Sarah RUS ²

  Research Notes:

I frankly doubt if Rus was Sarah's name, for it would be a very unusual name. I rather suspect either the clerk who prepared the marriage bond misspelled her name or Annie Bell, the compiler of Madison County marriages, misread the clerk's handwriting. I think we have to be open to different possibilities, including Roe and Ross, the only names close to Rus in the tax lists for Madison Co., KY at the time her marriage.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census: 1820, Wayne County, Kentucky. ³

Household of James Franklin: Presumably the female age 45+.

2. Census: 1830, Wayne County, Kentucky. ⁴

Household of James Franklin: Presumably the female age 40-50.

3. Census: 1840, Wayne County, Kentucky. ⁵

Household of James Franklin: Presumably the female age 50-60.

Sarah married James FRANKLIN, son of William FRANKLIN and Nancy, on 15 Mar 1796 in Madison County, Kentucky.^{1 2} (James FRANKLIN was born about 1774 in Virginia ⁶ and died after 1850 in Wayne County, Kentucky ⁶.)

  Marriage Notes:

There appear to be two sources for this marriage: the Vockery compilation and the Bell compilation. However, an asterisk appears in the Vockery book, which means they did not find the bond themselves but had taken the information from another source, to wit, the Bell compilation. Thus, there is really only one source for this marriage. Nonetheless, both entries are shown below, for reasons which I'll then explain.

Per Vockery: Franklin, James and Rue, Sarah; bond dated 15 Mar 1796; bondsman, Charles Hutcherson; no record of consent; no record of return.

Per Bell: Franklin, James and Rus, Sarah; b. Charles Hutcherson; 3-15-1796.

Note the Vockerys misread Bell's spelling of the last name. Although typed, the type is blurry and is susceptible to being read as Rue or Rus. Fortunately, the bride's index has clear type and clearly spells it Rus.

Charles Hutcherson, the bondsman, also appears as a witness along with Agnes Franklin to an 10 Oct 1801 Wayne Co., KY deed from Joseph Beard to James ____. See Events for Agnes Franklin. ^{1 2}