Son of William Taliaffero Rucker and Verrenda Stigler Taylor. Married Susan Brown in Gilroy, California on September 27, 1855.
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JOSEPH E. RUCKER
Death of a Well-Known Pioneer of Santa Clara County
SAN JOSE, September 12th.—Joseph Edmondson Rucker, a pioneer of Santa Clara county, died at his residence in this city at 11:45 to-day from consumption. Deceased had been in failing health four years. Two years ago he retired from active business. The funeral will take place Sunday at 2 P. M. from M. E. Church South. Deceased was a member of the Knights Templar, Royal Arch Masons and Santa Clara County Pioneers. He came to San Jose in 1852, and had been engaged in active business until two years ago as a member of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Sons, real estate agents. The family left consists of his widow and four sons, Mayor S. N. Rucker, James T. Rucker of Rucker Bros., Joseph H., of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Son, and W. B. Rucker, Deputy County Clerk, and three daughters, two single and one married—Mrs. M. A. Boulwar. He was a native of Missouri and aged fifty-nine years.
Joseph Edmonson Rucker was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1831. He was the son of William T. Rucker, who, as a young man just married, emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1830, where he engaged in farming until he came overland to California with is family and located in San Jose. Joseph E. was the eldest of eleven children. He took up a claim to eighty acres of land and cultivated it until 1855, when he sold it and bought a dairy farm near Gilroy. This he sold in 1858 and bought a part of the Solis ranch, on which he lived until 1864, when he sold to a brother and returned to San Jose. He bought a small farm of eighty acres and rented four hundred more, all of which he tilled until 1874, when he again sold out and bought ten acres in the Willows and engaged in the real estate business, which he followed up to the time of his death. In 1855 he married Miss Susan Brown, who came to California with her parents from Missouri in 1855. In politics Mr. Rucker was a Democrat. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Church, and was the first unmarried man to unite with that church in Santa Clara valley. In all his relations through his life Mr. Rucker was known for his thorough honesty and uprightness of character. He was a consistent Christian and a fair-minded business man, and was esteemed as a good citizen by all who knew him. Besides his wife and children, he leaves several brothers and sisters.
—Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, California); Saturday 30 September 1890, page 1.
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JOSEPH E. RUCKER
Death of a Well-Known Pioneer of Santa Clara County
SAN JOSE, September 12th.—Joseph Edmondson Rucker, a pioneer of Santa Clara county, died at his residence in this city at 11:45 to-day from consumption. Deceased had been in failing health four years. Two years ago he retired from active business. The funeral will take place Sunday at 2 P. M. from M. E. Church South. Deceased was a member of the Knights Templar, Royal Arch Masons and Santa Clara County Pioneers. He came to San Jose in 1852, and had been engaged in active business until two years ago as a member of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Sons, real estate agents. The family left consists of his widow and four sons, Mayor S. N. Rucker, James T. Rucker of Rucker Bros., Joseph H., of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Son, and W. B. Rucker, Deputy County Clerk, and three daughters, two single and one married—Mrs. M. A. Boulwar. He was a native of Missouri and aged fifty-nine years.
Joseph Edmonson Rucker was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1831. He was the son of William T. Rucker, who, as a young man just married, emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1830, where he engaged in farming until he came overland to California with is family and located in San Jose. Joseph E. was the eldest of eleven children. He took up a claim to eighty acres of land and cultivated it until 1855, when he sold it and bought a dairy farm near Gilroy. This he sold in 1858 and bought a part of the Solis ranch, on which he lived until 1864, when he sold to a brother and returned to San Jose. He bought a small farm of eighty acres and rented four hundred more, all of which he tilled until 1874, when he again sold out and bought ten acres in the Willows and engaged in the real estate business, which he followed up to the time of his death. In 1855 he married Miss Susan Brown, who came to California with her parents from Missouri in 1855. In politics Mr. Rucker was a Democrat. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Church, and was the first unmarried man to unite with that church in Santa Clara valley. In all his relations through his life Mr. Rucker was known for his thorough honesty and uprightness of character. He was a consistent Christian and a fair-minded business man, and was esteemed as a good citizen by all who knew him. Besides his wife and children, he leaves several brothers and sisters.
—Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, California); Saturday 30 September 1890, page 1.
Son of William Taliaffero Rucker and Verrenda Stigler Taylor. Married Susan Brown in Gilroy, California on September 27, 1855.
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JOSEPH E. RUCKER
Death of a Well-Known Pioneer of Santa Clara County
SAN JOSE, September 12th.—Joseph Edmondson Rucker, a pioneer of Santa Clara county, died at his residence in this city at 11:45 to-day from consumption. Deceased had been in failing health four years. Two years ago he retired from active business. The funeral will take place Sunday at 2 P. M. from M. E. Church South. Deceased was a member of the Knights Templar, Royal Arch Masons and Santa Clara County Pioneers. He came to San Jose in 1852, and had been engaged in active business until two years ago as a member of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Sons, real estate agents. The family left consists of his widow and four sons, Mayor S. N. Rucker, James T. Rucker of Rucker Bros., Joseph H., of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Son, and W. B. Rucker, Deputy County Clerk, and three daughters, two single and one married—Mrs. M. A. Boulwar. He was a native of Missouri and aged fifty-nine years.
Joseph Edmonson Rucker was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1831. He was the son of William T. Rucker, who, as a young man just married, emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1830, where he engaged in farming until he came overland to California with is family and located in San Jose. Joseph E. was the eldest of eleven children. He took up a claim to eighty acres of land and cultivated it until 1855, when he sold it and bought a dairy farm near Gilroy. This he sold in 1858 and bought a part of the Solis ranch, on which he lived until 1864, when he sold to a brother and returned to San Jose. He bought a small farm of eighty acres and rented four hundred more, all of which he tilled until 1874, when he again sold out and bought ten acres in the Willows and engaged in the real estate business, which he followed up to the time of his death. In 1855 he married Miss Susan Brown, who came to California with her parents from Missouri in 1855. In politics Mr. Rucker was a Democrat. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Church, and was the first unmarried man to unite with that church in Santa Clara valley. In all his relations through his life Mr. Rucker was known for his thorough honesty and uprightness of character. He was a consistent Christian and a fair-minded business man, and was esteemed as a good citizen by all who knew him. Besides his wife and children, he leaves several brothers and sisters.
—Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, California); Saturday 30 September 1890, page 1.
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JOSEPH E. RUCKER
Death of a Well-Known Pioneer of Santa Clara County
SAN JOSE, September 12th.—Joseph Edmondson Rucker, a pioneer of Santa Clara county, died at his residence in this city at 11:45 to-day from consumption. Deceased had been in failing health four years. Two years ago he retired from active business. The funeral will take place Sunday at 2 P. M. from M. E. Church South. Deceased was a member of the Knights Templar, Royal Arch Masons and Santa Clara County Pioneers. He came to San Jose in 1852, and had been engaged in active business until two years ago as a member of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Sons, real estate agents. The family left consists of his widow and four sons, Mayor S. N. Rucker, James T. Rucker of Rucker Bros., Joseph H., of the firm of J. E. Rucker & Son, and W. B. Rucker, Deputy County Clerk, and three daughters, two single and one married—Mrs. M. A. Boulwar. He was a native of Missouri and aged fifty-nine years.
Joseph Edmonson Rucker was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1831. He was the son of William T. Rucker, who, as a young man just married, emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1830, where he engaged in farming until he came overland to California with is family and located in San Jose. Joseph E. was the eldest of eleven children. He took up a claim to eighty acres of land and cultivated it until 1855, when he sold it and bought a dairy farm near Gilroy. This he sold in 1858 and bought a part of the Solis ranch, on which he lived until 1864, when he sold to a brother and returned to San Jose. He bought a small farm of eighty acres and rented four hundred more, all of which he tilled until 1874, when he again sold out and bought ten acres in the Willows and engaged in the real estate business, which he followed up to the time of his death. In 1855 he married Miss Susan Brown, who came to California with her parents from Missouri in 1855. In politics Mr. Rucker was a Democrat. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Church, and was the first unmarried man to unite with that church in Santa Clara valley. In all his relations through his life Mr. Rucker was known for his thorough honesty and uprightness of character. He was a consistent Christian and a fair-minded business man, and was esteemed as a good citizen by all who knew him. Besides his wife and children, he leaves several brothers and sisters.
—Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, California); Saturday 30 September 1890, page 1.
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