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IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
WILLIAM RHULE
William Rhule had been a resident of northwestern Iowa for more than four
decades when he departed this life on the 13th of February, 1923, in the
eighty-eighth year of his age, and had devoted his attention to agricultural
pursuits with excellent success throughout his active career. His birth occurred
in Perry county, Pennsylvania, on the 30th of August, 1835, his parents being
Jacob and Margaret (Cunningham) Rhule, the former a native of Holland, while
the latter was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and came of
German-Irish lineage.
William Rhule acquired a common school education in his youth and remained a
resident of the Keystone state until forty-six years of age. It was in 1881
that he removed to Sac county, Iowa, where he remained for three years,
while from 1884 until 1892 he lived within the borders of Ida county, this state.
He then returned to Sac county, where he continued to reside for thirty-one
years or until called to his final rest. As above indicated, Mr. Rhule was
actively engaged in farming pursuits during his business career, and his well
directed labors brought him a competence that enabled him to spend the
evening of life in honorable retirement at Odebolt, Sac county.
On the 15th of January, 1863, at Landisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Rhule was
united in marriage to Delilah V. Cree, who was there born on the 8th of June,
1840. Her parents, Samuel and Ann (Brandt) Cree, where likewise natives of the
Keystone state, the former born at Landisburg in 1815 and the latter at
Millerstown in 1814. Mrs. Delilah V. (Cree) Rhule was a descendant of Jacob
Wagner, who emigrated from Germany to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1732, and who saw service in the Revolutionary war together with several sons.
Mr. and Mrs. William Rhule reared a family of three sons and three
daughters, as follows: Charles, who resides at Wickes, Montana; Anna, the wife of Abner L. Chandler, of Odebolt, Iowa; Laura A., who is the wife of W. T. Lynch and makes her home at Ida Grove, this state; Scott, who wedded Mildred Petersen and resides at Odebolt, Iowa; Harry, who married Mae Heiberger and who lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Mary, the wife of Charles Collenbaugh, of Odebolt, Iowa. The father of the above named gave his political support to the republican party and was widely recognized as one of the representative and highly esteemed citizens as well as substantial agriculturists of this part of the
state. His life was an upright and honorable one in every relation and his death brought a sense of bereavement not only to the members of his immediate family but also to an extensive circle of friends.
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