RICHARD RUTLEDGE. deceased, late farmer, was born in Maryland, July 28,
1798. He was a son of Thomas and Mary (Burton) Rutledge, natives of
Maryland, who located in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1810. They
subsequently removed to Champaign and Logan Counties, and, in 1833,
settled on Section 17, Round Head Township, where both died. Richard
Rutledge was married when nineteen years old, in Champaign County. to
Mary Lewis, and there engaged in farming, and afterward moved to Logan
and Hardin Counties, locating a farm on Section 17, in the Bowdle
settlement, where he lived till May, 1860. He had previously bought
forty acres of Government land on Section 20, and afterward purchased
forty acres more and another forty of his son, B. W. He removed to this
farm and lived there till his death, on January 12, 1875. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and early connected with
the Bowdle Society, subsequently the Bowdle Church, and Fletcher Chapel.
In politics, he was a Republican, and, while a resident of Logan County,
served seven years as Justioe of the Peace. He filled the same office in
Round Head Township for twenty-one years and was also Township Assessor.
He had sixteen children by his first wife, three living. Mrs. Rutledge
died in 1845, and he was again married in June, 1846, to Mrs. Sarah
(Hill) Lay, a daughter of James Hill, a native pioneer of Round Head
Township. They had one son, Sampson. Mrs. Rutledge died in 1873. Sampson
M. Rutledge was born on the "G. W. Rutledge farm " April 10, 1847, and
has always resided in Round Head Township. He obtained a limited
education and remained on his father's farm until the latter's death,
when he was willed the old homestead, then consisting of 128 acres of
land. He was married March 19, 1869, to Amanda Walters; a native of
Auglaize County, Ohio, by whom be had five children, four living-Richard
B., John F., Benjamin W. and Marion R.; one, an infant, is deceased.
Mrs. Rutledge is a member of the Fletcher Chapel. Mr. Rutledge is a
Republican in politics.