Gazlay Family History
 

Family HistoryFamily History - Willis B. Ruppert


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Willis B. Ruppert and one of his descendants down to the second generation.


First and Second Generations
1. Willis B. Ruppert,1 born 17 May 1921 in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio (parents not determined).1 Willis married, 11 March 1944 in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, Marjorie Louise Hildebrand1 (born 24 August 1921 in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, the daughter of Ralph Elmer Hildebrand and Florence E. Bitler1, 2).

Child of Willis B. Ruppert and Marjorie Louise Hildebrand:

 2i. Karen Louise Ruppert, born 21 April 1948 in Bellevue, Sandusky County, Ohio.1

  1. Email from Mary Fetter to Lee Gazlay, various dates in April and June 2013. The emails include as attachments 18 pages of hand-written family history notes containing the names, birth, marriage and death dates and places, primarily centered around the ancestors and descendants of Carl Adolph Hildebrand (1886-1965) and his wife Maria Elizabeth Gazlay (1883-1973). The pages include surnames Gazlay, Hildebrand, Rhoades, Morgan, Zehner, and Fetter, among many other surnames. The information in these pages matches the same information found in other (primarily public) records, so is considered highly reliable.
  2. U.S. Federal Census, 1940, Ohio, Huron County, Bellevue, Enumeration District 39-3, Sheet No. 15A; family of Ralph E. Hildebrand (47, Ohio, agent for Penn. Railroad); wife Florence M. Hildebrand (47, Ohio); daughter Marjorie L. Hildebrand (18, Ohio); brother-in-law Jesse C. Bitler (52, Ohio, odd jobs).