TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Walter K. Ruble, 28 Aug 1902
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"Clinch Valley News"
Friday, September 5, 1902
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA

DEATH

Submitted from Bluestone, VA.

A VERY SAD AFFAIR
On Thurday morning  Sept. 28th, (should be Aug 28th), on Crane Creek,
WALTER K. RUBLE, son of SAMUEL RUBLE, one of our near neighbors, was
shot and instantly killed by union men or strikers.

He walked out in company with another man before 7 o’clock, near the
drift moutn (sic). to look around, as the strikers were soon in the
vicinity the evening before, and was shot, four bullets striking him at
once.

They then robbed him, taking his watch , and gun belonging to the Coal
Co.

He had been working in the coal fields several years.
[Son of Samuel A. Ruble &  Lucy  A. . A brother of Walter K. Ruble, Arch
W. Ruble, Sr., married Lillie Mae Wagner , d/o Charles Alexander Wagner
& Jane Annabelle ‘Annie’ Bailey. A  sister, of Walter K. Ruble, Blanch
‘Bessie’ Ruble married Jeremiah Samuel  ‘Jerry’ Tabor, s/o Elgin Whitley
Tabor & Octavia Zane Tiller].

September 5, 1902
Submitted from Bailey, VA

The corpse of one of our young men, MR. WALTER RUBLE, was brought home
from the coalfields on last Thursday evening. He was said to have been
killed on the morning of the same day of the strike.

Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
June 5, 2002