tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post6661330847090230904..comments2024-02-26T00:38:41.733-05:00Comments on Jollett Etc.: 52 Ancestors: #32 - Angus RUCKERWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-27002293522062853302016-04-29T12:03:44.635-04:002016-04-29T12:03:44.635-04:00Wendy, I can tell you love a good story, all be it...Wendy, I can tell you love a good story, all be it ever so sad. This is in the papers of great great uncle Robert Emmitt <br /><br />"Frank Selden Robertson was married to Ann Merry Rucker about 1852, by whom he had two daughters, Rosa, born August 4th 1854, and Kate, his wife dying during the infancy of the latter, I believe, in 1856. Ann Merry Rucker was the sister of Angus and George Rucker, then living in Randolph County Missouri. The three children, with their parents, were on a steamboat sometime prior to 1845, which was ascending the Missouri River and suffered an accident thereon, which was shortly followed by the death of the parents, who are buried at the old cemetery at Arrow Rock, where I saw their graves some years ago. Ann Merry Rucker, then a small child, was given a home by my maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Ethelbert Wallis Lewis. In their home, she was married to my father, one of those present being my mother, then just a child, but to whom he was married a number of years later, in 1865. Ann Merry Rucker was somewhat related to my mother, Catherine Ann Merry Lewis Robertson, as my grandfather, Ethelbert Wallis Lewis, in a letter written on March 22nd, 1845, refers to Mrs. Rucker as “Cousin Ann”, the relationship coming, I believe, through his mother, Ann Merry Wallis Lewis of Culpepper County, Virginia."[1]Lewis-Robertson Family. Papers (1837-1955 (bulk 1837-1851; 1955)Robert Emmitt Robertson http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunton-37Allan Harl Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172887500384129766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-62534127218483080482014-08-12T14:57:12.469-04:002014-08-12T14:57:12.469-04:00Yeah, I think so too.Yeah, I think so too.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-36873033926447712262014-08-12T14:57:01.341-04:002014-08-12T14:57:01.341-04:00I doubt many people would put up with being REQUIR...I doubt many people would put up with being REQUIRED to serve. It's hard enough getting volunteers. Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-58535624766027173052014-08-12T08:23:24.433-04:002014-08-12T08:23:24.433-04:00Wendy, Angus was certainly an ancestor to be proud...Wendy, Angus was certainly an ancestor to be proud of! Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-78928617774356554542014-08-11T10:28:09.064-04:002014-08-11T10:28:09.064-04:00WoW! Love that you know so many details of his lif...WoW! Love that you know so many details of his life. All we take for granted these days! Young people complain about everything ...if they had just one day in Angus Rucker's!<br />Happy Monday!Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06295499795085860012noreply@blogger.com