Re: looking for some info on ruley any would be help full
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Re: looking for some info on ruley any would be help full
Danielle Jordan 8/15/04
I have been digging back into my materials.I'm sorry it has taken so long to get back to work on this.As you have heard from at least one other person.Lysander Ruley (b. 1/24/1845 in Simpson Co., KY, d. 10/03/1930 in Mt. Carmel Illinois) and Armilda Adkins ( b. 4/26/1866 in Butler Co., KY and d. 1936 in Mt. Carmel, IL)were the parents of Vada Pearl Ruley, the youngest of 10 children.Lysander had a twin, Leander Ruley.According to recorders from a Shaker Colony in KY, Lysander worked as a manager at the colony.During the Civil War, he took some of the horses further North because they were being acquisitioned by both Union and Confederate forces.While he worked at the colony, he met Armilda Adkins.She, according to my grandmother (Willie Treva Layne Jordan), convinced him to leave and to marry since men and women were not allowed to live together within Shaker colonies.It's no wonder they have become extinct.Vada was actually married three times.In my previous posting, I indicated that she was married twice.The first marriage was to Elbert Gidcomb, the second to Joe Birkla, and the third to an unknown Moudy.She lived in Mt. Carmel, IL and operated a general store there.My grandmother spent considerable time there.After the death of my grandmother's parents (by the time she was three) she lived with her Grandmother and Grandfather Ruley.Thayla Eunice Layne Thompson, Willie Treva Layne Jordan, and Elvis Layne were raised byLysander and Armilda Ruley, who moved to Mt. Carmel from Leetown, KY.Aunt Vada's siblings were Lorenzo Ruley, Euclid Ruley, Robert Emmett Ruley, Lottie Ruley, Ollie Ruley, Alpha Ruley, Minnie Ruley, Ellington Ruley, and Zuenglish Plutarch "Plu" Ruley.Many of them lived and died in Butler Co., KY, while others went to Mt. CArmel and otherplaces such as Texas.I still cannot find the pictures that I had.I think some of them have to be the ones that were so deteriorated after getting them from boxes from Grandmother's house after she died.
If I might be of further assistance, please let me know.
Danielle