Re: rubys death
RUBY
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: rubys death (georgeann mcclure)
Date: 9/30/2013 at 18:40:59
Rapids was a post office located on the Des Moines River, about three miles northwest of Madrid, in Douglas Township, Boone County, Iowa from 1851-1901.
The Ruby family lived in Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa where he was the postmaster.
W J Ruby
Birth Date: Sep 1812
Alternate Birth Date: Sep 1814
Death Date: Apr 1864
Death Place: Rapid City, Boone, Iowa
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1851-1872, Book A, pp. 83, 350, 446/ Saints' Herald Obituaries, 15 May 1864, p. 159/ The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, p. 291.Notes: W. J. Ruby was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 8 April 1861 at Amboy, Lee, Iowa. He was ordained an elder and a seventy.
Source:
Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Boone Queries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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