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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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