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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant Colonel / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Will stated: "It is to be observed that I reserve half an acre for a grave yard is now fixed to belong to my Family forever..."
Sourced biography
Author: COL Joseph Milton Ware
Ambrose Rucker was born about 1725 in Orange County, Virginia, one of the twelve children of John Rucker and Susannah Coghill. On his father's death in 1742, he inherited approximately 5000 acres in Albermarle County. In about 1760, he took up residence in that part that became Amherst County the following year. He was then appointed Lieutenant in the Virginia Militia. He was a substantial citizen of the county and, when relations with England worsened, was appointed to the Committee of Safety and the Virginia House of Delegates.
When the war broke out, he was appointed Captain of the Militia. His company guarded some of the thousands of British and Hessian prisoners from Saratoga held at Albermarle Barracks. Later he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded a battalion. While attending the House of Delegates meeting in Charlottesville, he narrowly escaped capture by the infamous Tarleton and his Dragoons. Ambrose, although he was 6' 6" and weighed 303 pounds, outran his pursuers while mounted on his sturdy hunter.
Ambrose could have been said to have had a "good war," but it was marred by the loss of his oldest son, Reuben, who was killed in action in the last year of the war. I am descended from Reuben's daughter Rosamund, a girl of three when she lost her father. Ambrose died in 1807.
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