NOTES:
1900 ND CENSUS - Sherman S. Ruggles, age 2, b. Mar 1898 in North Dakota, is enumerated with father M. L. Ruggles, age 43, occupation farmer, b. Jul 1856 in Ohio, and his [M. L.'s] wife of 13 years, Elizabeth, age 40, mother of 5 children, b. Oct 1859 in Wisconsin, along with Delbert M., age 12, b. Mar 1888 in North Dakota, Wilber B., age 10, b. Jan 1890 in Wisconsin [?], Charles M., age 7, b. Jun 1892 in North Dakota, and Raymond M., age 5, b. Sep 1894 in North Dakota.
1910 OR CENSUS – Sherman S. Ruggles (12y, b North Dakota) enumerated with mother Elizabeth (50y, b Wisconsin, widowed, mother of 7 children, 6 living at time of census) and 5 siblings, Adelbert M. (22y, b North Dakota, occupation partner in furnace factory), Wilbur B. (19y, b Missouri, occupation messenger), Charles M. (17y, b North Dakota), Raymond R. (15y, b North Dakota) and Alice E. (4y, b Oregon)
WWI Draft Registration Card – Sherman Samuel Ruggles, 20, of RFD 3, Salem, Marion co, Oregon; b 16 Mar 1898; occupation farming; nearest relative Elizabeth Ruggles, RFD 3, Salem Oregon
1920 OR CENSUS – Sherman S. Ruggles (21y, b North Dakota) enumerated with mother Elizabeth (60y, b Wisconsin, widowed, occupation farmer) and sister Alice (14y, b Oregon)
1st MARRIAGE – Sherman S. Ruggles & Mrs Gladys O. Simmons md 8 Aug 1925, Marion Co, Oregon
1930 OR CENSUS - Sherman S. Ruggles, age 32, occupation truck driver, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Gladys O., age 25, b. Oregon, is enumerated with husband along with Sherman W., age 2 yr's 10 m's, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with Dolly Tate, age 16, identified as sister-in-law [of Sherman], b. Oregon, and Henry Tate, age 79, identified as father-in-law [of Sherman], widowed, b. California.
1940 OR CENSUS – Sherman Ruggles (42y, b North Dakota, occupation truck driver) enumerated with wife Gladys (36y, b Oregon) and 2 children, Sherman W. (12y, b Oregon) and Ronald R. (7y, b Oregon); family was living at Falls City, Polk Co, Oregon, in 1935. Also with family was lodger Wilbur E. Dawson (50y, b Oregon, occupation painter) and his wife Hallie (47y, b Oregon) who were living at Albany, Linn Co, Oregon in 1935
NOTE – Gladys was widow of Ernest W. Simmons who is buried in lot 822. The Ruggles were divorced. Gladys remarried to Lawrence Henry Jazek. She died 28 June 1974 in Douglas co, Oregon, and was buried in Roseburg Memory Gardens
2nd MARRIAGE – Sherman S. Ruggles & Martha Harris md 11 Jan 1949, Polk Co, Oregon
NOTE – Martha was widow of Warren Thomas Harris. She died in 1993 and was buried with her first husband in Dallas Cemetery
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OBITUARY:
SHERMAN S. RUGGLES.
Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Bollman chapel in Dallas for Sherman S. Ruggles, 69, of 851 Rosemont Ave. NW, Salem, who died Thursday night at a Salem hospital, apparently of a lung illness. Rev. J. Maurice Thompson of the First Christian Church in Salem will officiate. Burial will be at Pioneer Cemetery, Salem.
Ruggles moved here in 1905 from North Dakota. He lived in the Salem area and Dallas since that time. Before his retirement about six years ago he drove a log truck.
Survivors include his widow, Martha, Salem; sons Sherman W. Guerneville, Calif., and Ronald of Eugene; stepdaughters, Evelyn Martin, San Francisco, and Eva Kahler, Dallas; brothers Charles and Raymond of Salem, Delbert, Chicago, and Wilbur, Portland; 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Oregon Statesman 15 Apr 1967 7:3
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SOURCES:
LR
LD
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (1967 Marion co) #5433
1900 ND CENSUS (Griggs, Co., Cooperstown, ED 76, sheet 1B)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 225, sheet 11B)
WWI Draft Registration Card (Ancestry.com)
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Rosedale, ED 340, sheet 4A)
Oregon Marriage Index
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, ED 43, sheet 3A)
1940 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Dallas, ED 27-6, sheet 4A)
OS 15 April 1967 7:3
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