Rutha or Ruthie Roberts was Frank L. Rascoe's second or perhaps third wife. His first wife was Martha Seamans who died about 1862. They had two children: Mary M. Rascoe and John Seamans Rascoe. The 1870 census of Van Buren County shows Frank's wife as B. E. Rascoe age 19. This could be the same person as Rutha Roberts Rascoe. Frank L. Rascoe married Rutha Roberts about 1870-71 and they had two daughters, Martha Rascoe born about 1872 and Florence born about 1875.

Frank Rascoe moved his second family to Warm Springs, Randolph County Arkansas sometimes before 1880. In the 1880 census of Randolph County, Ark F. L. Rascoe with his two daughters, Martha and Florence Rascoe are enumerated. F.L. Rascoe list himself as a widower but his wife Rutha is listed in the 1880 census of White County Tennessee as a cook in the household of A. C. Parker family.

I am not sure if Rutha when to Arkansas and then returned to Tennessee or just never went to Arkansas. The book, "The Uneven Yoke" implies that she went to Arkansas.

Frank had turned his two eldest children, Mary and John over to the care of his mother and eldest sister Mahala Rascoe when his first wife, Martha Seaman died and Mahala raised then untill they were grown.

Frank L. Rascoe is buried somewhere in Randolph County but I do not know in which cemetery or if his grave has a headstone.He died in 1885. Rutha Roberts Rascoe is buried in the old Roberts cemetery four miles north of Doyle, White County Tennessee. Her headstone reads "Rutha Rascoe,
wife of Frank Rascoe, 1850 - 1889"

The book "The Uneven Yoke" hints at some sort of scandal, sexual promiscuity or infidelity or family disapproval of the marriage surrounding the marriage of Frank and Rutha.
May have been the primary reason for moving to Arkansas and leaving the two elder children in Tennessee