Ruple-Union Cemetery is located on the west side of N County
Road 250 W about 300 feet north of its intersection with W County Road 500 N.
in Wayne Township, Portland.
The current listing is taken from the information
on the previous Jay Co Burials page and tombstone photographs.
Many thanks to Jackie Sanders and Max Haines for generously sharing their pictures!
All photos by Jackie Sanders unless otherwise marked.
If anyone
knows the history of the cemetery or anyone buried here, please get in touch
with Jim Cox.
Ruple-Union Cemetery
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Last Name | First Name (Maiden) | Birth Date | Death Date | Spouse Marriage Date |
Parents | Military | Obit | Stone |
Brewer | Christopher | no dates | Co B 13th IN Inf | photo | ||||
Chenoweth | Charity Rhoda (Stults) | 1810* | 1/17/1876 | William E - 3/27/1834 | Peter & Jemima Meeks Stults | photo | ||
Chenoweth | Elias | 1832 | Margaret Oler - 9/16/1856 | William & Charity | Civil War Co C 23rd IN Inf | |||
Chenoweth | William E | 10/15/1805 | 2/26/1881 | Charity E - 3/27/1834 | Elias & Nancy Carleton Chenoweth | photo | ||
Clark | Barbara J | 1/7/1844 | 11/23/1862 | J & M | photo | |||
DeHoff | Solomon | no dates | Cpl Co F 75th IN Inf | photo | ||||
Downing | Effie Jane | 6/23/1871 | 9/10/1875 | J R & Lydia | photo | |||
Downing | Jesse | 1873 | 1875 | C & S A | photo | |||
Gladding | William, Rev | 1794 | 6/18/1862 | photo | ||||
Kessler | Anna M | 1868 | 1942 | latest known burial | photo | |||
Lanning | Jesse Stith | 10/19/1857 | 9/14/1897 | Sarah Emerick - 10/19/1881 | David M & Mary Eleanor Powell Lanning | photo | ||
Letts | Amelia J | 2/5/1871 | 8/18/1878 | A W & Francis | photo | |||
Letts | infant | illegible | A W & Francis | photo | ||||
McCroskey | Rachael A | 9/1/1860 | 11/20/1860 | Jacob & Minerva | photo | |||
Metheny | Lettitia | 4/26/1840 | 10/21/1856 | William & B | photo | |||
Metheny | William | 6/29/1794 | 6/6/1851 | photo | ||||
Moore | Margaret L | 11/16/1849 | 2/23/1850 | S & L | photo | |||
Phillips | Jesse | 3/21/1815 | 11/22/1891 | photo | ||||
Phillips | Malinda J (Mills) | 10/16/1835 | 8/26/1910 | Jesse | Hezekiah & Dorcas A Bentley Mills | photo | ||
Phillips | Mary (Sumtion) | 6/21/1828 | 12/24/1854 | Jesse | photo | |||
Poling | Early | 12/15/1883 | 12/22/1883 | photo | ||||
Poling | Henry M | 8/30/1890 | 10/15/1890 | |||||
Poling | infant | 8/31/1896 | 9/2/1896 | E L & M J | ||||
Poling | Isaac | 12/21/1853 | 10/4/1854 | William & S | photo | |||
Poling | Norma E | 2/4/1887 | 7/23/1892 | photo | ||||
Potter | David | 12/10/1783 | 9/3/1858 | photo | ||||
Potter | Rachel | 3/21/1791 | 2/26/1860 | David | photo | |||
Rupel | James | 10/19/1811 | 12/13/1886 | photo | ||||
Rupel | Mary | 3/21/1821* | 2/8/1903 | James | photo | |||
Rupel | Minerva | 6/9/1838* | 8/21/1838 | D & M | photo | |||
Slack | Charles L | 3/31/1871 | 9/24/1871 | E M & M R | photo | |||
Slack | William C | 9/24/1869 | 3/2/1888 | E M & M | photo | |||
States | Chalottee | 6/17/1834 | 4/10/1881 | photo | ||||
Stowe | Benjamin Samuel | 4/17/1797 | 3/12/1882 | Orpha Holcombe | photo | |||
Stowe | Joshua | 1819 | 1870 | Benjamin S & Orpha Holcombe Stowe | Co B 34th IN Inf | photo | ||
Stowe | Orpha | 1/28/1801 | 3/19/1886 | Benjamin S | stone: Stow | photo 1; photo 2 | ||
Strate | Della E | stone sunken | William & E E | photo | ||||
Strate | Eliza S | 12/28/1853 | 2/28/1855 | J M & J | photo | |||
Strate | Samuel J | 3/29/1860 | 2/6/1862 | M & E | photo | |||
Stults | Agnes | 1866 | 1937 | Peter & Sarah A Stults | photo | |||
Stults | infant | 3/25/1846 | 4/5/1846 | J & S S | earliest known burial | photo | ||
Stults | Jemima (Meeks) | 1773 | 4/18/1849 | Peter | photo | |||
Stults | Jemima J | 3/27/1847 | 6/4/1855 | J & S S | ||||
Stults | Peter | 1842 | 1934 | Sarah A | John & Susannah Overmier Stults | Co G 8th IN Inf | photo | |
Stults | Sarah Ann | 5/16/1842 | 1906 | Peter | photo | |||
West | Edward | 6/26/1878 | 6/28/1878 | photo | ||||
West | Harriet | 8/28/1838 | 7/4/1878 | H F | photo | |||
Wilson | Sarah | 1794 | 1875 | photo | ||||
Wolford | Anna C | 10/25/1815 | 12/17/1891 | photo | ||||
Wolford | Arthur | 10/1/1850 | 9/20/1853 | M & A | photo | |||
Wolford | Charles L | 9/25/1860 | 3/15/1898 | s/s William | photo | |||
Wolford | Jacob H | 11/3/1836 | 8/3/1876 | Co F 75th IN Inf | photo | |||
Wolford | Martha | 11/4/1855 | 3/13/1858 | Martin & Anna | ||||
Wolford | William M | 8/3/1871 | 5/16/1899 | photo |
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