Ruth Eckler first married George Stevenson and they had three children:

Henry
Jacob George (Husband of Helen McCornack)
Robert

Ruth's husband George died on the Oregon Trail in 1852, as had John Tucker Scott's wife Ann Roelofson Scott. On March 15, 1853 in Salem, Oregon, Ruth married John Tucker Scott and they had two children:

Rhoda Ella (Wife of DeWitt Clinton Latourette)
Ward Beecher (died age 31 unmarried)

Daughter of Jacob Eckler and Cassandra Perrin Eckler

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Mrs. Ruth Scott, step-mother of Harvey Scott died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D C LaTourette, at Oregon City, Thursday, March 29, 1906 and was buried in Forest Grove last Saturday. A pioneer of both Washington and Oregon, she was the widow of John Tucker Scott, who died in Forest Grove in 1880. The family lived in Washington Territory near Olympia during the time of the Indian War of 1855 and experience some hair breadth escapes. Several times they were forced to flee before the savages, intent upon massacre. It was at the close of this war that they moved to Forest Grove where they lived until the death of Mr. Scott. Mrs. Scott, with her son, the late Charles W Scott, moved to Portland where she had since resided almost continuously. A member of the First Christian Church. She leaves of her immediate family, two sons by her first marriage: Jacob G Stevenson of Klamath Falls and Robert Stevenson of Gales Creek and a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Scott Latourette, of Oregon City. Her surviving brothers and sister are: J P Echler and Mrs. M C George of Portland; Mrs. C F George of Seattle; Mrs. Isaac Clapp of Cherryville, Kansas. Her step-son and daughters are: H W Scott; Mrs. M F Cooke, Mrs. A S Duniway, Mrs. C A Coburn and Mrs. H L Palmer, all of Portland. The family burial grounds here and the interment was made here.

Washington County News, [Forest Grove OR], April 5, 1906

- Contributor: Royce E Hostetler (47447951)