Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJoseph Addison Fuller
BirthDec 1848, Pennsylvania
Census1880, Vernon Springs, Howard Co, IA
Memoroll#344, pg 517
Census15 Jan 1920, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
Memoroll#907, pg 5
Death2 Jul 1923, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
BurialMt Mora Cem, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
MemoN1/2 3 5 I
Misc. Notes
listed as a clerk in Retail Dry Goods store in 1880 with his wife, son and father-in-law. Listed as a Salesman in a Dept Store in 1910.
He is living with his son’s family in St Joseph, MO as a widower (70) in 1920.
Spouses
Birth16 Jul 1847, Ithaca, Tompkins Co, NY
Death24 Oct 1911, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
BurialMt Mora Cem, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
MemoPlot: N1/2 3 5 I
FatherDr. Henry Thorp Ruttan (1820-1883)
Misc. Notes
Her death certificate says she was born in 1848, but her headstone says 1847, which is consistent with her listing at age 3 in the Aug 1850 census.
Listed as Marian in 1850 and Marrion, age 18 in 1865 Barton, Tioga Co, NY with her family shown as born in Tompkins Co, NY. Had one son, Winston who married and had 2 daughters (St Joseph, MO).
Listed in Topeka, KS in 1900 and in St Joseph, MO in 1910, when they are living next door to Frances Sandusky and Gertrude Ruttan (her sister-in-law).
(the following letter was passed to Frances Ruttan Sandusky, Frances Sandusky Poynter and given to Dave Wells via Frances Ruttan Holland) Written by Marian Ruttan Fuller -
My grandfather, Daniel Ruttan, married Rhoda Haight of Orange County, New York. He was a doctor and I think they lived in lower Canada. He died about 1846 or 1847. They had a large family. I believe they raised four boys, Daniel, William, Henry and Jacob and four girls, Bathsheba, Lydia, Mary and Amanda. I have written their names in the order of their births. I think -- yes there was one more, Margaret, I do not know whom Bathsheba married. Lydia married a steamboat captain and owner named Thomas Meagher, Mary married William McCoy. He was, in his day, connected with the Times Office in New York City. Amanda married Peter Farrell of Kingston, C.W. Margaret married a man by the name of Young. Then there must have been another sister whose name I do not recall who married Jeremiah Alley. He held some high office in Canada, as father claimed him for a brother-in-law. (You see I write this from Memory) My Uncle Daniel used to live in Watertown, New York, if I remember rightly, but of his family I know nothing. He was quite wealthy. Uncle William went to Russia when I was a child and I never heard that he ever came back. Uncle Jacob was last heard of in Bloomer, Chipewa County, Wisconsin, Jacob C. Ruttan. We only found out he was there about the summer of 1871, one letter came to the Postmaster at Waverly, New York. He was trying to locate father. Father wrote him at once, had not heard from him for eighteen years, waited in vain for a reply, but after a while a letter came from his widow saying he was taken suddenly ill and died after a few days’ illness, before father's letter reached him. He had two children, a boy named Charles, a girl whose name I cannot recall. Of the girls (father's sisters) I know nothing about Bathsheba. Lydia, who married Thomas Meagher, had several children, but I only knew through correspondence. They were Daniel, who studied medicine, John, who studied law, and Joseph, the youngest boy. Until the flood of 1903 I had photos of these boys, and their parents. Mary Ruttan who married William McCoy I remember as a very beautiful woman. She had three or four children, Eliza, William and Daniel. I do not remember the baby's name. Amanda had no children. I remember one of Aunt Margaret Young's children, Agnes, about my age. Jeremiah Alley's children I only knew by photo of one boy Alfred. These people I corresponded with some when a girl but have not for many years had any news of them. Will inclose the letter I mentioned as being found among mother's things, but never knew what became of the rest of the correspondence. Among father's people were a good many professional men and father used to say he was the only one who was poor, I wrote out once for Frances all that I knew of mother's people. I wish I had been more industrious in finding out about both families but it is too late now.

Her death certificate says she was born in 1848 and lists her as Mattie B. Fuller, and her headstone shows Marion, born in 1847. It says she died of arterio capillary fibrosis - cerebral (arteriosclerosis).
Marriage16 Jul 1872, Tioga Center, Tioga Co, NY
Marr Memoby Rev W.H. King
ChildrenWinston Alan (1875-1966)
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