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Fifth child of John Painter and his second wife Rachel Redd; granddaughter of John Painter and Susannah Stratton, and of George Redd and Rachel Fawcett. Named after mother's sister, Lydia (Redd) Wood.
Born: 3 February 1817, Perry Township, Richland County, Ohio
Died: 23 February 1898 (age 81), Perry Township, Morrow County, Ohio; buried with husband in Shauck Cemetery, Morrow County, where Adam and Susannah (Painter) Ruhl are buried.
Marriage: Jeremiah “Jerry” Ruhl, 18 September 1834, Richland County, Ohio. Jeremiah, son of George Ruhl and Elizabeth Prosser; born 18 October 1811, York County, Pennsylvania; died 19 November 1873 (age 62), Perry Township, Morrow County, Ohio; buried Shauck Cemetery, Morrow County. (Jeremiah’s brothers Levi and Adam married Lydia’s sisters Miriam and Susannah, respectively.)
Children:
Nine children, of whom three were still living, according to Lydia’s 1880 bio. All born in Bloomfield Township, Richland County, which became in 1848 North Bloomfield Township, Morrow County):
1. Charity Ann: b. 1837; m. 25 Jan 1859, Jacob Singrey; d. 1870-75 (named after mother’s youngest sister; died in Nodaway Co., Missouri)
2. Hannah M.: b. 30 Apr 1838; m. 17 Apr 1856, Daniel Stephens; d. 14 Feb 1869
3. Allen T.: b. 9 Nov 1839; d. 18 Sep 1859
4. Levi R.: b. about 1842; d. before 1880 (and possibly before 1860)
5. Hiram: b. 11 May 1843; m1 13 Sep 1866, Julia Ann Snyder; m2 17 Dec 1893, Elizabeth Ann “Lizzy” Hirth; d. 7 Feb 1909 (only surviving child of Lydia)
6, John: b. 3 Mar 1846; m. 12 Dec 1867, Martha Shenefield; d. 8 Jun 1889
7. Susan: b. 7 Aug 1849; d. 1 Jun 1864
8. George W.: b. 1853; d. 2 Oct 1882
9. Hercules J.: b. 26 Aug 1855; d. 9 Sep 1875
Lydia is the subject of a detailed biographical entry in a history of Morrow County, Ohio. Her reported date of birth is less than 5 months after the commonly reported date of birth of her older sister, Mary. Because Lydia herself may well have supplied the information for her biography, and because her age is reported consistently in censuses, obit., and headstone, a good bet is that Lydia’s reported date of birth, 3 February 1817, is more reliable, and that Mary was born in 1814, 2 years earlier than is reported usually.
1850 age 32 born 1818
1860 age 43 born 1817
1870 age 53 born 1817
1880 age 63 born 1817
Lydia’s reported dates of birth and of marriage indicate that she was age 17 years and 7 months when she married.
“LYDIA RUHL…was born Feb. 3, 1817, in Richland Co., Ohio; her parents, John and Rachel Painter, were natives of Virginia, and emigrated to Ohio about the year 1816, settling on Government land in Richland Co. She was married Sept. 18, 1834, to Jeremiah Ruhl, son of George and Elizabeth Ruhl…He [Jeremiah] died November 19, 1873. By their marriage nine children were born, only three of whom are now living—Hiram, John and George W. The two oldest are married, and have families; the youngest is in the West… She owns 120 acres of land, on which she and grandchildren are now living.” (History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1880), pp. 628-29.)
“Died—Feb. 23rd at the home of her son, Hiram Ruhl, Mrs. Lydia Ruhl, aged 81 years and 21 days. The funeral services were held at Shaucks church and were conducted by Rev. W. E. Amsbaugh. Mother Ruhl united with the Baptist church forty-one years ago and was a faithful member to the last. She leaves one son, five grand-children and several great-grandchildren, the husband and eight children preceded her.” (Lydia Ruhl obit., Morrow County Sentinel, 8 Mar 1898.) No will; no estate administration. Note: date of birth computed from date of death and age at death is 2 February 1817—one day off.
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Notes
Harold Painter, The Painter Family (1975), p. 35. Author cites his great-uncle Sherman M. Painter (son of Hamilton) as a source of information.
Marriage date from Lydia’s bio., above; original Richland County records no longer extant for the 1830s.)
Marriage announcement: Jeremiah “Rubel” and Lydia Painter, Oct 1834. (Transcribed from The [Richland County] Ohio Liberal, 9 Jan 1884.)
Ruhl, Jeremiah: 1 horse, 1 cow; 48 cents; Bloomfield Twp. Tax records, Richland Co., Ohio. "1836 Chattel Taxes (cont.)." The Pastfinder: Quarterly Newsletter of the Richland County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, vol. 20, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 2001), p. 7.
1840 U.S. Census, Bloomfield Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; p. 196 (line 19). Jeremiah Ruhl: 1 male under 5 / 1 male 20-30 / 2 females under 5 / 1 female 20-30. Note: Amos Ruhl on next line.
(Bloomfield Twp., Richland Co., became in 1848 North Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co.)
1850 U.S. Census, North Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio; p. 411B, 8 Aug 1850.
31. Jeremiah Rule, 37, farmer ($3,000), PA.
32. Lydia Rule, 32, VA.
33. Charity Rule, 13, OH.
34. Hannah Rule, 11, OH.
35. Allen T. Rule, 9, OH.
36. Levi R. Rule, 8, OH.
37. Hiram Rule, 6, OH.
38. John Rule, 4, OH.
39. Susan Rule, 1, OH.
40. Amos Rule, 40, farmer ($3,000), PA.
41. Catherine Rule, 42, PA.
42. William Rule, 19, OH.
1860 U.S. Census, North Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio; p. 258B (sheet no. 72), 14 Jul 1860.
10. “Jemima Ruht,” 48, farmer ($6,000; $620), PA.
11. Lydia, 43, OH.
12. Hyman, 16, OH.
13. John, 13, OH.
14. Susan, 10, OH.
15. Geo. W. 7, OH.
16. Hercules, 4, OH.
17. Amos Ruhl, 52, farmer ($6,000; $533), PA.
18. Catherine, 54, PA.
1870 U.S. Census, North Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio; p. 415-415B (sheet nos. 1-2), 13 Jul 1870.
40. Ruhl, Jeremiah, 59, farmer ($6,000; $1,300), PA.
1. ----- Lydia, 53, keeping house, OH.
2. ----- John S., 9, OH [grandson John Stephens]
3. ----- George W., 17, OH.
4. ----- Hercules, 14, OH.
5. Ruhl, John, 23, farmer (-0-, $1,000), OH.
6. ----- Catherine, 20, PA.
7. Ruhl, Amos, 60, farmer ($8,000; $4,000), PA
8. ----- Martha, 63, OH.
1880 U.S. Census, E.D. 134, North Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio; p. 312B (sheet no. 8), 14 Jun 1880.
17. Ruhl, Lydia, 63, [head], (mark indicating widowed), OH/VA/VA.
18. ----- David Stevens, 22, grandson, laborer, OH/OH/OH.
19. John C. Stevens, 18, grandson, laborer, OH/OH/OH.
20. McCracken, V. D., 12, female, at school, IA?/OH/UNK.
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39. Ruhl, Ad-- [Adam], “67,” [head], farmer, PA/PA/PA.
40. ----- Susan, “68,” wife, keeping house, OH/VA/VA.
Note: David and John C. Stephens were sons of Lydia's daughter Hannah (married Daniel Stephens).
Jeremiah Ruhl’s date of birth also in Keith A. Dull, Early Families of York County, Pennsylvania (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1995), p. 34. His cause of death listed as “consumption” in Morrow County Genealogical Society, Morrow County Early Death Records, vol. 1 (1856, 1857, 1867 through 1879). Death records from Morrow County Probate Court show Jerimiah Ruhl died 17 November 1873, aged 62 years, 2 months, 1 day—thus born 16 September 1811.
Six of Lydia’s children—Hannah, Allen, John, Susan, George, and Hercules—buried also at Shauck Cemetery. Hiram buried at Fairview Cemetery, Crawford County (about 15 miles away.) Charity Ann died in Nodaway County, Missouri: buried presumably in that county. Levi’s burial place unknown.
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