Nicholas Wilhelm Ruppert

1836-1917 · Saxony, Germany → Nokomis IL

Born 1836, Germany

Died 1917

Children include John

Nicholas Wilhelm Ruppert was born on 28 September 1836 in Germany, in Saxony by the censuses, the son of a John Ruppert. He and Anna Marie Grauer, a Württemberg woman, were farming at Nokomis by 1870, and the household grew around them: Lena, John, Peter, Barbara, Jacob, Christina, William and later Edward.

An older Saxon-born John Ruppert lived under their roof through the censuses of 1870 and 1880, forty and then fifty-two. He died at Nokomis on 28 March 1887, aged fifty-nine, and the county return names him Johann S. Ruppert. Born about 1828, he was eight years older than Nicholas: a brother or a cousin, not the father named on Nicholas's death certificate.

He died a retired farmer at Nokomis on 27 November 1917, four months after his wife's brother Conrad, whose obituary had named her as Mrs. Nicholas Ruppert. He is buried at Saint Paul's Cemetery, the German Lutheran burying ground at Nokomis, under one stone with Anna Marie.

Children

John Ruppert (1866-1958)

Sources

Decatur Review, Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday 25 July 1917, p. 5

Find a Grave memorial 98985995 and 98986049, St. Paul's Cemetery, Nokomis, Montgomery County, Illinois, photograph

Illinois Deaths 1916-1948 (FS ark 1:1:N36K-FH1); censuses 1870 and 1880, Nokomis (FS arks 1:1:M6HK-7CY, 1:1:MXVB-DFJ); Illinois death index, pre-1916; Find a Grave 98985995; Decatur Review, 25 July 1917, p. 5

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