Jonathan Ruble (1774 - 1811)

Born 1774 in Washington County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Teagarden) Ruble — married 10 Jun 1797 in Shelby County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died 1811 at about age 37 in Belmont, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Birth

Date: 1774

Place: Washington County, Pennsylvania

Death

Date: 1811

Place: Belmont County, Ohio

Note

History of the Wabash District Baptist Association

The Wabash District Baptist Association was organized on the second Friday in July, 1809, by messengers from five pioneer churches in southwest Indiana, viz., Bethel (1806), Wabash, Salem (1808), Maria Creek (1809) and Patoka. It was the first Baptist Association in what is now the State of Indiana. The ministers among them, at first, were Elders Samuel Jones, Alexander Devin, James Martin, and licensed brethren Isaac McCoy, Stephen Strickland, and Jonathan Ruble. The Association grew rapidly, as new churches were organized, for the first three years, but some were scattered by danger from the Indians during the War of 1812. These churches were established on principles typical of Baptist beliefs prior to the introduction of the mission system.

Was the executor of his father's will.

Jonathan apparently lived near Louisville, Kentucky and had returned to Pennsylvania to help settle his father's estate. He stopped in Ohio at his brother David's where he died. While he was gone, Hannah was preparing the house for a move to Indiana where Jonathan was going to have be a minister.

The probate proceedings for Jonthan started December 24, 1811 in Knox County, Indiana. At the first court proceeding on that date, the widow Hannah Ruble and William Poke, a representative of the probate court, were appointed as administrators of the estate of the deceased Jonathan Ruble to be completed by June 24, 1812. The inventory was actually complete January 7, 1812 and a public auction washeld the next day.

The final settlements on Jonathan's estate was October 6, 1814, at which time a payment was made to a Thomas McClure, noted as guardian of Jacob Ruble and Jonathan Ruble.

Inventory of the goods and chattels Rights and Credits of Jonathan Ruble

deceased State of Palmyra Township Knox County Indiana Territory as appraised

on the 7th Day of January 1812

ITEM APPRAISED

One waggon, waggon cover, two blind bridles $61.50

Two pair shears & blind bridles $10.00

One man shear plough $3.33

Cupboard Furniture $15.00

One small bed & cover $2.50

Three beds & (?) $2.00

One bed & furniture $6.00

One bed & furniture $25.00

One bed & furniture $25.00

Three old bed covers $2.00

One gun & shot pouch $10.00

One chest $2.50

One small box $0.25

One table & two chairs $3.00

One looking glass $1.00

One pair shillards $1.00

One pair smoothing irons $1.50

One shoemaker tools & belt $1.50

Two set wheel irons & treadle spikes $2.50

Old horseshoes $2.00

One slate $0.75

2 pot trivets & five tongs $1.00

Two small dutch ovens, one pot & skillet $2.00

One pot & hooks, kettle & bale & griddle $6.00

Drawing knife, handsaw & airgun (?) $2.00

Sundry Tools plains $2.50

Turning tools $4.00

Turning Wheel & tools $5.00

Smoothing plain $0.75

Sundry Old Barrels, churn, washtub & kegs $2.50

Sickle, Lock (?), & Sundry old iorns $1.25

Old saddle $2.00

Womens saddle & bridle $8.00

Spinning Wheel $2.00

Four old bags $1.00

Two axes, shovel, sprouting hoe, weed n hoe $6.00

One loom $8.00

Log chain, two chisel link & iron wedge $3.33

Double tree irons $0.50

Two pair old Chands candlesticks & snuffers $0.50

Bucks Theological Dictionary 2 volumes $5.00

Miltons Paradise Lost $1.00

Pocket Dictionary, bible, & 3 hymn books $2.50

One red cow with white face $10.00

Three small heifers & bull $10.00

9 hogs & 16 shoats $26.00

Brown mare with one eye out $20.00

Dark Bay horse & belt $35.00

Brown mare one eye out $70.00

Crop of corn in heap $37.50

Wheat in ground $5.00

Two blade stocks $2.50

Razor & Bag $0.25

One scythe $0.75

Curry Comb $0.25

Wearing Apparel $6.00

Stretchers $1.50

Powder & lead $1.75

Wheat threshed & clean $1.50

Salt $1.50

Seasoned timber for wheels & chairs $3.00

One (?) bridle $0.25

Total Amount $476.41

An Inventory of the goods & chattels of Jonathan Ruble

Deceased sold at publick action on the 8th of Jan 1812

ITEM Sold PURCHASER

Shelf & Furniture $15.00 Widow Ruble

Table & two chairs $3.00 Widow Ruble

Two chests $2.75 Widow Ruble

Bed & Furniture $12.00 Widow Ruble

Bed & Furniture $25.00 Widow Ruble

Two beds $12.00 Widow Ruble

2 smoothing irons $1.50 Widow Ruble

Pair Stillards $1.50 William Bruce

2 pots, trammels & pair tongs $2.17 Widow Ruble

Wearing apparrell of the decsd $6.00 Widow Ruble

Looking Glass $1.17 Widow Ruble

Gun, shotbag & powder $11.00 Widow Ruble

2 ovens, pot & skillet $3.00 Widow Ruble

Box of old irons $2.00 Widow Ruble

Horse shoes $2.25 William Polke Esq

2 pair old card candlesticks & snuffers $1.50 Widow Ruble

Slate $0.87 John Battles

Man saddle $4.00 Maj. Noah Purcel

2 pair hipstrops $1.13 Robert Elliott

Weavers loom $8.00 Widow Ruble

Washing tub 2 barrels churn & cage $3.50 Widow Ruble

Pot, kettle & griddle $7.50 Widow Ruble

Carpenter tools $3.58 Widow Ruble

Sythe & old irons $0.75 Widow Ruble

3 plains $2.50 Robert Elliott

Womans saddle $8.00 Widow Ruble

Pocket compass $5.25 William Polke Esq

Blasten (?) 2 stacks $2.00 Widow Ruble

Parcel of corn $36.00 Widow Ruble

4 bags with some wheat $3.50 Widow Ruble

Flax Wheel $4.50 Maj. Noah Purcel

Turning tools $20.00 Widow Ruble

2 sets of wheel iorns & triddle spikes $1.00 Widow Ruble

Quanity of wheel timber $1.00 Widow Ruble

2 Volumes of Bucks Theological Dictionaries $5.00 William Polke Esq

3 reeds & 3 weaving (?) $2.00 Widow Ruble

Miltons Paradise Lost $1.52 Edmond Liston

Bible, 3 hymn books & pocket dictionary $4.00 Widow Ruble

Spade $0.50 Maj. Noah Purcel

2 hoes 2 axes & sprouting $5.50 Widow Ruble

Lock chain & iron wedge $4.25 Widow Ruble

2 pair of drawing chains & 2 bridle $10.00 Widow Ruble

2 Chisels link & double trees $2.20 Widow Ruble

1 Barshare plow $8.00 Widow Ruble

Whiteface cow $9.50 Widow Ruble

2 heffer $5.00 Widow Ruble

Whiteface heffer $3.50 Maj. Noah Purcel

Small bull $6.00 Martin Rose

25 head of hogs $22.40 Widow Ruble

Young mare $14.00 Widow Ruble

1 horse & bridle $30.00 Widow Ruble

1 mare $41.00 Widow Ruble

Wagon $5.64 Jonathan Welton

Head Girth of a wagon $11.25 Joseph Chambers

Blind bridle & curry comb $0.40 Jonathan Welton

Pair of spreders $2.25 Joseph Callies

Wagon Cover $2.00 Maj. Noah Purce

According to the 1820 Federal Census, Hannah was living in Palmyra, Knox County, Indiana with three boys and one girl. One boy was under age ten, one boy and one girl were between ten and sixteen and one boy was between sixteen and twenty-six.

Sources

• Shelby County Kentucky Deeds: Isaac Malin to Jonh Ruble, 92 ac, Gists,27 Aug 1797; R. Stephens to Jonathan Ruble, 200 ac, 7 Mar 1803, Bk E,436; D. McCleland to John Rupell, Clear,1 Jan 1807