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1846 Eli Dennis and Eliza Rule were married on September 17 in Richland County, Ohio. (FHL film 000388736). [1]

1883 Elah Dennis died on May 22 at Morrow County, Ohio and was buried at Shauck Cemetery, Shauck, Morrow County, Ohio. Elah Dennis was born on September 15, 1825. [2] [3]

1907 Eliza J. Rule Dennis died on January 29 and was buried at Shauck Cemetery, Shauck, Morrow County, Ohio. Eliza J Rule Dennis was born on March 29, 1829. [4] [5] Eliza Dennis died in Woodview, Ohio. [6]

Morrow County, Ohio Vital Records, 1830-93
Name: Rule, Eliza J.
Birth Place: Woodbury, OH
Birth Date: 29 Mar 1829
Father's Name: George Rule
Mother's name: Mary
Spouse: Elah Dennis
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1845
Marriage Location: Morrow co., OH
Children: Leander, Mary
Death Date: After 1880

1924 Mary H Krout died on April 4 in Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. Mary was born on April 4, 1853 in Morrow County, Ohio, daughter of Elah Dennis and Eliza Rule. [7]

A biosketch reported [8]:

Elah Dennis, farmer, and dealer in agricultural implements; P. O., Woodview; is the third son of Samuel and Catherine (Crack) Dennis. He was born on his present place, Sept. 17, 1824. He passed his youth here, and went to the old school house near where Joshua Singrey lives. It had a large fire-place in one end, and was furnished with slat seats, desks on pins around the wall. His first teacher was Altrain Stevens. He often went but two weeks during the year, on account of the time required for threshing out the grain. At nineteen he began to learn wagon-making with his brother in North Woodbury. He worked at the same business with Samuel Hoffman, and after learning the trade he formed a partnership with his brother Emanuel, which lasted some eighteen months, when he quit wagon-making, and took charge of the farm of George Rule, and farmed it for two years. He next went to the homestead, where he farmed about ten years; from there he removed near N. Woodbury, and worked in a steam saw-mill one year. Subsequently he bought an interest in the "Fish Farm," and lived on that two years. He next bought the HQ acres where Gabriel McWilliams lives, and sojourned there some two years; he then sold his farm and engaged in merchandising in North Woodbury for two years; then retired from the store and purchased the Gantz farm of 60 acres, where he lived ten years, when he sold, and bought the homestead of 83 acres of Samuel Hoffman, in the spring of 1875. He married Eliza J. Rule, Sept. 17, 1845, being just 21. She is a daughter of George and Mary Rule, born March 29, 1829, just south of Woodbury. Of this marriage two children have been born—Leander, born April 25, 1851. He has a good education, and has followed the occupation of farmer. He is now farming the home place in partnership with his father. He has a fine stock of Poland-China hogs and Shorthorn cattle. He united his fortunes with Elizabeth E. Krout, Apr. 7, 1872. She is a daughter of Jacob and Lovina (Rule) Krout, born July 12, 1852, in Baltimore Co., Md. Leander has two children—Ora A., born May 10, 1873; Mary A., Sept. 5, 1876. Mary H. (see sketch of John Krout.) Samuel Dennis, father of our subject, was born in Juniata, Md., May 3, 1787. He lived in his native State 34 years, dividing his attention between the farm and the distillery. He married Catherine Crack, of Maryland, Apr. 12, 1812. In the fall of 1821 they set out with a two horse wagon for Ohio, and owing to the inclement weather and bad roads I hey were six weeks on the way. They arrived during the holidays and passed the winter with George Rule on the Fredericktown Road. In the spring he moved into the house vacated by Adam Lucas, where he lived till fall; in meantime he built a shanty on the present eighty, which he had purchased of George Rinehart, a brother-in-law, about 1820. They lived in this shanty two years without fire-place, floors, door or windows. They built a fire in the middle of the house, and fashioned a bed and table by driving pins in the wall. The wolves would approach within two rods, and keep a dismal howling until almost sunrise; and the Red Skins would pass through the woods almost daily. When he arrived, he had but fifty cents in money, and he often worked at clearing all day for a bushel of corn. He would chop in the woods all day and make shoes by fire-light at night. He cleared fifty acres of his own farm and about five acres each year for others, for many years. His cattle would often stray away, and he would find them five miles distant. He went to raisings and log-rollings seven miles distant in early times. He helped to cut the first roads that were opened through this vicinity. He was a consistent member of the Lutheran Church, and was class-leader. His faithful wife died Feb. 15, 1861, aged 72 years, and he lived with subject, who cared for him nineteen years. He departed this life March 25, 1880, aged ninety-two years, 10 months and 20 days. His mental and physical powers seemed but little impaired until the last. In 1879 he mowed the door-yard four times. He raised seven children, and one died in infancy—Elizabeth, now Mrs. Edward Murray of Marion Co., Iowa; Uriah, carpenter and stock dealer at North Woodbury; Emanuel, wagon-maker at Woodbury; Lucinda, now Mrs. Samuel Hoffman of this township; Elah (subject); Samuel, blacksmith in Nebraska; .lacob, deceased; Franklin, died when eighteen months old. George Rule, the father of Mrs. Dennis, came with his family from Baltimore Co., Maryland, in 1828, and settled on a quarter section where Norman Merwine lives. It was all in woods then, and he erected a cabin with a puncheon floor, in which he lived for some time, he cleared up the farm and erected the present building before he left. He sold eight, lots from his farm for the Village of Woodbury, and donated the one on which the United Brethren Church stands; he lived on that place until 1803, when he engaged in trade at different places, first at West Point, then Galion, Ohio, and from thence to Bourbon, Ind. He now lives at Argus, Marshall Co., Ind. He was much respected by his fellow citizens, and was chosen Justice of the Peace many years, he was also Assessor and Trustee of his township. He was one of the first members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and held the office of Elder. He raised eight children to manhood and womanhood—Catherine, now Mrs. Adam Grove of Kosciusko Co., Ind.; Eliza J., wife of subject; Josiah, farmer, near Bourbon, Ind.; Eliza, the wife of our subject; Henry R., farmer in Kansas; Margaret, now Mrs. John Gautz of Argus, Ind.; Levi, farmer at Argus, Ind.; Jacob, farmer in this township; George lives in Indiana.


Footnotes:

[1] Family Search, Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[2] Find A Grave Memorial 129394438, [FindAGrave].

[3] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[4] Find A Grave Memorial 129394362, [FindAGrave].

[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

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

[7] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[8] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 807-808, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].