Balser Ruble/Mary Dorothy Surber

Husband: William Balser Ruble

Born: c. 1751 at: , , Germany Married: 25 JUN 1793 at: , , Virginia Died: 1848 at: Clay, Highland, Ohio Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

Wife: Mary Dorothy Surber

Born: at: Died: at: Father: Jacob Surber Mother: Catherine Haller Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Name: Maria Magdalena Ruble Bapt: 30 AUG 1795 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Died: young at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia

Name: Catharina Ruble Bapt: 16 APR 1794 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:

Name: Magdalena Ruble Bapt: 14 JAN 1797 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Died: young at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia

Name: Johannes Ruble Bapt: 5 AUG 1798 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:

Name: Magdalena Ruble Bapt: 30 DEC 1799 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:

Name: Jacob Ruble Bapt: 17 DEC 1801 at: Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia¹ Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:

Name: Polly Ruble (Lydia?) Born: Af 1801 at: Married: at: Died: Bf 1858 at: Spouses: Jacob Coffman

Name: Dolly Ruble Born: 1804 at: , , Tennessee Married: 23 JUN 1832 at: Liberty, Highland, Ohio Died: 1 OCT 1886 at: Eagle, Brown, Ohio Spouses: Peter Overstake

Name: John Ruble Born: 1805 at: Knoxville, , Tennessee Married: 6 NOV 1823 at: Died: 1845 at: Spouses: Sarah Coffman

Name: Henry I Ruble Born: 14 JUN 1806 at: Knoxville, , Tennessee Married: at: Died: 3 FEB 1893 at: Clay, Highland, Ohio Spouses: Elizabeth Overstake

Name: George W Ruble Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Nancy

Name: Mary Ruble Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Joseph Mock

Other children named are Elizabeth, Sally, Motlane, Lydia.

SOURCES:

1 Baptismal records, Lutheran and Reformed Zion-Pine Church, Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia children of Balzer(Balthasar) & Dorothea Rubel

NOTES:

Balser Ruble was born in Germany. He and his parents came to Virginia, but apparently had ties in Germantown, PA. He was a stone mason.
    He married Dorothy Surber, daughter of Jacob Surber and Catherine Haller. Early 1800's, the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. Soon they moved on to Highland county, Ohio, where they settled. In Virginia, the Ruble and Coffman families were interelated, and Coffmans also came to Ohio.
    Balser lived to be 97, Dorothy 93. I don't pretend to know much about the family; the list of children above is tentative. More research is needed.
    Here are the surviving children according to Duane Borden: John, Henry, George, Jackson, Katie, Betsy, Dollie, Sally, Pollie.
    Here are the children named in Balser's will, 19 Sep 1848: "John Ruble heirs", Henry, George W., William J., Catharine, Elizabeth, Dolly, Sally, Mary, Motlane, Lydia.
    The sons are not difficult. I imagine that William J. is Jackson and may be Jacob, b. 1801 VA. Was John, b. 1805 TN, actually Johannes, b. 1798 VA?
    The problem is the daughters: Duane lists 5, the will 7.

Mary married Joseph Mock. I imagine that Motlane is Magdalena, b. 1799 VA.
So was Lydia nicknamed Polly?

It is thanks to F C Ruble, who submitted records to Dee Pavey's Family Records site, that we can connect Balser Ruble to Polly (Coffman) Wamsley.

A law suit was filed March 1858 naming Jackson Ruble et al. as defendants and identified as "children and heirs of Balser Ruble, dec'd late of Highland County, Ohio."
Et al. includes "The children of Polly Coffman, dec'd., late Ruble:
Jacob Coffman, Jr. and Polly, late Coffman, the wife of Asbury Wamsley, all of the Territory of Kansas; Samuel, John, Philip, and George Coffman."

__Jerise

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