Henry Keck Rugh came with his father, Michael Rugh, by flatboat down the Ohio and up the Mississippi from s.w. Pennsylvania to south-eastern Iowa in 1847. They were all "Pennsylvania Dutch", being descended from an immigrant (John Michael Ruch) who had arrived from Germanic Alsace way back in 1733.

By 1857, Michael with family, including son Henry, had purchased and settled on their farm in nearby Scotland County Missouri, near Azen.

Henry went into the Union army at age 18 and fought with the 21st Missouri infantry at Shiloh where he was captured. After the war he returned, married Carrie Terrell and settled on his own farm just down the road from his dad.

They had 12 children of which two died in infancy and one as a young man. The last child born was Scott, pictured here. Another child was "Nellie", the grandmother that left us the album of photos we are now enjoying.

On retirement from the farm, Henry and Carrie moved into Memphis. The present day Memphis Hospital now sits behind Henry's old home there..

Henry & Carrie are buried in the Prairie Grove Cemetery, next to the little Methodist church they attended for so many years..