Here is a letter that was from my Great Aunt Pearl to another lady on a Rutledge web site..I did put parts of this on the profiles of Thomas Rutledge and Jackson Rutledge..
From Pearl Rutledge (Mrs. V.H. Rutledge, 946 17th Ave., Longview, WA
98632) in a letter dated 2/28/1979:
"I have a letter written to a Mrs. Hyde by Wiley Blount Rutledge. Chief
Justice Wiley was the g.son of this Thomas Rutledge. This Thomas was the
son of Jackson Rutledge, who was the son of Edward the signer. (I just
rec'd inf. the other day that this was the Jackson that they said had
died young, but was not true. He lived to be quite old and had a son
Dwight that died in the past year or two in PA that was a half bro of
Wiley Blount Jr. So looks as though he married twice. I have other
records showing that Edward the Signer had 3 children, I always thought
he just had 1."
[Note: The previous sentence is rather confusing...I believe Pearl took
a "mental shortcut" and went from talking about Jackson Rutledge to Wiley
Blount Rutledge Sr. in the same sentence.]
Pearl says in a letter dated 4/1/1979...
Mrs. Dwight Rutledge told me that they made a trip to Pikeville, TN,
where Dwight's father was born, but could not find where this Thomas -
his grandfather - was buried, nor even when he died for sure. She was
about my last hope to find out the name of the woman who married Thomas
Rutledge first - ___ Wilson. She said that Dwight did not know the name
either. She gave me the name of a lady in Fla. working on the Rutledges,
but didn't think she could help.
From Bill Gdisler to Pam Smith 1997:
I believe that the information on Thomas Rutledge is totally correct. My
problem is trying to figure out who was his father. As I understood it
Pearl Rutledge had a theory that his father was the son of Edward
Rutledge. This son was reported in some letter to have died young.
According to Pearl, (as given to me by William Rutledge of OK) this was a
cover story to protect the child as his father was a prisoner of the
British during the Revolustionary War and that this child (Jackson
Middleton Rutledge) later married and was the father of Thomas
Rutledge....
....
I have had a copy of the narrative of Stephen Wilson Rutledge for many
years. It was typed by my aunt Ruth, who I beileve is the cousin referred
to in the publication. She was a cousin to Virgil and Jerome moved his
family to Arkansas about that time, so it all seems to fit. The
information in Stephen's narrative seems to be 100% correct. I've found
rosters of his unit which list him and a number of the people that he
refers to and have confirmed the movements of his unit to be exactly as
he describes them. He was a private in the 32nd Tenn Inf. and the book
Tennesseans In the Civil War verifies everything that he said about their
movements....
......it goes on . . ."I am not absolutely positive of the date of my
grandfather's birth. Although from such information that I have, that I
was able to secure from my father before his death, he Thomas Rutledge
was born in about 1804 in Hawkins Co., TN. The date could not be far
wrong, as my grandfather died during the Civil War at about 60 years of
age. From a list given to me by my father in 1938, Thomas Rutledge's
first wife was a Wilson, given name not remembered. Their children were:
James, Thomas, Stephen, Joseph, Cornelius, John, Mary, Nancy Jane and
Sarah Ann. Father knew nothing further about James and Thomas. Stephen,
Joseph and John located in Texas Co., MO. Cornelius located in Columbus,
OH. My father visited Cornelius there when he was a student at Southern
Baptist Sem. in Louisville, KY. . . .
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In Hawkins Co., TN on the 1830 census, Thomas was living next to Sarah
Rutledge, age 50-60. The third house away from Sarah was Stephen Wilson
age 40-50. In 1840 Hawkins Co., TN, Thomas was living next door to John
Wilson, age 30-40. Several houses away were Stephen Wilson, age 60-70,
then Stephen T. Wilson, age 20-30. I believe these were Thomas'
father-in-law and brothers-in-law.
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Rachel D. Clemons wrote:
"From the book written by J. C. Harris, Jr, "The South Carolina Rutledge
Family - Their Kith and Kin
Jackson Rutledge, b S.C. 1777, m Sarah Lucy Singleton. They settled in TN
in land that was partly in Franklin Co. and partly in Coffey Co.
Their children were:Emanuel Rutledge, Lorenzo Dow Rutledge, Lucy Rutledge
and Thomas F. Rutledge.
Thomas F. was b in 1803 and was married three times, m/1 a Miss Wilson,
m/2
Jane ----, m/3/Jane Hall Pope. Emanuel lived in Hawkins Co.,
Thomas F. Rutledge, b 1803 in VA but as a baby traveled with his parents
to Franklin Co., TN where they established their home. Children by his
first wife, the former Miss Wilson:
1Nancy Jane, b 1831, m a Mr. Miller, their home was in MO
2Stephen W. b 1833, m Mary Massey
3 Sarah Ann b 1835
4 Joseph B. b 1838, made home in Texas Co., MO.
5 Mary b 1840, home in Missouri
6 Cornelius b 1842, home in Columbus, OH
7 Catherine b 1844
It goes on to name 2 children by 2nd wife and 8 by 3rd wife.
He follows Stephen W. Rutledge's line and Lorenzo Dow Rutledge's line.
Several pages."
[Kathye's note: I don't believe Thomas had more than 2 wives. All the
census records from 1850-1880 show the same Jane, age consistent,
birthplace the same. The 1840 census shows a different age for Thomas'
wife than Jane would have been, but the same age range as the first wife,
shown on the 1830 census. It is possible that he was married twice
before he married Jane Hall Pope, but the second marriage would have to
have been between Cornelius and Catherine for his second wife to have had
two children...unless he married Jane #2 immediately after Jane #1 died,
and then Jane #2 got pregnant immediately after the wedding. Harriet and
Emilie are too close together in age to be from two different mothers.]
