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Notes for Jacob Ruhl and Catherine Ruhl

1838 Catherine Ruhl was born in Morrow County, Ohio.

1842 Jacob Ruhl was born in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio.

1860 Jacob Ruhl left the family farm to work as a clerk in a store and then worked monthly on a farm for about 4 years.

1865 Jacob Ruhl went to work for Levering and Merwine for about 8 months.

1866 On 21 April, Jacob Ruhl and Catherine were married in Morrow County, Ohio. [1]

1866 Jacob Ruhl went to work on the farm of H.H Ruhl (perhaps his father-in-law).

1866-1880 Four children were born to Jacob and Catherine, as reported in historical accounts and the census of 1900. A fifth child, Henry Allen was named in county courthouse records of Morrow county.

1870 Jacob Ruhl (age 27, born in Ohio) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with H H Ruhl (age 62), Catharine Ruhl (age 68), Kate Ruhl (age 21), Eva Ruhl (age 3), and Susan Ruhl (age 15). Jacob Ruhl's occupation was farm laborer. [2]

1871 Henry Allen Ruhl was born on April 21 in Morrow County, Ohio to parents Jacob and Rule and Catherine Rule. [3]

1874 Jacob Ruhl purchased about 80 acres of land.

1880 Jacob Ruhl (age 37, born in Ohio, married) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Cathiner Ruhl (age 41), Eva Ruhl (age 13), Emma Ruhl (age 9), Idella Ruhl (age 5), and Heilman Ruhl (age 3/12). Jacob Ruhl's parents were both born in Maryland. Jacob Ruhl's occupation was farmer. [4]

1900 Jacob Rule (born in Ohio in Nov 1842, married for 32 years) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Catharine Rule (age 60), and Hillmen Rule (age 20). Jacob Rule's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Jacob Rule's occupation was farmer. Catherine had had 4 children, all living. [5]

1910 Jacob Ruhl (age 68, born in Ohio, married for 44 years) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, in a household with Catharine Ruhl (age 71), and Heilman H Ruhl (age 30). Jacob Ruhl's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Jacob Ruhl could read and write. Jacob Ruhl's occupation was farmer, General Farm, employer. [6]

1910 On 31 October, Catharine Ruhl, daughter of Henry H Ruhl and Catharine Patterson, died in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. [7] Catharine, wife of Jacob Rule, born 10 September 1838 and died 31 October 1910, was buried at Rivercliff cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio. [8]

1913 On 23 July, Eva Brewer, born 24 September 1867 in Ohio, daughter of Jacob Rule and Catharine Rule, died in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. [9]

1914 On 21 October, Jacob Rule, widowed, born 9 November 1840 in Ohio, son of George Rule and Margaret Ruhl, died in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. [10] Jacob was buried at Rivercliff cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio. [11]

1943 On 30 October, Herma Ellen Dawson, born 21 Apr 1872 in Morrow County, Ohio, daughter of Jacob Rule and Catherine Rule, widow of William Dawson, died in Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio. [12]

1949 On 21 March, Della Rule Zolman, born 17 November 1874 in Morrow County, Ohio, daughter of Jacob Rule and Katherine Rule, died in Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. [13]

1951 On 21 September, Heilman Henry Rule, born 2 March 1880 in Ohio, son of Jacob Rule and Katherine Ruhl, died in Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. [14]

Research Notes:

1914 On 19 January, Nancy Heis, born 1836 and daughter of Jacob Ruhl and Kate Fate, died in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio. [15]

Note, the biosketch in Baughman below names Jacob's wife as Catherine Ruhl Fall, daughter of H.H. Fall, who died 15 Jan 1911. Henry H Ruhl and Catherine A Patterson had a daughter Catherine who married a Ruhl. The parents of Catherine Ruhl, wife of this Jacob Ruhl, are uncertain and there may be more than one Jacob Ruhl married to Catherine.

"Jacob Rule - Among the influential and highly honored agriculturists of Perry township, Morrow county, Ohio, Jacob Rule holds distinctive prestige as a man of worth and impregnable integrity. He is the owner of a splendid farm of one hundred and sixty acres of most arable land in Perry township and he also has a tract of eighty acres of land in Congress township, all of which is in a high state of cultivation.

A native son of Perry township, Mr. Rule has passed practically his entire life thus far within its bounds, and the fact that he has always commanded the high regard of his fellow citizens who have known him from earliest youth is sufficient voucher for his estimable character. Mr. Rule was born on the 24th of November, 1842, and he is a son of George and Mary (Rule) Rule, both of whom are deceased. Both parents were natives of the state of Pennsylvania, whence they immigrated to Morrow county, Ohio, at an early day, location having been made on a farm, where they passed the residue of their lives. They became the parents of eight children, three of whom are living in 1911, namely: Jacob, the immediate subject of this review; Margaret, who is the wife of John Gaunt, and who maintains her home in Marshall county, Indiana, and George, a business man of Goshen, Indiana. George Rule, the father, was eminently successful as a pioneer farmer in Ohio, and he was summoned to the great beyond about the year 1900.

Jacob Rule, of this review, was reared to the strenuous influences of the home farm, in connection with the work of which he waxed strong both mentally and physically. He remained an inmate of the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-one years, at which time he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits on his own account. He is now the owner of a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Perry township and the thrifty, prosperous condition of his place well indicates his ability as a practical, conscientious farmer. He has long been identified with diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock and in addition to his estate in Perry township he has a fine farm of eighty acres in Congress township. He is a man of fair and honorable business methods and he stands four-square to every wind that blows.

In 1865 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Rule to Miss Catherine Ruhl Fall, who was born and reared in Morrow county, Ohio, and who is a daughter of H. H. Fall, who has long engaged in agricultural pursuits in Morrow county. To Mr. and Mrs. Rule have been born four children, concerning whom the following brief record is here entered: Eva is the wife of Riley Brewer and they reside in Morrow county; Hernie married George W. Dawson, of Mount Gilead; Dellie is the wife of Bert Zollman, of Mount Gilead; and Heilman H. remains at home, where he assists his father in the work and management of the farm. Mrs. Rule was called to the life eternal on the 15th of January, 1911, and her death was uniformly mourned by a wide circle of relatives and friends. She was a woman of high ideals and sweet personality and was deeply beloved by all who knew her." [16]

"Catherine Ruhl was born Sept. 10, 1838, in this township; at twentv-seven she married Jacob Rule, a son of George and Mary Rule (see sketch of Elah Dennis); her husband, Jacob Rule, was born Nov. 28, 1842, in Perry Tp., near Woodbury; he lived on a farm until eighteen, then became a clerk in a store, for some time; subsequently he worked on the farm by the month, about four years; after his marriage with Miss Ruhl, he worked for Levering and Merwine about eight months, after which he began farming on the lands of H. H. Ruhl, where he has lived ever since; in 1874 he purchased eighty acres of land. Four children have been born to them—Eva, born Sept. 24, 1800; Henna, April 21,1872; Idella, Nov. 17, 1S74; Heilman IL, March 2, 1880. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church." [17]


Footnotes:

[1] Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, [FamilySearchRecord].

[2] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[4] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[5] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[6] United States Federal Census, 1910, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[7] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[8] Find A Grave Memorial 108029970, [FindAGrave].

[9] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[10] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[11] Find A Grave Memorial 108030077, reports birthdate 29 November 1842 and death date 22 October 1914, [FindAGrave].

[12] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[13] Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001, [FamilySearchRecord].

[14] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[15] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[16] Abraham J. Baughman, Robert Franklin Bartlett, History of Morrow County Ohio, a Narrative Account, Vol. 2 (1880), 802, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[17] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 826, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].