Re: Sarah Cowherd/Peter Rucker
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In reply to:
Sarah Cowherd/Peter Rucker
Janelle Holmes 5/15/00
On page 3, 4 , of Cowherd Genealogy by Edythe Cowherd Newton: James Cowherd 11 and Elizabeth Lacy his wife [ authenic record],; then according to "family tradition" they had a son, Colby, who married Sarah Rucker, and also a daughter, who married Peter Rucker, son of Thomas Rucker, immigrant to Va, in 1700. The last Mentioned couple, Peter and sarah Rucker may have been the couple who sold land in Culpeper, Va. 1775andwere living in Mississippi in 1789.There is a history of the Rucker family by Edythe Rucker Whitley. Ruth W.