VI. Benjamin T. RUE, born circa 1786, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; married Elizabeth YATES. A patent dated 30 June 1822 granted to Benjamin T. Rue, described as "of Fayetette County, Indiana," 80 acres in "the East half of the South West quarter of section fourteen in Township fourteen of Range seven, in the District of Brookville and State of Indiana ," under the seal of President James Monroe.
Land patent of Benjamin T. Rue of Fayette County, Indiana
Benjamin and Elizabeth appear in the 1850 federal population schedule, residing in Gratiot Township, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Benjamin is called Benjamin, "Jr." in several deeds between 1806 and 1810, perhaps to distinguish him from his uncle Benjamin, who lived at Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio.
With his occupation as "carriage maker," Benjamin's birthplace (at age 64) is listed in the 1850 census as Pennsylvania and Elizabeth's (age 66) as Massachusetts. Living with them at this time was 35 year-old Tryphosa (who appeared years later in the households of Francis RUE and then Norvel RUE, in Cherokee County, Kansas in 1875 and 1880). The death certificate of Eliza Martha RUE (below), said to have died at age 99 years, 11 months and 17 days, gives her mother's maiden name as YATES, and her nativity as "supposed Philadelphia." Eliza's son-in-law, Ambrose Snyder, is listed as the informant.
Benjamin T. and Elizabeth RUE had the following known children:
1. Eliza Martha RUE, b. 28 November 1812 in Lebanon, Ohio; married Israel STONE; died of "old age" on 28 November 1912 in South Dakota. To them were born the following children:
a. Orrin STONE, born circa 1826 in Indiana
b. Elon STONE, born circa 1830 in Indiana
c. Annie STONE, born circa 1837 in Illinois
d. Lewis STONE, born circa 1842 in Illinois
e. Simon B. STONE, born circa 1844 in Illinois
f. Daniel STONE, born circa 1846 in Illinois
g. Tryphosa STONE, born circa 1850, married Ambrose Anderson SNIDER, who had:
I. Charles Lewis Snyder
1. Helen E. Snyder, married a Mr. TUCKER.
2. Tryphosa RUE, born circa 1815 in Lebanon, Ohio.
3. Francis C. RUE, born circa 1816, believed in Frankfort County, Kentucky, Kentucky; married Eleanor before 1839; died after 1875 in Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas.
Along this line, Helen E. TUCKER of Spokane Washington documented her own RUE ancestral lines, connected through BLOOD and STONE family branches. In a letter to me dated 6 February 1983, Mrs. Tucker, granddaughter of Tryphosa Rue STONE and gg-granddaughter of Benjamin RUE, wrote: "Benjamin Rue's son Benjamin died in Lebanon in 1821. I sent for a copy of the will but the Clerk of the Probate Court says he died intestate and sent a copy of the appointment of administrators. From the copy, it says nothing to prove one way or another that it wasn't Benjamin Rue I who died then. The D.A.R. papers said he died in 1820. I wrote back to Mr. [Marion] Snyder and told him of the Benjamin T. Rue that I found in all the censuses living beside by gr. grandmother or rather my gr. grandfather, and also that my gr. grandmother was born in Lebanon, Ohio in 1812 and that her father so that she said was Benjamin Rue. I asked if there were cousins or other families there who could be involved. She certainly fits in the Benjamin Rue, Sr. household in the 1820 census. It was almost a year ago that I wrote that information to Mr. Snyder and he never has answered. It bothers me and I have been trying to think of some way to prove it one way or another. I don't know if he thought that I was contradicting him or what. I thought that I was being diplomatic. You can see in Mr. Lundeberg's letter that he says Mr. Snyder's article in the Lebanon Star is a little confusing. Maybe Mr. Snyder is a little confused. Anyway, I would surely like to get it settled one way or another if Benjamin T. Rue is the son of Benjamin Rue I or related in some other way." [Reference: "Memory Lane features Cross Keys Tavern," by Marion Snyder, The Lebanon Star, 11 October 1980, pp. 2-3.]
A decade later, William Utermohlen, Esq. of Alexandria, Virginia (a descendant of Richard RUE of Bucks County) stated that Benjamin T. RUE was not the son of Capt. Benjamin RUE, but of Lewis RUE, citing research of Helen Tucker among his sources. In an e-mail to me dated 11 July 1997, Mr. Utermohlen addressed the differences in the data which Mrs. Tucker's provided to me in 1983 before the benefit of another decade of research, most particularly the paternity of Benjamin T. RUE:
I corresponded with Helen Tucker between April and September 1992. She provided me with a great deal of useful information. I last heard from her on 29 September 1992...
It will take more time than I have available just at the moment to definitively answer your question about the strength of the identification of Lewis Rue as the father of Benjamin T. Rue, although I don't recall there being any real doubt about it. Lewis and Christiana were married, of course, and Captain Benjamin Rue's son can be shown to have been a Benjamin S. Rue.
"It is solid gold. it was made out of your great great grandmother Bloods earings that came here from England. your Grand Father Rues mothers mother. It will go to Billie when you are through with it." [sic]
