1796 John was born in Baltimore County, Maryland.
1820 John Ruhl and Susanna Blosser were married in Pennsylvania.
1828 John and Susanna moved to Ohio by team. They lived in a covered wagon until they cleared a site and built a log cabin. Brother George came with him.
1836 John Ruhl partnered with Morgan Levering.
"North Woodbury is a small village, located on the southwest corner of Section l 18, and the cornering sections. The town was laid out by Joseph Terry, on land that he entered in 1834). An addition was made to it by A. Can Buskirk and John Markey of Bellville. John Ruhl and Morgan Lavering opened the first store. and Mr. Lavering did the clerking. " History of Richland Co, 1880.
1850 John Rule (age 53, born in Maryland) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Susanna Rule (age 49), John Rule (age 29), Isaac Rule (age 26), Amos Rule (age 18), and Lavina Rule (age 9). [1]
1850 On April 17, John Ruhl and wife Susannah and Morgan Levering and wife Mary sold lots #25-27 in Woodbury, Morrow County, Ohio to Samuel Hoffman.
1857 John Rule owned 157 acres in section 20 of Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, based on the Woodford atlas. Adjacent land belongs to brother George Rule, William Keener, and GP Powell.
1860 John Ruhl (age 63, born in Maryland) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Susan Ruhl (age 59). [2] Adjacent listings were for brother George and for George P Powell and William Keener.
1874 Johannes Ruhl died on Mar. 12, 1874, at age 77y, and was buried at Shauck Cemetery, Shauck, Morrow County, Ohio. Johannes Ruhl was born Dec. 14, 1796. [3]
A biography of their son Amos Rule reports [4]:
His father, John Rule, was born in Baltimore Co., Md., Dec. 14, 1796; his mother, Susan Bosser, was a native of York Co., Pa. They were married in Pennsylvania, and came by team to Ohio in 1828. They cut a portion of the road through from Mansfield, O. They settled in this township, near Woodbury, living in a covered wagon until they cleared a site and built a cabin. Their two sons, John and Isaac, were small, and the father toiled in his clearing lone-handed. He cleared about 100 acres of the 160 which he entered two years before. A brother, George Rule, and others of the family, came with him. He became a partner with Morgan Levering in 1836, and this relation lasted until 1851, when Mr. Rule retired. Has a family of three sons and one daughter—John, Isaac, Amos and Lovina, now Mrs. Norman Merwine. He departed this life March 12, 1874, at the ripe old age of 77 years, esteemed and respected by all.
A biosketch of son Isaac reported [5]:
John and Susan (Blosser) Rule, were natives of Pennsylvania, and moved to this State in 1825. Isaac's father worked in an oil-mill, when young, but on his arrival in this State he entered a quarter section of Government land near North Woodbury; he cleared and improved this property, and kept it till his death, which was in 1874; he had kept a store in North Woodbury, during this time, for nearly fourteen years, his partner being one Morgan Levering; but desiring to retire from active life, they divided the goods, and Isaac brought his father's half to West Point.
[1] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Find A Grave Memorial 21083464, [FindAGrave].
[4] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 825, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 628, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].