52 Ancestors: #33 - John Frank RUCKER

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

For many years the Rucker Society has argued over whether my 3X great-grandfather John Frank RUCKER was the son of Jarvis or Angus.  Traditional wisdom favored Jarvis.  However, common sense and the DAR won out and gave the prize to Angus. 

John Frank was the fifth of six children born to Angus and Jane Allen Rucker.  Unfortunately, his name never appears in a census record, to my knowledge.  Born about 1794, John Frank was likely the 16-25 year old male living in his parents’ home in Madison County, Virginia in 1810.  In 1820, he might have been in the household of his bride’s family, the Jarrells. 

Or perhaps he missed the census that year because he was off defending the country during and following the War of 1812.  There is a service record for John F.

as well as a record of enlistment in Madison County. 

John F. Rucker enlisted under Captain Mann P. Lomax.  John Frank was 26; he had brown hair,
hazel eyes, and dark complexion.  He was a farmer from Madison County.

John Frank enlisted in 1819 and was discharged in 1821.  Inspection Returns indicate he served
at Fort Monroe (Hampton, VA) and Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, VA).

How interesting to learn that John Frank had hazel eyes and served at Fort Norfolk, just a short drive through the tunnel from where I grew up. 

In 1830, he and his wife Mary were probably the 30-39 year old male and female living with Angus in Madison.

John Frank, Mary, and the kids must have moved to Rockingham County soon after.  John Frank died in Rockingham about 1839, as proven by the Abstracts of Guardian Bonds: 

"15 July 1839, Guardian Bonds, Rockingham Co., Va., 

Parent, John F. Rucker; Orphans, Onslow, Angeline, 

and Eliza; Guardian Jared Powell, Bond was $2,000, 

bondsmen, John Cook and Honorias Powell."

Two children were not mentioned, probably because they were already married and on their own.  One was Sarah Jane, and the other was Franklin Rucker, my great-great grandfather.

Sadly, where John Frank is buried is unknown, although it is probable that he lies in the Baugher Cemetery in Beldor, Rockingham County, Virginia, along with his wife Mary Jarrell Rucker.

Mary P. Rucker
Asa Baugher Cemetery in Beldor
photo courtesy Jan Hensley

THREE GENERATIONS

John Frank RUCKER ( 1794 Madison VA – 15 Dec 1839 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Mary P. JARRELL ( 1791 Madison Co, VA – 25 Sep 1871 Rockingham Co, VA )    10 Feb 1816 Madison Co, VA

1. Sarah Jane RUCKER ( 11 Apr 1819 Madison Co, VA – 01 May 1897 Rockingham Co, VA ) & James H. FRAZIER (1824 – 03 Apr 189723) Dec 1838 Albemarle, VA

• Noah W. FRAZIER ( 1840 Rockingham Co, VA – 24 Jan 1916 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Mary E. UNKNOWN ( 20 Jan 1844 – 02 Feb 1910 Rockingham Co, VA )
• George Allen FRAZIER ( 11 Jan 1841 Rockingham Co, VA – 12 Jan 1916 Chariton, Randolph, MO ) & Mary Melvina HALL (1852 – 1917 )
• Lavinia FRAZIER ( 1844 – )
• Amanda FRAZIER ( 1847 – )
• Victoria Virginia FRAZIER ( Sep 1852 Rockingham Co, VA – 1900 Page Co, VA ) & John MERICA ( 27 Sep 1851 – 24 Aug 1920 Page Co, VA )  18 Oct 1877 Rockingham Co, VA
• Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” FRAZIER ( 1854 Rockingham Co, VA –  1904 Rockingham County, VA ) & Summerfield DAVIS  (25 Nov 1845 Petersburg, Grant, WV –  08 Jan 1913 Harrisonburg,  VA ) 14 Dec 1882 Rockingham Co, VA
• Robert F. FRAZIER ( 30 Nov 1855 Rockingham Co, VA – 27 Mar 1927 Rockingham Co, VA ) &  Serina Cornelia MERICA (12 May 1866 Page Co, VA – 24 Aug 1961 Rockingham Co, VA )  15 Apr 1886 Page Co, VA

2. Franklin RUCKER ( 1824 Madison Co, VA – 05 Nov 1880 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Sarah A. HERNDON  (1832 Rockingham Co, VA –  19 Mar 1893 Rockingham Co, VA ) 15 Sep 1851

• William RUCKER ( 1852 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• John Wesley RUCKER ( 20 Jul 1854 Rockingham Co, VA – 29 May 1889 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) & Matilda Esther STOCKDELL (27 Aug 1855 – 18 Dec 1943 Shenandoah, Page, VA )
• Elizabeth RUCKER ( 1858 Rockingham Co, VA  – )
• Mary S. RUCKER ( Apr 1860 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• George Allen RUCKER ( 11 Dec 1862 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• Robert Edward “Bob” RUCKER ( 15 Aug 1863 Rockingham Co, VA –  01 Jan 1951 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) & Mattie T. WOOD (23 Jul 1877 – 20 Aug 1956 )  1901
• Walter Newman RUCKER ( 26 Dec 1866 Rockingham Co, VA – 16 Apr 1932 ) & Ada EPPARD ( Jan 1877 Page Co, VA –  17 Sep 1957 Page Co, VA )  1893
• Susan White RUCKER ( 21 Aug 1870 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• James C. RUCKER ( 1873 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• Joseph Calhoun RUCKER ( 26 Jul 1874 Rockingham, VA – 1933 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) & Mary Susan “Sudie” EPPARD  (Oct 1875 Rockingham Co, VA –  1958 Shenandoah, Page, VA )  1897
• Clint A. RUCKER

3. Onslow RUCKER ( 1826 – Before 1860 Rockingham Co, VA )

4. Angeline “Anna” RUCKER ( 1827 Rockingham Co, VA – 23 Jul 1900 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Mickleberry Michael B. ROACH (1821 Greene Co, VA – Oct 1893 Rockingham Co, VA )  31 Jan 1840 Rockingham Co, VA

• Emanuel Berryman ROACH ( 1841 Rockingham Co, VA –  27 Aug 1917 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Mary FAULKNER (Nov 1844)   27 Jun 1867 Rockingham Co, VA
• William M. ROACH ( 1843 Rockingham Co, VA – ) & m1) Sarah BEASLEY ( 1848 Greene Co, VA – Before 1889) 24 Jun 1866 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Frances UNKNOWN ( 1850 – Before 1902 Rockingham Co, VA ) 20 Apr 1889 ; & m3) Susan WELLS 10 Sep 1902 Rockingham Co, VA
• Mary ROACH ( 1847 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• Jonathan Scott ROACH ( 1849 Rockingham Co, VA – Before 1920) & m1) Rachael WILLIAMS (1849 Hardy, WV –  07 Jan 1885 Hardy, WV ) May 1879 Hardy, WV ; & m2) Cora Virginia KECKLEY (Jan 1865 West Virginia –  16 Sep 1936 Greene Co, VA )  1890
• Charles O. ROACH ( 06 Sep 1853 Rockingham Co, VA –  06 Mar 1928 Rockingham Co, VA & m1) Margaret Elizabeth MORT 1872 (06 Jun 1844 Maryland – 01 May 1909 Frederick, MD) ; & m2) Annie Magdeline GARRETT (01 Apr 1871 – 07 Aug 1949)  24 Mar 1889 Hardy, WV
• Joseph ROACH ( Jun 1855 Rockingham Co, VA – 1922) & Comora Frances MORRIS (Jul 1860 – )  13 Dec 1889 Rockingham Co, VA
• Amanda ROACH ( 1858 Rockingham Co, VA – ) & m1) Unknown ; & m2) George W. WILLIAMS (1852 – ) 05 Apr 1880 Rockingham Co, VA
• Rebecca ROACH ( Oct 1863 Rockingham Co, VA – Jul 1920 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Jacob Clay WARBLE ( Jul 1853 – 1930 )   1877
• Enoch Blakely ROACH ( 1864 Rockingham Co, VA – 25 Nov 1893 Greene Co, VA ) & Lydia Margaret STRICKLER (08 Oct 1870 Rockingham Co, VA – 01 Jul 1922 Rockingham Co, VA ) 16 Aug 1891 Rockingham Co, VA
• George Richard ROACH ( 01 Apr 1872 Rockingham Co, VA – 21 May 1930 Lynchburg, Campbell, VA)  & Ella Nora Francis ROYER (16 Sep 1874 Rockingham Co, VA – 07 Jun 1938 Lynchburg, VA )  03 Mar 1891 McGaheysville, VA

5. Eliza F. RUCKER ( 1829 Rockingham Co, VA – 08 Feb 1900 Beldor, Rockingham Co, VA ) & Asa Samuel BAUGHER (13 Feb 1819 Rockingham Co, VA – 24 May 1895 Rockingham Co, VA ) 11 Mar 1842 Rockingham Co, VA

• George Tazwell BAUGHER ( Oct 1843 Rockingham Co, VA – 18 Nov 1915 Rockingham Co, VA) & Bettie Mildred DUFF (Mar 1847 Greene Co, VA – 31 Dec 1914 Rockingham Co, VA )  17 Jan 1867 Rockingham Co, VA
• Angus Gordon BAUGHER ( 13 Jun 1846 Rockingham Co, VA –  12 Mar 1921 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Susan Nellie SHIFLETT (23 Dec 1850 Rockingham Co, VA – 19 Sep 1928 Rockingham Co, VA ) 27 Jun 1867 Rockingham Co, VA
• Andrew Jackson BAUGHER ( 27 Jul 1849 Rockingham Co, VA – 01 Mar 1882 Rockingham Co, VA )  & Annie Catherine LAWSON (15 Dec 1851 Rockingham Co, VA – 15 Dec 1931 Rockingham Co, VA )  23 Dec 1871 Rockingham Co, VA
• Virginia Frances BAUGHER ( 10 Feb 1853 Rockingham Co, VA –  before 1860 Rockingham Co, VA )
• Columbia Elizabeth BAUGHER ( 10 May 1856 Rockingham Co, VA – 25 Feb 1896 Rockingham Co, VA ) &  John Willis MORRIS (12 Apr 1850 Rockingham Co, VA – 09 Dec 1912 Elkton, VA )  02 Jun 1879 Rockingham Co, VA
• Victoria BAUGHER ( 1859 Rockingham Co, VA – )
• Ada BAUGHER ( 1865 Rockingham Co, VA –  )
• Michael Samuel BAUGHER ( 01 Sep 1867 Rockingham Co, VA – 1957 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Barbara Ann LAWSON (Apr 1870 Rockingham Co, VA – after 1930 Rockingham Co, VA )  19 Aug 1890 Rockingham Co, VA

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52 Ancestors: #22 - Mary Polly DAVIS Baugher

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

Mary Polly DAVIS is my third great grandaunt, daughter of Leonard and Mary Marshall Davis.  She was born in Albemarle County, Virginia about 1805.  Polly was a teenager when her parents relocated to Rockingham County where she met Jacob Baugher, son of Daniel and Anna Maria Moyer Baugher, whom she married on January 2, 1823.

Like their neighbors, the Baughers were a farm family with lots of children - twelve according to census records and family research.  Sometime in the mid 1850s, Jacob and Polly bid adieu to family and friends in Rockingham and moved to Nodaway County in northwest Missouri. 

Platte Purchase in red
image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Why, I don’t know.  Jacob was too young to have been a volunteer in the War of 1812; therefore, it is not likely he was claiming bounty land.  Maybe they had heard about the cheap land and fertile soil in the Platte Region.  Annexed just a few years before in 1837, Platte represented the western fringe of settlement.   There was plenty of land to go around. 

How the Baughers traveled is unknown.  The addition of a couple Kentucky-born spouses might suggest that they crossed by way of the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky like so many other pioneers had done.  They might even have spent some time in Kentucky before continuing west into Missouri.  But a daughter-in-law from Ohio shows it is also possible that they took the National Road through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois into northern Missouri.  More research is needed.   

Map of the United States and Territories 1860
image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

When the Baughers traveled can be determined more easily.  Jacob and Polly were enumerated in their native Rockingham County, Virginia in 1850 and then in Missouri in 1860.  There was a wedding in Nodaway County, Missouri in 1856 and a grandchild born there in 1859.

Polly Davis Baugher’s family spread far and wide.  When she and Jacob left Virginia, they left behind several adult children who had their own families, families that stayed put in Rockingham County.  Their descendents can still be found right there to this day.  Of the Baugher children who relocated to Missouri, some stayed there while one headed to Oregon, another to Indian Territory (today Oklahoma), and still another to California.   

  

THREE GENERATIONS:

Mary Elizabeth Polly DAVIS (About 1805 Albemarle Co, VA – After 1860 MO ) & Jacob BAUGHER ( 02 May 1799 – 1864 MO )  02 Jan 1823 Rockingham Co, VA

1. Delilah BAUGHER ( 23 Sep 1823 Rockingham Co, VA - 19 Apr 1881 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA ) & m1) John Michael Moyer ALDER ( - 03 Jun 1846 in Rockingham Co, VA )  03 Jun 1844 Rockingham Co, VA ; & m2) James THOMPSON ( 25 Jan 1810 Rockingham Co, VA – 09 Apr 1886 Rockingham Co, VA ) 14 Nov 1850 Rockingham Co, VA

Children with John Michael Moyer Alder:

• Barbara Elizabeth ALDER ( 29 May 1845 Rockingham Co, VA - 20 Oct 1848 Rockingham Co, VA )
• John Michael Moyer ALDER Jr. ( 1846 Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Mary Michael ALDER ( 07 Aug 1847 Rockingham Co, VA - 19 Mar 1924 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Jacob Nicholas RHODES  (06 Nov 1840 Rockingham Co, VA – 30 Jan 1888 Harrisonburg, VA) 14 Nov 1866 Lacey Spring, Rockingham, VA

Children with James Thompson:

• Virginia THOMPSON ( 1851 Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Susan Henryetta THOMPSON ( 29 Apr 1853 Rockingham Co, VA – 02 Mar 1926 Rockingham Co, VA )
• Sarah Catherine THOMPSON ( 10 Jul 1855 Rockingham Co, VA – 08 Jul 1921 Rockingham Co, VA )
• Joseph THOMPSON ( 24 Sep 1857 Rockingham Co, VA – 13 Nov 1861 Rockingham Co, VA  )
• Robert Ashley THOMPSON ( 04 Mar 1861 Rockingham Co, VA – 02 Jun 1933 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Maryella R. SPRINKLE (15 Jul 1865 Rockingham Co, VA – May 1943 Rockingham Co, VA ) 1887 Rockingham Co, VA
• Laura Alice THOMPSON (04 Aug 1864 Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Clementine THOMPSON (04 Aug 1865 Rockingham Co, VA – 19 Sep 1930 Rockingham Co, VA )

2. Ann Catherine BAUGHER  ( 24 May 1825 Rockingham Co, VA - )

3. Sarah Ann BAUGHER ( 28 Jan 1829 Rockingham Co, VA - 19 Jul 1899 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Gideon LAYMON ( 22 Feb 1815 Rockingham Co, VA – 06 Jan 1891 Rockingham Co, VA ) 16 Apr 1856 Rockingham Co, VA

• William Henry LAYMON ( 05 May 1857 Rockingham Co, VA - 1931 Rockingham Co, VA) & Margaret Virginia HANDSHAW ( Jul 1862 McGaheysville, Rockingham Co, VA -  16 Feb 1946 Hagerstown, MD ) 1883 Rockingham Co, VA
• Charles Robert “Bob” LAYMON ( 02 Apr 1859 Rockingham Co, VA - 20 Mar 1908 ) & Mary M. ARMENTROUT  (21 Aug 1858 Rockingham Co, VA - 16 Mar 1944 Rockingham Co, VA ) 27 Nov 1881 Rockingham Co, VA
• Leroy Scott LAYMON ( 08 Aug 1860 Rockingham Co, VA - 23 Jun 1934 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Sarah J. UNKNOWN 1887
• Alice Catherine LAYMON ( 17 Apr 1862 Rockingham, VA - 05 Mar 1926 Rockingham, VA ) & John  J. BEAM ( 03 Sep 1855 Rockingham, VA - 17 Aug 1931 Rockingham, VA ) 09 Apr 1882 Rockingham, VA 
• Barbara Lou LAYMON ( Jul 1864 Rockingham Co, VA - 08 Oct 1941 Washington DC )  & William Archibald “Arch”  BLACK ( 08 Oct 1859 Rockingham Co, VA – 16 Jul 1922 Rockingham Co, VA )  25 Jan 1883 in Rockingham Co, VA
• Segourney Arebelle LAYMON ( 16 Apr 1867 Rockingham Co, VA - 16 Dec 1869 Rockingham Co, VA ) 

4. Perry Henderson BAUGHER ( 10 Jul 1829 Rockingham Co, VA - 26 Jan 1882 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Mary  UNKNOWN (1835 Rockingham Co, VA - )

• Gideon BAUGHER  ( Oct 1856 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Shelton H. C. BAUGHER ( 1860 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Annie E. BAUGHER ( 04 Oct 1862 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA - 13 May 1933 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA) & Solomon K. SUMMERS  (15 Apr 1852 Rockingham Co, VA - 08 Dec 1906 Rockingham Co, VA  ) 1879 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA
• Sally BAUGHER ( 1864 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA - )
• Victoria BAUGHER ( 1869 Linville, Rockingham Co, VA - ) 

5. Lucinda OR Lucynthia Elizabeth BAUGHER ( 01 Jan 1832 Rockingham Co, VA – 1903)

6. Jemima Letitia BAUGHER ( 02 Mar 1833 Rockingham Co, VA - 06 Jul 1902 Nodaway, MO) &

George W. SCOTT ( 02 Oct 1822 Kentucky – 01 Aug 1864 Graham, MO ) 28 Dec 1856 Nodaway, MO

• Carrie SCOTT ( 1859 Nodaway, MO - )
• Ella SCOTT ( 1861 Nodaway, MO - )
• Emma SCOTT ( 1865 Nodaway, MO - )

7. Mary Lucina Polly BAUGHER ( 04 Jun 1834 Rockingham Co, VA – 1914 )

8. Marietta Luthelda BAUGHER ( 17 Oct 1837 Rockingham Co, VA -  15 Jan 1920 Osage Township, MO ) & m1) Asker HARMON ; & m2) Washington BENNETT

9. Jacob Albert BAUGHER ( 30 May 1838 Rockingham Co, VA - 13 Feb 1913 Nodaway, MO ) &

Samantha COOK  (14 Nov 1853 Perry Township, OH - 20 Aug 1931 Skidmore, MO )

01 Apr 1875 Nodaway, MO

• Mary Emma BAUGHER ( 21 Feb 1876 Skidmore, MO - 13 Oct 1953 Maryville, MO ) & Jacob F. “Jake” SUETTERLIN (24 Dec 1871 Graham, MO - 17 Jan 1957 Monett, Barry, MO ) 01 Mar 1899 Skidmore, MO
• George Everett BAUGHER ( 13 Nov 1877 Skidmore, MO - 05 Mar 1962 Maryville, MO )
• William Glenn BAUGHER ( 01 Jul 1880 Skidmore, MO - 26 Nov 1883 Skidmore, MO )
• Cora Samantha BAUGHER ( 09 Dec 1882 Skidmore, MO - 28 Jun 1976 St Joseph, MO ) & Artemus Clyde  “Art” SHULL ( 07 Aug 1879 Skidmore, MO - 03 Jan 1944 Skidmore, MO  )   27 Feb 1907 Skidmore, MO
• Ella Price BAUGHER ( 15 Mar 1886 Skidmore, MO - 14 Sep 1901 Skidmore, MO )
• Allie May BAUGHER ( 03 May 1888 Skidmore, MO - 18 Nov 1959 Maryville, MO ) & Walter Lee PATTERSON 22 Dec 1909 in Skidmore, MO
• Leona BAUGHER (20 Aug 1890 Skidmore, MO  - 25 Dec 1890 Skidmore, MO )

10. David William BAUGHER ( 11 Feb 1840 Rockingham Co, VA - 1920 Sarpy, NE ) & Telitha or Carlitha Jane ELLIOTT ( 02 June 1842 Buchanan, MO – 27 Nov 1907 Independence, OR ) 09 Mar 1862 Nodaway, MO 

• Perry H. BAUGHER ( 1864 Nodaway, MO – 1933 Portland, OR ) & Edith E. UNKNOWN (Apr 1862 - )
• Thomas H. BAUGHER ( 1869 Sarpy, NE - )

11. John Henry BAUGHER (06 Feb 1844 Rockingham Co, VA – 1924)

12. Phineas Albion BAUGHER ( 06 Aug 1846 Rockingham Co, VA - 13 Nov 1910 Afton, OK) & Jessie A. HERMAN or HARMON (18 Sep 1852 West Liberty, KY - 15 Jan 1890 Vinita, Craig, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory ) 1871 in Henry, MO

• Cora BAUGHER ( 09 Oct 1872 Clinton, Bates, MO - 11 Oct 1951 La Mesa, CA ) & George Huntington WARREN  ( 1852 in Lewiston, ME  - 17 Oct 1930 La Mesa, CA ) After 1890 Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
• Jessie Mae BAUGHER ( 22 Aug 1874 Deep Water, MO - ) & Ulysses Stephen “Bud” CRAFT
• ( 07 Jan 1864 Illinois - 13 May 1943 Afton, OK )
• Nancy “Nannie” BAUGHER ( Dec 1876 Deep Water, MO – Before 1976 Phoenix, AZ ) & John W. DAWSON  ( 16 May 1871 Johnsonville, CA - Before 1971 Phoenix, AZ )  02 Sep 1894 Afton, OK
• Eva Lena BAUGHER ( 1879 Deep Water, MO - ) & J. E. HENRY 15 Apr 1898 Pineville, MO
• Abner David “Ad” BAUGHER ( 07 Jul 1883 Deep Water, MO - 05 Oct 1941 Pampa, TX ) & Bessie Mae VINCENT ( 07 Dec 1889 in Sedalia, MO - 15 Jan 1970 Oklahoma, OK ) 18 Feb 1907 Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
• Emma G. BAUGHER ( 04 Jul 1886 Spruce Township, MO - 15 Mar 1968 in Fairland, OK ) & William Thomas KELLY  (01 Mar 1866 MO – 02 Oct 1940 Fairland, OK ) 05 Apr 1905 Vinita, Indian Territory
• James BAUGHER  (May 1889 Afton, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory - 15 Aug 1909 in Afton, OK )

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A to Z April Challenge: R is for Reefa

This is Day 18 of the A to Z April Challenge.  My theme is women with unusual names although I must cheat now and then or I’ll have a name and no story.

is for Reefa Enis Baugher.  She was my third cousin once removed.  Her parents were Mary Byrd Duff and James Asa Baugher.  She descended through the numerous Baughers and Ruckers that had lived in the Beldor/Sandy Bottom area of Rockingham County, Virginia since the early 1800s.  Reefa was the fourth of six children, the first and last of whom died shortly after birth. 

But little Reefa was not long for the world either.  She was born in July 1899, and she died fourteen years later in November 1913. 

3 Generations about 1905
Left to Right:  Reefa, Grandma Mary Duff, Ruby,
Mary Byrd Duff Baugher, Brinton, and Bernice

Untimely death darkened the Baugher doorstep far too many times:  her father in 1905, her mother in 1915, leaving behind 3 minor children. 

Run Right over to the A to Z April Challenge for some Roaring good Reads.

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A to Z April Challenge: A is for Armentrout, B is for Baugher

I am participating in the A to Z April Challenge blog hop.  My theme is my family history.  My approach will be to briefly discuss a person or family group using the letter of the day.  Right now I’m a day behind.  That's why there are 2 posts rolled into 1.
 

is for Armentrout.  My 3G grandmother Mary Ann Armentrout was born in Rockingham County, Virginia about 1795 and died in 1870.  She was the second wife of my 3G grandfather Fielding Jollett.  They had the following children:

Lydia Catherine Jollett (26 Apr 1830 - )

John Wesley Jollett (6 Apr 1832 Rockingham Co, VA – 18 Oct 1916 Rockingham Co, VA)

Henry Harvey Jollett (26 Jul 1834 Rockingham Co, VA – 1850 Rockingham Co, VA)

James Franklin Jollett (17 Nov 1836 Rockingham Co, VA – 3 Jun 1930 Augusta Co, VA)

Lucretia Ann Jollett (18 Sep 1838 Rockingham Co, VA – 31 Dec 1911 Rockingham Co, VA)

Very little is known about Mary Ann, probably because many records for Rockingham County were burned during the Civil War.  One burned deed survives, confirming her father was John Armentrout.  However, other key information is lost in the ashes.  John Armentrout was a common name, so it is nearly impossible to pinpoint this specific family.  Her name appears on several deeds after the war selling land to the adult children. 

Supposedly Mary Ann is buried in the graveyard near Brown Memorial United  Church of Christ in McGaheysville, Rockingham County.  When she and her family attended church it was the German Reformed Church known as Peaked Mountain Church.  Many of the graves are marked with stones; some are engraved in German; some are unmarked.  Still others are under the new elementary school. 

The Armentrouts are very well researched, but this particular family is just a footnote in the published history of Armentrouts.  Researching this family will be a major project for some other time. 

is for Baugher.  Since I am already behind, I decided I’d write about the Baughers because there isn’t much to say.  The Baugher in particular is Eliza F. Rucker Baugher.  Eliza (1829 – 8 Feb 1900 Rockingham Co, Virginia) was the daughter of John Frank Rucker and Mary P. Jarrell.  The Baugher connection might hold the key to one of the major Rucker debates:  who was John Frank’s father?  Angus or Jarvis?  It’ll take some time to connect the dots, but one strong argument in favor of Angus is that Eliza Baugher and her husband Asa named one of their sons Angus.  The older Angus was a Revolutionary War hero – certainly worth honoring.

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