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Continued: A DNA test revealed a non-paternity event which shows Roscoe Jude's
father
was Alexander "Alex" Slone.
Benjamin Jude's family was most likely the last family on record who also
used the alias surname Frederick in Martin Co., KY. In fact, when
Benjamin married his wife Isabelle Blankenship in 1908, he married as a
Frederick. On the 1910 census all the Jude families in Martin Co., KY
were identified with the alias surname Frederick, which did not reflect
their true original surname, which was Jude. Consequently, after 1920
almost all the Frederick families had switched to Jude on the 1920 Martin
Co., KY census with the exception of Benjamin's family who was identified
as the only family on the 1920 Martin Co., KY census who was still using
the alias surname Frederick. After 1920 all the Frederick or Jude
families had switched back to their original surname, i.e., Jude, which
is a very old name that dates back to the Colonial period in the New
River Valley in Western North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia, where
John Jude b. abt 1765 was identified more than two hundred years ago on
the 1810 Surry Co., NC census. John died shortly after 1810, perhaps
during the war of 1812 and his widow Mary "Polly" Jude was identified on
the 1820 Grayson Co., VA census. Both of the 1810 & 1820 census records
indicated there were three sons in the family. After 1820, John Jude's
widow Mary married a German immigrant with the surname Frederick or
originally in German was spelled "Friedrich". Since this still
unidentified step father with the surname Frederick helped Mary raise her
sons, they chose to use their stepfather's surname, i.e., Frederick as a
way to honor him.
There were no Jude families using the alias surname Frederick on the 1930
Martin Co. KY census. Since then, we have continued the use of the
historical and in my opinion the distinguished surname Jude.
Find a grave memorial:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147029682/roscoe-jude
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