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FIELDEN RUBLE

 

PICTURE OF FIELDEN AND FRANCES (SIMMONS) RUBLE, BLEVINS, TX PICTURE TAKEN AT ALLIANCE, OHIO

HEADSTONES OF FIELDEN AND FRANCES (SIMMONS) RUBLE
BLEVINS CEMETERY, BLEVINS, FALLS COUNTY, TEXAS
Note: you will need to enlarge your screen. The stones are side by side. On the bottom of Fielden Ruble's stone it reads: "A true and loving husband and father"

SURNAMES: RUBLE, PUGH, SIMMONS, NEELEY, SMITH, WHATLEY, TAYLOR

     Fielden Ruble, b January 8, 1803 in Frederick County, Virginia, d January 15, 1888 in Falls County, Texas and buried in Blevins Cemetery -- was one of nine children of Reverend Jesse and Sarah (Pugh) Ruble of Shenandoah Valley, Frederick County, Virginia, and a grandson of an American Revolutionary War soldier, George Ruble and his wife, Elizabeth, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jesse Ruble fought in the Indian Wars -- receiving a wounded arm, for which he was given a pension. About 1804, the family moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, and Jesse Ruble became a minister.

     Fielden Ruble had a saddle shop in Cincinnati, Ohio before coming to Texas in 1828. On April 4, 1833, Fielden was married by Bond at San Felipe in Stephen F. Austin's Colony to Frances Simmons, b 1813 in Tennessee, d November 18, 1883 in Falls County, Texas and buried in Blevins Cemetery.

     On December 27, 1834 at Viesca (site in present-day Falls County), Fielden Ruble was granted a league of land on the west side of the Brazos River in the Juan Acosta Eleven-League Grant, in the area that became Satin, Falls County, Texas. During the Run-Away-Scrape, Fielden left Frances in the Grimes County area, and fought in the Battle of Anahuac in 1833 under Francis W. Johnson, for which service he received a veteran's pension for service during the Texas Revolution.

     Frances (Simmons) Ruble had a sister, Sarah Simmons, who married Matthew Burnett; and when they both died, Fielden and Frances took their son, Crawford Burnett, and daughter, Martha Burnett, to rear. Crawford later engaged in a large ranching operation; and he, the Ruble sons, and the Neeleys (in-laws), drove cattle from the Burnett Ranch to Kansas.

     Fielden Ruble bought a quarter league of land in Grimes County, where their children were born and where they lived until 1855, when they returned to Falls County to occupy their land grant received in 1834 -- along with their two married daughters -- the two Neeley families.

     During the Civil War, Colonel Speight and a troop of Confederate soldiers, came from Waco, Texas to arrest Fielden Ruble as a Yankee sympathizer; but the testimony of his neighbors prevented his arrest. In the 1870's, Fielden continued to send cattle to Kansas on drives, but were then led by John W. Powers -- a grandson of Fielden's neighbor, Captain Thomas H. Barron.

     Fielden and Frances (Simmons) Ruble had eight children.

     Catherine Ruble, b February 16, 1834 in Coahuila, Mexico, d August 12, 1859 -- married May 20, 1852 to William Neeley, b 1826 in Illinois, died in the Civil War while in the Confederate States Army -- a son of John H. and Lila Dorienda (Mize) Neeley. They had two children, who were taken by their uncle and aunt, Joseph Hunter and Martha J. (Ruble) Neeley, to rear Martha J. Ruble, b 1836 in The Republic of Texas, died in Durant, Oklahoma -- married January 1, 1852 in Grimes County, Texas to Joseph Hunter Neeley, b ca 1834 in Illinois, died in Durant, Oklahoma -- a son of John H. and Lila Dorienda (Mize) Neeley.

     Amanda Frances Ruble, b 1838 in the Republic of Texas, d January 1875 in Falls County, Texas and buried in Blevins Cemetery -- married October 13, 1868 to a widower, Reverend Isaac Taylor. They had a daughter, Mary Taylor, b 1869, who died young; Benjamin Louis Landrum Taylor who married Cora Ella Bowers, and whose descendants still reside in Falls County, Texas; and Dona Taylor who married A.M. Stone.

     Sarah E. Ruble, b 1841, was mentally ill in 1870. She married on September 22, 1862 to James Henry Smith, b 1830 in Alabama. Their son, Edward Carmack Smith, b October 19, 1865 -- married December 7, 1890 to Mary Frances Byrd, b August 4, 1867 in Mississippi, d May 22, 1949 at Tyler, Texas; and they had Ruble Edward Smith, b September 30, 1891; Edward Carmack Smith, b October 31, 1892; Marie Frances Smith, b April 10, 1896; and Edwin Allen Smith, b July 12, 1902.

     Fielden L. Ruble, b 1842, b 1842 in Grimes County, The Republic of Texas -- taught school in Falls County, Texas and never married.

     Mary Ruble, b 1844 in Grimes County, The Republic of Texas -- married September 1, 1870 in Falls County, Texas to H. Sampson Whatley, b 1843 in Georgia.  Levisa Ann (called "Vicy") Ruble, b April 9, 1846 in Grimes County, The State of Texas, d March 25, 1900 at Blevins -- married February 5, 1865 to William Thomas Whatley, b September 12, 1840 in Georgia, d January 29, 1881 at Blevins.

     William A. Ruble, b March 1850 in Grimes County, State of Texas, died at Galveston, and is buried there. He was never married.

     After Fielden Ruble's death, his land was involved in the controversial litigations in which Edward Hanrick had acquired the entire Juan Jose Acosta Eleven-League Grant. The Ruble family retained only a portion of the estate when the titles wee cleared and the legal actions decided.

     In addition to the Fielden Ruble family, the family of his nephew, Aaron Ruble, came to Falls County -- settling in the Lott Communiity, where descendants still live.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page. "Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 399, Column 2and page 400 column 1
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.

Additions and/or corrections to the publication:

     Mary Catherine Taylor, daughter of the Rev. Isaac and Amanda Frances E. (Ruble) Taylor grew to womanhood and married J. F. Robinson. They lived in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Her descendants live in the state of Utah. More information will be given on her family in the Isaac Taylor section.

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     Fielden L. Ruble served as a Pvt. in Company K, lst Regiment Texas Heavy Artillery Confederate States Army. "He enlisted at Marlin, Falls County, Texas on June 7, 1862. Sometime after arriving in Galveston he contracted measles and died on July 27, 1862" taken from remarks made at marker dedication ceremony by Robert Fielding Rubel. (great-great-grandson of Jesse Ruble, Jr. - brother of Fielden Ruble - the senior).

     A marker was placed at Fielden L. Ruble's grave on Saturday, May 4, 2002 at Galveston Oleander Cemetery, 4100 Broadway Blvd., Galveston, Texas - presented by Major George W. Littlefield Camp #59 Austin, Texas - Sons of Confederate Veterans and Ft. Virginia Point Chapter #2530 UDC Galveston, Texas CSA.

(Information from Robert Fielding Rubel)

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