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Rucker Family Cemetery
Crabapple Community, Alpharetta, Fulton Co., GA
near intersection of Rucker Rd. and Broadwell Rd.
within "Wallace Woods" subdivision

1. Dorcas Ann RUSK     March 21, 1838       December 18, 1912
2. William Henry RUSK      Dec. 27, 1837      Nov. 24, 1920
3. Samuel I. CRISLER      May 17, 1911      Aug. 17, 1992     S. Sargeant US Air Corp
4. Samuel Robert CRISLER      Oct. 12-14, 1986
5. John Herschel DAVID      Aug. 27, 1905     Mar. 20. 1995
6. Dorcas Rucker DAVID      Mar. 28, 1908     May 1, 1988
7. Joel Jackson RUCKER     Dec.17, 1880     Feb. 29, 1960
8. Nora Rusk RUCKER      June 24, 1878     Sept. 12, 1976
9. Alma H. PANCOST     Oct. 17, 1894      Jan. 2, 1992
10. John Joel RUCKER     Jan. 15, 1917     Aug. 7, 1985

11.Bench: In Loving Memory
Margaret Lee Rucker THORNTON      Oct. 5, 1910      Dec. 30, 1994
Daughter of Joel Jackson and Nora Rusk Rucker
"Her ways were ways of pleasantness, and all her paths were peace."

Charles Brannon THORNTON     Nov. 16, 1908      Mar. 9, 1998
Son of Charlie and Jessie LaVada Carnes Thornton
"He saw beauty in every leaf and rock
And felt the breath of God in the evening breeze"
Buried Friendship Methodist Church, Fayette County, Georgia

12 .Nora E. JAMESON     Mar. 18, 1889      Oct. 25, 1980
13. Charlie R. JAMESON      Aug. 29, 1902     June 22, 1933
14. Thomas JAMESON     Apr. 22, 1890     Aug. 30, 1895
15. Marion J. RAINWATER      1849       1898
16. Maggie E. RAINWATER      1850      1938
17. Ethel RAINWATER      Nov. 23, 1903     Dec. 3, 1903
18. Earl RAINWATER      July 23, 1905     June 9, 1906
19. Robert Harold RAINWATER     1910     1910
20. ? RAINWATER      1910      1914
21. Lucille RAINWATER      Aug. 20, 1907     Feb. 9, 1919
22. Joel W. RUCKER     Feb. 5, 1852     Aug. 6, 1920
23. Harriet Jennie RUCKER      Aug. 13, 1874     Jan. 18, 1941     "Not a professor but a doer"
24. Frankie Rucker UPSHAW      June 21, 1888    Dec. 28, 1928
25. John RUCKER     Dec. 23, 1842      Feb. 1, 1918     CSA Iron Cross
26. Sarah C. RUCKER     Jan. 5, 1844     Feb. 3, 1896
27. Separate marker for #26 with same info
28. Jane RUCKER      Apr. 9, 1801    Aug. 5, 1879
29. Willie T. RUCKER      Apr. 24, 1891    Oct. 24, 1891
30. Permelia C. RUCKER      Mar. 7, 1831     Jan. 17, 1910
31. W. D. RUCKER      Aug. 25, 1820     Oct. 17, 1903
32. James J. RUCKER      Apr. 27, 1850     Jan. 17, 1866
33. Simeon RUCKER      May 3, 1798     Aug. 6, 1881
34. Julia Rucker RAINWATER      Mar 23, 1826       Feb. 2, 1864
35. Joel RUCKER     Nov. 10, 1823      July 18, 1889
36. Blanche DEMPSEY     Sept. 23, 1897     Aug. 19, 1922
37. William H. DEMPSEY     Jan. 10, 1866     May 8, 1936
38. Julia E. DEMPSEY     Mar. 6, 1868     Oct. 9, 1905
39. George R. DEMPSEY      Oct. 15, 1905     May 5, 1932
40. Annie May WATKINS     Aug. 16, 1882       Aug. 26, 1888
41. Indiana RUCKER      Mar. 5, 1856      June 2, 1861
42. A. J. RUCKER     Sept. 7, 1857     Mar. 5, 1858
43. Martha L. BROADWELL      Dec. 15, 1887     age 4 mos 21 days
44. Willie THOMPSON      Nov. 15, 1889      Nov. 18, 1891
45. Francis ALBERSON      Feb. 16, 1884     Aug. 9, 1891
46. Samuel J. ALBERSON      May 15, 1844     Aug. 11, 1912
47. Herschel BROADWELL      1 year 23 days
48. Infant MORRIS      Nov. 23, 1896      Jan. 3, 1897
49. Agnes REESE     Feb. 7, 1896      Apr. 17, 1899
50. Jewell RUCKER      Feb. 22, 1906      July 26, 1907
51. S. L. RUCKER     Jan. 17, 1835     Jan. 11, 1915
52. S. A. M. RUCKER      Feb. 16, 1837     May 26, 1914
53. Levie RUCKER      Dec. 7, 1867     July 15, 1915
54. Helen L. RUCKER      Apr. 13, 1920     Apr. 14, 1920
55. John G. RUCKER      Apr. 15, 1891     Nov. 25, 1894
56. George E. RUCKER      Jan. 10, 1819      Aug. 15, 1898
57. Emily S. RUCKER     Oct. 10, 1820      Jan. 29, 1901
58. Broken marker (illegible)
59. Catherine Ehart RUCKER      1760     1835
60. James DORRIS     Oct. 26, 1801     July 8, 1877
61. Nancy DORRIS      Mar. 3, 1799      Jan. 13, 1887

Note on some of the above:
# 1. Dorcas Ann Chamblee, and 2. Parents of # 8.
# 3. Samuel Isham Crisler, spouse of Julia Josephine Rucker, dau. of #8 and 9.
# 4. Grandson of #3 and Julia J. Rucker
# 5. spouse of #6
# 6. Sarah Dorcas Rucker David, dau. of # 7 and 8.
# 7. Joel Jackson Rucker, son of # 25 and 26.
# 8. Mary Ann Leonora Rusk Rucker, wife of # 7, dau. of # 1 and 2.
# 9. Alma Pancost, mother-in-law of #10
#10. son of # 7 and 8.
#11. dau. of # 7 and 8 and her husband, Charles B. Thornton, both interred in Fayette Co., GA
#12. no information (probable wife of #13.)
#13. Charlie Rusk Jameson, grandson of #26 and step-grandson of #25
#14. Thomas G. Jameson
#15. son of # 34
#16. Margaret E., wife of #15
# 17-21. no information
#22. son of # 30 and 31
#23. Harriet Jane "Jennie" Rucker, never married, dau. of #25 and 28
#24. Dau. of # 25 amd 28; married George T. Upshaw
#25. John Rucker, son of # 28 and 33
#26. Sarah Catherine Hembree Rucker, wife of # 25 (widow of Thomas Jefferson Jameson, Sr., killed in Civil War); dau. of Elihu
        Minton Hembree and Susan Stigler Hembree
#27. ditto
#28. Jane Barnwell Rucker, wife of # 33; dau. of Robert Barnwell
#29. William T. Rucker, grandson of #30 and 31
#30. Permelia Caroline Dorris, wife of # 31, dau. of # 60 and 61
#31. William Derrell Rucker, son of # 28 and 33
#32. son of # 31 and 31
#33. Simeon Bluford Rucker, husband of # 28; son of # 59 and George Rucker, Sr.; founder of the Rucker family in this area, which         was 1st Cherokee, 2nd Cobb, 3rd Milton, and now Fulton Co. His home, built 1832, stands at the corner of Old Rucker Road         and Broadwell Rd., near this cemetery
#34. Julia Ann Rucker Rainwater, dau. of # 28 and 33; wife of John M. Rainwater
#35. son of # 28 and 33; married Miriam Elizabeth Rainwater
#36. Edna Blanche Dempsey, dau. of #37 and 38
#37. husband of # 38.
#38. Julia Edna Rucker Dempsey, dau. of # 25 and 26; wife of # 37
#39. George Robert Dempsey, son of # 37 and 38
#40. no information
#41 Indiana Rucker dau. of # 51 and 52
#42. Ambrose J. Rucker, son of # 51 and 52
# 43-50 no information
#51. Simeon L. Rucker, son of # 28 and 33
#52. Sarah Ann Manning Rucker, wife of # 51
#53 and # 54. no information
#55. John Gilford Rucker, son of # 56 and 57
#56. George Elzy Rucker, son of # 28 and 33
#57. Emily S. Rainwater Rucker, wife of # 56
#58. illegible
#59. Catherine Ehart Rucker, mother of # 33; wife of George Rucker, Sr; born in VA; dau. of Michael and Katherine Ehart. First         interment in cemetery.
#60. James Dorris, husband of # 61
#61. Nancy Cook Dorris

14 graves marked with fieldstones and no inscriptions.  One grave is that of a baby girl who died near here as her family was traveling
through in the very early years. For a long time her family sent money to keep up her grave and place flowers on it.  There are also many unmarked Native-American graves here, which may have first been an Indian burial ground, as Indian beads, cloth, etc., were found here in the distant past.