The Rudick, Meiser and Rogers Branches
Who was John Andrew Rudick?
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Five of Henry's children hauled their families and belongings south to Blount County, Tennessee, around 1799. Mizer Station, Tennessee is named for one of them. Over half a century later, John Henry Meiser, fourth generation, wagon-trained it westward to Benton County, Arkansas. Within two or three generations, there were a bewildering number of Mizers in that corner of Arkansas!
Ebenezer Reddick and Stephen Reddick came to Benton County, Arkansas, from North Carolina, living in Benton County Tennessee for a decade or so. While Stephen Reddick is probably Ebenezer's son, there is no absolute proof.
Ollie Mae Rudick and Columbus (Lum) John Norman were married in Stone County, Arkansas, and in 1900 lived in Big Flat, the same town her mother, brothers and sisters lived in. In 1910 and 1920 they lived in Farris, Arkansas, perhaps five miles south of Big Flat. In 1930, they lived in Castle, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. In 1947, Ollie was married to Samuel Tilden Abbot (1876 to 1958), and lived in Luther, Oklahoma. She died in Los Angeles, California.
Josephine "Josie" Rudick died after a long fight with cancer at the age of 30. At her death she was a widow with two young daughters. Her husband Thomas Hutchinson's mother was a Native American of the Ottawa tribe.
Edna Aldene Rudick married Samuel A. Prater in 1902 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, and they probably lived the rest of their lives in Oklahoma.
Rosa Rudick married John Gerty McCarty in Arkansas in 1901. In 1910 and 1920, they lived in Beardon, Marion County, Arkansas.
Floyd Erasmus Rudick married Annie Belle Branscum in 1905. He seems to have worked on a farm in Duenweg, Jasper County, Missouri during the 1910 census (?!). In 1920 his family was in Harris, Stone County, Arkansas, just north of Mountain View. In 1930 they lived in Cache, Woodruff County, Arkansas. Floyd died in 1967 in nearby McCrory, Arkansas. While his World War One draft registration shows his middle name as "Erasmus", some of his family knew him as Floyd "Eloyd" Rudick, and Eloyd was the middle name of his son Clarence.
Cecil Edward Rudick was my great grandfather. I could not find him in the 1910 census. The Cessna family lived in Larue County, Kentucky in 1900, and relocated to Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, where they lived in 1910. Cecil married Mary Alice Cessna in Gore, Oklahoma.Their first child, Walter Rudick, was born in Oklahoma in 1912. My grandmother, Dorothy Bonita Rudick, was born in Kentucky in 1915. In 1920 the family lived in Louisville, and Cecil worked as a conductor for the Louisville Railroad. Daughter Vera Mae Rudick was born in 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, where Cecil was a career streetcar motorman.
Macon Cornelius Rudick worked as a hired hand on the Prater farm in 1910, and later he was a Depot Agent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Macon and his wife Bessie C. lived in Campbell, Sequoyah County, in 1920. Macon and Bessie are buried in Gore Cemetery, Sequoyah County.
In 1910, Winfred Homer Rudick lived in Big Flat with his grandmother, Sarah Crews. He married Jeanette (Netty) Reece and in 1920 they lived in Beardon, Marion County, Arkansas. Homer and his mother Catherine are buried in Luther Cemetery, Luther, Oklahoma.
Catherine Crews-Rudick was married to John Rose in 1910. They're in the census, living in Long Creek, Searcy County, Arkansas. In 1920, she is the Catherine Sutterfield (Satterfield in the census) married to Samuel P. Sutterfield, living also in Long Creek, Searcy County, Arkansas. She is buried in Oklahoma, and her tombstone reads "Catherine Sutterfield".
