Hannah Rose FRAZER

   Other names for Hannah were Mrs. Hannah Rose RUSLING and Mrs. James RUSLING.

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  General Notes:

HANNAH ROSE RUSLING, the second wife of James Rusling, was born November, 1775, and died April 14, 1848, at Hope, N. J. She was from Schooley's Mountain or Fox Hill, or from Morris or Somerset County, New Jersey, not far from Hackettstown. She was a widow when James Rusling married her, and her maiden name was Frazer. This is all I have been able to discover about her. She was a tall and active woman, of a pious and godly frame of mind, and made him an excellent wife, as my father always said-an exceptionally good step-mother to his seven children, with four of her own to follow afterwards. I remember her visiting at my father's, when a lad, and she was always very welcome. When she died she was buried first at Washington, Warren County, New Jersey, by the side of her husband (James Rusling); but subsequently (in 1892) her remains and gravestone were removed to Asbury, New Jersey, by my brother Henry and myself, and placed in the "Rusling Plot" there. According to her grandson, Joseph Rusling Encke, she used to relate, that during the Revolution one time her mother and she lived four days in the cellar of their house, because of a battle raging near, and British bullets, cannon-balls, etc., flying about. If so, she probably lived near Springfield or Bound Brook, N. J., at that time. Her father was absent with the American army. I have no doubt she was a very estimable lady.

Hannah married James RUSLING, son of Robert RUSLING and Christiana WHITTLES, on 2 Apr 1810. (James RUSLING was born on 26 Jul 1762 in Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, died on 11 Aug 1826 in Newburgh, Morris County, New Jersey, USA and was buried in Aug 1826 in Washington, Warren County, New Jersey, USA.)