Grace Morgan Ruland

Brief Life History of Grace Morgan

When Grace Morgan Ruland was born on 4 February 1876, in Port Jefferson, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States, her father, Morgan Filmore Ruland, was 24 and her mother, Adelaide Amanda Hulse, was 20. She married Augustus Terry “Gustus” Ruland on 19 January 1904, in Hastings-on-Hudson, Greenburgh, Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1940 and Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America in 1941. She died in 1951, in Port Jefferson, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Buriāl, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.

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Augustus Terry “Gustus” Ruland
1872–1935
Grace Morgan Ruland
1876–1951
Marriage: 19 January 1904
Grace F Ruland
1905–1988

Sources (14)

  • Grace Ruland in household of Thomas Campbell, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Grace Morgan Ruland - Government record: birth-name: Grace M
  • Grace Morgan Ruland Ruland, "Find A Grave Index"

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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Name Meaning

German (also Rüland): variant of Ruhland .

Altered form of French Rolland .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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