Bio for David La RUE, in Livingston County, KY for about one year,

From: Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel <kanichi@theriver.com>
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com <KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com>
Subject: [KYF] Bio for David La RUE, in Livingston County, KY for about one year, 
including McKISSIC, COLE, BREAKISON
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:52 PM

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Van Buren Township, p. 646-647

David La RUE, one of the oldest settlers of Monroe County, Ind., was born on
September 24,
1807, and is the youngest of four children born to Peter and Catherine
(McKISSIC) La RUE,
natives of Virginia.  The mother died when our subject was but three years
old.  After this he
worked around and about by the day until he was thirteen years of age, when
he was apprenticed
to the carpenter’s trade and served his time.  In 1828, he went to Meigs
County, Ohio, remained
one year; thence to Cincinnati, where he was a carpenter on a steamboat for
three years; thence to
Livingston County, Ky., and remained one year with his father, or until the
latter’s death, at the
age of eighty-seven years.  Then in May, 1832, he came to Bloomington, Ind.
On December 27,
1832, he was married to Nancy, daughter of Jessie and Sallie COLE, and a
native of Kentucky.
Seven children have been born to them, only two of whom Sarah and Jesse, are
now living.  After
his marriage, Mr. La RUE moved on eighty acres of land located near
Stanford, where he lived
two years, after which he traded that farm for eighty acres in Greene
County, where he lived
thirty-two years.  He at the end of this time had accumulated 220 acres, all
well improved and
under good cultivation.  In 1866, he sold this farm for $6,000, and
purchased for $5,000 the one
on which he now resides.  Mrs. La RUE died in 1850, when, on March 14, 1851,
he married
Minerva COLE, of Greene County, and daughter of John and Sarah COLE.  Two
children, both
deceased, were born to this union.  This wife died in 1855.  He next
married, on September 10,
1859, Eliza DANIEL, of Greene County, daughter of Joseph DANIEL.  Mr. La RUE
lost this
wife through a divorce court, when, for his fourth wife, he married, on
April 24, 1863, Mrs.
Elizabeth BREAKISON, also of Greene County.  This couple have had five
children, three of
whom are living.  His wife had the Campbellite, his second wife of the
Baptist, his third of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his present wife is also a member, and
of which Mr. La
RUE is also a member.  Our subject was Township Treasurer in his township in
Greene County
for seven years; was Deputy Sheriff of that county two years; was elected
Constable in this
township, but refused to qualify.  His father was a soldier of the
Revolution, having engaged in
thirteen battles, such as Bunker Hill, Fredericktown, Trenton, etc.  The
father was reared in the
same neighborhood with Gen. WASHINGTON.  Our subject has been a member of
the Masonic
fraternity since 1852, at Stanford, and is now a member of Monroe Lodge, No.
22, Bloomington.
On account of an impediment in his speech, he never attended school but two
months in his life.
His first wife taught him how to read.  Mr. La RUE is a self-made man, and
has always been
wonderfully successful in his business ventures.  Two of his sons served in
the army during the
late war.  By the community in which he resides he is highly respected.

Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel

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