Rudder, Bernard H.

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• Reference Number: RUDD.B001
• _FGRAVE: 1141118
• Military Service: World War II, Private First Class, Service Battery, 252nd Field Artillery Battalion, United States Army
• Census: 5 Apr 1930, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; 1930 Census, Clay City (Village), Clay County, Illinois, page 06a
• Census: 4 Apr 1940, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; 1940 Census, Clay City (Village), Clay County, Illinois, page 03a

Notes:

Military Service:
Entered active service as a draftee on December 29, 1942 at Chicago, Illinois. Selected for the Field Artillery, completed basic training, and qualified in the military occupational specialty of Second Echelon Auto Mechanic (MOS 014). Departed t the Continental U.S. on August 14, 1944 bound for the European Theater of Operations. Participated in the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns. Wounded by enemy action on December 3, 1944. Assigned to the Service Battery, 252nd Field Artillery Battalion when honorably discharged as a Private First Class on January 27, 1946 at the Separation Center, Fort Dix, New Jersey. Earned the Purple Heard Medal, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 2 bronze battle stars, and the WWII Victory Medal.

This information has been posted on the National World War II Memorial's Registry of Remembrances website by Robert Medley Gatewood. It is entered here with his permission.

Source: http://www.wwiimemorial.com/Registry/plaque.aspx?honoreeID=2280919

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• Occupation: Laborer
• Reference Number: RUDD.H001

Harvey married Frock, Mary. Mary (daughter of Frock, Francis Jerry and Frock, Frances Katherine) was born on 5 Sep 1897 in Arkansas; died on 21 Jan 1919 in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: FROC.M001

J.C. married Barnett, Mary Lucinda. Mary (daughter of Barnett, F. and Pierce, M.J.) was born on 16 Feb 1859 in Olney, Richland County, Illinois; died on 29 Oct 1946 in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; was buried in Clay City Cemetery, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: BARN.M006

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• Reference Number: FROC.F002

Francis married Frock, Frances Katherine in 1896. Frances (daughter of Frock, Michael M. and Barker, Margaret) was born on 17 Feb 1881 in Lafe, Breckenridge Township, Greene County, Arkansas; died on 17 Jun 1968 in Olney, Richland County, Illinois; was buried on 20 Jun 1968 in Zif Cemetery, Enterprise, Wayne County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: FROC.F001
• _FGRAVE: 19230826
• Funeral: 20 Jun 1968, DeSelms Funeral Home, Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois

Notes:

Frances lived at Rinard near Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois and later in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois after George died. She was stricken with a series of strokes in her older age and was a patient at Burgin Manor in Olney, Richland County, Illinois at the time of her death. Funeral services were held at the DeSelms Funeral Home in Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois. Services were conducted by Elder E.L. Brooks.

Residence before 1955: Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois
Residence after 1955: Clay City, Clay County, Illinois

Memories of Carl Gray, 30 Aug 2000, "Granny Bricker was old the first time I saw her. She smoked a corncob pipe and chewed Beechnut tobacco that she would spit in the ash pan that sat in front of the old wood burning stove in the living roomom. She had long light yellow and white hair that she wore in a bun at the top of her head.After all these years, I can still taste her (Francis') chicken and dumplings. We would visit her often on Sundays and that was normally the Sunday meal. I can still visualize the old yellow, two story farm house where she used to live in Rinard when we were kids. It had a large garden, honey bee hives down by the creek which was north of the house, chickens, guinea fowl, pigs, and cows. Easter lilies, tiger lilies, lilac bushes, and collared greens. She churned her own butter and sold eggs for income. She would often have a quilting frame set up in the living room where she would hand make quilts. It would take up most of the living room. As small kids, we would play under it and I would pretend it was a fort. She had old large wooden framed pictures of family members and an old wooden crank telephone on the wall.

A couple of her daughters lived in St. Louis.

My (Carl W. Gray) previous research indicated that she died on June 9, 1968. According to her obituary, however, this is the date that she entered the hospital. Also, according to her obituary, her funeral was conducted on June 20, 1968 (Thursday) and that she died on the previous Monday. Since it would have been unusual to keep her body for 11 days, I conclude that she must have died on June 17, 1968.

Birth:
The 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 census say whe was born in Illinois.

Died:
My (Carl W. Gray) previous research indicated that she died on June 9, 1968. According to her obituary, however, this is the date that she entered the hospital. Also, according to her obituary, her funeral was conducted on June 20, 1968 (Thursday) and that she died on the previous Monday. Since it would have been unusual to keep her body for 11 days, I conclude that she must have died on June 17, 1968.

F. married Pierce, M.J.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: FROC.M003

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Census: 25 Jul 1860 Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana
Census: 1870 Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana
Census: 6 Jul 1880 Zif Township, Wayne County, Illinois

Buried:
Ryan Boyer's research shows he was buried in Toelken Cemetery, Greene County, Arkansas. I found a Talken Cemetery with Michael Frock listed, but no useable information.

Michael married Barker, Margaret. Margaret (daughter of Barker, William R. and Everling, Harriet F.) was born in 1860 in Ohio; died between 1893 and 1900 in Upper Lafe, Lafe, Greene County, Arkansas; was buried in Lafe Cemetery, Lafe, Greene County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: BARK.M001

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Census: 6 Jul 1880 Zif Township, Wayne County, Illinois, age 20, in household #44, keeping house, wife, name harriet,
Next door in household #43
Barker, Harriet, head, age 47, born Indiana, father born Virginia, mother born Kentucky
George, son, 21, born Illinois, father born Indiana, farm hand
John, son, 13, born Illinois, father born Indiana, mother born Indiana, farm hand
Terry, Ellie M., 7, granddaughter, born Illinois, father born Ohio, mother born Indiana

In household #42:
Barker, Owens, age 75, head, farmer, born Kentucky, father born Virginia, mother born Kentucky
Ella, wife, age 74, leg broken, born Kentucky, father born Virginia, mother born Kentucky
Starkey, Elizabeth, age 40, niece, keeping house, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born Indiana
Starkey, Mary, 18, grand niece, born Indiana, father born Indiana, mother born Indiana
Starkey, Joseph, 13, grand nephew, born Indiana, father born Indiana, mother born Indiana (4)