I have often wondered what the whole letter said. Pearl Rutledge quoted bits and pieces of it in a letter she wrote to another researcher, but I hadn't seen the entire letter.
As Don says, it does tend to sustain suspicions we had formed from the data available to us. First and foremost, of course, is the final proof that Stephen W. Rutledge is a son of this Thomas Rutledge, and a half-brother to Wiley B. Rutledge, Sr. The question of Stephen's parentage appears to be at least half-way solved. Wish I could say the same for Thomas's!
Second is the supposition that Thomas Rutledge came from Hawkins Co, TN and was a brother of Emanuel and Lorenzo Dow Rutledge. It is too bad that Wiley Sr, was unable to contact his Hawkins Co. relatives. Am I correct in thinking that they had all moved away by then? Or was there a rift that made Thomas an outcast that no one would claim? I do know that Lorenzo Dow Rutledge was in Bledsoe Co, not too far away from Thomas, in 1850. He had moved away by the time Wiley was born, however, so it's quite likely there was no one HE recognized still living in Hawkins or Bledsoe Co.
Now for the differences of opinion:
1. I have studied and studied the various census records from 1830 til 1870 for Hawkins and Bledsoe County. It's very confusing with so little to go on, but I believe either James or Thomas (or both) must have died young. Granted, one or both of them would have been old enough to be married and moved away by the time of the 1850 census, but where would he have gone to? Perhaps *he* is the mysterious James Rutledge everyone is seeking. Also, Wiley says he was told there were 7 sons and he only counted 6. Probably the 7th son either died at birth or shortly afterwards.
2. I don't believe Thomas had a wife between Miss Wilson and Jane Hall Pope. The 1830 census almost certainly included Miss Wilson, and the 1840 census showed a wife in the same age range. The 1850 census shows Jane as Thomas's wife, as does the 1860 1870 census. While it is possible that Miss Wilson died after the birth of John and a second Mrs Rutledge was married and buried in time for Thomas to marry Jane Hall Pope and have Harriet, I sincerely doubt it. What facts are available to support that theory? With only 2 years between Harriet and Emilie, it would have been an amazingly quick courtship if Harriet were the daughter of wife #2 and Jane the mother of Emilie. Not that it COULDN'T be, but I would just like to see something solid there, especially since Wiley only mentions 2 wives.
3. Wiley says his grandfather died during the Civil War at about 60 years of age. However, I have the 1870 census report here which shows him alive at the age of 66 when the census was taken on June 24, 1870 (unless he had recently died and they were including him as alive for the census purpose). I do believe he was born in 1804 or close to it, because his age as given in all the census records from 1830-1870 seem to support that.
4. Wiley says he was told there were 7 sons and 2 daughters, but he names the daughters of Thomas' first wife as Mary, Nancy, Jane Sarah Ann. However, Nancy is given as Nancy J. on the 1850 census and I believe her middle name was Jane, therefore Nancy Jane was one daughter rather than two.
Also, Mary is probably the daughter of Jane and Mr. Pope, as mentioned further down in his letter. The 1850 census shows Mary age 10 and Catherine age
5. Wiley says Jane had 2 daughters, Mary who married Mr Bowman Catherine who married my Uncle Frank Sullivan. Since those girls *should* have been living with their mother, and Thomas showed girls of the right names and ages in his household, I feel certain these were Jane's daughters and Thomas' step- daughters.
6. I don't know when Cornelius left Tennessee or where he went to after he left Columbus OH, but he was in Giles Co, TN in 1860. He was listed as Neely Rutledge in the household of James Massey and Sarah Ann (Rutledge) Massey. I didn't copy that census page, so I don't remember how far away he was from Stephen and Mary Rutledge, but not far. When Ken was copying the Louisville City Directories he found Wiley B. Rutledge in Louisville in 1902 as a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This would imply that Cornelius was in Columbus at least until that date. Has anyone checked the census of Columbus OH for 1900?
Does anyone recognize any of these people? This is what I know of the younger children of Thomas Rutledge and Jane Hall Pope:
+24 Benjamin Franklin RUTLEDGE was b: 1852 in Bledsoe Co., TN and married Delila Jane BOWMAN (b: April 07, 1855 in TN - d: February 20, 1885) m: Abt. 1875 in Tennessee
Children of Benjamin Franklin Rutledge and Delila Jane Bowman are:
Lanora RUTLEDGE b: 1876 in Bledsoe Co., TN Reason RUTLEDGE b: 1878 in Bledsoe Co., TN
** There were probably other children, but these were the only ones listed on the 1880 census of Bledsoe Co, TN. I don't know where they were after 1880.
27 vii. Anderson Lee Rutledge, born 1858 in Bledsoe Co., TN; died February 1931 in Albequerque, NM. He married Tennessee Campbell 1886.
** From somewhere, I have the information that he married Tennessee Campbell and that he died in Alburqueque, NM. I was in a hurry and didn't write in the source or whose line it was and now can't find the original mail. I strongly suspect it was somewhere in my old email that disappeared in a puff of smoke either when my old computer died or when I upgraded my AOL program.
28 viii. Edwin Rutledge, born September 07, 1859 in Bledsoe Co., TN; died September 24, 1894. He married Margaret Reed.
+29 Wiley Blount4 Rutledge (Thomas3, Jackson Middleton2, Edward1) was born October 21, 1861 in Bledsoe Co., TN, and died July 06, 1944. He married Mary Lou Wigginton.
Child of Wiley Rutledge and Mary Wigginton is: 66 i. Wiley B. Jr.5 Rutledge.
Notes: Rutledge, Wiley Blount (1894-1949) Born in Cloverport, Ky., July 20, 1894. Federal judge, 1939; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1943-49. Died in York, Maine, September 10, 1949. Interment at Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colo.
Anyone want to claim any of these?
Kathye

Okay,Rooters, I've just returned from Vicksburg, MS--saw the Civil War Battlefield, USS Cairo(KAY-row), Cedar Grove Mansion Inn (where a real cannon ball is still stuck in the wall of the front parlor as well as the living room floor) AND visited Memphis, Shelby County City Library.

Now, for news on Memphis,TN RUTLEDGES! For anyone searching for the marriage of NATHAN FRANKLIN RUTLEDGE, he married Nancy P. Davis in Memphis, 23 February 1858. I HAVE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE FROM THE MEMPHIS ARCHIVES if anyone wants it. (See bottom for computer address.)

Also, copy of original Will of John Rutledge,Dec'd; William Rutledge Admr and settlement of his estate. He died in 1855, File #1518. Estate was settled in August 1857 by William Rutledge, Admr.; he named David Rutledge, Katharine Rutledge and William Rutledge but no relationship was given.

SHELBY COUNTY MARRIAGES,1820-1858, by Memphis Genealogical Society, 1997
#1005 Rutledge,Mary to Howell, Andrew B. November 28, 1840 pg 20
#1060 Rutledge,Leah to Wiles, Gillam April 4, 1845 pg 21 Charles S.Rutledge,Sec. Payton Fletcher, J.P.
#1646 Rutledge,John to Baxter, Margaret January 22, 1846 pg 34,78
#3861 John to Davis*, Dorcus C. September 3, 1855 (Wife #2)
#3365 Rutledge,David to Dearman, Martha December 28,1843 pg 69
#2020 Rutledge,Jane to Davis*, William H. December 6,1848 pg 42
#4678 Rutledge,Nathan to Davis*, Nancy P. February 23, 1858 pg 97
* Could these Davis's be brother and sister or 1st cousins??
Shelby County Marriages 1819-1850, Memphis Genealogical Soc.Memphis #1660, Rutledge,Lucy to Brooks, Thomas, December 1,1845 pg17 B. L. Dowell,Sec. John Trezavant-Clerk #1005, Rutledge, Mary to Howell, Andrew B. November 28,1840 pg63 Thos C. Loyd,Sec.,Payton Fletcher -J.P.

The Memphis Archivist told me the bond traditionally paid (in the amount of $1,250) was a bond for marriage paid to the bride. It was a matter of the man's honor at stake. This bond insured 'the bride was not left at the alter waiting'. However, I also was told only a handful of cases could be accounted, the marriage certificate was not returned--one reason simply stated, the bride refused to come out from under her bed! The bride received the bond at the wedding ceremony for hers to keep as her own monies. If the man stood the bride up, it reflected on his 'southern honor' as a coward--to which there were only a few!

At the Vicksburg National Military Park, drove through the Battlefield between Grant, CSA Gen'ls Pendleton and Bedford Forrest. Purchased the book:
CONFEDERATE ROLL OF HONOR, KNOWN CONFEDERATE DEAD,VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, January 1862 - July 1863, Compiled by Gary W. Webster. 1 Rutledge listed on page 50 NAME, RANK CO:UNIT HOSPITAL DATE OF DEATH: GRAVE NO: REMARKS Rutledge, David____ K 3d TN Pest Hse 3 April 1863 976 UDC pg28

CSA STATE UNITS WHO FOUGHT AT VICKSBURG:
ALABAMA 4th, 7th, 40th,
ARKANSAS 1st Arkansas Battery, 30th,
FLORIDA 46TH,
GEORGIA 42nd, 52d,
LOUISIANA, 17th, 25th, 27th, 31ST
MARYLAND(?), 3D Artillery
MISSOURI, Ist MO Cav. (Dismounted),2D,5th, 20th, 30th,
MISSISSIPPI, 1ST,4th, 36th, 37TH, 38TH, 43rd, 46TH,
TENNESSEE 1st, 2D, 9th, 43d, 79th, 8th TN Heavy Artillery
TEXAS 2d,
VIRGINIA 6TH, 22ND, 46TH,

UNION UNITS WITH MEMORIALS FOUND ON BATTLEFIELD GROUNDS PARK:
IOWA
OHIO
ILLINOIS

Anybody who would like to verify any other family name from the above mentioned CONFEDERATE STATES who might have or fought during this campaign, e-mail: Jean to this address.
Enjoy!

Don,

You've probably looked already, but just in case......

The RootsWeb site for DeKalb county, Tennessee has a large listing of Civil
War companies, both Union and Confederate. I did find some of my Smith county
folks listed in the DeKalb counties.

Cindy King

RUTLEDGE, Thomas, father of Stephen:
QUERY: We are attempting to document the parents, parent's siblings and grandparents of 3gfather Stephen W. Rutledge.

What we think ( undocumented )is:

(1. Stephen's father Thomas Rutledge was b. VA, (2. mother of Stephen was a Wilson b. in NC. (3. Stephen's middle name, initial W stands for middle name Wilson, (4 Stephen's grandparents, probably from Virginia, are unknown in record found so far.

What we know is:( documented )

Stephen W. Rutledge was b. 1833 Hawkins Co., TN. He lived with his family near the Holsten River. Father Thomas Rutledge was found in Hawkins Co. census 1830 (living between Sarah Rutledge (his mother?) and Stephen Wilson (his father in law?). Sarah lived next door and Stephen Wilson lived about four houses away.

In 1840 census Sarah not listed. There was another Wilson living next door to Thomas Rutledge, and two other Wilsons lived two houses away. These were Stephen Wilson and probably his sons - and probably brothers-in-law of Thomas Rutledge.

The family moved to Pikeville, Bledsoe Co., TN where found 1850 census. Stephen met and married Mary Massey (from Sequatche Co.). Think her perents were John Massey and perhaps Mary Alsop. Stephen found 1860 census in Giles Co., TN. (Stephen and Mary with three children because two had died.) Stephen fought three years as a soldier (Confederate). In 1870 census the family lived at Mt. Pleasant in Giles Co., TN. Sometime after 1870 the family moved to Missouri and founded the town of Tyrone. In theory, Stephen's Rutledge line may have come from Tyrone, Ireland. Stephen's trade was Shoemaker. In later years he became a Methodist Minister and lived in Tyrone, MO until death in 1910. His wife Mary had died a year earlier in 1909.

The Rutledge children married and located from Iowa to Louisiana. Surnames: ROARK, MARSEE, OWEN (mine), QUACKENBUSH, URBACK, KIGER, MORGAN, McKINNEY and WILKERSON.

RUTLEDGE, David Weldon
Born abt. 1790 d. abt. 1844 in Rutherford, TN. He m. Angelina Williamson Jul 3, 1816. Angelina dau. of Ludowik Williamson and Lindsay Adams. Lived variously in Rutherford Co. Sullivan Co, Washington Co., Wilson Co.... Need his father and grandfather....

Information from David on is quite complete.
Brickwall ancestor of James Rutledge: [email protected]

[email protected]

RUTLEDGE, Abram
Born abt. 1822 birthplace unknown. Father unknown, mother unknown, siblings unknown. Al, TX. 1860 census Hidalgo Co. TN; Abram Rutledge age 38 farmer and Nancy Rutledge age 29 servent
NOTE: By Regena Williamson. (personal knowledge of my friend, her maiden name may have been Jackson)
Brickwall ancestor, friend of Ldmnj.

RUTLEDGE, Emanuel
Born ca 1801 Virginia. Father (speculation)Jackson Middleton RUTLEDGE. Mother (speculation) Sarah Lucy Singleton. Suspect siblings: Thomas F. (Franklin?), Lorenzo Dow LD, Lucy. Suspect Thomas might be father of Stephen W. RUTLEDGE (TN). Births VA or TN. Death probably 1878 Hawkins Co. TN.
Brickwall ancestor of Darryl Gardner.

NOTE: from Richard and Carol:

I might mention that when I first searched in McKinney, Collin Co. for Thomas Henry Rutledge, son of John Rutledge and Jane Gaw Brown Rutledge, I came across another Rutledge who was a plumber in McKinney. I asked if he was related to Thomas Henry and he told me no, but his Dad was still living and sometimes would mention that their family left Tennessee in the middle of the night and moved to Oklahoma! No one EVER spoke of that night or the reason why? I want to say his name was also a Richard Rutledge, Plumber, but that might not be so; however, he was very intrigued at how I found my information and did go to the trouble to let me meet his 72+ year old Dad who almost told me not to go hunting for trouble! What a weird man!

Any, I have not persued this anymore, because I found my grandson, James Clarence Rutledge with information on Thomas Henry Rutledge that filled several pages of notes. His grandfather THR was the oldest Mason in Collin County in 1943 when he died at 93 years old. He told me a friend painted the old Rutledge homestead in McKinney, the house his grandfather built himself at the turn of the century and that he had hauled wood on a sled, saving his money to buy a mule and sell from a wagon. He also showed me a cane, handmade by Thomas Henry himself that at one time had a name plate with T H Rutledge, but his father James Charles had worn it off or it broke off from the cane.

Naturally, I photographed all this for posterity and future cousins that I might meet. So, I was quite bewildered at all the other Rutledges buried in Wilson Chapel Cemetery and no connection to my first cousin, 6 times removed. There was a Jane Rutledge, with the N turned backwards, and Hamilton C. Rutledge and Jack Rutledge. All of these Rutledges can be found in the Collin County Cemetery Book published by Collin Co. History Soc.

If anybody wants this, contact me at Jean, pondering in Dallas

NOTE from From: Lesa Russell

I am seeking information on the mother of Robert Rutledge Moore, son of George Moore and (?) Rutledge. My Rutledge family lived in Rutherford County, TN in the early 1800s. I have found several references to Robert Rutledge associated with George Moore. Does anyone have any information?

I am also interested in finding out who the Henrietta Rutledge was who married Frederick Rutledge in Davidson County, TN in 1826. Does anyone have any information on these two Rutledge families? Someone please help!

Answer from Marie

Henrietta Rutledge Frederick Rutledge are both from the Dr. John Rutledge family. There is an extensive genealogy on line. I get it on my home page through I can't think of what it is but you should be able to get this file through GENEALOGY then RUTLEDGE then DR JOHN RUTLEDGE. let me know if you don't find it and I will look it up for you. Marie

This query also posted in South Carolina. Don

I have the following Rutledge in my family
(I am also related to Elijah Kelley whose son James Ashley Kelley's daughter Elizabeth married Dennis Houston Parsons (in Pike Co. AR by at least 1854) ......June March [email protected]

Descendants of John Rutledge

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 RUTLEDGE. He married REBECCA JANE PARSONS 1839, daughter of THOMAS PARSONS and JANE ANN.

Notes for REBECCA JANE PARSONS: Called Jane in some places and Rebecca in other places - but both married a Rutledge so I feel they are one and the same. (Found in Riceville, McMinn Co TN 1804-20) then some of the Parsons went to Rome GA and/or Ala. Most of mine ended up in Pike Co. AR.

Rebecca named on notes from cousin

Clyde Tom Parsons, Jr. 1236 Abbotsbury, Universal City, TX 78148.

Brickwall ancestor of Gail Crabtree Dunn Benjamin Rutledge born: 31 Aug, 1815 KY/TN? death: 24 May, 1866 Parents: unknown Siblings: unknown Lived in VanBuren and Warren Cos, TN Spouse: Priscilla Medley d/o Mourning and J.I. Medley Children: George Washington Rutledge; James Monroe Rutledge; Mary Elizabeth Rutledge; Eliza Ann Rutledge; Isabell Rutledge; William Riley Rutledge; Tabitha Rutledge; Franklin Pierce Rutledge; Andrew Jackson Rutledge; Margaret Angeline Rutledge.

Father-William Rutledge, Mother-Eleanor Caldwell General George Rutledge B/4/13/1755 Tennessee D/7/1/1813 hawkins Co., Tn. married 1781 Stoney Point, Hawkins Co., Tn.

Annis Armstrong B/9/18/1764 Stoney Point, Tn. D/11/6/1834 same (Father-William Armstrong, Mother-Mary Caldwell) Children: All born in Tn. 1.

William Rutledge B/Abt 1781 2.George Rutledge B/Abt 1781 3.Ann Rutledge B/Abt 1782 married Samuel Rhea

John Dill, in the following correspondance received in March 1, 1998, you speak of your ancestor Benjamin and his mother Matilda. Would this Matilda be the same Mathilda who is the wife listed in the will of William Rutledge of Stokes Co North Carolina? And would your Benjamin be the son of William Rutledge of Stokes Co North Carolina? Do you know the siblings of your ancestor Benjamin? Please let us know, soon. CBR (See especially, 2nd paragraph, 7th line). There were a number of RUTLEDGE families in the very early 1800's living in Jackson County, TN (White County by some later records), many of whom lived on Blackburn's Fork of Roaring River. (The rest lived just over the ridgeon Morrison's Creek).

This would probably be a fruitful area for some of you who have Lost RUTLEDGE's in Tennessee. As a shortcut, I suggest the book BUILDING NEIGHBORHOODS, JACKSON COUNTY, TN PRIOR TO 1820 by Betty Hugg Bryant. This book is made up of abstracts of the Early Land Records in the Jackson/(part of)White County, TN area. They are taken from the Tennessee State Archives.

This book is of value to those of us researching Jackson County, TN as it is a burned county. A great number of people connected with RUTLEDGE are mentioned at various times on this list can be found entered in these early records.

There has been some discussion of the middle names of James Rutledge's (Ann Rutledge of Lincoln fame's father) children. All the surnames represented in those children can be found in abundance in a small geographical area of Tennessee between Gainsboro and Sparta. (Actually within a much smaller area than than). These names include Miller, Mayes, Hamilton,Cameron, Armstrong, Anderson and Blackburn.

The name Brannon isn't present in large numbers but Matilda Rutledge (widow? on the 1820 Jackson, TN census) who was the mother of my Benjamin Rutledge (and of the William Rutledge who migrated from White County, TN up to Fulton County, IL) had several Brannon's listed as heirs to her Estate when she died in 1844 in Barry County, MO (Matilda Davison at the time of her death).

A few examples from the book which might interest some of you: Rec.Book 54, pg. 56, Rec.#127 Spring Creek of Roaring River...nearly west from where Elijah Chishom now lives...17 Feb 1803 (There are a number of entries for Elijah Chisum under various spellings) Is this the Elijah Chisum who is listed on the 1811 on tax list of White County, TN? Was this the same Elijah Chisum (or his father) who owned the land next to John Rutledge and a William Rutledge in White County, TN prior to 1830 (Calf Killer Creek). This land is also tied in with Henry Rutledge. (NOTE: Charles Leonard believed that (one of the several) William and Henry Rutledge were grandsons of Elijah Chisum (their mother was a Chisum?). )

hen John Rutledge died in White County, TN buyers at his Estate (1828) included, James Rutledge, Henry Rutledge, Mrs Anne Rutledge and (apparently) two William Rutledges. This John Rutledge was a miller (owned a mill). He is apparently the same John Rutledge who earlier owned a mill on a branch of Blackburn's Fork of Roaring River in Jackson County, TN (called Rutledge's Mill Creek in some of the records) Some of you might be interested in : Rec.Book 54, pg.83,Rec#183 James Officer (purchase) 400 acres ..Lick Creek of Roaring River... 11 Jul 1803 (This entry calls James Officer by name, others simply refer to him as Old Man Officer) This is James Officer the son of the Thomas Officer (who died in Cumberland County, PA) for whom all the Rutledge's named their sons ___ Officer Rutledge. (His address is given in a Power of Attorney in the Inventory of his father, Thomas Officer's will as Jas. Officer of Tennessee, Jackson County...1806)

There are several references to an early William Rutledge and one to a Susanna Rutledge. They were also near Roaring River. (NOTE: The parents of James McGrady Rutledge, William and Susannah Cameron Rutledge, were said to have lived in Tennessee ca 1820. Does anyone know if this is them? William was a brother of James Rutledge, father of Ann Rutledge) Some members of the CAMERON family which was connected to James Rutledge (father of Ann Rutledge) were also in these early records and later in White County, TN, it would probably be worth checking to see how Benjamin Blackburn tied into all this. Benjamin was the earliest BLACKBURN I could find listed in the land records (and he lived on Blackburn's Fork of Roaring River ca 1808) Comments welcome, John Dill

CARTER CO TN 1796-1850: Rutledge, Thomas Spouse : Griffith, Marellar Marriage date : Jun 19, 1836 CLAIBOURNE CO TN 1821-1850: Rutledge, Caleb W. Spouse : Berry, Eliza Ann Marriage date : Sep 20, 1843 Rutledge, William Spouse : Eastus, Nancy Marriage date : Nov 23, 1839

DAVIDSON CO TN1788-1850 Rutledge, Frederick Spouse : Rutledge, Henrietta Marriage date : Oct 15, 1825 DICKSON CO TN 1817-1850 Rutledge, David Spouse : Harris, Ann Marriage date : Sep 18, 1834 Rutledge, F. M. Spouse : Willey, Barsheba Marriage date : Dec 24, 1850

FAYETTE CO TN 1838-1850 Rutledge, Nathaniel Spouse : Speares, Elizabeth Marriage date : Aug 24, 1843 Rutledge, W. R. Spouse : Hammons, Martha B. Marriage date : Apr 6, 1842

GIBSON CO TN 1824-1850 Rutledge, Elzey Spouse : Terrell, Judith Marriage date : Sep 6, 1824 GREEN CO TN 1780-1850 Rutledge, David Spouse : Bullard, Mary Marriage date : Aug 21, 1798

HAWKINS CO TN 1789-1850 Rutledge, Lorenzo Spouse : Molsby, Polly Marriage date : Jan 29, 1835

JOHNSON CO TN 1838-1850 Rutledge, Anthony Spouse : Vanhuss, Catherine Marriage date : Sep 1, 1842

LINCOLN CO TN 1823-1850 Rutledge, Isaac Spouse : Waggoner, Martha J. Marriage date : Nov 3, 1842 Rutledge, James Spouse : Bandy, Sarah Marriage date : Feb 10, 1848 Rutledge, James Spouse : Hulsey, Martha Jane Marriage date : Mar 9, 1848 Rutledge, James Spouse : Ready, Mary Ann Marriage date : Dec 6, 1838 Rutledge, Samuel Spouse : Daniel, Louisa Marriage date : Aug 8, 1844

MARSHALL CO TN 1835-1850 Rutledge, Obadiah P. Spouse : Tilman, Caroline Marriage date : Feb 18, 1846 Rutledge, Thomas H. Spouse : Vincent, Sarah C. Marriage date : Mar 2, 1843

MAURY CO TN 1807-1850 Rutledge, Edward A. Spouse : Young, Mary F. Marriage date : Apr 11, 1843 Rutledge, James Spouse : Armstrong, Nancy Marriage date : Jan 16, 1811 Rutledge, James P. Spouse : Hodge, Polly S. Marriage date : Jan 26, 1834 Rutledge, Samuel Spouse : Carter, Bethia Marriage date : Dec 26, 1823 Rutledge, Samuel J. Spouse : Hogan, Emaline Marriage date : Sep 24, 1843 Rutledge, William Spouse : Moody, Martha W. Marriage date : Dec 23, 1820 Rutledge, William Spouse : Reid, Margaret C. Marriage date : Dec 21, 1814 Rutledge, William Spouse : Sims, Sarah Marriage date : Dec 10, 1809

OBION CO TN 1824-1850 Rutledge, Charles Spouse : Ward, Caroline Marriage date : Dec 28, 1841 Rutledge, Francis M. Spouse : Elston, Martha Ann Marriage date : Dec 23, 1850

RUTHERFORD CO TN 1804-1850 Rutledge, David Spouse : Williamson, Angelina Marriage date : Jul 3, 1816 Rutledge, Joseph M. Spouse : Watkins, Mary Marriage date : Mar 2, 1835 Rutledge, Pleasant Spouse : Barlow, Harriet Marriage date : Mar 28, 1821 Rutledge, William A. Spouse : Lyell, Sarah A. Marriage date : Oct 4, 1843

SHELBY CO TN 1820-1850 Rutledge, Alexander C. Spouse : Carlton, Louisa Marriage date : Dec 12, 1838 Rutledge, John Spouse : Baxter, Margaret A. Marriage date : Jan 22, 1846 Rutledge, Monroe Spouse : Crowder, Rebecca L. Marriage date : Mar 4, 1839

SUMNER CO TN 1787-1850 Rutledge, Abraham Spouse : Ragsdale, Mary Marriage date : Dec 28, 1805 Rutledge, Abraham Spouse : Wills, Nancy Marriage date : Oct 16, 1805 Rutledge, E. Byrd Spouse : Curry, Mary Marriage date : Jun 6, 1839 Rutledge, William W. Spouse : Belote, Clarissa Marriage date : Mar 12, 1829

WHITE CO TN 1809-1850 Rutledge, Charles Spouse : Moore, Minerva Marriage date : Nov 30, 1843

WILLIAMSON CO TN 1800-1850 Rutledge, Alexander Spouse : Mclemore, Nancy Marriage date : Mar 12, 1808 Rutledge, Robert Spouse : Cahoon, Fanny G. Marriage date : Oct 12, 1809

WILSON CO TN 1802-1850 Rutledge, Alexander Spouse : Cox, Margaret A. Marriage date : Dec 21, 1842 Rutledge, Alexander Spouse : Cox, Nancy Marriage date : Mar 30, 1812 Rutledge, Daniel L. Spouse : Johnson, Malinda Marriage date : Sep 1, 1831 Rutledge, John Spouse : George, Lurana Marriage date : Jul 26, 1832 Rutledge, John R. Spouse : Nowlin, Temperance Marriage date : Jan 6, 1842 Rutledge, Richard Spouse : Bush, Harriett Marriage date : Jan 29, 1840

CARTER CO TN 1707-1884 Rutledge, Thomas Spouse : Griffith, Marellar Marriage date : Jun 19, 1836

FAYETTE CO TN 1838-1857 Rutledge, Nathaniel Spouse : Speares, Elizabeth Marriage date : Aug 24, 1843

GIBSON CO TN 1824-1860 Rutledge, Ann E Spouse : Tyson, Wm R Marriage date : Nov 13, 1845 Rutledge, B M Spouse : Shumate, Ann Marriage date : Dec 29, 1857 Rutledge, Benjamin Spouse : Burnett, Angeline L Marriage date : Oct 23, 1854 Rutledge, David N Spouse : Taylor, Martha Jane Marriage date : Dec 26, 1851 Rutledge, Elzey Spouse : Terrell, Judith Marriage date : Apr 6, 1824 Rutledge, James Spouse : Taylor, Mary Ann Marriage date : Aug 11, 1851 Rutledge, Mary A Spouse : Tilman, Jeremiah A Marriage date : Jul 24, 1851 Rutledge, Robert Spouse : Thetford, T J Miss Marriage date : Jan 27, 1858

JOHNSON CO TN 1838-1857 Rutledge, Anthony Spouse : Vanhuss, Catherine Marriage date : Sep 1, 1842

KNOX CO TN 1784-1900 Rutledge, Roena May Spouse : Carroll, Andrew J Marriage date : Oct 3, 1899 Rutledge, Sallie M Spouse : Child, Albert O Marriage date : Jan 18, 1888

MARSHALL CO TN 1836-1870 Rutledge, Mary Spouse : Baxter, Harry Marriage date : Sep 24, 1865 Rutledge, Montgomery Spouse : Stone, Jane Marriage date : Apr 10, 1869 Rutledge, Obadiah P Spouse : Tilman, Caroline Marriage date : Feb 18, 1846 Rutledge, Thomas H Spouse : Vincent, Sarah C Marriage date : Mar 2, 1843

SEQUATCHIE CO TN 1858-1922 Rutledge, L L Spouse : Smith, Jessie Miss Marriage date : Feb 16, 1908

SHELBY CO TN 1819-1851 Rutledge, John Spouse : Baxter, Margaret A Marriage date : Jan 22, 1846 Rutledge, Leah Spouse : Wiles, Gillum Marriage date : Apr 4, 1840

SUMNER CO TN 1787-1859 Rutledge, Abraham Spouse : Wells, Nancy Marriage date : Oct 16, 1805 Rutledge, Abraham Spouse : Wills, Nancy Marriage date : Oct 16, 1805 Rutledge, Mary Spouse : Pittmon, William Marriage date : Dec 28, 1805

WILSON CO TN 1733-1866 Rutledge, Alexander Spouse : Cox, Nancy Marriage date : Mar 30, 1812

EARLY MIDDLE TENNESSEE MARRIAGES, Vol. 2 - Brides by Bryon and Barbara Sistler, Nashville, TN Bryon Sistler Assoc, P O Box 190934, 37212 Call #R929.3768 S623E 1988 Vol 2. Begins on page 473-474

BRIDES GROOMS DATE COUNTY
Rutledge, Amanda to Benjamin F. Satterfield 8-7-1864 Maury Co
Rutledge, Catherine - Isaac N. Bills 11-23-1826 Maury Co.
Rutledge, Cinthia to John McKnight 9-23-1823 Maury Co.
Rutledge, C.E. to L. W. Mitchell 9-28-1859 Wayne Co.
Rutledge, Caroline to Franklin Miller 12-23-1863 Davidson Co.
Rutledge, Emma P. to Daniel Blake 6-9-1831 Davidson Co.
Rutledge, Ann Rebecca Willis Holman 12-16-1845 Lincoln Co.
Rutledge, Cordelia to J R King 1-16-1867 Lincoln CO.
Rutledge, Elizabeth - F M Burton 11-2-1863 Rutherford Co
Rutledge, Elizabeth - John E. Page 7-26-1859 Rutherford Co
Rutledge, Fanny to Thomas McCall 9-16-1824 Williamson
Rutledge, Fanny to William McClung 10-30-1829 Sumner Co.
Rutledge, Frances E.- John A. Grimes 8-22-1867 Wayne Co.
Rutledge, Harriet C - Anthony Bates 8-31-1848 Lincoln Co.
Rutledge, Henrietta - Frederick Rutledge 10-15-1826 Davidson Co.
Rutledge, Holly to Robert McCoy 8-23-1815 Rutherford Co
Rutledge, Judith T.to Michael Womack 10-19-1825 Rutherford Co
continued next page 474
Rutledge, Julia to Hiriam Staggs 1-11-1866 Lawrence Co
Rutledge, Lofelen to Wylie Dolston/Dutton 12-11-1863 Sumner Co.
Rutledge, Lucretia to William Embieson 6-21-1832 Maury Co.
Rutledge, Lucy to Benza Raines 7-11-1859 Franklin Co
Rutledge, M. M. to J T Lipscomb 8-23-1869 Franklin (*F)
Rutledge, M. M. (2d?) H. K. (R) Phillips 3-25-1864 Wayne Co
Rutledge, Mahala to Samuel S. Rayburn 4-24-1826 Maury Co
Rutledge, Malinda L. Levi Thrower 8-27-1859 Coffee Co
Rutledge, Malvina to James L Wilson 9-20-1853 Lewis Co
Rutledge, Margaret to Elijah Blackman 8-31-1807 Williamson Co
Rutledge, Margaret to John C. Mills 10-4-1860 Lincoln Co.
Rutledge, Margaret E -Travis E. Martin 4-21-1859 Sumner Co
Rutledge, Marinda H.- Marion Carothurs 2-14-1861 Sumner Co
Rutledge, Martha to Samuel Davis 12-13-1869 Lawrence Co
Rutledge, Martha to John Henderson 5-27-1858 Wilson Co
Rutledge, Martha to William White 10-25-1857 Sumner Co
Rutledge, Martha to Harbert Biles 3-22-1825 Rutherford Co
Rutledge, Martha W.- Isaac W. Thomas 5-13-1834 Maury Co
Rutledge, Mary to Harry Baxter 9-24-1865 Marshall Co
Rutledge, Mary to George W. Owen 9-16-1841 Wilson Co
Rutledge, Mary A. to A. G. Logue 2-2-1857 Warren Co
Rutledge, Mary A. to James C. Shofner 10-2-1865 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Mary A. to Charles H. White 10-23-1862 Rutherford
Rutledge, Mary E. to William Carothers 4-4-1861 Sumner Co
Rutledge, Mary J. to Stephen Dark 10-28-1841 Maury Co
Rutledge, Mary J. to G W Morrow 1-29-1866 Wayne Co
Rutledge, Mary Jane -Thomas B McGeehee 9-10-1857 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Matilda to Riley Dodson 12-21-1847 Maury Co
Rutledge, Matilda to John Gurley 4-24/25-1816 Maury Co
Rutlege, Menerva to Samuel Neely 3-11-1858 Lewis Co
Rutledge, Nancy to James M. Bentley 9-26-1833 Wilson Co
Rutledge, Nancy to Wiley Bodine 8-2-1825 Wilson Co
Rutledge, Nancy to Joseph Wagner 9-29-1858 Warren Co
Rutledge, Nancy Van- Noah Cross 5-28-1845 Dickson Co
Rutledge, Ophelia E- Thomas J. Larkin 8-20-1867 No Return (*F)
Rutledge, Patsy C. - John Caldwell 6-5- B4 1838 Maury
Rutledge, Phebe to Samuel D. Brown 10-6-1842 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Pheby E. - Presley O. George 10-24-1867 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Rebecca A -Felix W. Motlow 5-9-1867 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Rossamond - Joshua Christopher 4-11-1822 Rutherford
Rutledge, Ruth to George Milstead 7-18-1839 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Sallie to A. E. Hibdon 3-16-1871 De Kalb Co
Rutledge, Sally to Israel L. Pickens 9-25-1818 Lawrence Co
Rutledge, Sarah Ann -Risin Etter 1-5-1859 Warren Co
Rutledge, Sarah Jane- John P McGee 3-12-1851 Lincoln Co
Rutledge, Silva to Pleasant Record 1-23-1869 Marshall Co
Rutledge, Susan to William Crook 8-15-1831 Sumner Co
Rutledge, Susan to Ivey Saunders 2-2-1852 no return Frank
Rutledge, Susan Jane-Joshua Fox 5-3-1847 White Co
Rutledge, Susan L. - Devrix Mustain 12-29-1841 Rutherford
Rutledge, Susannah- Daniel McClary 10-1-1816 Williamson
Rutlege, Fannie to Allen Harris 8-29-1865 Marshall

10.Nellie Rutledge B/Abt 1789 married Benjamin Powel 11.Mary C. Rutledge B/12/4/1790 Sullivan Co., Tn. D/1867 Rogersville, Tn. married Abt 1807 Sullivan Co., Tn. Samuel Powel Bill Armstrong Kingman, Az.

This sounds like Henry Middleton Rutledge 1775 SC-1844 TENN , son of Gov. Edward Rutledge and Mary Henrietta Middleton. Henry Middleton Rutledge wife Septma Sexta Middleton went to Nashville, Tenn. I can't find any other Henry M Rutledge in that time frame. Hope this helps someone..... Marie

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [RUTLEDGE-L] Blount County, TN. Deeds-Deed BK.1---1795-1819
Abstracted by J. Thomas
Date: March 06, 1999 8:19 PM

Pulled some of my books out this evening and found the following and thought I'd send it along, hoping it will help some you. #218. (154-55) Barclay McGhee to Henry M. Rutledge of Charleston, S.C. 25 August 1807, 27 August 1807, $3000, 400 ac. within the lands to which the Indian title is not yet extinquished on north side of Tenn. River. Grant # 830 from State of N.C., adj. John Cowan, Nine Mile Creek. Wit:Enoch Parsens, George Ewing.
Apparently this Henry Rutledge and a George Rutledge both from S.C. had numerous dealings in the land around here in Blount Co. I have seen their names and place of residence on several different occasions. Does anyone know who these two men belong too.? I figure they are either brothers or father and son- will check some more records later and see if I can come up with any information on one or both of them. BTW, the John Cowan mentioned above is another of my lines. Hope this is of interest to someone. Best Wishes, Edna In a message dated 3/2/1999, 12:05:04 AM, [email protected] writes: Thank you Darryl.........That is the most solid documentation I have seen on Thomas. Does anyone else have information provided by Wiley Rutledge? By the way, where does Wiley fit into the family? Don

Don and everyone,

Wiley B. Rutledge, father of US Supreme Court Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr, was the youngest son of Thomas Rutledge and Jane Hall Pope Rutledge. The Wiley being discussed was the Supreme Court Justice, Wiley B. - Thomas's grandson. He wrote a couple of letters to relatives in which he gave family genealogy information as best he remembered it. Unfortunately, it wasn't totally accurate.

As in all cases in genealogy, the burden of proof is on the recipient of the information, not on the source. We are all fallable and people remember things differently based upon the age and circumstances of the person doing the remembering. Stories we heard as a child aren't always remembered correctly as we age.

I know that's true for me and other people that I know so I have to believe I'm normal in that regard. I've got back again and again to my mother to verify what I believe happened when I was young and find that the details are often slightly different or the person in question was not who I thought they were.

Kathye

Does anyone claim Zolliecoffer Rutledge? If he is a brickwall, you may want to explore a site on the web re: Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zolliecoffer 1812-1862. If you go to the site, under his photo is a box to click on - Zollie's folly which tells of the Civil War battle in which General George Crittenden and his men ended up on the wrong side of the Cumberland River. Crittenden wrote that he was threatened by a superior force of the enemy in front and finding it impossible to cross the river, I will have to make the fight on the ground I now occupy. He had under his command, 4,000 men in 2 brigades.

The First Brigade was commanded by Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer. A part of this brigade was: Rutledge's battery of four guns, under Capt. A.M. RUTLEDGE. Do any of you claim A.M. Rutledge? Is he in Rachel's family? Whats the chance he named a son Zolliecoffer? (We've often wondered if our Fountain Rutledge b.1796 KY, was named for Major James Fountain from Kentucky , hero of the Indian Wars, who died several years before our Fountain was born... there is a John Rutledge involved with him that we cannot prove or disprove to be part of our family.)

Zolliecoffer William Zol RUTLEDGE (1868-1937) is a son of Richard Kine RUTLEDGE (1845-1891) and wife Mary Jane Mollie NORMAN (1843-1867). Mollie had been previously married to Ephriam Goldsmith KNIGHT, who was killed in the Civil War, and by whom she had two daughters.

Richard Kine was a son of Emanuel RUTLEDGE, my ancestor.

I'm somewhat confident Capt. A. M. RUTLEDGE is Arthur Middleton RUTLEDGE (1817-1876), who m/1 Elizabeth UNDERWOOD, and m/2 Marie ADAMS. He descends from the SC RUTLEDGEs.

Best wishes,

Darryl

[email protected] wrote:

Received my copy of Families of Hawkins County Tennessee 1786-1994 today and have to admit that I am very disappointed in what I can find about my husbands Chesnutt line. With so many of them from there I have found only two references, one of which is not on the page as stated in the index. Or if he is I can't find him! However there is a lot of Rutledge information. I will post a few of the Rutledge names Wilson, Emanuel, Richard Baxter, Thomas K., Robert J., Richard Kine, James William, Stephen W., and Zolliecoffer William Zol. I would offer to do lookups but have to warn you the index only gives the last name Rutledge with 14 pages sited. That does not mean that they are mentioned only on those pages however, it means that is where the article starts. Would recommend this book to people who know they have Hawkins County Rutledge relatives. Nancy

Hello, Nancy,

It's unfortunate there were so few stories in Families which told of your husband's Chesnut (var. sp.) line.

I hope you realize the way these books are created. People, such as yourself, submit the stories to be included. Neither the printer the publisher, or for that matter, does anyone else have the information to required to generate a story on any family. If no one submits, nothing is printed.

Regarding the page listing, the following statement found on page 647 at the beginning of the index should suffice:

The following family names can be found one or more times in the story(s) which begin on the page(s) listed.

For anyone interested, the Hawkins County Genealogical Historical Society is preparing to print a second volume of stories on families with any known connection to Hawkins Co. TN. I suggest you do so promptly, as they plan to cut off submittals on April 30.

For more information, visit HCGHS' website:
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnhcghs/page3b.htm
or the Hawkins Co. website:
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnhawkin/
Best wishes,
Darryl

Fred:

I have the following Wood/Woods - Rutledge marriage:
Frances Marian Rutledge, b. 1852 Talladega Co., AR md. John Woods c. 1778 in Yavapai Co., AZ. She died before 1901.
Father: Joseph Rutledge, b. c. 1820 SC, d. 2 or 3 1860 in Talladega Co., AL. Mother: Melissa Ann McCay/McCoy Rutledge, b. 1823 SC, md. Joseph in Forsyth Co., GA, 1 Oct 1839, d. 31 Mar 1900 in Yavapai Co., AZ.

Richard Daly Reddick [email protected]

At 01:05 PM 3/13/99 -0800, you wrote: FORWARDED FROM FRED GORDON [email protected]

Anyone have Rutledge and Wood combinations?.......anywhere?...........anytime? Don
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 12:02 PM
Subject: Stephen W. Rutledge

Don,
Do you have any RUTLEDGE-WOOD connections in your heritage? I have some in my GORDON database.

Fred Gordon in Texas

Regarding the following brickwall . . . I just have to comment on this.
John Rutledge, b. 1804 in McMinn Co., TN, d. unknown Father, Mother siblings unknown, were in TN, GA and perhaps AL Brickwall ancestor of June March

McMinn Co.,TN wasn't formed until 1819 from Indian Lands . . .
1820 census shows a John Rutledge in White Co., TN and Giles Co.,TN Early TN Tax Lists by Sistler shows a John RUTLEDGE in White Co.,TN 1825.
While I have this page out - I'm sure anyone researching this surname in TN already has this, but for those that don't . . . It was alpha, but I put this in order by county, would be interesting by years too.
from Byron Sistler Assoc. Early Tennessee Tax Lists pg. 175 (B) Bedford Co.,TN formed 1807 from Rutherford
RUTLEDGE, Robert . . . 1812 Margaret .. 1820 cn
Giles Co., TN formed 1809 from Indian lands
RUTLEDGE, Joel . . . . . 1812
Will. . . . .. 1812
Johnston . . 1812
Samuel J. . 1819 Greene Co.,TN formed 1783 from Washington Co. RUTLEGE, James . . . . 1805
Maury Co., TN formed 1807 from Williamson Indian lands
RUTLEGE, James . . . 1811
Samuel . . 1816
William . . 1811, 1816 Sullivan Co., TN formed 1779 from Washington Co.
RUTLEDGE, George . . . 1796, 1797 (2), 1812
Robert . . . . 1812 Sumner Co., TN formed 1786 from Davidson Co.
RUTLEDGE, Elijah . . . . 1816, 1823, 1820 cn
W (Warren?) formed 1807 from White, Jackson, Smith Indian lands
RUTLEDGE, Robert . . . 1805
White Co.,TN formed 1806 from Jackson, Smith Co.
RUTLEDGE, David . . 1811
Henry . . 1825
John . . . 1825
Williamson Co., TN formed 1799 from Davidson
RUTLEGE, William . . . 1801
RUTLEDGE, Robert . . . 1815

Pamela Geisler Smith

[email protected] wrote:
#218. (154-55) Barclay McGhee to Henry M. Rutledge of Charleston, S.C. 25 August 1807, 27 August 1807, $3000, 400 ac. within the lands to which the Indian title is not yet extinquished on north side of Tenn. River. Grant # 830 from State of N.C., adj. John Cowan, Nine Mile Creek. Wit:Enoch Parsens, George Ewing.
Apparently this Henry Rutledge and a George Rutledge both from S.C. had numerous dealings in the land around here in Blount Co. I have seen their names and place of residence on several different occasions. Does anyone know who these two men belong too.? I figure they are either brothers or father and son- will check some more records later and see if I can come up with any information on one or both of them. BTW, the John Cowan mentioned above is another of my lines. Hope this is of interest to someone. Best Wishes, Edna

Hello, Edna,

The time frame and location right, and the person is likely the same.
I speak of Henry Middleton Rutledge (1775-1844), son of Edward (1749-1800), often called Edward the Signer as he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Henry Middleton Rutledge (1775-1844) married Septima Sexta Middleton (1783-1865). They moved to Middle Tennessee and managed the property along the Elk River, which Edward's brother John received as a result of Revolutionary War activities, then sold to Edward. This strongly suggests Henry was also involved in land transactions in East Tennessee. Incidentally, if I recall correctly from the few early deeds I have seen, $7.50 per acre in those days was exceptionally high. A dollar an acre was more likely the norm, and when you include the fact title to this was unsettled, it is phenominal. As for George, I can't place him, but he is likely related to Henry.
Best wishes,
Darryl

Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. was born 20 Jul 1894 in Cloverport KY and died 10 Sep 1949 in York Co. ME. He is buried in Green Mountain Cemetery in Boulder Co. CO.
He was an attorney, teacher, dean, and US Supreme Court justice. He was appointed to the court by FDR.
He married on 28 Aug 1917 in Buncombe Co. NC to Annabel Person. She taught Greek at Maryville College, where I think they met. I think they had 3 children.
Wiley Blount Rutledge Sr. was born 21 Oct 1861 in Bledsoe Co. TN, and died 6 Jul 1944.
He was a circuit-riding minister. He m/1 Mary Lou Wigginton ca. 1893 in Bullitt Co. KY. They had at least 3 children, Wiley Jr. being the eldest.
After Mary Lou's death, Wiley Sr. remarried Tamsey Cordelia Cate, and they had at least 3 children.
Wiley Sr. was one of the youngest children of Thomas Rutledge (ca. 1803 VA - 1870) and Thomas' third wife Jane Hall, who was previously married to a Pope. I'm not sure, but I think Wiley Sr. was likely the youngest.
Best wishes,
Darryl

Hi Don and Everyone!

This is such an interesting letter, Don! Thanks for sharing it! Bill has about got to be a cousin, doesn't he? I'll admit, I haven't been able to figure out just how yet. I do have a Martin correspondant who has a Henry line in TN tho... I think I'll send the data to her and just see if she might be able to shed any light on this family. Will certainly pass it along to you if she can add anything.

Kay
Don Kelly wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: WILLIAM MASSEY
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 10:36 AM
Subject: [TNGILES-L] Massey Family
Dear Giles Countians,

Here I am up in Franklin, Tenn., trying to figure out where I came from. :) . No, I was raised in Lewisburg, but I have recently discovered that my Massey ancestors MAY have been some of the earliest settlers of your truly beautiful Giles County. You have every right to be proud of it.

As you know, southwestern Marshall Co. was northeastern Giles Co. until 1871. I am searching for an inhabitant of that area. His name was JOHN MASSEY (1789? - 1858). His wife was MARY HENRY MASSEY with about the same dates.

His children include DRURY MASSEY, who married ELEANOR HAYNES of Giles Co. and who moved to Lauderdale Co. around 1840;
ELIZA MASSEY, who married JOHN C. DARE and moved to Arkansas; JOSEPH H. MASSEY of Arkansas;
JAMES H. MASSEY (m. a Coble?) of Missouri;
LEROY F. MASSEY of Giles/Marshall Cos.;
JOHN WESLEY MASSEY (my gggrandfather), who married Louiza Short of the Spring Place Shorts; ELIZA (?)
MASSEY, who married THOMAS BURGESS of Giles Co.; LUCINDA C.
MASSEY, who married W.C. PORCH; and MARY MASSEY, who married JOHN BURGESS of Giles Co. I'm aware that Ephraim Massey was an early resident of the Cornersville area, but I don't believe I'm directly related to him, although I'm not absolutely certain.

If you have any information on any of these people, please e-mail on up here to me.
Thanks in advance.
Bill Massey
In F. C. L.
Most sincerely,
William R. (Bill) Massey

Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. was born 20 Jul 1894 in Cloverport KY and
died 10 Sep 1949 in York Co. ME. He is buried in Green Mountain Cemetery
in Boulder Co. CO.

He was an attorney, teacher, dean, and US Supreme Court justice. He was
appointed to the court by FDR.

He married on 28 Aug 1917 in Buncombe Co. NC to Annabel Person. She
taught Greek at Maryville College, where I think they met. I think they
had 3 children.

Wiley Blount Rutledge Sr. was born 21 Oct 1861 in Bledsoe Co. TN, and
died 6 Jul 1944.

He was a circuit-riding minister. He m/1 Mary Lou Wigginton ca. 1893 in
Bullitt Co. KY. They had at least 3 children, Wiley Jr. being the
eldest.

After Mary Lou's death, Wiley Sr. remarried Tamsey Cordelia Cate, and
they had at least 3 children.

Wiley Sr. was one of the youngest children of Thomas Rutledge (ca. 1803
VA - 1870) and Thomas' third wife Jane Hall, who was previously married
to a Pope. I'm not sure, but I think Wiley Sr. was likely the youngest.

Best wishes,

Darryl

Carrie: Here is a portion of what I have in my data file: This is not part of my line. If you will look in the file in the Rutledge List I think you will find this and more. Rachel Demaree Clemons 1. DUDLEY3 RUTLEDGE (JAMES2, JAMES1) was born Abt. 1776 in VA, and died 29/Dec/1801 in Oglethorpe Co., GA. He married RACHEL GLASS 29/Dec/1801 in Oglethorp Co., GA. Notes for DUDLEY RUTLEDGE: Census 1820, Wilkerson GA, 1830 Family Heads 1805 Georgia, pg 165 gives marriages. Mildred Athey gives place of death as Wilkerson, MS Notes for RACHEL GLASS: d/o Joshua Glass Milly Children of DUDLEY RUTLEDGE and RACHEL GLASS are: i. JAMES4 RUTLEDGE. ii. JOHN O. RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1803, GA; m. (1) SARAH WILSON, 1824, Amete Co., MS; m. (2) MARY NETTERVILLE, 05/Dec/1829, Wilkinson, MS. Notes for JOHN O. RUTLEDGE: !IGI:Batch #: M516731, Source Call #: 864487 Notes for MARY NETTERVILLE: ARCHIVE RECORD:sub by Mrs. Winona N. Laroussini, Cedar Ridge, Ponchatoula, LA; Mary Netterville, dau of Jeremiah Netterville and Mary Owens Mathis. iii. JOSHUA G. RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1805, GA. iv. JAMES RUTLEDGE, b. Bet. 1806 - 1807. v. MARY E. RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1808; m. JOHN ILER, 1826, Wilkinson, MS. vi. GEORGE RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1810. vii. FRANCIS RACHEL RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1821; m. EDWARD STAPLETON, 27/Nov/1841, LA. viii. ELIZABETH JANE RUTLEDGE, b. 1820; m. JOHN PERKINS, 27/Jun/1839, LA.

Here is the birth information and where I got it. I had been told Dudley
Rutledge was John's father but I have not found that yet. I got my
information from the 1850 Newton County census and here it goes.
Rutledge, John 60 M Tennessee
Sarah K. 45 F South Carolina (maiden name
Wilson in will)
William 21 M Mississippi
John 19 M Mississippi
Iverson 16 M Mississippi
Eliza Jane 12 F Mississippi
Letha Ann 9 F Mississippi (In dad's will
spelled Leathey)
Oliver C. 8 M Mississippi

In 1860 census, Everyone is 10 older, expect papa John who is 15 years older
(whether this is an error or correction, I don't know). I hope this helps a
little better.
Thanks, Carrie Franks

Hello.

I am new to the Rutledge list. I have a Rutledge branch in my family
tree and was wondering if there is anyone else researching the same
branch. My knowledge of my line is:

WILLIAM1 RUTLEDGE was born in ? and died Bet. 1776 - 1780. He married
MARY CREESON.

ISAAC2 RUTLEDGE, SR. (WILLIAM1) was born April 23, 1779 in North
Carolina, and died Abt. 1836. He married RUTH STEELMAN. She was born
in North Carolina, and died 1828 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee.

ISAAC3 RUTLEDGE, JR. (ISAAC2, WILLIAM1) was born September 01, 1819, and
died August 08, 1886. He married (1) REBECCA A. BUCHANAN. He married
(2) MARTHA J. WAGONER 1842. She died 1857.

RUTH KATHRYN4 RUTLEDGE (ISAAC3, ISAAC2, WILLIAM1) was born 1854 in
Tennessee. She married REUBEN BUTLER LOGAN January 16, 1873, son of
BYARS LOGAN and SARAH FELPS. He was born August 15, 1848.

MARY JANE5 LOGAN (RUTH KATHRYN4 RUTLEDGE, ISAAC3, ISAAC2, WILLIAM1) was
born June 06, 1887 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and died April 21, 1969
in Lynchburg, Tennessee. She married JOHN WILLIAM CLARK February 15,
1908, son of GEORGE CLARK and MARTHA WAGGONER. He was born June 20,
1887 in Moore County, Tennessee, and died July 02, 1980 in Fayetteville,
Tennessee.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Cindy

Hi again.

Just looked at GenForum and found a query Jackson Middleton Rutledge dated
Oct 17, 1998, and was posted by Phil Eaton.

It mentions that he married Sary Lucy Singleton.

Is this the family you are looking for?

Bettie

Here is a part of what is in my data base on Annis Armstrong. I hope this
helps.
Rachel Demaree Clemons

ANNIS ARMSTRONG (WILLIAM A.1) was born 18/Sep/1764 in Stony Point, TN, and
died 06/Nov/1834 in Blountsville, TN. She married GEORGE RUTLEDGE Abt. 1787
in VA, son of WILLIAM RUTLEDGE and ELEANOR CALDWELL.
Notes for ANNIS ARMSTRONG:
The Armstrong Clan, 9811 NE 91st Ave., Vancouver, WA 98662-1935;
reports that Annis was b 18 Sep 1764, Stoney Point, Hawkins, TN, dau of Gen.
William A Armstrong who was born in Co. Fermanagh, IR in 1712 and Mary
Caldwell. Annis was their 8th child and 6th dau.

She died 6 Nov 1834, age 70 Bur.: Blountville Cem., Hawkins Co., TN

Notes for GEORGE RUTLEDGE:
BIBLE:Bible Records Mar Bonds by Jeannette Tillwater Acker,
Coffeville, KS Lib. R929.1 A--Maxwell family Bible records pg 218, David
Maxwell:Priscilla Rutledge( of East Tenn) m 1818 dau of Gen. Geo Rutledge
Annis Armstrong.
BOOK:Tenn. Cousins, pg 177, 7; History of Armstrong Family, Hawkins
Co., TN,
written by William Lyons Armstrong (1837-1908) at H. B. Stamps Library in
Rogersville, TN.
!CEMETERY:Book R976-896, SHE Sullivan Co., Tenn. Cemeteries (1991)
byh Karen L. Sherman-- Heritage Books, Inc. pg 179 Blountsville Cem.,
Rutledge, Anna S. w/o Gen. George d Nov 1834 aged 70y; General George
Rutledge 1755-1833, Rev. soldier; John G. not legible; Matilda W. Rhea, Apr
5, 1833, May 21, 1856, w/o William G. , d/o Sol J. D. E. R. Rhea.
Children of ANNIS ARMSTRONG and GEORGE RUTLEDGE are:
2. i. WILLIAM3 RUTLEDGE, b. 01/Feb/1789, Hawkins Co., TN.
3. ii. MARY CALDWELL RUTLEDGE, b. 04/Dec/1790, Hawkins Co., TN; d.
1867, TN.
4. iii. PRISCILLA RUTLEDGE, b. 27/Jan/1792, Hawkins Co., TN; d. 1835.
iv. NELLY ELEANOR RUTLEDGE, b. 06/Feb/1794, Hawkins Co., TN; m.
J. BENJAMIN POWELL, 08/Jun/1813, Hawkins Co., TN.
v. SARAH RUTLEDGE, b. 15/Mar/1795, Hawkins Co., TN; d.
11/Jun/1828, AL; m. RICHARD B. CLAYTON, 04/Mar/1819, TN.
5. vi. GEORGE WASHINGTON RUTLEDGE, b. 25/Jan/1798, Sullivan Co., TN;
d. 15/Dec/1840, Hawkins Co., TN.
vii. ELIZABETH RUTLEDGE, b. 16/Nov/1799, Hawkins Co., TN; m. DAVID
LARKINS, Abt. 1823.
!OTHER:Known as Betsy, one source gives marrige date as 1823
6. viii. JANE RUTLEDGE, b. 20/Nov/1801, Sullivan Co., TN; d.
27/Dec/1852.
ix. ANNIS ARMSTRONG RUTLEDGE, b. 27/Dec/1804, Hawkins Co., TN; d.
23/Feb/1837; m. SAMUEL RHEA, 23/Feb/1827.
!SUBMITTER:William Blake Rutledge, Alberta Can. gives marriage date as 1Feb
1836
7. x. NANCY RUTLEDGE, b. 23/Mar/1806, Hawkins Co., TN.
xi. LOUISIANA ARMSTRONG RUTLEDGE, b. 08/Jan/1809, Hawkins Co.,
TN; m. SAMUEL HUGHES.
!OTHER:From The Andrews Family Genealogical Data, A Holding of the Manuscipt
Unit, Tenn. state Library Archives. --From The Old Rutledge Bible, --MS Div.
Ac. No. 68. 161 --married at Richard B. Clayton's

[email protected] wrote:

I am looking for John Rutledge of Tennessee and married Sarah K. Wilson of
South Carolina. They had a daughter Leathey Ann Rutledge who was my husband's
great-great grandmother. I would appreciate any information that would lead
to where they are buried. Thank you, Carrie Franks

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Hello, Carrie,

Although researching all TN Rutledges, I don't yet have any info on the
above family.

I have about 150 John Rutledges in my index, and if you include middle
names and/or initials, another 200.

What birth and death dates (approximate beats nothing), and what
locations do you have for John, Sarah, and Leathy Ann?

What info do you have on any other children, or other info which will
distinguish this John Rutledge from others?

Best wishes,

Darryl

I have no personal interest to prove or disprove anything regarding the
Charleston Rutledges. I'm joining in because I enjoy reading the Rutledge
Digest and can't stay away from temptation because it won't stay away from me.
I tend to lean toward Darryl's view. I realize that just because something
is printed doesn't mean it's true, BUT, the secondary materials I have read
say that both Edward and John were granted land in Tennesee for their service
to the new nation. Perhaps the land John received was contiguous with
Edward's. When Edward died in 1800 he had recouped some of his economic
losses from crop failures, stalled trade with England, and giving up his law
practice for politics. His heirs were daughter Sara and son Henry. Any
other heirs would surely have come forward or been brought forward when the
estate was settled. Records at Middleton Place pertaining to the history of
Henry's wife Septima Middleton have it that in 1816, Major Rutledge (Henry)
and Septima left their plantation on the Ashley River (and that the Major
gave up his law practice ) to move to the undeveloped land in TN which was
75,000 acres. They had 5 children then. They took twenty wagons of
furniture, food, clothing, books and a musical instrument (Septima's harp),
twelve cows, and 50 slaves. A plantation house was built at Chilhowee and
called Rutledge Place. In 1817 their last child was born there, Arthur
Middleton. In 1820 they moved to a 20 acre estate in Nashville, and were
prominent in that city for the rest of their lives.
Two of their daughters married Charleston men and moved back there: Henrietta
married her cousin Frederick Rutledge and Emma married her cousin Daniel
Blake. Major Henry died in 1844. When Septima died in 1865, she was
survived by daughter Mary who had married Francis Fogg, a Nashville lawyer,
sons Henry and Arthur and sixteen grandchildren. Most of their descendants
live in So. Carolina, Alabama and Kentucky, (according to the Middleton Place
records). ------------------------

Yours truly, Keith Rutledge, not likely to be descended from any prominent or famous Rutledges, but rather from a pack of westward roaming, footloose, hand-to-mouth,
smart-mouthed, freedom loving, hard to tie down, English-Irish-Scotch Irish,
Scots.

Edna: I do not know if this ties into you line or not, but it looks possible.
I have a lot more if this works.
Rachel Demaree Clemons
[email protected]
1. ROBERT ALEXANDER5 RUTLEDGE (GEORGE POWELL4, ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, GEORGE1)
was born 25/Jun/1837 in Marysville, TN, and died 16/May/1864 in Drury's
Bluff, VA. He married MARY MINERVA MONTGOMERY 04/Jul/1860 in Marysville, TN.

Notes for ROBERT ALEXANDER RUTLEDGE:
Died in Civil War.
Confederaste Patriot Index 1924-1978, Vol. 2 United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Tenn Div. 1978
R976.8 U58C (Wichita, Ks)
Rutledge, Robert Alexander, Co. H, 63rd Tenn. Inf. b 25/Jun/1837 near
Marysville, Tenn. d 16/May1869 at Drurys Bluff, VA married Mary Minerva
Montgomery, July 14, 1860, at Mareysville, Tenn. She was b 29/Nov/1838, d
8/Apr/1871 at Huntland, TN. Members: Eva Lucille Rutledge White,
grandaughjter 62/102
Elizabeth Ann Whitehead, great grand daughter. At the time of the U.D.C.
application she had approximately 60 letters written by R. A. Rutledge to his
wife, beginning Jan. 1862 through 5 May 1864,

Children of ROBERT RUTLEDGE and MARY MONTGOMERY are:
i. GEORGE CALVILLE6 RUTLEDGE, b. 11/May/1861, Marysville, TN; m.
ELMA M. MOORE, 30/Oct/1887, TN.

Notes for ELMA M. MOORE:
!OTHER:lived in Murfreesboro, TN, dau of Horatio R. Moore of Franklin Co., TN
and Annie Hunt.

!CIVIL WAR:Questionaires:Tenn.--Horatio R. Moore, Huntland, Tenn, Franklin
Co.,
age 89,born Lauderdale Co., Al, May 9, 1833, m Annie Hunt Wep 5, 1860. large
family one dau Elma M. of Murfreesboro, TN, m a Rutledge.

ii. DELIA EVA RUTLEDGE, b. 23/Feb/1863, Cleveland, TN; m. JOHN O.
HAWKINS, 14/Sep/1882.

Good morning I am new to your list just started researching my husbands family
Guinn/Gwinn that lived in Granger earlest record 1790 Tax List; Granger
County, Tennessee Clinch River/ Mountain [area] a William Guinn

The following details areas in Granger Co that are not listed on newer maps
does anyone know where in Granger Co this land was located. My William lived
in this area and I would like to place the location. Also note several
surnames listed in these court records one might be yours Thanks Barbara
Guinn

1804 Reference; Granger County, Tennessee
Overseer River Road; Ordered by Court that James Alsop be overseer of the
River Road from Buffalow Creek to William's Branch and that all the hands in
the bounds of the road running from Crows to Morres Ferry, thence up the
river to Stiffeys Mill Creek thance up said creek to the hand, thence a
direct, course to the Buffalow hollow including Jonathan Massay, William
Guinn thence a direct course to the head of Buffalow Creek ....

1806 Reference; Granger County, Tennessee
Court case: Samuel D. Carrick and Montgomery County vs Moses Ballenger
referenced a William Guinn On motion of the plaintiff in this case for an
order of sale to issue to sell 200 acres of land of William Guinn's attached
as the property of said Bellengers - it is therefore ordered by the Court
that order of Sale do Issue to the Sheriff to sell said Land to satisfy the
Debt of the plaintiff agreeabel to their Legal Demand.

1808 Appointment; Granger County, Tennessee
November Session: Ordered by the Court thatt Valentine Morgan be appointed
overseer of the road from the town of Richland Knobs on the road leading from
said town to Mayes Ford on Holston River in the room of Joseph West and that
he have the following bounds and hands as laborers under tim (towit) William
Guinn........

This is Jefferson Co records but included them thought some one migh know if
he moved or county lines just moved to place him in Jefferson Co. I know
some of his children were born in Jefferson also note they later moved to
Solway Anderson/Know Co TN (by 1850)

1833 Administrator; Jefferson County, Tennessee
December 25 Received: One note of hand from Bird Plate, John Baker, Lydia
Gwinn, James Riggs, Allen Elmore and Samuel Overby. Debts paid to: S. Liles,
Joseph Hamilton, Lanty A. Brazelton and T. C. Knight. Signed: William
Gwinn, Administrator June 8, 1835. The Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
settle with William Gwinn Administrator of the estate of John Gwinn deceased.
Signed: Richard Thornburgh and John Wood Commissioners.

1835 Land; Jefferson County, Tennessee
December 25 Lydia Gwinn, Sterling Hodgin, William Gwinn, Samuel Overseay,
Allen Elmore. William R. Gwinn, Administrator for the sale of property of
John Gwinn deceased March 16, 1834

John, Our Catherine ( Callie ) Ratledge born 1858 married HENRY ABRAHAM MOSES on 18 December1875 in Monroe Co. TN. Edna

Thanks, Don of the Swamp, John here. I think perhaps your Mary Massey must have been a niece or later generation than my Mary Polly Massey who married Benjamin Ratledge.

I'll share my record of the Benjamin Ratledge line, in hopes that someone out there will recognize a connection.

Benjamin Ratledge b 1805 Rowan Co., NC (farmer, mail contractor, iron worker) married 8th April 1833 in Greenville, Tennessee to Mary Polly Massey (1814-1894), dau of Stephen and ? Massey.

Their children:
Sarah Ratledge b 1834
Daniel Ratledge b 1836 m Clarissa Hampton
David Ratledge b twin to Daniel d at Vicksburg in Civil War
George L. Ratledge b 1838 m Nancy Dooley
Stephen Ratledge b 1839
Adaline Ratledge b 1842
Pinkney Ratledge b 1845 m Cathryn Akin (my line)
Nancy Ratledge b 1847 m Jasper N. Barnett
William P Ratledge b 1850 m Cathryn Akin Ratledge (his brother's widow)
Malinda Ratledge b 1853 m Samuel L. Tallent
Florida (Florence) Ratledge b 1855
Kealie (Katie) Ratledge b 1858 m Unknown Moses

If anyone has any comments or questions or any further information, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from anyone.

John
[email protected]

This was picked up by John In The Desert from the RABUN-L list....lost of Rutledge information.
Don O'The Swamp

This is'nt in my line but maybe it will help someone.
M John in the desert
Mesa,AZ

Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: BARBWHITT Message-ID: [email protected] Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:25:31 EDT

Subject: Fwd: [RABURN-L] Rutledge and Rayburn

To: [email protected]

John, this was on my Rayburn list today. Do you know any of these Rutledges?
Barb
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

FIRST GENERATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. William Rutledge (1) was born in Jun 1756 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He appeared on the census in 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. (2) He sold 320 acres on the middle fork of Brier Creek on 19 May 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.(3) He owned stock mark: a crop off right ear swallow fork on left on 24 Nov 1807 in Maury County, Tennessee.(4) He appeared on the census in 1820 in Maury County, Tennessee. (5) He appeared on the census in 1830 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (6) He sold A certain negro girl named Cherry aged twenty two years (deed of gift) on 11 Feb 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (7) He bought 27 acres on Rayburn's fork of Indian Creek, Survey Simington Davis on 29 Dec 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (8) He died about 1835 in Tennessee.

William Rutledge was born June, 1756, in Carlyle, Pennsylvania, the son of Isaac and Mary Rutledge. The first record of him is in Rowan, County, North Carolina, where on August 2, 1775, William Rutledge, Orphan of Isaac Rutledge, being of lawful age came into Court and chose for his guardian David Caldwell (Court Records, Rowan County, NC).

William Rutledge then served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, which is outlined in his pension record listed below. toward the end of the War, he settled in Wilkes County, NC, where he married Chloe Johnson, daughter of Jeffery Johnson, in 1782. He is listed on the 1790 Census of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

About 1795, he moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, and then to Maury County after it was formed in 1807. In 1829, he moved to Wayne County, where he died after applying for a pension in 1834, but before 1835, as he is not listed on the pension roll of 1835.

The greatest amount of information on William Rutledge is contained in his pension file:

He was married to Chloe Johnson (daughter of Jeffery Johnson and Rachel Walker) on 3 Apr 1782 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Chloe Johnson was born in 1760 in Cameron, Loudoun, VA. She died in 1825 in Maury County, Tennessee. She was buried in 1825 in Dooley Cemetery, Maury County, TN. William Rutledge and Chloe Johnson had the following children:

2 i. Jane Ferilla Rutledge. +3 ii. James Rutledge. +4 iii. Samuel Johnson Rutledge. +5 iv. William M. Rutledge. +6 v. Martha C. Rutledge. +7 vi. Ophelia Rutledge. +8 vii. Mahala Williamson Rutledge.

SECOND GENERATION

8. Mahala Williamson Rutledge was born in 1802 in Williamson County, Tennessee. She bought a certain Negro girl named Cherry aged 22 from her father, William, a deed of gift. on 11 Feb 1832 in Wayne County, New York.(28) She appeared on the census on 21 Nov 1850 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. (29) She appeared on the census on 3 Sep 1860 in P. O. Paris, Lafayette County, Mississippi.(30) She died on 17 Aug 1882 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. She was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Mahala Williamson Rutledge is proven to be a daughter of William Rutledge from the following deed of gift filed on October 23, 1832 in Wayne County, tennessee (Book A, Page 564), dated February 11, 1832:

I consideration of natural love and affection I have and bear to my daughter Mahala rayburn wife of Samuel rayburn .... conveys ... a certain negro girl named Cherry aged twenty two year. Winesses: John Rayburn, William Hays.

She was married to Samuel Shanklin Rayburn (son of Henry Rayburn and Sarah Shanklin) on 25 Apr 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee. Samuel Shanklin Rayburn was born on 22 Dec 1799 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census in 1830 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (31) He appeared on the census in 1840 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.(32) He died in Aug 1846 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi. Mahala Williamson Rutledge and Samuel Shanklin Rayburn had the following children:
48 i. William Rutledge Rayburn was born on 28 Mar 1827. He died in 1847. +49 ii. Henry Newton Rayburn. +50 iii. John Jackson Rayburn. 51 iv. James Anderson Rayburn was born on 20 Sep 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He died on 16 Feb 1862 in Fort Donelson, Tennessee. +52 v. Andrew Davidson Rayburn. +53 vi. Samuel Houston Rayburn. 54 vii. Tennessee Amanda Rayburn was born on 1 Nov 1838 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. She died in 1846 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. She was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi. 55 viii. Sarah Letitia Rayburn. 56 ix. Robert Elihu Rayburn was born on 22 Aug 1843. He died in 1880 in Arkansas.

49. Henry Newton Rayburn was born on 9 Jun 1828 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census on 3 Sep 1860 in P. O. Paris, Lafayette County, Mississippi. (114) He died on 10 Nov 1905.

He was married to Sarah Jane McAllister (daughter of Thomas Milton McAllister and Margaret Elizabeth Kowan) on 4 Aug 1853 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Sarah Jane McAllister was born on 25 Aug 1834 in Alabama. She died on 26 Oct 1873 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. She was buried in Free Springs Cemetery, Harmontown, Mississippi. Henry Newton Rayburn and Sarah Jane McAllister had the following children: 222 i. Susan Alice Rayburn was born in 1854 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. 223 ii. Amanda E. Rayburn was born on 5 Aug 1856. 224 iii. Minerva Jane Rayburn was born in 1858 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. 225 iv. Samuel Thomas Rayburn was born on 5 Mar 1861. He died on 26 Mar 1945. 226 v. Price Rayburn was born on 31 Oct 1862. He died on 19 Jul 1933 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi. 227 vi. Liveenie Penny Rayburn was born on 21 Jul 1866. 228 vii. Jesse Estill Rayburn was born on 22 Dec 1872.

THIRD GENERATION

50. John Jackson Rayburn was born on 5 Oct 1830 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census on 21 Nov 1850 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. (115) He appeared on the census on 3 Sep 1860 in P. O. Paris, Lafayette County, Mississippi.(116) He died on 29 Aug 1861.

He was married to Martha Francis McAllister (daughter of Thomas Milton McAllister and Margaret Elizabeth Kowan) in 1849. Martha Francis McAllister was born on 10 Sep 1832. She died on 19 Sep 1862. John Jackson Rayburn and Martha Francis McAllister had the following children:

229 i. William James Rayburn was born on 3 May 1850 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He died on 2 Nov 1935. 230 ii. Samuel Thomas Rayburn was born in 1852 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. 231 iii. Jesse Elihu Rayburn was born in 1854 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. 232 iv. Tennessee Rayburn was born in 1856 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. 233 v. Anna Amanda Rayburn was born on 14 Feb 1859 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He died on 15 Aug 1917. 234 vi. John W. Rayburn was born in 1862 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He died in 1862 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

THIRD GENERATION

52. Andrew Davidson Rayburn was born on 30 Oct 1834. He died on 9 Mar 1862 in Blackwater, Virginia.

He was married to Louisa Hathaway on 23 Apr 1854 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

THIRD GENERATION

53. Samuel Houston Rayburn was born on 18 Oct 1836 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He died on 29 Aug 1861 in Warrington, Florida. He was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

He was married to Ada C. Elmore on 12 Mar 1859 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

THIRD GENERATION

55. Sarah Letitia Rayburn was born on 14 Dec 1841. She was married to Jesse N. Fulmer in 1858.

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FIRST GENERATION

1. William Rutledge (1) was born in Jun 1756 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He appeared on the census in 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. (2) He sold 320 acres on the middle fork of Brier Creek on 19 May 1790 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.(3) He owned stock mark: a crop off right ear swallow fork on left on 24 Nov 1807 in Maury County, Tennessee.(4) He appeared on the census in 1820 in Maury County, Tennessee. (5) He appeared on the census in 1830 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (6) He sold A certain negro girl named Cherry aged twenty two years (deed of gift) on 11 Feb 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (7) He bought 27 acres on Rayburn's fork of Indian Creek, Survey Simington Davis on 29 Dec 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (8) He died about 1835 in Tennessee.

William Rutledge was born June, 1756, in Carlyle, Pennsylvania, the son of Isaac and Mary Rutledge. The first record of him is in Rowan, County, North Carolina, where on August 2, 1775, William Rutledge, Orphan of Isaac Rutledge, being of lawful age came into Court and chose for his guardian David Caldwell (Court Records, Rowan County, NC).

William Rutledge then served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, which is outlined in his pension record listed below. toward the end of the War, he settled in Wilkes County, NC, where he married Chloe Johnson, daughter of Jeffery Johnson, in 1782. He is listed on the 1790 Census of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

About 1795, he moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, and then to Maury County after it was formed in 1807. In 1829, he moved to Wayne County, where he died after applying for a pension in 1834, but before 1835, as he is not listed on the pension roll of 1835.

The greatest amount of information on William Rutledge is contained in his pension file:

He was married to Chloe Johnson (daughter of Jeffery Johnson and Rachel Walker) on 3 Apr 1782 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Chloe Johnson was born in 1760 in Cameron, Loudoun, VA. She died in 1825 in Maury County, Tennessee. She was buried in 1825 in Dooley Cemetery, Maury County, TN. William Rutledge and Chloe Johnson had the following children:

2 i. Jane Ferilla Rutledge. +3 ii. James Rutledge. +4 iii. Samuel Johnson Rutledge. +5 iv. William M. Rutledge. +6 v. Martha C. Rutledge. +7 vi. Ophelia Rutledge. +8 vii. Mahala Williamson Rutledge.

SECOND GENERATION

8. Mahala Williamson Rutledge was born in 1802 in Williamson County, Tennessee. She bought a certain Negro girl named Cherry aged 22 from her father, William, a deed of gift. on 11 Feb 1832 in Wayne County, New York.(28) She appeared on the census on 21 Nov 1850 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. (29) She appeared on the census on 3 Sep 1860 in P. O. Paris, Lafayette County, Mississippi.(30) She died on 17 Aug 1882 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. She was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Mahala Williamson Rutledge is proven to be a daughter of William Rutledge from the following deed of gift filed on October 23, 1832 in Wayne County, tennessee (Book A, Page 564), dated February 11, 1832:

I consideration of natural love and affection I have and bear to my daughter Mahala rayburn wife of Samuel rayburn .... conveys ... a certain negro girl named Cherry aged twenty two year. Winesses: John Rayburn, William Hays.

She was married to Samuel Shanklin Rayburn (son of Henry Rayburn and Sarah Shanklin) on 25 Apr 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee. Samuel Shanklin Rayburn was born on 22 Dec 1799 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census in 1830 in Wayne County, Tennessee. (31) He appeared on the census in 1840 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.(32) He died in Aug 1846 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He was buried in Harmontown Cemetery, Lafayette County, Mississippi. Mahala Williamson Rutledge and Samuel Shanklin Rayburn had the following children: 48 i. William Rutledge Rayburn was born on 28 Mar 1827. He died in 1847. +49 ii. Henry Newton Rayburn. +50 iii. John Jackson Rayburn. 51 iv. James Anderson Rayburn was born on 20 Sep 1832 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He died on 16 Feb 1862 in Fort Donelson, Tennessee. +52 v. Andrew Davidson Rayburn. +53 vi. Samuel Houston Rayburn. 54 vii. Tennessee Amanda Rayburn was born on 1 Nov 183

Good Morning!

It seems the Rutledge line is not so busy today. Could someone please help me with a problem?

I'm researching the Rutledge/Ratledge lines. I can't seem to find out who the mother of MARY POLLY MASSEY RATLEDGE was. She was married to BENJAMIN RATLEDGE, Greene County, Tennessee, early 1800's.

Her father was STEPHEN MASSEY. She had some brothers: Henry, William, John and probably more in 1842.

Any help or comments would be appreciated.
Thank you for your time.

John [email protected]

Hi John, This is my Ratledge line through Daddy. Neither have I been able to discover the name of Marys mother. Just knowing theres someone else out there researching the same line is good news to me. It'll give me more incentive to try and find the mother of Mary Polly Massey. will try to get to the library tomorrow for more research on this subject. If you have any luck on Marys mother, please let me know and I'll do the same . Thanks and have a good week-end. Edna

Part 1 e-mail: I am posting this in 2 parts as the Dudley Rutledge's fall in different families. I hope this will be of help. Rachel Demaree Clemons [email protected] 1. ISAAC3 RUTLEDGE (WILLIAM2, JAMES1) was born 03/Apr/1779 in Surry Co., NC, and died Abt. 1836 in Lincoln Co., NC. He married RUTH STEELMAN Abt. 1810 in Lincoln Co., NC.

Notes for ISAAC RUTLEDGE: Brief History of Family Origins of Tenn. by C. C. Rutledge Will of Isaac Rutledge, will wrote 23 Oct/ 835 Lincoln Co. TN Pioneers, V VIII Submitter: James R. Pitts, 609 Bragg Circle, Tullahoma, TN LAND RECORDS:Film 344615, Index to Deeds, Surry Co., NC 1771-1879-- Isaac Rutledge deeded to Joseph Steelman 1813, Deed T28, Deed T 59 Isaac Rutledge from James Raynord, 1813, Bk N Isaac Rutledge from William Rutledge 1849, Deed James Rutledge to Isaac Rutledge 1813, Deed R28, 1813 Deed R39 Will of Isaac Rutledge dated 23 Oct 1835, Linc. Co., TN in which he names his heirs, inc. granddau Ann Rebecca Rutledge, he is bound by law to see to her raising as he is her gdn.

OTHER:LCT Pioneers Vol VIII Nos. 2 3, Descendants of Isaac Rutledge compiled by Charles C. Rutledge 1966 and contributed by Mabel A. Tucker, Fayetteville, TN. According to Ms. Tucker there was a note on the outside of the story, written in pencil--Isaac Rutledge, Sr, born Apr 23, 1779. Isaac Rutledge Sr was son of William Rutledge, husband of Mary Creeson who was a widow 1780 records show that she made a will this year. William Rutledge was a Lt. in the War of 1776. He died between this date and 1780. William Rutledge was (French). The history goes on to tell the names of the four brothers who went to LCT--John, James, Isaac and Joel. The oldest son, Charles Rutledge was b abt 1810, died 4/17/1829, m Rebecca Ann Reeves. They had a dau, Ruth Ann Rutledge who was raised by Isaac Rutledge (notice will above calls her Ann Rebecca). The four sons of Isaac Rutledge, SR., John, James, Isaac and Joel came to Tenn. between 1800 and 1825 and settled in Linc. Co., TN.

2. i. CHARLES4 RUTLEDGE, b. 1810, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. 17/Apr/1829, Linc. Co., TN.

ii. ROSANNA RUTLEDGE, b. 29/Feb/1812, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. 08/Sep/1895, TN; m. MARK WHITAKER, Lincoln Co., NC.

iii. GEORGE RUTLEDGE, b. 1814, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. Abt. 1868, Linc. Co., TN.

Notes for GEORGE RUTLEDGE: OTHER:Linc. Co. TN. Pioneers--George was a bachelor, probably in the Civil War. lived on home place on Wabash Creek, died shortly after the war. Gdnship. assigned to Isaac Rutledge, Jr., Samuel Rutledge and T. B. Yeates because of unsound mind in 1868. 3. iv. MARY ANN RUTLEDGE, b. 14/Feb/1816, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. 16/Oct/1885, Mansfield, Marshall Co., TX. v. REBECCA ANN RUTLEDGE, b. 02/May/1818, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. 23/Nov/1889, Lincoln Co., NC; m. HENRY KELSO.

Notes for HENRY KELSO: He was a farmer and member of Mt. Moriah Church. 4. vi. ISAAC RUTLEDGE, JR, b. 01/Sep/1819, Surry Co., NC; d. 08/Aug/1886. 5. vii. SAMUEL RUTLEDGE, b. 11/Mar/1821, Dobson, Surry Co., NC; d. 01/Mar/1884, Lincoln Co., TN. Generation No. 2 2. CHARLES4 RUTLEDGE (ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JAMES1) was born 1810 in Dobson, Surry Co., NC, and died 17/Apr/1829 in Linc. Co., TN. He married REBECCA ANN REEVES in Lincoln Co., NC.

Notes for CHARLES RUTLEDGE: !OTHER Linc. Co. Tn. Pioneers, --Both Charles and his wife died young. Linc. Co. records show that he was a farmer, held a job with the county on road repairs. He died intestate and his wife Rebecca A. Rutledge (widow), Benjamin Rieves and Willie Jones were adm. Child of CHARLES RUTLEDGE and REBECCA REEVES is: 6. i. RUTH ANN5 RUTLEDGE, b. Lincoln Co., NC. 3. MARY ANN4 RUTLEDGE (ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JAMES1) was born 14/Feb/1816 in Dobson, Surry Co., NC, and died 16/Oct/1885 in Mansfield, Marshall Co., TX. She married THOMAS BUCHANAN YEATES 23/Jul/1834 in Lincoln Co., NC.

Notes for MARY ANN RUTLEDGE: !SUBMITTER:James R. Pitts, Tullahoma, TN. History of Yadkin Co., NC.; Lincoln Co. TN Pioneers Vol. VIII #1 OTHER:Linc. Co. TN. Pioneers--in 1878 moved to Mansfield, Tx. all of the family except for three daus, America Jane, Amanda Frances and Lavonia Olivia. Had a family of 13, six sons and 7 daus.

Notes for THOMAS BUCHANAN YEATES: OTHER:Saga of the Yeates Family of the Holman and Caldwell Bldg., by Frances Caldwell England, Huntland, TN. Thomas B. Yeates was b in Linc. Co. Tn , on Elk River. Thomas B. Yeates and Mary Ann Rutledge probably lived on the homeplace of Isaac Rutledge, father of Mary Ann. The family belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church Mr. Yeates was church clerk from 1865 to 1878. At this time he and his family except for three daughters, America Jane; Amanda Frances and Lavonia Olivia, moved to Mansfield, TX. OTHER:Yates Publishing Co., P.O. Box 639, Ozark, MO 65721--Yates Findings Vol II

i. AMERICA JANE5 YEATES, b. 08/May/1835; m. JAMES ELBERT CALDWELL. Notes for AMERICA JANE YEATES: Stayed in Linc. Co., TN

iii. AMANDA FRANCES YEATES, b. 28/Jan/1838, Lincoln Co., NC; d. 1921, Fayeteville, AR. iv. ELIJAH YEATES, b. 04/Jan/1840, Lincoln Co., NC; d. 08/Jul/1913, Ft Worth, TX; m. CYNTHIA STEPHENS. More About ELIJAH YEATES: Bur.: Oakwood Cemetery v. MARY ANN WOODRUFF YEATES, b. 04/Mar/1842, Lincoln Co., NC; d. 18/Oct/1844, Shelbyville, TN; m. JAMES HASTINGS WALLACE.

vi. SAMUEL RUTLEDGE YEATES, b. 20/Apr/1844, Lincoln Co., TN; d. Feb/1918, TX; m. MALINDA JENNINGS, 11/Apr/1865, Lincoln Co., TN. 8.

vii. LAVONIA OLIVIA YEATES, b. 14/Aug/1847, Lincoln Co., TN; d. 28/Jan/1890, Mansfield, TX.

viii. JAMES W. YEATES, b. 07/Nov/1849, Lincoln Co., TN; d. 02/Jan/1931, Mansfield, TX; m. LAURA SHUTTERS. 9.

ix. MEDORA YEATES. 4. ISAAC4 RUTLEDGE, JR (ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JAMES1) was born 01/Sep/1819 in Surry Co., NC, and died 08/Aug/1886. He married (1) REBECCA A. BUCHANAN 1858 in Linc. Co., TN. He married (2) MARTHA JANE WAGONER 03/Nov/1842 in Linc. Co., TN. Notes for ISAAC RUTLEDGE, JR:

!IGI:Batch 7123914-16(1860 Census; Batch #: 8526205, Sheet #: 31, Source Call #: 1396100 OTHER:Linc.Co. Tenn. Pioneers pub by Linc. Co. Gen. Soc. Vol. Viii Nos 2 3 Dec 1978-Mar 1979--The statement is made that a Bibliography of Isaac Rutledge, JR. appears in History of Tenn., 1886. From this we learn that Isaac Rutledge, Jr. was a farmer in the 5th Dist, a native of NCS. b 1819, son of Isaac and Ruth (Steelman) Rutledge. The father was a native of N.C. and of French descent Isaac was raised by his father as his mother died while Isaac Jr was small. In 1861 Isaac Rutledge, Jr. enlisited in the Conf. Army, 5th Ky Reg't. Was shot during the BATTLE OF BATON ROUGE and lay on the battlefield for 24 hours before he received aid. He was taken prisoner but thinking he would not recover he was turned over to his friends. In 1886 he sold his farm of 305 acres to his son Charles who was still living at home. Saga of the Yeates Family, by Francis Caldwell England, Huntland, TN Census 1850 Lincoln Co., TN, Isaac age 31, Martha J. 25 and Mary A.

vii. GARLAND M. RUTLEDGE. Children of ISAAC RUTLEDGE and MARTHA WAGONER are:

ix. DANIEL H. RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1851, Linc. Co., TN; d. TX. Notes for DANIEL H. RUTLEDGE: 1860 Census Lincoln, Tennessee Is said to have gone to TX 10.

x. RUTH RUTLEDGE, b. 04/May/1854, Linc. Co., TN. xi. JOHN RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1855, Linc. Co., TN.

xii. JOEL RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1856, Linc. Co., TN. Notes for JOEL RUTLEDGE: 1860 Census Lincoln, Tennessee

xiii. MARY A. RUTLEDGE, b. 1856, TN; m. JAMES C. SHOFNER. Notes for JAMES C. SHOFNER:

!SUBMITTER:Pattie Bethune, Garland, TX, from The Shofner Family Gen., by James Rightman Blanks.

xiv. NANCY J. RUTLEDGE, b. 1857; m. EDWARD ANDREWS. 5. SAMUEL4 RUTLEDGE (ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JAMES1) was born 11/Mar/1821 in Dobson, Surry Co., NC, and died 01/Mar/1884 in Lincoln Co., TN. He married LOUISA DANIEL 08/Aug/1844 in Linc. Co., TN, daughter of DANIEL CALOWAY and LOUSINDA COOK. Notes for SAMUEL RUTLEDGE: BIBLE RECORD:Lincoln Co., TN Bible Records, V 4, comnpiled by Mabel Abbott Tucker and Jane Warren Waller, pub by Linc. Co. Tenn. Pioneers, Jane Warren Waller, Horeshoe Drive, Batavia, ILL --Bible of Louisa Rutledge in possession of Samuel H. Rutledge, 4317 Normandy, Dallas, TX. WILL:Lincoln Co., TN, May 8, 1883; Samuel Rutledge names children, wife, and grandchildren, (children of Rebecca). Names a certain tract of land, containing ninety two acres, part of the farm known as the GEORGE RUTLEDGE place. Will filed in Lincoln Co., TN, 7 Day of MLay 1884. (probably this is George Ruteldge, brother to Samuel) CENSUS:1850 Linc. Co., TN 984-110, Samuel age 26, bp NC, bp NC, Louisa, 21, bp TN and Rebecca A.

iii. JAMES HENRY RUTLEDGE, b. Linc. Co., TN; m. IDA, 23/Jan/1877, Linc. Co., TN.

iv. JOHN RUTLEDGE. Notes for JOHN RUTLEDGE: WILL:Will of Samuel Rutledge names children and says John is youngest son.

v. R. F. RUTLEDGE. vi. MARY JANE RUTLEDGE, b. 13/Oct/1845, Linc. Co., TN; d. 22/Apr/1847. 12.

vii. REBECCA ADLINE RUTLEDGE, b. 11/Mar/1848, Linc. Co., TN; d. 09/May/1876. 13.

Hi Edna and those of you who are researching MARY POLLY MASSEY RATLEDGE: Mary's dad STEPHEN MASSEY was born on the Isle of Nantucket in the year 1761. He and his family were Quakers. When Stephen was ten years old his family moved to Gilford County, North Carolina. He married when he was 20 years old. His father was also named Stephen and his mother was MERCY ALLEN.

At the time people didn't like the Quakers very much so they moved on into Greene County, Tennessee. From the yearly tax book of Greene County (1804 through 1866) the Masseys and the RUTLEDGES lived in the tax district Number 5.

From the 1840 list: Henry Massey; Stephen Massey; Thomas Rutledge; Benjamin Rutledge; Asberry Rutledge.

From the 1841 list: Benjamin Rutledge; Stephen Massey; Thomas Rutledge - (district 8)

From the 1842 list: William Massey; Henry Massey; Stephen Massey; Benjamin Rutledge

From the 1843 list: William Massey; Henry Massey; John Massey; Stephen Massey; Benjamin Rutledge; Asberry Rutledge

From the 1847 list: William Massey; John Massey; Stephen Massey (had 120 acres) No Rutledges These are on the LDS film #94445. Notice the spelling RUTLEDGE, not RATLEDGE. At the bottom I have written Solomon Massey, son of Stephen is buried in the Armstrong Cemetery near Madisonville, Tennessee. It seems that Stephen Massey moved to Madison County, Tennessee, the same year the Ratledge's moved to Tillico Plains, Tennessee. The Ratledge's stayed but the Massey's seem to have gone back to Greene County, Tennessee. If we can find the name of Mary Polly Massey Ratledge's mother, I have the Massey's info back to the late 1600's.

My records are from The History of Nantucket Volume II by Alexander Starbuck, and also from Massey Families in America by Judge Frank A. Massey, Judge of the Circuit Court, Fort Worth, Texas 76102, and many more reliable sources. Edna, I also have the court records of your ancestor (Catherine Ratledge Moses) receiving land from Mary and Benjamin Ratledge, and will be happy to send that to you if you email me your snail mail address. I am sending this to the list in hopes that there might be someone else out there who is also researching these names. Thank you for your time. John [email protected]

OK....everyone welcome Catharine. Looks like another tough case to solve.
Don
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From: G Boyer [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 7:22 PM
Subject: [RUTLEDGE-L] searching for a Rutledge link

I'm totally new to this amazed by it all! Sort of stumbled into the
Rutledge family page.
At any rate, my grandmother, Katharine Holland Rutledge Davis (1893-1986),
always told me our ancestral line went back to EDWARD RUTLEDGE, signer of
the Declaration. But I never got the details don't know that she knew
them all. Her father was HENRY CLAY RUTLEDGE (1846-1935; Tennessee). So
there's a gap in there if anyone can help me fill it in, I'd be ever so
grateful!
Katharine

Hello fellow researchers:

If another researcher has marriage books for Grainger County Tennessee and
could look up the following marriage data on the following Owens families.
I would like the date of the marriage and who performed the marriage.

1. William Owens married Nancy Cameron in Rutledge, Grainger County, TN
between 1876-1880.

2. James S. Owens married Martha A. ________ in Grainger County between
1906-1910.

Thanks for your assistance.

Sincerely

William Owens

Clemons
[email protected]

1. DAVID WELDON1 RUTLEDGE was born 1790 in NC, and died Abt. 1844 in
Rutherford Co., TN. He married ANGELINE WILLIAMSON 03/Jul/1816 in Rutherford
Co., TN.
Notes for ANGELINE WILLIAMSON:
1850 Census, Angeline Rutledge, age 51, bp VA, Nancy, Benj., Samuel,
and Elizabeth all born in TN
!SUBMITTER:Almeda Brewer, Manchester, TN
Parents of Angelina: Ludowick Ludie Williamson, bp VA, Lindsey
Adams, bp VA

Children of DAVID RUTLEDGE and ANGELINE WILLIAMSON are:
2. i. ALEXANDER C.2 RUTLEDGE, b. 1818, TN.
3. ii. LUDIE MONROE RUTLEDGE, b. 20/Mar/1820, Rutherford Co., TN; d.
06/May/1870, Rutherford Co., TN.
iii. ANGELINA RUTLEDGE, b. 1822, TN; m. GEORGE A. AKINS,
19/Oct/1843, Gibson Co., TN.
Tenn Family Findings VXVI XVII, Gibson Co., TN Mar. Rec. 1-4
1984-85, pg 57
Notes for GEORGE A. AKINS:
MARRIAGE:Tn Family Findings VXVI, XVII, Gibson Co., Tn Mar Rec. pg 57
iv. MARTHA J. RUTLEDGE, b. 1823, TN.
v. SUSAN RUTLEDGE, b. 1824; m. GREENE KNOTT.
vi. JAMES RUTLEDGE, b. 1826, TN; m. MARY ANN TAYLOR, 13/Aug/1851.
vii. NANCY C. RUTLEDGE, b. 1828, TN; m. HARTWELL T. MOSELEY,
15/Dec/1858, TN.
viii. DAVID N. RUTLEDGE, b. 1830, Gibson Co., TN; m. MARTHA JANE
TAYLOR, 26/Dec/1851, Gibson Co., TN.
Notes for DAVID N. RUTLEDGE:
ix. BEVERLY RUTLEDGE, b. 1831, TN.
Notes for BEVERLY RUTLEDGE:
1850 Census in Gibson Co., TN, living in hh of Robert Anderson and
wife Mary.
x. BENJAMIN RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1833, TN.
4. xi. ROBERT MARION RUTLEDGE, b. 12/Mar/1835, Gibson Co., TN; d.
20/Feb/1912, Green Co., AR.
xii. SAMUEL RUTLEDGE, b. 1836.
xiii. ELIZABETH RUTLEDGE, b. Abt. 1840, TN.

Generation No. 2

2. ALEXANDER C.2 RUTLEDGE (DAVID WELDON1) was born 1818 in TN. He married
LOUISA CARLTON 18/Dec/1838 in Rutherford, TN.
Notes for ALEXANDER C. RUTLEDGE:
1850 Census Tenn. Rutherford Co.
!MARRIAGE:Early Middle Tenn. Mar. Rec. Grooms V.1 b Sistler
Children of ALEXANDER RUTLEDGE and LOUISA CARLTON are:
i. MARY E. A.3 RUTLEDGE, b. 1840, TN.
ii. SUSAN R. RUTLEDGE, b. 1842, TN.
iii. WILLIAM C. H. RUTLEDGE, b. 1844, NC; d. Bef. 1880, Yadkin
Co., NC.
Notes for WILLIAM C. H. RUTLEDGE:
CENSUS:1880 Yadkin Co., NC., Liberty Twp., Vol 25, ED 226, hh
Margaret Rutledge, age 35, bp NC., 4 children and Shores, M. M. Si age 29, NC
1850 Census Rutherford Co., TN, age 6, bp TN
iv. JAMES K. RUTLEDGE, b. 1846, TN.
v. BENJAMIN F. RUTLEDGE, b. 1847, TN.
vi. NACY D.F. RUTLEDGE, b. 1850, Rutherford Co., TN.

3. LUDIE MONROE2 RUTLEDGE (DAVID WELDON1) was born 20/Mar/1820 in Rutherford
Co., TN, and died 06/May/1870 in Rutherford Co., TN. He married (1) REBECCA
L CROWDER 04/Mar/1839 in Rutherford Co., TN, daughter of WILLIAM CROWDER and
NANCY DRUMRIGHT. He married (2) MARGARET VIRGINIA ALDRIDGE 25/Apr/1859 in
Marshall Co., TN, daughter of WILLIAM ALDRIDGE and NANCY LANE.

Notes for LUDIE MONROE RUTLEDGE:
CENSUS:1850 Marshall Co., TN., age 30, bp TN
MARRIAGE:Early Middle Tenn. Mar., by Byron Barbara Sistler, 1988,
Children of LUDIE RUTLEDGE and REBECCA CROWDER are:
i. WILLIAM3 RUTLEDGE, b. 27/Mar/1840, Rutherford Co., TN; m.
SARAH J. NETHERTON.
ii. JOHN JOEL RUTLEDGE, b. 25/May/1845, Duck River, Hickman Co.,
TN; d. 25/Dec/1907, Cooperton, Kiowa Co., OK; m. (1) MARY E, HINTON,
19/Jan/1870, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX; m. (2) MARTHA PHILLIPS, 1882, Bonham,
Fannin Co., TX.
CENSUS:1850 Marshall Co., TN, age as 10.
More About JOHN JOEL RUTLEDGE: Bur.: Union Dale Cem., Cooperton, TX
iii. MARTHA RUTLEDGE, b. 23/Jan/1845, TN; m. WILLIAM LANCHEART,
24/Dec/1867, TN.
iv. REBECCA FRANCIS RUTLEDGE, b. 11/Nov/1848, Rutherford Co., TN;
m. HOWARD NETHERTON, 29/Jan/1869.
v. SARAH A. RUTLEDGE, b. 09/Mar/1847, Rutherford Co., TN. Died
young.
vi. MARY E. RUTLEDGE, b. 20/Jan/1852, Rutherford Co., TN; m.
WILLIAM LORKIN MEDLIN.

Children of LUDIE RUTLEDGE and MARGARET ALDRIDGE are:
vii. DAVID SCOTT3 RUTLEDGE, b. 10/Dec/1860, Fannin Co., TX; d.
07/Mar/1875.
viii. SARAH J. RUTLEDGE, b. 10/Nov/1862, Fannin Co., TX; d.
19/Jul/1867.
ix. ARMINTA A. RUTLEDGE, b. 07/Jan/1864, Fannin Co., TX; m.
GAYLAND CLARK.
x. PARTHINIE C. RUTLEDGE, b. 09/May/1866, Fannin Co., TX.
xi. JAMES R. RUTLEDGE, b. 03/Apr/1868, Fannin Co., TX. JAMES R.
RUTLEDGE: Never married.
xii. LOU ELLA RUTLEDGE, b. 07/Jan/1870, TN; d. Abt. 1970, Sulphur,
OK; m. ROBERT FRANKLIN BUCKANAN, 17/Feb/1890.
Notes for LOU ELLA RUTLEDGE:
Family Group Sheet unknown source: Gives Lou Ella as living to be
over 100years old. Date given for birth was 7/Jan/1874. Must be 1870 since
Ludie Monore Rutledge died 1870

4. ROBERT MARION2 RUTLEDGE (DAVID WELDON1) was born 12/Mar/1835 in Gibson
Co., TN, and died 20/Feb/1912 in Green Co., AR. He married (1) SALLY. He
married (2) TABITHA JANE THETFORD 28/Jan/1858 in Gibson Co., TN.
Notes for ROBERT MARION RUTLEDGE:
Robert fought in the Civil War, they had 11 children and raised
Lizzie Rutledge, d/o David N. Rutledge. They moved to Ark. after Robert came
back from Civil War. George lived in Ada, OK. Fannie Bell lived in Little
Rock, AR. Robert lived in daughter, Mary Faulkner's house in 1910. Prucence
Rutledge died young.
Children of ROBERT RUTLEDGE and TABITHA THETFORD are:
i. DAVID E. E.3 RUTLEDGE, b. 1860, Gibson Co., TN.
ii. JOHN HENRY RUTLEDGE, b. 04/Jan/1867, AR; d. 16/Nov/1947; m.
(1) BROSHA; m. (2) LILLIE.
iii. JOSEPH W. RUTLEDGE, b. 23/Mar/1869, Green Co., AR; m. MARY J.
HAISLIP, 28/Dec/1881.
iv. MARY ANGELINE RUTLEDGE, b. 18/Jan/1874, Green Co., AR; d.
vi. FANNY BELLE RUTLEDGE, b. 02/Apr/1879, Green Co., AR; m. JOHN
BUTLER.
vii. WILLIS RUTLEDGE, m. MYRTLE LIVESAY.
viii. E. M. RUTLEDGE.
ix. GEORGE RUTLEDGE.

Notes for GEORGE RUTLEDGE:
Lived in Ada, OK

SANDRA BOYD wrote:
Marilyn
Thank you for the information. I believe the Johnson Rutledge who married in IN was Johnson's son. Early History of Giles Co. states that John and William Rutlege and Joel Rutledge were early settlers of the county in 1807. From the way it was written, I believe William was Johnson's unmarried son. Johnson died sometime before 1821. In his estate settlement, his heirs are listed as Joel, William, Absalom, Johnson, Elijah (deceased), Elizabeth and Polly McKedy. All except Joel had removed to IN by 1821. A receipt for the transfer of Johnson 2's share of the estate was witnessed by John B. Rutledge and Elzey Rutledge. That is the only evidence I have of John B. being in Giles Co. before 1836 and I assume he was part of this family. John Boles and Elzey may have been Joel's sons but the Boles name is still a mystery. Joel married Susan West in NC.
I have not been able to connect the early TN Rutledges with this family but still hope to do so.

That is why I was curious about Johnson's sisters.
Hello Jean, and hello to all Rutledge mailing list members.
I just joined the mailing list and saw your message regarding unfiled papers resources for Civil War veterans.

My late uncle Bill Rutledge of Enid, Oklahoma did a considerable amount of Rutledge research and determined that his grandfather, William C. Rutledge served as an officer in the Rutledge Rifles CSA artillery battery. This unit was formed in Nashville at the beginning of the war and fought with distinction in a number of battles, including Shiloh. From what I have been able to determine, the roster for this unit seems to have been destroyed or lost during the war. Available records I have found are fragmentary, although the TN State Library and Archives have an old picture of the Rutledge Rifles officers and apparently have a list of the names and ranks of the 11 men in the picture. Arthur Middleton Rutledge, the battery commander, is also in the picture seated 2nd from the left. My great grandfather is seated 3rd from the left. His resemblence to members of my family (including me!) is striking.
Does anyone have any information for me on William C. Rutledge? Also, does anyone have information on William G. Rutledge (1826-after 1898) from Sullivan County, TN? My uncle believed that he served in the CSA, too, and there is a TN CSA farrier (horse-master) of that name in the official rosters.
Any help would be much appreciated.

David Glasser [email protected]

Hi Jim, do you think you might be related to Sumner Co TN Rutledges, or to Henry M. or Fountain specifically? Is Weldmon sometimes known as Weldon?
Check out the following notes. NOTES from Charlotte Co Ct House VA Marriage Bonds Minister Returns, Knorr pg. 74 9-11-1815 David Rutledge, Synthy Hundley, Sur Richard Rutledge 11-1-1794 John Rutledge Sally Loggins 4-1-1799 Richard Rutledge Jenny Milam, Sur John Rutledge 20-1-1808 Richard Rutledge Mary Newcomb, Sur David Rutledge 1-7-1809 Thomas Rutledge Betsey Going Sur James Brooke (?) 13-8-1804 Wm Rutledge Polly Hamblin Sur John Rutledge.

Information from Charlotte County Personal Property, in charlotte County Court House, VA 1793 (no Rutledges) 1794 Rub Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, Tax 2 * Estate John Rutledge 1 white tither, 2 horses, pyramid shape tax * [Mathew, Jeremiah, Martin and Robert Wms still here * Daniel Walker 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 2] 1795 Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 2 * John Rutledge 1 white tither * [Luke Palmore, Williams', Walker here] 1796 John Rutledge 1 white tither * Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, tax 2 * Clary Rutledge 1 white tither * Richard Rutledge 2 white tithers, 1 horse, tax 2 (More information, unreadable) 1797 Clary Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse 1798 Clary Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 9 * John Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 9 * Richard Rutledge 1 white tither 1799 Richard Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 * David Rutledge 2 white tithers * John (Jr?) Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 1800 States Jr.(2) Rutledge, 1 white tither * Unreadable * Clary Rutledge 2 white tithers, 1 horse, tax 12 * Richard Rutledge X * William Rutledge 1 white tither 1801 John Rutledge 1 white tither * Clary Rutledge 1 white tither * David Rutledge 1 white tither, 1 horse, tax 12 * Richard Rutledge (this is either 11 white tithers, or the recorder made 2 slashes for 2), 2 horses, tax 26 * Isaac Rutledge 1 white tither Find anything?? CBR

I'm still trying to locate my Thomas RUTLEDGE b abt 1768 m Matilda BRANHAM. Living in/around Greenville Co., SC early in 1800s, d bef 1830 when Matilda was shown as head of household in Jackson Co., TN. I don't know if Thomas moved to TN with the rest of the family or not. I have been collecting everything I could find on Thomas RUTLEDGE and have found 3 whose dob fits. Thomas b 1768, s/o James and Jean FINLEY RUTLEDGE Thomas b 1768, s/o Joseph and Mary PASCAL RUTLEDGE Thomas b 1768, s/o John and Jane OFFICER RUTLEDGE Can anyone say for sure if any of these are possibles? probables? no way? From Rachel I received an e-mail last year on the family of James RUTLEDGE b 1671. He is the father of Joseph who m Mary PASCAL and he also had a son Thomas. Is anything known about this Thomas? Thanks for all you help. Lynda

Kathye.... I've been looking for add'l data on the James Rutledge you listed Civil War info on... What I've found is very sketchy.... In a book by Kathryn Owen, of Winchester, Clark Co., KY titled Civil War Days in Clark County, page 78... she writes: James Rutledge....enlisted October 1, 1862, at the age of sixty-two years. Was in Co. A., 11th Ky. Cavalry, Morgan's command. Was in prison at Camp Douglas for six months. Was honorably discharged about 1865. In addition she lists a John Rutledge of Clark Co. also. John Rutledge...Enlisted July 1862 in Cassells' Company, 2nd Ky. Cavalry, Morgan's command. Was honorably discharged April 1865. Most of her info came, I think, from the Clark County Chronicles Newspaper. I long thought these may be the sons of John and Valentine Rutledge of Clark Co. However, if the Owens info is correct, the James she lists as 62 in 1862 would be ten years older than James, the son of John and Valentine. Course, there is no shortage of James and Johns in Clark Co at this time, so its very possible my attempt to tie them to John and Valentine is in error... Did the geocities list any add'l clues re: pension info, etc? I've not been able to locate any at the KY State Archives. If you see more, I'd like to hear.... thanks for posting the URL.... John Rutledge in Oregon

In a message dated 10/29/1999 8:25:32 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: <

Anita, I found this on the Wall site under Texas, this seems to fit in with most of the dates we have plus it has some dates and places I don't have. What do you think? Michael Sheila 1860 Census, Lamar and Fannin Co. Males Born 1811-1847, Ages Eligible for Military Service in the Confederate Army RUTHLEDGE,S., fANNIN, aGE 23, BORN @1837,in TN, Occ, Farm Hand, Pct.Unk Dwl #879/900, worth 0/0 RUTLEDGE, John, Fannin,Co. Age 18, born @1842 in TN, Occup, unk, Pct unk, Dwg 879/900, worth ?/? RUTLEDGE, L.M., Fannin Co., Age 40, born 1820, in TN, occp, Carpenter, Pct Unk, Dwl 879/900, worth 0/300 RUTLEDGE, William, Fannin Co., Age 20, born @1840, in TN, Occp, unk, Dwl 879/900, worth ?/? I ... presume they were renting a house. William might be the William that later settled in Collin (McKinney) Co. TX. I believe these Rutledges descend from David Weldon Rutledge (ca. 1790 NC - ca. 1844 Rutherford Co. TN) and wife Angelina Williamson (ca. 1799 VA - 18.. Cape Girardeau Co. MO). L. M. is probably David's son Ludie Monroe (20 Mar 1820 Rutherford Co. TN - 6 May 1870 Fannin Co. TX). Monroe m/1 Rebecca L. Crowder (4 Jan 1822 VA - 1852 Marshall Co. TN), and they had 6 ch. Monroe m/2 Margaret Virginia Aldridge (7 Apr 1834 TN - 17 Mar 1899 Sulphur Co. OK). William is probably Monroe's son William Edward (27 Mar 1840 Rutherford Co. TN - 1...). William married Sarah J. Netherton (18..-1...). I don't know if this is correct, but one source suggested William was a twin, but the dates don't match any other children I have for Monroe. John is probably Monroe's son John Joel (25 May 1842 Hickman or Rutherford Co. TN - 25 Dec 1907 Kiowa Co. OK). John m/1 Mary E. Mollie Minton (22 Jun 1850 TN - 27 Dec 1878 Cook Co. TX), and they had 4 ch. John m/2 Martha Alice Phillips (1 Jan 1862 Valley Creek TX - 29 Jan 1929 Duncan OK).

Well, it must be time to return to researching my Rutledge families! I found the following marriage listed on the Bledsoe County marriage records page, part of the GenWeb project: MILLER, Jessie H. married RUTLEGE, Nancy J. [date] 25 Sep, 1850 [source] Certificate contributed by Evelyn Grimes I am thinking (hoping) this is our Nancy Rutledge, the daughter of Thomas Rutledge and sister to my ggg-grandfather, Stephen W. Rutlege. I had been told our Nancy married a Mr. Miller, but had not been able to find out his name or what happened to them after she left home. In the letters Pearl Rutledge wrote, she mentioned they went to MO with Steven and his 2 other brothers, which we have yet to determine the identity of. Does anyone have anything further on this Nancy Jessie Miller? Kathye