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B., William6 E., Wilford5, James4, Mordecai3,William2, Peter1) is a soprano who has sung withorchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, includingappearances with the Stuttgart Philharmonic1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the OratorioSociety of New York and the PhiladelphiaClassical Symphony. She has been soloist in theBeethoven Mass in C with the New York ChoralSociety at Carnegie Hall and in Rossini's StabatMater and the Mozart Requiem with 1'OrchestreSymphonique de Grenoble.

A versatile artist, she has been presented in solorecitals from New York to Texas, including theDumbarton Avenue concert series in Washington,D.C. She has performed with leading operacompanies, including Houston Grand Opera andthe San Diego Opera Company and created theleading soprano role in The Wrestler by SamuelAdler.

FAMILY PROFILE

LILA DEISAnd her Musical Family

By Joe C. Nix

A sought-after chamber musician, Lila hascollaborated with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, theNew York Bach Ensemble and El Paso Pro-Musica, among others. She toured three continentsas the soprano of the New York Vocal Artsensemble, appearing at leading festivals in Europeand South America and in New York at AliceTully Hall; with that solo quartet she won aunanimous first prize in the prestigious Genevacompetition. Lila is a founding director of theRockport Chamber Music Festival where she hasperformed with members of An Die Musik, theNew England Woodwind Quintet, and theManhattan String Quartet. She recorded CarminaBurana by Carl Orff. She has sung Messiah atAvery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center and with theDallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas.

Table of Contents

Lila Deis and her Musical Family p. 1 -2Joseph Allen Rucker & His Homeplace . p.3-4Letter to the Editor p.5In Memoriam p.6-7First Rucker Birth of 2000 p. 7Questions & Answers p.8-9Membership Renewal p.9Letter from the President p. 10

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The Rucker Family Society Newsletteris published quarterly—Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec

Editor:Jean B. Robinson

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Lila was born in and grew up in Dallas, Texas.After graduation from Indiana University, shecontinued her training and career in New YorkCity. In 1969 she married Karl Lauby. They haveone daughter, Alexandra Deis-Lauby, born Oct-ober 24, 1990. Lila and her family live in NewYork City.

Lila is currently working on a CD called, ClassicLullabies, that will be available soon. She will besinging in Carnegie Hall again in December, 2000,this time soloing with the St. Cecilia Chorus.

Lila's parents, Edward Deis (1909-1954) andEmma Jeanne Rucker were also musicians who dida radio program and performed many concerts asduo pianists. They lived in Dallas, Texas where hermother currently lives. Her mother, in addition toher musical talents, is also a professionalphotographer. She took the photograph of Lilashown on page 1.

Lila's grandfather, Joseph Bates ("J. B.") Rucker(b. 27 Jan 1880 in Tennessee--d. 22 Apr 1949 inDallas) was born in Chattanooga, TN and went tothe University of Tennessee. He began to work forthe Southern Railway. After moving to Dallas,Texas, he married in 1906 to Maude Gillespie (b.16 Jul 1883--d. 17 Feb 1969, in Dallas). J. B. thenjoined his father-in-law in the real estate business.He helped develop large sections of Dallas.

J. B. and Maude Rucker were a prominent force inmusical circles in Dallas. J. B. was well known asa bass soloist, and was active in the DallasSymphony Orchestra Association. During a 40year period, he had been a soloist with 11 Dallaschurches as well as the orchestra. J. B. was thefirst treasurer of the orchestra and was responsiblefor hiring the first 25 musicians around whom theorchestra was formed.

Maude began her musical career as a soloist duringher college years and represented the State ofTexas in concert at the 1904 St. Louis World'sFair. She attended private schools in Dallas andwas a graduate of Kidd-Key College. She alsoattended the Chicago Musical College and hadstudied music under Harald von Mickwitz, aFinnish pianist-teacher who greatly influencedTexas musical tastes in the first quarter of the 20th

century. In a long concert career, she toured theSouthwest as artist-accompanist for many concertsoloists and had appeared with the Chicago, Dallasand Louisiana State Symphony Orchestras. In1911 she became the first pianist to performTchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with anorchestra in Dallas.

This musically talented family has delightedaudiences for three generations and nearly onehundred years. We hope their talents will continueinto the next generation.

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ARTICLES WANTED

Many thanks to Joe Nix for contributing the familyprofile this quarter. What a lovely and talentedfamily!

We are constantly seeking articles for futurenewsletters. Please consider writing a story aboutsomeone in your family.

Please submit articles, queries, obituaries, tidbitsof information of interest to the family to theEditor, whose address is at the top of this page.

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Joseph Allen Rucker andThe Rucker Homeplace in

Rutherford County, Tennesseeby Stephanie Routon Tayloe

Buchanan, TN

The house to which my grandfather, EdmundBirton Rucker was born in Rutherford County wasstill standing in the early 1950's. My uncle RobertRucker had found the house through the help ofthe owner of the funeral home in Murfreesboro,who was his customer. He took us to see thehouse and I remember it like it was yesterday. Thehome had originally belonged to the Overall familyeventually becoming a Rucker home throughmarriage.

BACKGROUND:Joseph7 Allen Rucker was the son of Joseph6

Burton Rucker (Elzy5, Joel4, John3, Thomas2,Peter1) and Rebecca Champion. Joseph in thehistory of his life, wrote that he was born May 13,1845. "My father was Joseph Burton Rucker, theson of Robert E. Rucker and his first wife, SarahGaines of Ruckersville, VA (See article on page8). The Ruckers were regarded as prominentfamilies in that part of Virginia. My mother toldme that my father was an educated, honest andreligious man, the kind whom all Christians loveand respect."

He also told about the time, as a very young boy,his father took him to see James K. Polk, passingin a parade. He said the President did not live longafter leaving public office.

Joseph went one term to the Nashville MilitaryAcademy but did not take to soldiering. At theAcademy he became acquainted with Sam Davis,of Civil War fame. He described him as the mosthonest, steadfast and bravest boy he had everknown.

At the altar of old Rev. Nance Overall he acceptedChrist and later married the granddaughter of Rev.Overall. In his writings he had recorded a smallhistory of the Overall family, copied from the Bible

of Baxter D. Overall. He married Amelia Overall,the daughter of Baxter Overall and Martha Kirby,January 29, 1867, in Rutherford Co., TN.

Joseph was a schoolteacher. One morning he leftfor school, but upon reaching the front gate oftheir yard, felt so badly he turned back and told hiswife he was too ill to go to school. He went to bedand died soon afterwards.

My grandfather, Edmund Birton Rucker was theeighth and last child of Joseph Allen Rucker andAmelia Kizaiah Overall while they still lived in thehome, born in 1885. The name Birton was an oldfamily name from his father's side and wasoriginally spelled Burton. His father, died suddenlyin September of 1885. Friends attending thefuneral commented that it would not be long 'tilthe "sickly baby" would follow his father in death.

Edmund was loved and nourished by his widowedmother and elder siblings. He remained close to hismother because of this. She undoubtedly put herstamp on him through her deep religious beliefsand made him rather seriously structured. She heldregular devotionals and they spent regular timetogether in prayer. At age 13 he was convertedand united with the Overall CampgroundMethodist Church which Amelia's family hadfounded in the 1820's. He later became a ministerand served the Memphis Methodist Conferencefrom 1928 until 1946.

VISIT TO THE HOUSE

We turned off the main road onto a county roadand traveled several miles, over several woodenbridges. It was a morning in June that we visitedand an early rain that day had brought out snakes.

The white frame house stood in the curve of theroad. The road ran in front of the house and turneddown the south side of the house. The house wasold and not in good repair. It had a forlorn andforsaken air about it. I guess some of this was dueto a fenced off private burial plot in the rear yardwhere my great-grandfather Joseph Rucker and aninfant daughter were buried. There were old large

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trees in the yard, and under a Japonica bush in theyard lay part of my great-grandfather's tombstonewithout his name engraved. We picked it up andbrought it home to have engraved, but instead timewent by and it lay in our garage at the house onPierce Street for twenty years and finally was lost.

An old couple lived in the house, but they did notinvite us in. I could see it had a large hall with twolarge rooms on each side, and there was a room onthe back with a long porch aside the back room. Ido not know if there were rooms upstairs, but mymother remembers her father mentioning the boyssleeping upstairs.

There was a well, boxed in with a top and hangingbucket on the side, in the side of the front yard. Atone time there had been a fence all around theyard. My grandfather and his mother left this homebefore 1900 and she died at their new home inCarroll County in 1904.

In the early 1940's my uncle Edmund took mygrandfather and his three brothers, Robert, Georgeand Al back to Rutherford County for a last visitto their old homeplace. This was their last visit totheir father's grave and the homeplace.

My grandfather told my mother stories of hischildhood that included his mother's religiousdedication. She was Sunday School Superin-tendent of the Overall Church. She cooked onSaturday for Sunday as she believed in observingthe Sabbath by no work in any way. They got upon Sunday and walked the miles to church.

Rutherford County is a beautiful county somethirty miles from Nashville. There are small hills,many streams and many rocks. Many of thestreams have rock beds. Stone River, where one ofthe bloodiest Civil War battles took place, is in thiscounty. I cannot pass thought Rutherford Countywithout thinking of my grandfather Rucker, whomI never knew and the wonderful Rucker, Overall,and Kirby families who we are all descendants of,and their struggles and contributions to settle thiscounty in its early days of existence.

The deeds show the land his mother sold in 1900when she left Rutherford County for CarrollCounty had belonged to Baxter Overall, her father.

Note from Stephanie Tayloe: For over 30 years Ihave kept notes and am happy at last to get themon paper. Many thanks to all the cousins, uncles,aunts and others who have opened their familypapers and history to me. But most of all I want tothank my mother Val Rucker Routon (Edmund8

B., Joseph7 A., Joseph6 B., Elzy5, Joel4, John3,Thomas2, Peter1) whose perfect memory andquick, total recall made her a wonderfulstoryteller. Her stories fired my imagination andfostered pride in my heritage. Tracing my familytree turned out to be more than just the pursuit ofnames and dates, but instead has led to lastingfriendships of many long lost cousins.

P.S. The Rucker Family visited Rutherford Co.,TN at the reunion in 1998.

Note to Stephanie: Have a new tombstone placedto your great-grandfather at the home site. Pleasedo it before you forget where he was buried.

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RECYCLE YOUR NEWSLETTERS:

Store your newsletters in a notebook for futurereference. If you don't keep them, why not givethem to a local genealogy library for others to see.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Just wanted to take a minute and bring you up todate. I think it was last April when I first found theRucker Family society and you were so kind as towrite me back with my lineage, not only correctingour confusion in those first 2 generations, but alsopointing out my second line.

First thank you so much. As a beginner in this fieldit is so nice to meet people who are so willing tohelp. In the short 9 months since my father and Ibegan this quest, we have:1. Become Rucker Family society members andordered all the back issues.2. Been to Missouri and visited the Mt VernonCourthouse and library which in 2 short days filledin so many gaps, met my father's first cousin andanother cousins daughter, whom I had never met,and their families.3. Found pictures of my great grandparents, noone on our side had seen them.... John HenryRucker and his wife, Molly Faulkner.4. Just this past month found John Henry Rucker'ssister's grandchildren still living and arecorresponding with this long lost branch.5. Corresponded with a descendant of EdwardsLouis's wife (Marion Fountain Daniel) family. Iguess you would say she is my mentor and surelyhelped my learning curve. She's even a volunteerat a LDS library!!!

One of the things we were most curious aboutwas my great-grandfathers murder in 1906 andwhen in Mt Vernon we found four articles on themurder and the story about the trial itself wherethe man who shot him was given 20 years inprison, even though we had been told that thenewspaper had burned for the years 1905, 1906and 1907. It was a big enough story that it wascovered in the papers of the surrounding area.

We'd love to confirm where and when EdwardLouis Rucker died...supposedly in Terre Haute, In1872/3, but I guess all things will come in time!Although, I think I could write a book about hiswidow and five children!

We still have more to go and unansweredquestions about Edward Louis's death, as we havenot been able to confirm the info we have, butfrom 1880 forward we are almost complete!!!

Thanks again for all your hard work on behalf ofthe Ruckers...for those of us who grew up thinkingit was the world's most obscure name this has beengreat fun!!! We are looking forward to thereunion...did I ever tell you this story? In 1992,our immediate family (my father and his brotherand our families) had our every five-year gettogether in Nashville, TN. My cousin, Pam, hadbright yellow t-shirts made up for us that saidRucker Reunion 1992 inside a red guitar. While atthe amusement park a man came up to us and said"what Rucker reunion...am I missing one?" Well,we thought he was just a nut. ..obviously he was aRucker Family Society member and thought hewas missing one of your reunions...! wish we hadquizzed him a little more and maybe we wouldhave discovered this years earlier!

When I began all this I thought genealogy was for"old" people, that it was boring, that it was justlooking up dead people...well nothing could befurther from the truth, This has been so exciting,meeting new people, meeting family that are noteven all that distant, learning about history ingeneral and not just recording dates but actuallytrying to come to know those people that camebefore me...wow I had so many people to pray forthis year at All Souls Day!!!

I know you must just have an overwhelmingamount of info coming to you...I just wanted tothank you for what you do!

Hope to see you in October, at the RuckerReunion,

Becky Rucker Edmondson

(James9 Frere Rucker, John8 William, John7 Henry,Edward6 Lewis, Isaac5, John4, John3, John2, Peter1)and (Isaac5 married Agnes5 Rucker, Abner4,Anthony3, John2, Peter1) <Rare05@aol.com>

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IN MEMORIAM

MARGARET FIELD WILLIAMS RUCKERdied February 16, 2000 in Charleston, SC whereshe lived with her daughter, Courtney Rucker. Sheis also survived by two sons, Douglas P. RuckerJr. and M. Pierce Rucker of Richmond, VA, andone granddaughter, Louise Meredith Rucker ofFairfax, VA.

Margaret, bornNovember 14, 1916, inNorfolk, VA wasmarried April 4, 1941 toDouglas PendletonRucker, MD (Dr.Marvin7 Pierce, Dr.Edwin6 Timothy,Benjamin5 J., Isaac4,Ambrose3, John2,Peter1). Dr. Rucker diedSeptember 21, 1979.

The photo of Margaret was taken on her 80th

birthday, in November of 1996.

Margaret attended Randolph-Macon Woman'sCollege in Lynchburg, VA and graduated fromRichmond Professional Institute (now VirginiaCommonwealth University) in Richmond. She alsoreceived a Master's degree.

She organized the first Mothers' March of Dimesin Richmond. She was a President of the Womenof St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. She organizedand was first president of the Women's Auxiliaryof Johnston-Willis Hospital. She was also amember of several boards including the ShelteringArms Hospital, a free hospital; the MemorialGuidance Clinic; the National Foundation forInfantile Paralysis and the Society for thePrevention of Cruelty to Animals. Margaret was aDirector Emeritus of the Virginia League forPlanned Parenthood; served on the Board ofDirectors of the Museum of the Confederacy.

In 1967, she was chosen by Richmond

Newspapers, Inc. as the Christmas Mother ofRichmond. The thing we are most proud ofMargaret is that she was instrumental in saving thestone blocks from the Locks of the James Riverand Kanawha Canal, in Richmond, whenthreatened by bulldozers in the building of thedowntown expressway in 1971. The blocks arenow on view at the James Center in Richmond.

Margaret was very supportive of the RuckerFamily Society. Her obituary was in the RichmondTimes Dispatch, 17 Feb 2000. She was buried inHollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.

ELIZABETH RUCKER WILLIAMS died atthe age of 95, December 23, 1999. A formerresident of Boone, North Carolina she was livingin Charlotte at the time of her death.

A native of Bedford County, Virginia, she wasborn July 4, 1904, one of the thirteen children ofDr. Samuel L. Rucker and Elizabeth Phelps. Shewas a graduate of Farmville Teachers College inFarmville, VA and a former art teacher atAppalachian State Teachers College.

Elizabeth attended the First Baptist Church inBoone. She was buried at Mountlawn MemorialPark and Gardens in Boone.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law,Dr. Bill and Pauline Williams of Charlotte; agrandson, Joseph Allen Williams of Raleigh; agranddaughter, Jennifer Lynn Williams Gaeto ofColumbia, SC; a brother, Dr. Richard A. Ruckerof Bedford, VA, and her sister-in-law, Mrs.Ernestine Hagaman of Lenoir.

Article from Watauga Democrat, Boone, NC, 27Dec 1999, submitted by her niece Linda R.Hubbard of Bethesda, MD.

Her line of descent: Dr. Samuel7 Leonidas ("Dr.Sam") Rucker (Joseph6 H., Anthony5, Ambrose4

Jr., Ambrose3, John2, Peter1).

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IN MEMORIAM-con't

JOHN ("JACK") RUCKER JONES wasborn May 9, 1914 in Arlington, Virginia, and diedJanuary 29, 2000, age 85. A prominent real estatedeveloper and business leader in NorthernVirginia, Jack was president of George H. RuckerReal Estate Company of Arlington and a partnerwith his brother, Ashton C. Jones, Jr., in Jones &Jones, a regional real estate company.

Jack began his business career in 1936 with hisfamily's business, Rucker Company, an Arlingtonreal estate, insurance and mortgage company. Hewas involved with many commercial enterprisesserving as board member of Peoples LifeInsurance Co. and Capital Holdings Company ofLouisville, KY and as board member and chairmanof First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. ofArlington, and Continental Federal Savings Bankof Fairfax.

He was a founding member of Westover BaptistChurch of Arlington in 1940 and active in churchleadership and education there for many years. Heserved as president of Mount Vernon BaptistAssociation, as a member of the General Councilof the Baptist World Alliance and chairman of theCouncil's Budget Committee. He traveled abroadextensively in promotion of the goals of BaptistWorld Alliance.

Jack's contribution to educational institutions andorganizations included board membership andchairmanship of Fork Union Military Academyfrom 1954 to 1974, and A Presidential Classroomfor Young Americans, of which organization hewas co-founder in 1968.

His other community services includedmembership and presidency of Arlington RotaryClub, in which he was a founder of the ArlingtonRotary Educational Foundation in 1958; board oftrustees Children's Home Society of Virginia inRichmond; member of the National Trust forHistoric Preservation, Woodlawn/Leighy Council;board of trustees Virginia Baptist Home for theElderly, in Culpeper; member Executive

Committee Arlington Health and Welfare Council;and board of Arlington Hospital from 1963 to1977.

Jack is survived by his wife, the former Helen PeckMcClaugherty, who lives in Arlington; a son JohnRucker Jones Jr. of Falls Church; a daughterHarriet Allen Jones Rucker of Peoria, IL; andthree grandchildren, Rebecca and Andrew Jones ofFalls Church and Derek Rucker of Minneapolis,MN.

Jack died at Powatan Nursing Home in FallsChurch (Fairfax County) Virginia. He is interred atColumbia Gardens, Arlington, VA.

(Submitted by son-in-law, Michael P. Rucker ofPeoria, IL. You may want to see the article Mikewrote on George H. Rucker Realty Co. which, ofcourse, included Jack. RFSN, Vol 2, No.2.)

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FIRST RUCKER BORN IN 2000

Congratulations to Sadi" Jean Lewis who wasborn January 16, 2000. Her line of descent isthrough: Benjamin10 Jacob Lewis, Penny9 DianeVail, Margaret8 Lorraine Pannell, Harriet7 VerendaClark, Margaret6 Elizabeth Rucker, William5

Taliaferro, William4, John3, Thomas2, Peter1.

Submitted by her great-grandmother, LorraineVail of Bakersfield, California.

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CORRECTION

There is an error in the Rucker Family SocietyNewsletter Vol 10, No 4, Dec 1999 page 37 in thearticle of OPAL AND CECIL LEON COX 50THWEDDING ANNIVERSARY, Joyce Hoey waslisted as a granddaughter. This should be ChrystalHoey, not Joyce. Submitted by Cecillia COXOstermeyer.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ROBERT ELZY RUCKER:NEW DISCOVERY!

In Sudie Rucker Wood's The Rucker FamilyGenealogy, p.297, there is a marriage listing for aRobert Rucker that we have not been able toidentify.

Actually the listing is only partially correct, as it isin two parts:=Robert Rucker, m. Oct. 9, 1806 Sallie Graves,Culpeper Co., Va.=Richard Rucker, m. Sallie Gaines, daughter ofRichard, Culpeper Co.

The correct listing is:"Robert Rucker, m. 9 Oct 1806, to Sallie Gaines,daughter of Richard, in Culpeper Co., VA."

But who was Robert Rucker? There were noRobert Ruckers in early Rucker genealogy.

In 1998, Stephanie Routon Tayloe of Buchanan,Tennessee sent me a large packet of papers. Inthose papers was a document from Joseph B.Rucker of Rutherford Co., TN giving Power ofAttorney to James Acklen to sell a tract of land inBuckingham County, Virginia that he owned withother heirs.

"I have lawful right to sell said land, having cometo me from my mother, Sarah Gaines, the first wifeof Robert Elzy Rucker, both deceased and beingthe only heir of said Union."

Elzy Rucker, son of Joel4 (John3, Thomas2,Peter1), is listed in Wood, p. 181. Now we know hewas Robert Elzy Rucker, married twice, 1st toSallie Gaines, 2nd to Mary Burton.

Note from Stephanie: I said it before and will sayit again You make us do our homework!

Write to me: Stephanie Routon Tayloe, 510Hickory Drive, Buchanan, TN 38222.E-mail <sata@compu.net>

THE INFAMOUS DR. RUCKER

The following article was submitted by LindaRucker Hubbard of Bethesda, MD.

James Lewis Downey was a speaker at a chapterof the United daughters of the Confederacy at itsSeptember meeting in 1996. An article appeared inThe Covington Virginian newspaper. At themeeting he told of local legends, one being abouta Dr. Rucker who was a Union spy.

Just east of Island Ford Bridge, near a large springwas Steele's Tavern run by Pence Steele. Duringthe War Between the States, Steele was a secretUnion sympathizer and used his tavern as a stationin the Underground Railroad. "Guests" wouldarrive with negro servants and other "guests"would depart for West Virginia with them.

Dr. Rucker would visit families as their doctor andengage them in conversation about their families inservice, their cattle and other valuable propertyand convey that information to the enemy.

It was at Steele's Tavern that Dr. Rucker wasreputed to have killed a man who discoveredRucker was Union spy. A grand jury indictedRucker. However, he jumped bail and fled to WestVirginia and was not re-captured. He returnedwith Crooke's troops and helped them burn thebridge at Griffith.

This, of course, was the infamous Dr. WilliamParks Rucker (Clifton6 H., Ambrose5, Reuben4,Ambrose3, John2, Peter1), born 9 Nov 1831,Lynchburg, VA, died 3 Jan 1905, Lewisburg, WV,at age 73.

For more information about Dr. Rucker, see theJournal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Vol.Ill, No. 4, 1978. It said: After the war, he settledin Lewisburg, West Virginia. "Having beendisabled to such an extent as to prevent him fromagain entering actively into the practice ofmedicine, he took up the law, serving for twoyears as prosecuting attorney of Greenbrier countyand two years in Pocahontas."

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KENTUCKY OBITUARIESSubmitted by Ron Payne

The following data was obtained from "KentuckyObituaries, 1787-1854," compiled by G. GlennCM.

John Rucker, Sr., of Fayette County, died 23 Apr1814, aged "62 years or upwards." [Lexington]"Kentucky Gazette," 2 May 1814 edition.

The "Lexington Kentucky Observer andReporter," 22 Aug 1833 edition, published a list ofresidents who died from cholera between 1 Junand 1 Aug 1833. Included in that list were "BarnetRucker and wife".

Mrs. Caroline Rucker, consort of L. E. Rucker, ofWoodford County, died in Dec 1816. "The[Lexington] Kentucky Reporter," 25 Dec 1816edition.

Mrs. Margaret Rucker, consort of Lewis Rucker,of Georgetown, and daughter of MichaelGoddard, died 18 Jan 1836. "Lexington KentuckyObserver and Reporter," 20 Jan 1836 edition.

Mr. T. T. Rucker of Lancaster, died 8 Jan 1836."Lexington Kentucky Observer and Reporter," 20Jan 1836 edition.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Our next Rucker Reunion will be held in Williamsburg, Virginia, October 13-15, 2000. We will have ameeting Saturday morning and will visit Jamestown Island, site of Peter Rucker's arrival in America, in theafternoon. This will be the 300th Anniversary of his arrival and I hope you will attend this exciting conferenceCheck out the Jamestown web site as it tells about the fabulous excavations there: http://www.apva.org/.

For hotel reservations, contact the Radisson Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center, P. O. Box 3050,Williamsburg, VA 23185, 1-757-220-2250, 1-800-333-3333. Please mention the name "Rucker" when youmake your reservation to get our special rate of $100 per room, plus tax.

A second motel, nearby, is holding rooms under the name Rucker. The price is $50.00 a night. QuarterpathInn, 620 York Street, Route 60 East, Williamsburg, VA 23185 800-446-9222. They also have a web site:http://www.quarterpathinn.com/. We always offer cheaper rooms nearby, but most of the events will be heldat the Fort Magruder Inn.

The story of Becky Edmondson's Rucker t-shirt on page 5 was reminiscent of the Rucker Reunion we hadin 1990 at Amherst Co., Virginia. The t-shirts, made by Ralph Smith (whose wife Faye is a Rucker) were alsobright yellow and were pictured in Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1990, p. 5. They must have been very much like theones worn for the 1992 reunion in Nashville. Sorry we couldn't have joined forces for an earlier reunion, buthope Becky's family will join us in Williamsburg.

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PRESIDENTJean B. Robinson304 Charmian RoadRichmond, VA 23226

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED 01 176Mrs. Alice J. Rucker13331 GridleySt.Sylmar, CA 91342-4529