Obit of Rutledge, James Thomas - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 14 Dec 2008 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Strong City Cemetery--Strong City OK Surnames: Rutledge, Merchant, Page, Laugaugh, Musick, Dean, Pasten, Scott, Price, Neal, Sanford, Stroud, Forster, Porter Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/7420 James Thomas Rutledge was born 22 October 1849 in Jackson County, Tennessee, died 30 August 1939 in Strong City, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. James married 1st, Annie Merchant. She died 8 April 1892. They had six daughters: Minnie (Rutledge) Page; Ada (Rutledge) Laugaugh, Beulah (Rutledge) Musick, who died 6 January 1901; Sara Willie (Rutledge) Dean, Stella (Rutledge) Pasten; and Ruby (Rutledge) Scott. James married 2nd, Merilda (Musick) Price of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. Merilda was born in 1870, the daughter of Thomas M. and Mary Elizabeth (Neal) Musick, she died in 1924 in Strong City, Oklahoma. They were the parents of five children: Annie (Rutledge) Sanford; Frank, born in 1906, died in 1928 buried in the Strong City cemetery; C. Norvall, born in 1910, died in 1937, buried in Strong City cemetery; Louisa "Izey" (Rutledge) Stroud; and Ethel (Rutledge) Forster. James married 3rd, a Mrs. M. Porter, on 11 October 1934. James was a farmer, carpenter, and blacksmith. He was a private in the Texas State Trooper (Ranger) Indian War. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html