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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ellison James Rudd: Birth: 26 SEP 1845 in Geneva, AL. Death: 1 DEC 1921 in Quincy, Gadsden Co. FL

  2. Frances Caroline RUDD: Birth: 29 APR 1847 in Geneva, Geneva Co., AL. Death: 8 NOV 1920 in Quincy, Gadsden Co., FL

  3. Caroline Frances Rudd: Birth: 26 SEP 1847 in Geneva Co, AL. Death: 8 OCT 1920 in Quincy, Gadsden Co. FL

  4. John Cullen Rudd: Birth: 3 SEP 1849 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 27 FEB 1886 in Montgomery Co. TX

  5. Calvin David Rudd: Birth: 23 FEB 1851 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 27 FEB 1886 in Gadsden Co. FL

  6. Charles Washington Rudd: Birth: 22 OCT 1853 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 16 DEC 1937 in Texas, Indiana, USA

  7. William Elias Rudd: Birth: 3 JAN 1856 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 3 MAR 1931

  8. Eliza Elizabeth Rudd: Birth: 26 SEP 1858 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 12 MAR 1923 in Carrabelle, Franklin, FL

  9. Zeno Miner Rudd: Birth: 10 APR 1860 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 17 OCT 1935

  10. Zenothan Miles Rudd: Birth: 10 APR 1860 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 22 JAN 1938

  11. Henry Samuel Rudd: Birth: 4 AUG 1863 in Quincy, Gadsden Co., FL. Death: 10 NOV 1919 in Tallahassee, Leon Co., FL

  12. Thomas Lee Rudd: Birth: 28 MAY 1866 in Quincy, Gadsden, FL. Death: 6 MAR 1936


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Edward Venbon Rudd: Birth: 29 SEP 1870 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 18 SEP 1897 in Gadsden Co. FL

  2. M. W. Rudd: Birth: 1872.

  3. Martha Ann RUDD: Birth: 21 MAR 1872 in Gadsden Co., FL. Death: 8 JUL 1897 in Providence, Gadsden co., FL

  4. Jessie Melessis Rudd: Birth: 30 SEP 1873 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 5 FEB 1950 in Gadsden Co. FL

  5. Alice Lilla Rudd: Birth: 29 NOV 1875 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 12 OCT 1949

  6. Walter Jones Rudd: Birth: 8 AUG 1877 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 22 JAN 1898 in Gadsden Co. FL

  7. Thursey Ann Rudd: Birth: 9 APR 1879 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 24 JUL 1969 in Gadsden Co. FL

  8. Mandie Dellar Rudd: Birth: 5 AUG 1881 in Gadsden Co. FL. Death: 4 OCT 1962 in Providence, Gadsden Co. FL


Sources
1. Title:   OneWorldTreeSM
2. Title:   Family Data Collection - Deaths
Author:   Edmund West, comp.
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001
3. Title:   One World Tree (sm)
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.
4. Title:   Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006
5. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004
6. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003
7. Title:   Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers
Author:   Historical Data Systems, comp.
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999

Notes
a. Note:   Located about 9 miles south of Quincy just east of Highway 267 at Wetumpka.
  Name:Elias T Rudd ,
 Enlistment Date:15 Apr 1864
 Side Served:Confederacy
 State Served:Florida
 Death Date:21 Mar 1895
 Death Place:Gadsden County, FL
 Service Record:Enlisted as a Private on 15 April 1864
 Enlisted in Company L, 1st Reserve Infantry Regiment Florida on 15 April 1864.
 Oath Allegiance on 14 May 1865 at Madison, FL
 Height:5'5 "
 Eye Color:blue
 Hair Color:dark
 Complexion:dark
  Per Geleeta Shepard of Lake City, FL through records of child #1 Ellison RUDD, Mallie Mae CROFT Erickson, family bible of Florence RUDD PARRAMORE, LDS church records, 1885 Gasden FL Census pg 13
  Per Dora DEAN RUDD, Temple TX: through same source. Buried at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Wetumpka, Gadsden Co., Florida
  Notes received through Harry RUDD son of Robert Miles RUDD, from Grand son of Zeno Minor RUDD. Original notes prepared by Garrard RUDD, grandson of Ellison James RUDD from notes of Mallie CROFT Erickson research, 12 February 1977:
  Elias Trowell RUDD Other Marriages of his children:
 Child 5 married 2nd to Susan Hamm, no issue
 Child 6 married Neal PARRAMORE, no issue
 Child 10 married 2nd Minnie McDonald, several children
  Harriette Ann Finn, wife of child 1 was born out of wedlock to Susan DIXON, who subsequently married Phillip Finn.
  Mrs. Erickson (her mother is a daughter of child 1) found descendants of child 3 in Texas where he became lost by his designing to the RUDD Family and also became quite wealthy in the rich oil and cattle country. However, Mrs. Erickson became friends of this family and was given all the data she needed.
  Elias Trowell RUDD, presumably was born in Barnwell Co., South Carolina. He married Mary Jones, daughter of John Edmond Jones, a doctor, and Nancy Vaughan.
  Elias Trowell appears on the 1850 census report of Gadsden Co., Florida as head of a family. He served in the confederate army in the was between the states, and it is said of him that he reprimanded his son Ellison that was fighting alongside of him at the battle of Natural Bridge for seemingly cowardliness while in fact he was quite ill from the measles. The Northern forces were cut off from the capital at Tallahassee here. Father and son were engaged in building the breast works at Olustlee where the Northern forces were stopped in their Western advance. He and his son and their outfit "rough marched" to Natural Bridge.
  Elias Trowell built a homestead in the south-east area of Gadsden Co. which is now inundated by a man-made lake save for the immediate home site which was in evidence when my sister visited there in the late 1930's The impounded water is called Lake Talquin for Tallahassee-Quincy.
  His wife Mary Jones died here June 18, 1869. After rearing a second family by his 2nd wife, Mary Sadberry, he died March 21, 1895 from a cancer caused from the continual smoking of a pipe with the stem constantly irritating the inside of his cheek.
  In 1928 I became one of a legion of heirs that came into a small legacy from the sale of property to the power company which built the power project.
  As the life of Mary Jones RUDD apparently was closing she requested that her six-week-old granddaughter, Mary Catherine (Molly) who grew up to marry Henry Alfred CHESTER be brought to her. Her son Minor was sent on horseback to tell his brother Ellison. Minor took the infant's mother Harriette on the horse with him and went around the heads of the creeks while Ellison clasp the infant in his arms and took a shorter route through the swamps. He first had to CROSS Sandy Branch then another at the Stokley Sadberry place and across another at the Green CHESTER place (Mollie's future father-in-law) continuing on east and crossed the Auklawaha at the Seaborn PARRAMORE place. A total of about five miles if I correctly recolect the distance. Ellison and the baby, both dripping wet from fording the several swollen streams finally reached the bedside of the dying grand mother. The grand mother's pillow was elevated so that she could better see the child, she softly stroked the little ones' head and weakly said "God Bless You". Ellison lowered the mother's pillow and she soon went to sleep to awaken into a bright new existence.
  She was the daughter of a respected man, Dr. John Edmond Jones, and she fulfilled the measure of the gentlewoman that she was and has bequeathed so beautiful a Christ-like heritage to her posterity for which we might all emulate with eternal profit to our souls.
  This narrative was related to me by her grand daughter, Lou RUDD CROFT (Jessie Louise). I am familiar with the route that Ellison traveled for having fished, hunted and trapped over the area in the late "teens". The infant was Mrs. CROFT's sister.
  Garrard L. RUDD
 4214 Palmer Ave.
 Jacksonville, FL 322101
  Elias David RUDD The following information was given to me by Harriette Ann Finn, wife of Ellison James RUDD, and Mary Sadberry, 2nd wife of Elias Trowell RUDD, in 1930 and 1939 respectively; Elias had a sister who married a Kitterer or Kittarer. Each also confirmed that his wife was Fannie Tanner.
  In a brief note from Mallie CROFT Erickson to her mother while Mallie was out in the research field, she wrote, "Mama, the Rudds came from Barnwell Co. South Carolina, so did the Crofts".
  Mrs. Erickson had spent endless hours in research of these families, having traveled extensively from Texas to the eastern seaboard states. I also recall her mentioning a Mrs. Smith, an elderly lady who in the middle 40's was 100 years old still sewing and reading without glasses. I did not ascertain if she was a RUDD that had married a Smith or what, Mrs. Erickson is now widowed and is the secretary to the Ellison James RUDD Family Organization the post I held for about forty years.
  As of this date very little is known of Elias David RUDD. I have learned that his wife in one place is referred to as Fannie Breeland. Could it possibly be that he married a widow? If so which of the names is the maiden name? Oh well, such are the problems confronting genealogy research. Who is she, where did she come from, who are her people, etc, etc.
  Little could I glean from Mr. Seaborn (Seab) PARRAMORE, at the funeral and internment of my sainted grand mother Harriette Ann Finn RUDD, 27 Dec. 1935 at Quincy, Florida in the Antioch Baptist church and the adjoining cemetery. Mr. PARRAMORE was present at the internment of Elias David RUDD.
  While witnessing the final closing of the grave, I had also accompanied the bier from Jacksonville, I chanced a question to Mr. PARRAMORE. I said, "Mr. PARRAMORE I have been told that Elias David was taken back to Alabama for internment."
  "T'ain't so," he said. "He is buried right over there", pointing in the direction of Friendship or Shaw Cemetery, a mile or so distant. "I was was only a slip of a boy , but I 'recolect' as it was yesterday. I was there. I remember him having a ruddy complexion and a full head of white hair down to his shoulders. And he had a daughter named Sarah who never married and stayed home to care for the old gent." I neglected to ask if she was still living at his death.
  I solicit any information from anyone who knows, when the writing comes to their view, if they know of any particulars to this family.
 Garrard L. RUDD
 4214 Palmer Ave.
 Jacksonville, FL 32210
 (904) 388-3684
  notes from Walter E. RUDD: CSA information:
 APP. # Unit Spouse Co.
 A00873, RUDD, Elios, (ETR) lst Regt Inf Resv,....Mary (Sadbury), 2nd wife; Gadsden Co, 1902, 12 pgs
 Father: EDR
  A07292, RUDD, Ellison J., ,,, (SEE A02365)
  A02365, RUDD, Ellison J.,.....lst Regt Inf Resv,......Harriett (DIXON) Gadsden Co, 1907, 20 pgs
 Father: ETR ..........................Info provided by Geletta Shepard great grand daughter list wife as Harriett Ann Finn her mother: Susan Catherine DIXON her father: Phillip Finn
 Info from Dora DEAN RUDD list wife as Harriett Ann Williams her mother: Susan Catherine Dickson and her father: ? Williams
  A04633, RUDD, Samuel J.,...Georgia,....................Julia (Slay),.......Gadsden Co, 1904, 15 pgs
 Father: Seth J. RUDD..............Info from Dora DEAN RUDD list her as3rd wife; a notation says she was sister to his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Craft
 ...............................................Info from Geletta Shepard also list her a 3rd wife but no other details
  D02146, RUDD, Samuel,.......6th Regt Inf, ..........Annie (--),.........Gadsden Co 1899, 02 pgs
 Father: EDR..........................Info provided by Geletta Shepard list the wife: Annie Cathun


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