Hello all! I'm also looking for a Samuel Bruce. Samuel Bruce was born about 1816 in Pennsylvania. I have no idea as to which area of the state. All I really know is that his son Stephen Bruce was born in 1843 in Troy Township of Fountain County, Indiana. I have been unable to locate Samuel and Elizabeth Bruce in the 1850 census records, but think that they may have moved to Missouri. I think that Stephen Bruce may have also been called Nathan Bruce. I have a copy of the marriage license of Stephen Bruce and Anna Jane Tribbitt, but the marriage records list a Nathan Bruce and Jane Tribbitt as being married on that date and in that place. So was his name Stephen Nathan Bruce or Nathan Stephen Bruce? Family lore has it that Stephen ran away to join the Union Army by hiding in one of their wagons. He was not discovered until the next day, and since they couldn't make the trip to take him home, they mustered him in and let him serve as their bugel boy. I think the army may have fudged on his age as the story related he was 15 or 16 at the time he ran away. Mustered into Military at Indianapolis on Sept. 17, 1862 for a term of three years by Captain Pomeroy of the United States Army. Age 18. Eyes: grey Hair: light Height: 6' Complexion: fair Nativity: Carroll County, Indiana Occupation: Farmer Mustered out at Greensboro, North Caroline on June 2, 1865 Shortly after his return to Indiana in 1865, he married Jane Tribbitt in Carroll County, IND. My Great-Grandfather, Bert Monroe Bruce, was their third child. He married Lydia Ann Shuey Burleigh in 1903 in Peru, Miami, Indiana. Bert and Lydia stayed in Carroll County, Ind. until after the birth of their 3rd child, my Grandmother, Mabel Pauline Bruce. They then moved to Chehalis, Lewis, Washington where the next two children were born. Eventually they moved down the coast to Los Angeles, CA where Bert built homes. He must've gotten homesick though, for he traded in the property that he had in Los Angeles for some land, site unseen in March, Dallas, Missouri. It was there that he died, in 1937, from a massive heart attack and is buried in the Atteberry Shed Cemetery. Lydia lived until 1953 and died in San Antonio, Duval, TX. She was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Wewoka, Seminole, OK My Grandmother, Mabel Pauline Bruce left Missouri in the late 1920's and joined her sister in Oklahoma. It was in Wewoka, OK that she met a young man who was working in the oil fields. His name was Raymond Earl RAMSEY and they were married in 1927. Ray and Mabel had six children, and their third child was my father, Donald Ray Ramsey. My Dad grew up in Wewoka, OK and attended college in Ada, OK. It was there that he met my mom, Virginia Lee Sparkman. After graduation they were married. I guess I broke the 3rd child tradition because I am their first child. My brother Stephen Ramsey is their oldest son and third child though. (I never saw the third child connection between the generations before this.) If any of you Bruce's out there have any knowledge of or connections to this Bruce Family, I'd love to hear from you. Maybe we can help fill in some of the gaps. Rebecca Ramsey Rramsey113@aol.com Descendants of _______ BRUCE - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1- BRUCE 2-Samuel BRUCE (1816-) + Elizabeth MAISH (1818-) 3-Stephen BRUCE (Feb 28 1843-Feb 26 1922) + Anna "Jane" TRIBBITT 4-William BRUCE (1868-) (May have been Chief of Police in Chicago, Illinois at some point in time) 4-Charles BRUCE (1873-Jan 29 1884) 4-Bert Monroe BRUCE (Apr 1 1873-Jul 8 1937) sp: Lydia Ann SHUEY BURLEIGH (Apr 8 1875-Mar 5 1953) 5-Faye Lenore BRUCE (Dec 2 1901-Nov 9 1974) 5-Robert "Russell" BRUCE (Nov 10 1904-Jun 4 1978) 5-Mabel Pauline BRUCE (Sep 21 1905-Sep 13 1987) 5-Vance Enos "Bill" BRUCE (May 7 1908-Jul 10 1986) 5-Myrtle Esther BRUCE (Apr 23 1911-) 5-Anthony Wayne BRUCE (1914-1914) 4-Sorie BRUCE (1875-) 4-Mary BRUCE (1878-) 4-Frank BRUCE (1879-) + Bessie BENEFIELD 5-Harvey Everet BRUCE (Oct 27 1903-) 5-Charlie E. BRUCE (Jan 14 1906-) 5-Jenny Arvella BRUCE (Jul 6 1914-) 5-Martin Earl BRUCE (Jun 3 1919-) 4-Harry Kenneth BRUCE (Dec 8 1888-1980) + Ruth Anna ISAACS 5-Andrew S. BRUCE (Jul 1 1910-Jul 11 1910) 5-Vera Violet BRUCE (Jun 30 1913-) 2-Stephen BRUCE (1817-) + Nancy J. _____ (abt 1835-) 3-Jerome L. BRUCE (abt 1848-) 3-Joseph C. BRUCE (1857-) 3-Mallisa O. BRUCE (Jan 1860-)