Ruble, Jesse

Born: 1798-12-11 Washington County, Tennessee

Died: 1871-08-01 Sangamon County, Illinois

Son of Jacob Ruble, Jesse Ruble served alongside his father in the War of 1812. Unlike his father, Jesse survived the war, receiving his discharge in August 1817. After leaving the army, he moved to Illinois, settling in Morgan County in the spring of 1820. He began to purchase land, eventually acquiring a farm of 520 acres near Jacksonville. During the Winnebago War of 1827, Ruble served as orderly sergeant in Captain Wiley B. Green's company. Ruble continued to farm his land in Morgan County until the late 1840s or early 1850s, when he sold his Morgan County farm and moved to Sangamon County. He purchased a 200 acre farm near New Berlin, where he resided the rest of his life. Ruble married three times: his first wife was Mary Matthews, with whom he had two children. In January 1834, he wed Catharine Robertson, who bore him one child. In May 1836, he married Mary Butler, with whom he had one child. In 1860, he was farming in Sangamon County and owned real estate valued at $12,000 and had a personal estate of $7,200.

Gravestone, Wood Wreath Cemetery, New Berlin, IL; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Morgan County, 68:3, 7, 48, 79, 83; 819:7, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Morgan County, 14 January 1834; Sangamon County, 12 May 1836, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; P-R, 223, National Archives, Washington, DC; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Sangamon County, IL, 165; Charles M. Eames, comp., Historic Morgan and Classic Jacksonville (Jacksonville, IL: Daily Journal Steam Job Printing, 1885), 11, 31, 47; Portrait and Biographical Album of Morgan and Scott Counties, Ills. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889), 253, 505.