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Colby Rucker (1760 - 1852)

Colby Rucker
Born in Culpepper, Colony of Virginiamap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died at age 91 in Thorn Hill, Grainger, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution
Colby Rucker is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A099474.
1776 Project
Soldier Colby Rucker served with Wilkes County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Colby Rucker was born on 10 Oct 1760 in Culpepper, Colony of Virginia, son of Peter Rucker (1731 - 1775) and Sarah (Wisdom) Rucker (1746 - 1808).

He fought in the American Revolution.

Colby married Sarah Roberts (born in Wilkes, North Carolina in 1764; died in Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1844), daughter of James Roberts.

After the Revolutionary War completed, he lived in North Carolina with his wife and family.

In 1787, he appears in the North Carolina census with two white females.[1] He is in Wilken County. He is also appears in the 1790 Wilkes County census.[2] and 1800 census.

In the 1800 North Carolina census, he has a wife, two sons, and five daughters.[3]

Colby's children were:

  1. Elizabeth (Rucker) Coffey (1787 - 1855)
  2. Margaret L. (Rucker) Coffey (1787 - 1871)
  3. Sarah (Rucker) Hayes (1791 - 1850)
  4. William Rucker (1793 - 1854)
  5. Nancy (Rucker) Payne (1795 - 1877)
  6. Delphia (Rucker) Dalton (1796 - 1849)
  7. John Nelson Rucker (1800 - 1861)
  8. Jane (Rucker) Hayes (1802 - 1867).

In 1805, he first appears in Grainger, Tennessee. He is in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 census records.

His wife dies in 1844. In the 1850 Census, he appears with his son William's family.

Colby died on 20 Jan 1852 in Thorn Hill, Grainger, Tennessee, United States aged 91.[4]

Sources

  1. ↑ North Carolina, State Census, 1784-1787, pg 180.
  2. ↑ 1790 North Carolina Census, Wilkes County, p. 158
  3. ↑ I"United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRW-V9N : accessed 24 February 2023), Colbey Rucker, Morgan, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 61, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 33; FHL microfilm 337,909.
  4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #76147167

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McKinley-2258 Janice McKinley
The Henry Pumphrey pension application tells an interesting tale of the cross county journey of Colby Rucker and Henry Pumpfrey from Mississippi to North Carolina. See Pension application of Henry Pumphrey W8535 Lucy fn111NC in http://revwarapps.org/w8535.pdf also Colby Rucker's pension application at http://revwarapps.org/r9061.pdf which tells a bit about it as well. As I understand it his step-father was a Loyalist, so I guess Colby could not stick around in Mississippi. However, I am also of the opinion that his grandmother might have had Loyalist tendencies as well.

In the 1790 US Census for Wilkes County, NC it looks like he was living quite close to his aunt, Rachel Wisdom Bradley who was married to John Bradley. Perhaps next door to them. It was not far apparently from his grandmother, Ann Collins Wisdom's residence. Unfortunately the 1800 census in alphabetized so you cannot tell who lived nearby.

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Hans Nielsen
Rucker-292 and Rucker-1463 appear to represent the same person because: These are the same person. This match has been proposed before and someone posted it as a rejected match. The purpose of wikitree is to have one profile for a person. Please merge or provide reasoning for rejecting it.
posted on Rucker-1463 (merged) by Hans Nielsen

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