living in IN in 1888.
or may have been married 15 Mar 1864 in Randolph, NC.
Records indicate that outliers (deserters from the Confederacy) attacked William's farm during the Civil War, and Ruth, coming to the aid of her husband, was shot and later died from the injury.
Was in Texas in 1888.
In 1888 was in the State Penitentiary at Raleigh (convicted of murdering a man while working on the railroad in Moore County).