Ruble, Jacob

Born: 1773-09-15 Pennsylvania

Died: 1813-11-08

Ruble moved from his native state to Jonesboro, Tennessee after the American Revolution. When the War of 1812 began, he and his son Jesse enlisted in the army. Jacob was killed in battle near Lake Erie.

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; Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, ed., A Genealogical History of the Rubel, White, Rockfellow, McNair and Allied Families (Baltimore: Gateway, 1977), 68.