. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ucker, the father of our subject, was anative of Luray,- Rockingham County, W. Va.,where he lived on a farm for many years. Healso built boats and rafted lumber down the 1855 he moved to Greene County, Ohio,where he bought a farm and lived until March,1873. Selling out his Ohio possessions, he start-ed for Missouri in the
. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ucker, the father of our subject, was anative of Luray,- Rockingham County, W. Va.,where he lived on a farm for many years. Healso built boats and rafted lumber down the 1855 he moved to Greene County, Ohio,where he bought a farm and lived until March,1873. Selling out his Ohio possessions, he start-ed for Missouri in the year last mentioned andsettled on eighty acres of land which he had pre-viously bought in this county. The place wasin what was known as the Gallahar Addition toWarrensburg, and there he continued to resideuntil his death, which occurred in 1887. He wasprominent in that locality. His widow lived inWarrensburg until her demise, September 23,1893. Her maiden name was Mary J. Smith, andher birth occurred in the same county as that ofher husband. She was one of eight children,only three of whom are now living: William, Jef-ferson and Mrs. Cheek, all large land-owners andfarmers of Pike County, 111. The father had twobrothers: Ambrose, a farmer in California; and. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 303 Smith, who is a farmer and stock-raiser in Iowa;and three sisters, Julia, Peach} and Mary, wholive in Illinois. At the time of his death, JohnRucker was the owner of eleven hundred acresof valuable farm land in this county. Clinton J. Rucker, who was born near Xenia,Ohio, on a farm, March 11, 1857, is the fourth ina family of ten children. The others are as fol-lows: Mary, the wife of Jesse T. Ellis, a mer-chant of Arrowsmith, 111.; Sarah, wife of John , a machinist of Grand Rapids, Mich.;Jennie, who married Dr. Alexander Smith, now ofPottersburg, Union County, Ohio; William, whofirst married MarjWatkins, of Pike County, 111.,and after her death was married, in Kansas City,
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