My Genealogy Hound

JACOB KULP RUTH, a well-known farmer of Worcester township, was born at Elroy, Montgomery county, November 22, 1871. He attended the public schools of Skippack township until nearly twenty-one years of age, and then worked on the farm until 1895. At that time he married Mary Ann, daughter of David Kriebel. The couple have four children: Ella May, who is about eight years old; Melinda, six years of age; Melvin, two years of age; and Walter, an infant.

Mr. Ruth is now engaged in farming on a tract of land adjoining the home of his wife’s father. He is a Republican in politics. He attends the Schwenkfelder church, but his parents were Mennonites.

The parents of Mr. Ruth are natives of Montgomery county, are about fifty years of age, are farmers and live near Kulpsville. Mr. Ruth’s mother, Mary Ann Ruth, is the daughter of David Kulp. The couple had four children, of whom Jacob K. Kulp is the eldest; the next in order is David, who died at about twenty-two years of age; Harriett is the wife of Irvin Clemmer, they living near Kulpsville, and having no children; William Franklin Ruth, the youngest of the family, resides with his parents. He is now about twenty-one years of age and is engaged in teaching school.

The paternal grandfather, Jacob Ruth, is now over eighty years of age and resides with his son near Kulpsville. The paternal grandmother, Mary Boorse, died at an advanced age. Mr. Ruth’s father had two brothers and sisters: Daniel Ruth, a farmer, and Mary, who married Frank Hakel. Mr. Hakel is living near Skippackville; his wife is deceased. They have no children.

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Ruth was David Gulick, deceased.

The brother and sister of Jacob K. Ruth’s mother are: Oliver Kulp, deceased; and Eliza Kulp, who died unmarried about four years ago, at the age of thirty years.

David D. Kriebel, born November 30, 1844, father of Mrs. Jacob K. Ruth, is the son of Jacob Kriebel. He married Susanna, daughter of Samuel Schultz, January 23, 1869. Their eldest child, a son, born April 25, 1870, died the same day; Mary Ann (Mrs. Ruth), the second child, was born April 28, 1871; Harrison, born July 4, 1872, died July 18, 1872; Laura, born April 14, 1874, died August 18, 1874; Wilson, born September 6, 1875, died October 15, 1875; Ellena, born March 13, 1877, died August 8, 1877. Jane Kriebel, born January 20, 1879, married George
S. Kratz and has one child, Vidia; Susanna is deceased; Salina married Clinton Felty and has one child, Arthur; Ida Kriebel was born December 9, 1882; Lydia K. died when eight years of age.

Jacob Kriebel (grandfather of Mrs. Ruth) was the son of Rev. David Kriebel, who married Susanna, daughter of Jacob Dresher.

The Kriebels belong to the Schwenkfelder church and several of the ancestors were preachers of that faith.

The founders of the family on the paternal side were Susannah Schultz, maiden name Deuterich, and her husband, Balthasar Schultz, who came to Pennsylvania in 1734. Their children were: George, born 1710; Susanna; Maria; and Barbara.

Susanna Schultz, widow, died February 23, 1865. Balthasar died in Saxony, Germany, in 1727, at the age of forty-seven years. He was a son of Mathias Schultz.