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From: jdroppel <>
Subject: [ORANGEBURGH_SC] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:28:42 -0700


Dear Orangburghers -

I need help trying to reconstruct information re the "Ruples Tavern"
(Mills' Atlas 1820) and any public or private estate sale
concerning it in the latter 70s or 80s. This property was located on the
Charleston Highway SE of Orangeburg near Bethel

Methodist Church Cemetery (where some Ruples are buried) I understand
that John Henry Platt, Jr. and his wife were killed

In an auto accident and their children raised, perhaps by grandparents.
I would like any help possible re the following:

1. Date of death of John Henry Platt RUPLE , Jr. and his wife in auto
accident in the 70s or 80s

2. Whether an estate was opened and when

3. If so, whether: an estate inventory was prepared; a public sale had
(which I heard was conducted); and who purchased items in the estate

4. If anything of historical or family value was preserved from this
estate (Bibles, German/Swiss artifacts, etc)

5. Any information regarding this estate property which, I understand,
involved the realty owned originally

By the Swiss immigrants, Martin Ruple or son John J. Ruple, or both

6. Information regarding the children, by whom they were raised, and
their present whereabouts

7. Information on any family Bible records that are still extant

8. Whether any cemetery listing has preserved the inscriptions on
tombstones in the old private Ruple/Ayers cemetery
Nearby in a field (not the church cemetery)

9. Names of any researchers who are related to the family and how so


If responders feel any information might be too personal please respond
to me privately -

I know there are several families who knew the Ruple family and were in
some way related, and it appears to me that John Henry Platt, Jr. may
have lived on the old homestead until his death in an auto accident. I am
compiling
Info for a supplementary Ruple family book and would like to be as
thorough as possible in information gathering.

Thanks so much

Jack Ruple, Sr.



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