Rucker, Ludwell E.

Born: 1808-XX-XX Kentucky

Flourished: Bloomington, Illinois

Rucker settled in McLean County, Illinois, by 1835. In 1850, he was living with his wife and children in Bloomington, where he was a city constable and owned $2,000 in real estate. In 1860, he was a deputy sheriff in Bloomington, and he owned $3,800 in real and personal property.

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, McLean County, 236:110, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Bloomington, McLean County, IL, 8; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 1, Bloomington, McLean County, IL, 135; E. Duis, The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois (Bloomington, IL: Leader, 1874), 318.