• Born: 22 Nov 1867, Indiana ¹
• Died: 16 Oct 1939, Challis, Custer County, Idaho at age 71 ^{2 3}

Rupert received 81.82 acres of land from the federal government on June 19, 1917 under land grant patent number 588629. He also received an additional 78.77 acres of land on March 20, 1922 through land grant patent number 855373.
(Source: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?Accession=588629&Index=2&QryID=83865.89&DetailTab=1)

Rupert was never married and had no children and it is not likely he saw his family very often. The 1923 Plainville Times (Kansas) obituary of his brother Wilbert states that Wilbert traveled from Kansas to visit Rupert in Idaho in the fall of 1922 and adds that Wilbert had not seen Rupert for over 30 years which seems to agree with the time frame in the book excerpt above. For the most part, Rupert lived on his ranch and occasionally traveled to Challis to purchase supplies. Around 1936 or 1937, he sold his property but reserved a cabin on the ranch where he continued to live.

Denis Vine, who is a descendent of Rupert's sister, Mary Lucinda, writes that, as Mary recounted, Rupert had excellent handwriting and, although he never married, he wrote letters to a lot of girls in waiting. When Rupert died, Mary inherited some of his personal items. In particular was a very nice shirt which she eventually cut into sections for use as scarves, giving at least one of them to her son.