William Rufus Monroe Rinehart (1858-1934)

William Rufus Monroe Rinehart

Birth

7 Aug 1858

Heiberger, Perry County, Alabama, USA

Death

5 Jun 1934 (aged 75)

Hamburg, Perry County, Alabama, USA

Burial

Bethlehem Methodist Church Cemetery

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Beloved son of Elisha Rhinehart and Harriet Vaughn Rhinehart. He was married to Caledonia Octavia Washburn on Nov 11, 1880. Their children were James Sidney Rinehart 1881–1951; Hattie Buelah Rinehart 1882–1937; Ella Caledonia Rinehart 1884–1949; Annie Orr Rinehart 1886–1968; Elisha Rinehart 1888–1963; Emmitt R Rinehart 1890–1953; William Thomas Rinehart 1892–1960; Rufus Grady Rinehart 1893–1969; Bazzie Woodfin Rinehart 1896–1964; Robert Watson Rinehart 1898–1900; Lillian Rinehart 1901–1982. He passed away from a heart attack.

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He was born prior to the Civil War and was the oldest of 10 children. It is likely that he was named after William Rufus King, the former U. S. Senator from Alabama who was elected Vice President of the U. S. in 1852.. His father entered the Civil War when he was about 4 years old and 7 years old when the war ended. He was raised in the Oldtown area of North Perry County, Alabama with the backbone being his two brothers. After the Civil War, his father returned and six more brothers and sisters were born between 1868 and 1880. In the year of his youngest sisters birth, at 22, he married a local belle Donnie Washburn. He started his career as a tenant farmer/overseer/sharecropper in North Perry County and did that work all of his adult life He never owned land and lived in South Perry County between Hamburg and Uniontown at the end of his life.