When Ruel Michael Barrus was born on 14 November 1850, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Emery Stebbins Barrus, was 41 and his mother, Huldah Abigail Nickerson, was 34. He married Ida Princetta Hunter on 1 February 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States for about 40 years. He died on 23 May 1916, in Groveland, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Groveland, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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English: variant of Barrows .
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Possible Related NamesSources: Esther Barrus Warner Caroline Hubbard Papers 1860 Lydia Knight in Journal History of the Church 1833 ENSIGN, Magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Nov 1973 This …
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