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Welcome! I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR, 97005 USA
This is my personal genealogy hobby site. The data contained
here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Although some of
it is my research, most of it has been shared with me.
DISCLAIMER: This is my speculative data. I've
verified very little of it. Use it for hints and pointers,
but do your own research!
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Father: John Rutledge
Mother: Maria Rose
WIFE
Born: 15 May 1832
Died: Aug 1892
Father: Elias Octavius Ball
Mother: Amelia Waring
CHILDREN
Name: Amelia Waring Rutledge
Born: Abt 1854
Died:
Name: John Rutledge
Born: Abt 1856
Died: Abt 1857
Name: Hugh Rose Rutledge
Born: Abt 1859
Died: Abt 1861
Born: 12 Oct 1860
Died:
Wife: Mary Zeilan
Name: Maria Rose Rutledge
Born: 27 Jun 1862
Died:
Name: Catherine Waring Rutledge
Born: 23 Apr 1864
Died:
Name: Susan Rose Rutledge
Born: 21 Jun 1866
Died:
Born: 19 Apr 1870
Died:
Wife: Edith Taylor
NOTES
1). John Rutledge s great grandson, Dr. Hugh Rose Rutledge, h ad served as a surgeon in the Mexican American War, so h e realized what war was all about, says descendant Jim Rut ledge of Columbia. When war came to Charleston, Hugh Rutledge gathered his fam ily and headed north, to Brevard, N.C. Jim Rutledge said he s not sure how Hugh, his wife Amelia and their children tr aveled, but they could have taken a train to Greenville. Th e railroad had just been built, shortening travel time fro m Charleston to two days. Wagon trips took several days, sa ys Furman University history professor A.V. Huff. If they had come by train, the family would have stepped of f at the passenger depot on the Augusta Road, near Vardry S treet. From Greenville, they would have made their way by w agon to Brevard along a new route cut through the western N orth Carolina mountains. The winters in Brevard must have been harsh, Jim Rutledge s ays, for three of Hugh and Amelia Rutledge s children die d there and are buried in a graveyard in nearby Dunns Rock . And Brevard was not as safe as the family might have hope d. The Union army was headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., an d made frequent raids through western North Carolina, Huf f says. For whatever reason, the Rutledges left Brevard and came ba ck to Greenville. Here, Huff says, they would have had plen ty of hometown company. During the war, Greenville was floo ded with Lowcountry refugees, especially after Union ship s in the harbor began pounding the port city with cannon fi re. It went on for 587 days, and in 1865, Charleston surren dered. In Greenville, Huff says, people were camped out everywher e. The wounded arrived regularly by train, and many of Gre enville s residents were involved in relief work. Greenville in those days was basically a little village hu ddled around Main Street, Huff says. But the war had changed the rhythm of life in the rural tow n, he writes in Greenville The History of the City and th e County in the South Carolina Piedmont. Local textile mil ls manufactured goods for the Confederate army. The Main Street carriage factory, Gower, Cox & Gower, furni shed its entire output of wagons to the Confederacy. And a t Furman University, so many students volunteered for servi ce that commencement exercises were canceled in 1861, Huf f reports. Still, the town was relatively safe from Union attack, an d refugees could get news from home via the Charleston news paper, which arrived by train. Rutledge settled his family here and returned to Charlesto n to serve as a doctor in the Confederate army, says Jim Ru tledge, the physician s great grandson. When the war ended, most of the refugees returned home. Bu t Hugh Rutledge remained in Greenville, practicing medicin e here and in Brevard. In later years, his office was at th e corner of McBee and Academy streets, Jim Rutledge said. D r. Rutledge was a vestryman at Christ Church Episcopal, whe re descendants still worship. Hugh Rutledge died in 1915. R utledge, his wife and children are buried in the Christ Chu rch churchyard. Their lives brought the family to the Upsta te and saw the Constitution s greatest challenge.
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