The Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tenn.,Sunday Morning, January 8, 1911:
"Another Sultana Survivor is Dead Robert Rule Passed Away at His Blount County Home
Robert Rule died at his house near Little River station on the Maryville branch of the Southern railway Saturday morning. He was a son of Peter and Mary (McTeer) Rule and was born in Blount county a short distance from where he breathed his last. His father was a well known miller, universally respected in his life time. Robert Rule was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, and served in the Third Tennessee cavalry. He was one of the men on the ill-fated steamer Sultana that blew up in the Mississippi river on the 27th day of April, 1865. He floated down the river many miles, and that he escaped with his life was akin to a miracle. Since the close of the was he has been a farmer and a resident of Blount county, where he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Methodist church from his boyhood. He leaves a wife and several children, all grown, to mourn his departure, and was a brother of Representative A. M. Rule, of Blount county. The funeral will be held today at Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church, with which he has been connected since its organization. Interment will be in the church yard."
"Another Sultana Survivor is Dead Robert Rule Passed Away at His Blount County Home
Robert Rule died at his house near Little River station on the Maryville branch of the Southern railway Saturday morning. He was a son of Peter and Mary (McTeer) Rule and was born in Blount county a short distance from where he breathed his last. His father was a well known miller, universally respected in his life time. Robert Rule was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, and served in the Third Tennessee cavalry. He was one of the men on the ill-fated steamer Sultana that blew up in the Mississippi river on the 27th day of April, 1865. He floated down the river many miles, and that he escaped with his life was akin to a miracle. Since the close of the was he has been a farmer and a resident of Blount county, where he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Methodist church from his boyhood. He leaves a wife and several children, all grown, to mourn his departure, and was a brother of Representative A. M. Rule, of Blount county. The funeral will be held today at Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church, with which he has been connected since its organization. Interment will be in the church yard."
The Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tenn.,Sunday Morning, January 8, 1911:
"Another Sultana Survivor is Dead Robert Rule Passed Away at His Blount County Home
Robert Rule died at his house near Little River station on the Maryville branch of the Southern railway Saturday morning. He was a son of Peter and Mary (McTeer) Rule and was born in Blount county a short distance from where he breathed his last. His father was a well known miller, universally respected in his life time. Robert Rule was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, and served in the Third Tennessee cavalry. He was one of the men on the ill-fated steamer Sultana that blew up in the Mississippi river on the 27th day of April, 1865. He floated down the river many miles, and that he escaped with his life was akin to a miracle. Since the close of the was he has been a farmer and a resident of Blount county, where he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Methodist church from his boyhood. He leaves a wife and several children, all grown, to mourn his departure, and was a brother of Representative A. M. Rule, of Blount county. The funeral will be held today at Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church, with which he has been connected since its organization. Interment will be in the church yard."
"Another Sultana Survivor is Dead Robert Rule Passed Away at His Blount County Home
Robert Rule died at his house near Little River station on the Maryville branch of the Southern railway Saturday morning. He was a son of Peter and Mary (McTeer) Rule and was born in Blount county a short distance from where he breathed his last. His father was a well known miller, universally respected in his life time. Robert Rule was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, and served in the Third Tennessee cavalry. He was one of the men on the ill-fated steamer Sultana that blew up in the Mississippi river on the 27th day of April, 1865. He floated down the river many miles, and that he escaped with his life was akin to a miracle. Since the close of the was he has been a farmer and a resident of Blount county, where he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Methodist church from his boyhood. He leaves a wife and several children, all grown, to mourn his departure, and was a brother of Representative A. M. Rule, of Blount county. The funeral will be held today at Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church, with which he has been connected since its organization. Interment will be in the church yard."
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