RUARKS FROM GERMANY? 1727 Bible?
In a posting to Ancestry. com message boards>Surnames>Ruark:
dated Jan 30, 2003 a person named Sheila Maurer
stated:
"I do know for a fact that we came from Germany...I have a Bible dated b ack to 1727 that has been past (passed) down from generation to generation.
I acquired the Bible when my Grandfather Franklin Stiffler Ruark died...."
Does anyone know about this information and this Bible?
I would like to know if the Ruarks came from Germany - most believe
the name to be Irish - but there is some other evidence that the name was
Americanized to Ruark from Ruike or something like that.
I have not been able to get a response from Sheila Maurer, evidently a descendant of Franklin Stiffler Ruark.
Jean Coleman
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