The Murphy Family of Iowa and Minnesota |
In Memoriam
by His Wife, Mary (Garrahy) Murphy
United States Marine Corps
CURTIS L MURPHY
April 10, 1914 - November 30, 1987
Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota
PACIFIC THEATER: GUADALCANAL, SOLOMON
ISLANDS AND PEARL HARBOR.
Descendants
of Patrick Murphy
and
Margaret Madden
Generation No. 1
1. Patrick2 Murphy (Unknown1)1 was born in County Limerick, Ireland. He married Margaret Madden. She was born Abt. 1808 in County Limerick, Ireland, and died July 03, 1870 in Wellington Twp, Renville County, Minnesota.
Notes for Patrick Murphy:
This connection between the Renville MN Murphys and the Renville MN Ruddys was given to me by Mary Murphy who was told by Robert Coleman that the grandfather of Thomas Murphy who married Ann Coleman was a brother of the Ellen Murphy who married James Ruddy. Also there was a Margaret Murphy who died in Wellington twp July 7 1870 and this would be expected to be the mother of Ellen. Based on the LDS Ancestral File of Michael Murphy who married Mary Devaney, this Margaret might be the wife of "Thomas (AFN: CDD1-6L)" Michael's father as shown in that research, but further research* indicates that this Michael Murphy is also the son of Patrick and Margaret leaving us with the probable fact that Margaret d. 1870 Wellington is the mother of John, Michael and Ellen. *See Note 7/14/00 below
Ellen's father was Pat or Patrick based on her death certificate. Patrick (Thomas in LDS) was father of Michael Murphy who married Mary Devaney and John married Bridget Quinn. He was married to a Margaret based on LDS file. All these Murphys were from the same origin according to living kin.
NOTE 7/700: Mary Murphy confirmed Curtis Murphy's grandfather John's father was Patrick.
NOTE 7/8/00: Pat Despain, a Murphy researcher and origin of the LDS files mentioned above, indicates that relatives told her Michael m. Mary Devaney had a father Thomas m. a Margaret.
*NOTE 7/14/00: Based on Death record of Michael in 1903 (from Ottertail Genealogical Society) Michael's parents were Pat and Margaret.
Children of Patrick Murphy and Margaret Madden are:
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i. John3 Murphy, born
March 1830 in probably County Limerick, Ireland.
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ii. Ellen Murphy, born December 28,
1836 in Ireland; died December 10, 1903 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota.
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iii. Michael Murphy, born June 12,
1838 in County Limerick, Ireland Arrive US 1846; died December 19, 1903 in New
York Mills, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
Generation No. 2
2. John3 Murphy (Patrick2, Unknown1) was born March 1830 in probably County Limerick, Ireland. He married Bridget Quinn. She was born Abt. 1853 in Wisconsin, and died May 15, 1901 in probably New York Mills.
Notes for John Murphy:
A Margaret Murphy died in 1870 in Wellington Township was she Patrick Murphy's Wife?
Michael and Thomas were in the 1870 MN Federal Census in Cairo Township, Renville County, Minnesota.
Census of 1900 MN Renville County, Wellington Twp shows births for all and that the mother was born in Wisconsin
Notes for Bridget Quinn:
Bridget Quinn left this family and lived in New York Mills with her relatives.
More About Bridget Quinn:
Burial: St Stanilaus Cemetary Perham, Minnesota
Children of John Murphy and Bridget Quinn are:
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i. Thomas F4 Murphy, born
November 1873.
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ii. Mary Ann Murphy, born April 1876.
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iii. William Murphy, born May 1878.
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iv. J James Murphy, born April 1880.
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v. Michael Murphy, born May 1884. He married Rose Coleman November 16, 1909; born April 1891.
3. Ellen3 Murphy (Patrick2, Unknown1) was born December 28, 1836 in Ireland, and died December 10, 1903 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota. She married James M Ruddy2 May 03, 1857 in Prairie Du Chein, Crawford Co., Wisconsin, son of Daniel Ruddy and Ann Unknown. He was born October 11, 1820 in Ireland, and died November 28, 1883 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota.
Notes for Ellen Murphy:
Gravestone lists Ellen as wife of James at Cemetery of St Andrews in Wellington Township. Date was given as Dec 28, 1827 on stone. The Census of 1900 when she was alive gave Dec 1836 and I have chosen to stick with it. There is some question as to whether the year is correct. As the various census' disagree around a 2 year variation. US Census 1870 Allamakee County, Iowa: James and Ellen Reddy gives Ellen's age as 28, ie born 1842. Minnesota Census of 1900 says Ellen Murphy arrived to USA in 1851and that she could not Write or Read. There is an Ellen Murphy, age 12, on the ship Albert Gallatin Arr NY April 19, 1851 [p62 Glazier's Famine Emigrants Vol VII] With her were Mary 18, Honora 11, John 11, and Margaret 7. If this is she it would mean she was born abt 1839, making her 18 at her marriage in 1857 and 32 (instead of 28] at the Alamakee Co Iowa, US census of 1870. The census of 1860 [under James Reedy] shows Ellen as 20 which is pretty much in line with the arrival date above.
GC0005 Patentee Name: Ruddy, Ellen Accession Number: MN1520__.495 State: Minnesota Volume:
1520, Page: 495, Document Number: 3145 Land Office: Redwood Falls Aliquot Part Reference: SNE Section Number: 20, Township: 113 North, Range: 32 West Meridian/Survey Area: Fifth Principal Meridian Misc. Document Number: 1416 Act/Treaty
Authorizing Sale: Homestead Entry Orig. Date Signed: Apr 4, 1885 Acreage: 80.00 Comments: WIDOW OF JAMES RUDDY Signed: Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.
F J RUDDY b.abt 1859 Ireland male, was listed at the house of Ellen Ruddy in the Census of 1885.
1900 Federal Census shows Ellen Ruddy, Thomas and Daniel birthday of Ellen given as Dec 1836 she being 63
Notes for James M Ruddy:
HISTORY OF ALLAMAKEE COUNTY:
"The first white settlers in Makee township were Patrick Keenan and his
brother-in-law, Mr. Richard Cassiday. They lived together, and in October, 1848
settled on Makee Ridge, where they grubbed out and broke up about three acres of
land, built a log cabin, and in 1849 abandoned it and made themselves farms in
Jefferson township, where they lived until they passed on to "the better
country." Mr. Keenan was the first man in the county, of his nationality,
ever made an American citizen through the naturalization law, the court at the
time being held at Columbus, on the Mississippi river. He died in March, 1878,
leaving a large and respectable family and a handsome property, and was buried
at Cherry Mound. Mr. Cassiday died in 1879 and was buried at the same place.
In the spring of 1849 there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cassiday a daughter,
Margaret, now Mrs. Murphy, living in McGregor, and she was the first white child
born in Jefferson township. During the first session of the General Assembly of
Iowa in the winter of 1846-47, an act was passed defining the boundaries of
several counties, among them Allamakee, which placed it within its present
limits. Although the Indian title was extinguished, and the county was open to
settlement in 1848, the lands were not put upon the market until about the first
of October, 1850. The earliest entry of Government land we have found upon the
records is that of the southeast quarter southeast quarter section 19, and three
forties in section 30, all in Paint Creek Township, to Geo. Watkins, October 7,
1850.
TIME LINE FOR JAMES M RUDDY IN ALLAMAKEE COUNTY
Allamakee County formed 1847
Land put on the market October 1850
Thomas Ruddy arrives bef April 4, 1854 and buys land
Thomas Ruddy dies.
James Ruddy arrives bef Dec 21, 1854 and takes over the land of Thomas
James Ruddy marries Ellen Murphy 1857 and has all his children but Ellen in
Allamakee Co.
Michael Ruddy (brother of James) arrives bef January 4, 1865 and is given half
the land.
James Ruddy sells his land Novembr 11, 1872 and moves to Fairfax, Renville Co.
MN.
Michael Ruddy dies in Chicago, IL on 12 15 1873. He is buried in Chicago
Illinois.
The age of James Ruddy, elder, is problematical:
born in 1820 by gravestone, 1806 by 1856 Iowa Census, 1816 by the 1860
census, and 1811 by 1870 census and back to 1820 in the 1880 Census of
Wellington, Renville, MN.
James is shown in the 1856 Iowa Census as owner of a
farm in Fairview Twp, Allamakee County, Iowa. It also indicates he was widowed
and 50 years old, indicating that Ellen was his 2nd wife.
James' age at death then is 77, 82 or 63. It could be he
was 82 assuming in 1856 he had nothing to gain by hiding his age but he was
unlettered and the age could have been a guess at each census.
After the marriage to Ellen, age 28, according to the 1870 census, which
would have made her 14 at the time of her marriage in 1857 to James there was,
perhaps, a social incentive to raise her age and lower his.
McGregor/Waukon trip May 1997: James Ruddy owned North 1/2, NE1/4 Section 21, Twsp 96N, Range 3W. It was obtained in probate as far as I could tell from Thomas Ruddy who bought the land April 5, 1854. On Dec 21, 1854, James became the administrator of Thomas Ruddy's estate, meaning Thomas died between April 5, 1854 and Dec 21, 1854. I found no record of transfer of ownership in the deeds. However the lawyer in charge of sale indicated he had seen a deed in James Ruddy's name. On January 4, 1865 James sold the South 1/2 [80 acres]share to Michael for $1.00. The Fairview Twsp platt of 1872 shows James Ruddy on the North 1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 21. This could indicate that James inheirited the land from Thomas. Since James' father was named Daniel, I am assuming, with no other proof, that Thomas was a brother of James and perhaps Michael. It is also possible that Thomas was a son of James Ruddy based on James as a widow at age 50 in the 1856 IA Census. James Ruddy was naturalized in Allamakee, County September 24, 1860.
Michael died in December 15, 1873 and his wife Catherine was the administrator of the estate. James Ruddy and his wife sold on November 11, 1872 the North 1/2 of the NE1/4 of section 21. James Ruddy Was granted title in 1880 to Section 20 Wellington Township (113 range 32) County of Renville Minnesota. Elizabeth Ruddy [Married to Arthur Ruddy, the son of younger James Ruddy] said the grandfather of Arthur homesteaded in MN. James Ruddy, elder, was assessed taxes in 1874. This information came from "The History of Renville County" compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge published in 1916. This book also lists Michael Ruddy as Supervisor for WellingtonTownship at the time the book was written(1916). Michael Ruddy was Arthur's Uncle and son of James Ruddy, elder. Wellington township is adjacent to Cairo Township where Fairfax is located and where James Ruddy, junior, was transported to be buried in 1904. James Ruddy of the section 20 of Wellington Township is in fact Arthur Ruddy's Grandfather and father of James(junior] and Michael et al. A trip to Fairfax MN in June 1996 confirmed at the Ruddy family burial plot the existence of James Ruddy with Ellen Ruddy as Spouse. Birth dates are from stones. It appears they lived in McGregor Iowa* before moving in 1872 to Fairfax (Wellington TWP). Michael Ruddy son of James was born Dec 31 1859 and moved to Fairfax at age 13 ie. 1872 (Obit of Michael in 1949) James Ruddy, elder, was there in Wellington for the first property assessment in 1874. [Obit of Mary Minske says they moved to Minnesota in 1871] *Subsequent research shows that, although Michael and Daniel, as quoted in the Fairfax papers, said they were from McGregor [Clayton County, Iowa]
they actually lived on Section 21 [NEQ] Fairview Township in Allamakee County, Iowa which borders Clayton County on the North. The land is about 7 miles from McGregor. Marriage Register in the Court House in Prarie du Chein in Crawford Co. WI shows a James M Roday and Helen Murphy Married 3 May 1857. I am assuming these are James and Ellen Ruddy as all dates fit perfectly and James is listed on certificate as from Allamakee County, Iowa. In the 1870 Census James Ruddy was found listed as James Reddy with Wife Ellen all his children in Fairview Township, Allamakee County,Iowa. In 1856 Iowa Census he is listed as James Ready, widowed, owning the farm. In 1860 he is listed as James Reedy with Ellen and 2 children. I found in Waukon at Allamakee County Courthouse May 1997 his Application to Naturalize: Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa: 24 Sep 1860.
1860 Census Allamakee County Iowa
James Reedy 40 Ireland farmer
Ellen Reedy 20 Ireland
Thomas Reedy 2
Michael Reedy 9 months
Children of Ellen Murphy and James Ruddy are:
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i. Thomas4 Ruddy, born
March 18, 1858 in Fairview Township, Allamakee Co., Iowa; died March 06, 1923.
Notes for Thomas Ruddy:
Was in an Asylum at one
time according to Robert E Coleman.
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ii. Michael Ruddy, born December 31,
1859 in McGregor, Iowa; died January 25, 1949 in Catherine Craven's home,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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iii. Mary Ann Ruddy, born May 01, 1862
in McGregor, Iowa; died April 10, 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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iv. Margaret
Ruddy, born Abt. 1864.
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v. James
Ruddy, born May 04, 1866 in McGregor, Clayton Co., Iowa; died January 07, 1904
in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.
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vi. Daniel
Ruddy, born March 1868 in McGregor, Clayton Co., Iowa; died August 08, 1945 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. He married
Margaret Walsh; born Abt. 1862 in Iowa; died April 17, 1944 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota?.
Notes for
Daniel Ruddy:
This Daniel Ruddy was born
in McGregor and except for the marriage date would be considered one and the
same to the Daniel who married Annie Baker. However census records show Daniel
born March 1868. Census of 1920 shows Daniel Ruddy age 51 b. IA and Wife Margaret age 57 b. IA. mother in law Ellen Walsh age
83 mother in law. This is Daniel son of James and Ellen and not to be confused
with Daniel who is older, b.NY and
had 2 wives Rose Lardner and Annie Baker.
1920 Mendon twp. Clayton
Co. Census
273/278
Daniel Ruddy 51
painter b. IA.
F. b. Ireland M. b. Ireland
Margaret
57 wife b.
IA. F. b. Ireland M. b. Ireland
WALSH, Ellen 83 wc.
Mother in law b. Ireland F. Ireland M. Ireland.
Came
U.S. 1850 Naturalized in 1850.
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vii. Mary
Ellen Nell Ruddy, born April 03, 1873 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota; died November 28, 1944 in Hector, Minnesota.
4. Michael3 Murphy (Patrick2, Unknown1) was born June 12, 1838 in County Limerick, Ireland Arrive US 18463,4, and died December 19, 1903 in New York Mills, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. He married Mary A Devaney 1870 in New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota, daughter of Thomas Devaney and Elizabeth Unknown. She was born May 1853 in England, and died 1927 in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Notes for Michael Murphy:
On the 1890 Wellington Township special schedule for survivors of the War of the Rebellion as a Private in Co C 2nd MO Cavalry. Served 7 months from 10 13 1864 to 6 4 1865.
Pension File says his widow was Mary A Murphy
From the New York Mills Journal of December 23, 1903
MIKE MURPHY IS DEAD
Michael Murphy a highly respected citizen of Homestead died Saturday evening at the age of 65 in his home in Homestead. Mr Murphy was born in Ireland and came to this country at the age of eight years. He enlisted with the 2nd Misouri cavalry during the civil war. He settled in Renville County Minnesota where he resided twenty seven years and {?was married to Miss} Mary A Devaneh at New Ulm in 1870. Twelve Children blessed this union, nine of which are still living. The oldest is 32 years of age and the youngest five. The children were all with him when death came except three, Thomas J being and Box Elder, Montana, Mrs J Butler at Fairfax Minnesota and Mrs Hamlet , Elk River. He was a member ot fhe GAR and a the Catholic Church. Ther funeral occured yesterday at the Catholic Church in Perlham.
Census of 1900
Michael Murphy, age 59, born June 1840, Married 29 years.
Parents both born in Ireland
More About Michael Murphy:
Burial: St Stanislaus Cemetery, Perham, Minnesota
Notes for Mary A Devaney:
Both parents born in Ireland
Children of Michael Murphy and Mary Devaney are:
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i. Thomas Joseph4 Murphy,
born November 12, 1871 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota; died March 04,
1955. He married Blanch Groves
1903; born Abt. 1875.
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ii. Margaret Murphy, born March 28,
1873 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota.
She married Tom Butler November 21, 1892; born Abt. 1869.
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iii. Elizabeth Murphy, born September
06, 1875 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota; died January 06, 1953 in Otsego
Township, Wright, Minnesota.
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iv. James
Murphy, born 1877; died in Died in infancy.
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v. Patrick
Henry Murphy, born March 1879 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota.
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vi. Mary
Murphy, born 1881.
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vii. Frances
Murphy, born 1883. She married
Robert Kearns.
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viii. Catherine
Murphy, born February 1885.
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ix. Michael Andrew Murphy, born
November 12, 1888; died in Died Young.
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x. Sarah Cecilia Murphy, born
January 01, 1892.
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xi. John Herbert Murphy, born July
23, 1894 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota; died August 01, 1904 in Died at
10 years old.
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xii. Rose Mable Murphy, born April
1898.
Generation No. 3
5. Thomas F4 Murphy (John3, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born November 1873. He married Ann Coleman, daughter of John Coleman and Elizabeth Cahill. She was born February 1881.
Children of Thomas Murphy and Ann Coleman are:
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i. Curtis L5 Murphy, born
April 10, 1914 in Renville County, Minnesota; died November 30, 1987 in Renville
County, Minnesota.
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ii. Francis G Murphy, born 1916.
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iii. Iris Murphy.
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iv. Donald
Murphy.
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v. Coleman
Murphy.
11. Michael4 Ruddy (Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born December 31, 1859 in McGregor, Iowa, and died January 25, 1949 in Catherine Craven's home, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He married Sarah Donnelly December 31, 1890 in Fairfax, Renville county, Minnesota, daughter of Michael Donnelly and Margaret Scanlon. She was born December 31, 1871 in Massachusetts, and died September 24, 1899 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota.
Notes for Michael Ruddy:
Fairfax Standard Obituary for Feb 5, 49 says Michael came to Fairfax in 1872 at age 13. He left the farm to go live with relatives(Fairfax Standard Jan 25 1949 says he went to live with Mrs Joe Craven in 1914) in Minneapolis in 1919. May 28,
1997 met Frances Murphy who was a pall-bearer at Michael's Funeral. He also dug the grave for him through 30" of frost. They covered him up quick and returned to the wake where they met Michael's daughter Catherine: Since they had returned so fast she kept asking if they had actually buried him or left him out there for later.
Robert Coleman son of Mark Coleman who married Mary Ellen Ruddy tells of the family being dirt poor in Ireland and drying seaweed to make soil in which to grow Potatoes. He thinks Ruddys may have come from Galway and lived near the ocean. He tells of the family going to Hungary and Romania to harvest and perhaps staying 2 years sending back money. He thinks they may have worked on a tunnel project in Maryland. He tells how the family came up from Iowa with other families, the Dodges, the Murphys, the Whites walking behind the covered wagons.
More About Michael Ruddy:
Burial: St Andrews Cemetery, Fairfax, MN
Notes for Sarah Donnelly:
Born in Massachusetts comes from the Census' from Minnesota 1910. Died when John Herbert Ruddy was born (maybe]
Children of Michael Ruddy and Sarah Donnelly are:
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i. Catherine Katie5
Ruddy, born March 12, 1891; died September 08, 1961 in No issue.
She married Joeseph Craven.
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ii. Mary Mayme Ellen Ruddy, born
January 12, 1892; died in California.
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iii. James Ruddy, born April 01, 1894
in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota; died June 30, 1977 in
Litchfield Hosptial, Litchfield, MN: Buried in Fairfax.
He married Minnie [Savela] Martin in Minneapolis, Minnesota; born
September 21, 1896; died March 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Notes for James Ruddy:
They lived in 1945 in
Clayton Wisconsin: Ellen Ruddy (dau of elder James) obit They lived in 1945 in
Clayton Wisconsin: Daniel Ruddy Obit They lived in 1949 in Siren, Wisconsin:
Michael Sr Obit "Lived in Detroit at some time. His children were step
children of Minnie" - Mary Murphy in Fairfax May 1997 "Used to sit at
the table while Minnie was talking and twiddle his thumbs and all the children
tried to twiddle their thumbs like James' - Francis Murphy in Fairfax, May 1997
More About James Ruddy:
Burial: St Andrews
cemetery near Fairfax
Notes for Minnie [Savela]
Martin:
1896 Death date: Mar 1983
Social Security #: 475-78-4129 Last residence: MN 55417 State of issue: MN
Married someone in between Stonelake and Ruddy. Maiden Name was Martin, Lived
with the Savela's Finnish exactration
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iv. Michael
Ruddy, born July 10, 1896 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota;
died July 05, 1918 in Hospital in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Notes for
Michael Ruddy:
Died of Appendicitis after
an unsuccessful operation in the hospital at New Ulm, Minnesota. He was taken
there July 1, 1918. He was not Married.
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v. Twin
Stillborn Ruddy, born July 01, 1898 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota; died July 01, 1898 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota.
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vi. Twin
Stillborn Ruddy, born July 01, 1898 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota; died July 01, 1898 in Wellington Township, Renville county,
Minnesota.
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vii. John
Herbert Ruddy, born 1899 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota;
died August 15, 1958 in St Paul, Minnesota.
12. Mary Ann4 Ruddy (Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born May 01, 1862 in McGregor, Iowa, and died April 10, 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She married (1) Frank J. Minske, son of Fred Minske and Minnie Shultz. He was born October 11, 1858 in Minnesota, and died December 15, 1924 in Wellington Township, Renville County, Minnesota. She married (2) James M Porter January 27, 1881 in St John's Church Morton, Minnesota.
Notes for Mary Ann Ruddy:
1861 was the date on the gravemarker in Fairfax at the Catholic cemetery. May 1862 came from the Census of 1900. The Census indicates Widowed. Letters in possession of Michael Ruddy son of Arthur and Elisabeth show that she called herself Aunt
May.
More About Frank J. Minske:
Burial: Catholic Cemetery outside Fairfax, Renville, Minnesota
Child of Mary Ruddy and James Porter is:
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i. Steven J.5 Porter,
born April 1882 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota; died May 18,
1937 in Buried in St Andrews.
Notes for Steven J.
Porter:
This information came from
the Census taken 1895 in Minnesota where Steven Porter is listed as a Grandson
of Ellen. The gravemarker is in St Andrew's Cemetery in Fairfax next to Mary
(Ruddy) Minske his mother.
13. Margaret4 Ruddy (Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born Abt. 1864. She married Thomas Butler November 11, 1889.
Child of Margaret Ruddy and Thomas Butler is:
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i. Mayme5 Butler.
14. James4 Ruddy (Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born May 04, 1866 in McGregor, Clayton Co., Iowa, and died January 07, 1904 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. He married Anna Victoria McNulty July 02, 1895 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, daughter of Bernard McNulty and Alice McPike. She was born September 13, 1869 in West Albany, Wabasha Co., Minnesota, and died January 17, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Notes for James Ruddy:
Lived and worked in Chicago As a millwright with Anna Victoria and the children(Arthur, Alice, Howard, Francis) Died at 38 years old Probably in Chicago, Ill or at Fairfax, Minnesota. Buried Sect B lot 22 grave 4 in Fairfax cemetery. Father
John J Goergren was the priest at the funeral. He died of Pluerisy and Rheumatism. Buried with Ellen? Ruddy. Anna Vicoria came back to Fairfax to the family homestead where James' brothers, Michael, and Daniel Worked the farm and Arthur worked
for these Uncles. In 1940 Arthur and Elizabeth Ruddy stopped in Fairfax and visited Michael (and Mauice Shoemacher) on the way to Alaska (they never made it - stopped in Seattle) ALso in records (Possibly his brother} Michael Ruddy and Wife
Sarah Donnely had Children Catherine and James and Maryann? This Michael died Jan 25 1949. This is mostly Account of Elisabeth Ruddy wife of Arthur. The death information and Michael Ruddy info by Father Jack Brunner St Andrews Church Fairfax
MN, Phone 507 426 7125. Have Obit from Fairfax Standard. Have Death Certificate from Cook Co. Ill. Death Cert states he died at 4:30pm and that he was a foreman at Illinois Steel Co. at time of death and lived on 7721 Sherman Ave Ward 8.
Tuberculosis of the Lungs Complicated by Rheumatism Duration of disease 2 months. At Ill Steel Co. Hospital 88th and Mckinnon?. Birth Certificate of Francis Edward Ruddy shows James and Anna 's address in July of 1898 as 6838 Madison Street,
Chicago, Illinois. It also shows that the Birth Certificate was reconstituted because it is attested to by Mrs Anna Victoria Ruddy 2432 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota on May 27, 1948. Birth Certificate issued June 12,
1948.
Residence: Chicago Ill in 1904
Religion: Probably Catholic
Census information from Minnesota 1880 census
Death: Death Certificate from Cook County Illinois
Notes for Anna Victoria McNulty:
Lived 45 years in Minneapolis. Died at 94 years old in La Salle Convalescent Home in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN. Birthplace listed as Melville Minnesota. Buried January 20, 1964 in St Mary's Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN
Michael Ruddy brought the familly back from Chicago after the death of James. In 1908 Purchased an acre of land of Mr Starits, Just north of the Hindermann residence. She will move a house which she had bought from Mr Charles Lammers to the new
lot. [Fairfax Standard May 14, 1908. Individual: Ruddy, Anna Birth date: Sep 13, 1869 Death date: Jan 1964 Social Security #: 476-26-2798 Last residence: MN State of issue: MN
Bible inscription copied by Maurice Shoemacher Death Certificate from Minnesota Vital Records
Children of James Ruddy and Anna McNulty are:
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i. Howard James5 Ruddy,
born November 07, 1896; died January 02, 1967 in Houston, Texas.
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ii. Francis Edward Ruddy, born July
28, 1898 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois; died January 03, 1953 in Bakersfield,
Kern County, California.
Notes for Francis Edward
Ruddy:
Was a Merchant Seaman and
there are pictures from Cuba, Hawaii, etc. Jack Roth said the Virgin Islands. He
died in Bakersfield in California.
From: TAnlauf@aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000
12:59:34 EDT
To: mruddy@usit.net
Mike, Yesterday while
seaching the CA death data base on RootsWeb I came
across..Ruddy, Francis
Edward, 07/28/1898, McNulty/Ruddy, IL. Kern Co. CA
01/03/1953, 54 years.
Therese(Ruddy)Anlauf
Birth: Birth Certificate in my possesion. Chicago Board of
Health.
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iii. Alice Ruddy, born March 19, 1900;
died April 1989.
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iv. Arthur
Hugh Ruddy, born April 14, 1903 in Chicago, Cook County,
Illinois; died April 23, 1987 in his home in Encinitas, San Diego County,
California.
16. Mary Ellen Nell4 Ruddy (Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born April 03, 1873 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota, and died November 28, 1944 in Hector, Minnesota. She married Henry Wachter.
Notes for Mary Ellen Nell Ruddy:
Obtained from Birth Index at Genealogical Society of Renville County and verified in birth records at Olivia in June 1996. This would make James 53 and Ellen 45 at her birth. Ellen is listed in the Census' for 1880,1885,1895,1900 and 1905. In
1900 and 1905 she was living with her brother Michael Ruddy. She was married and in 1943 Ellen and 'her husband' bought a farm in Hector.
Notes for Henry Wachter:
Sometimes called Heine. Met Francis Murphy who worked for Henry on the farm once or twice.
Child of Mary Ruddy and Henry Wachter is:
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i. Carl5 Wachter, died
1999; Adopted child. He married
Bergitta Wieinzetl; born in of Fairfax, Minnesota.
Notes for Carl Wachter:
In 1944 Lived in Buffalo
Lake, MN, then moved to Brownton, MN where he was chief of Police and later
Brownton Mayor.
19. Elizabeth4 Murphy (Michael3, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born September 06, 1875 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota, and died January 06, 1953 in Otsego Township, Wright, Minnesota. She married Alvah Calvin Hamlet November 23, 1903 in Perlham, Minnesota, son of Lewis Hamlet and Elizabeth Harmon. He was born December 12, 1874 in Big Lake Township, Sherborne, Minnesota, and died July 16, 1966 in Buffalo, Wright County, Minnesota.
More About Elizabeth Murphy:
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Monticello, Minnesota
Children of Elizabeth Murphy and Alvah Hamlet are:
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i. Theodore5 Hamlet, born
October 30, 1903 in Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota; died March 14, 1977.
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ii. Minnie Irene Hamlet, born
December 14, 1907 in Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota; died January 13, 1939
in Minneapolis, Hennipin County, Minnesota.
She married Unknown Ostvig.
More About Minnie Irene
Hamlet:
Burial: Lakewood Cemetery,
Hennipin Co. Minnesota
Generation No. 4
29. Curtis L5 Murphy (Thomas F4, John3, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born April 10, 1914 in Renville County, Minnesota, and died November 30, 1987 in Renville County, Minnesota. He married Mary S Garrahy, daughter of Patrick Garrahy and Margaret Reiff. She was born 1917 in Fairfax, Renville County, Minnesota.
Notes for Curtis L Murphy:
From Elaine Murphy daughter of Mary (Garrahy) Murphy and Curtis Murphy:
Urban's last name was Reiff, not Garrahy - he was my Grandmother (Margaret Reiff Garrahy's brother). Margaret was married to Patrick W. Garrahy and is my maternal grandmother. Margaret and Patrick had nine children, my mother being the oldest. My mother, Mary Garrahy, married Curtis Murphy, son of Thomas Murphy and Ann Coleman just as you have in your history. However, Curtis' birthdate was April 10, 1914 and he died Nov. 30, 1987 of a heart attack. He was born, lived and died in Renville
County, MN. He was a Marine in World War II stationed in the South Pacific and was at Guadalcanal. After the war he lived the rest of his life in and around the countryside of Fairfax, MN but prior to the war
he worked on a large ranch, The Harris Ranch, in Highwood, Montana. He also worked for a couple of years in the Conservation Corps and the Forestry Service in western U.S. He had one sister, Iris, and three brothers, Donald, Coleman and Francis. Francis is known to you, and the others are deceased.
30. Francis G5 Murphy (Thomas F4, John3, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born 1916. He married Catherine Garrahy, daughter of Patrick Garrahy and Margaret Reiff. She was born 1926.
35. Mary Mayme Ellen5 Ruddy (Michael4, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born January 12, 1892, and died in California. She married Mark Coleman, son of John Coleman and Elizabeth Cahill. He was born March 16, 1888 in Wellington Twp, Renville County, Minnesota, and died July 1968 in Franklin, Renville Co., Minnesota.
Notes for Mary Mayme Ellen Ruddy:
They lived in 1949 in St Ignatius, Montana. From the Obituary of Michael Ruddy son of James and Ellen.
Information from Elaine Murphy daughter of Mary Garrahy Murphy and Curtis Murphy:
You mentioned you have a letter from Mame Ruddy that mentions Curtis
Murphy. If that is Mame Ruddy who married Mark Coleman Curtis would
be my Dad as he grew up with their children. They were neighbors in the
countryside between Fairfax and Hector, Mn. Mame and Mark's children
would include Eileen, Robert (Bobby), Loan, Marion, Dolores, Dorothy and
I think there were more but I don't know for sure who they were but I do
know of these. Some of them were visiting our family as I grew up so I
remember them. Bobby still lives in Napa, CA, Eileen in Seattle
and Marion in New Mexico. The others mentioned above are deceased. Loan
died in 1944 while in Alaska working on the Alaskan highway near Whitehorse. He
did not die during a work related accident but was involved in an truck
accident. We have never learned all the details surrounding the
accident. Also, I am not absolutely positive that is how Loan spelled
his name but I can easily verify that information if you do not have
that already.
Notes for Mark Coleman:
I chose this because the dates seem to match and his last residence was in Franklin (between Morton and Fairfax) [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 3, Social Security Records: U.S., SS Death Benefit Records, Surnames Beginning with C,
Date of Import: Jul 9, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.111.3.42927.82] Individual: Coleman, Mark Birth date: Mar 16, 1888 Death date: Jul 1968 Social Security #: 532-26-4710 Last residence: MN 55333 State of issue: WA
40. John Herbert5 Ruddy (Michael4, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born 1899 in Wellington Township, Renville county, Minnesota, and died August 15, 1958 in St Paul, Minnesota.
Notes for John Herbert Ruddy:
Lived in St Paul in 1949: Obit Michael Sr. Called Herbert or Jack. Lived in Ray, North Dakota in 1918. Might be buried at the same gravesite of the stillborn Twins of Michael and Sarah (see the notes on the burial cards from St Andrews.
Child of John Herbert Ruddy is:
79
i. Bernice Ann6 Ruddy,
born Abt. 1920.
42. Mayme5 Butler (Margaret4 Ruddy, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) She married Clayton Wohlford.
43. Howard James5 Ruddy (James4, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born November 07, 1896, and died January 02, 1967 in Houston, Texas. He married Myrtle. She was born September 12, 1891, and died June 1981 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
45. Alice5 Ruddy (James4, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born March 19, 1900, and died April 1989. She married John Roth, son of Albert Roth and Annie Naegli.
46. Arthur Hugh5 Ruddy (James4, Ellen3 Murphy, Patrick2, Unknown1) was born April 14, 1903 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and died April 23, 1987 in his home in Encinitas, San Diego County, California. He married Elisabeth Gardner Palmer August 20, 1933 in Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, daughter of Samuel Palmer and Bertha Potter. She was born April 21, 1906 in Union Springs, New York, and died February 02, 1999 in Baptist Hospital, Union City, Obion County, Tennessee.
Notes for Arthur Hugh Ruddy:
There exists a copywrite Arthur obtained for a picture he took of a mountain goat at Glacier National Park. It is dated August 1920 and shows his address as 1706 Eliot Ave, South Minneapolis, MN. He would been 17 at the time. This is probably the year he spent the summer at Glacier Park in Montana. He is also shown with a UofMN jacket on in this set of photos from a national park (Yellowstone or Glacier) His wife, Elisabeth, indicated that Arthur was at both parks during two summers.
Arthur Hugh was born Hugh Arthur but he hated the name "Hugh" and changed the order of the names and called himself Arthur H Ruddy. He spent his life in pursuit of a dream of living a simple life on his own farm. The family would live in the city for a while and then remove to the country to begin living on the land. In spite of all attempts to farm, Arthur was never successful and was always forced to return to the job he did well and brought home the bacon, Aircraft Design. Theirs was an itinerant family life and they never lived more than 3 years in any one home until the kids graduated from high school.
Arthur was never a warm person in the sense of physical contact, but everything he did was for the family and the children knew instinctively that they were his reason for living. An Irish farm lad from Minnesota he maintained the Irish clanishness and never talked about his family or family history. Arthur found the perfect match in Elisabeth Gardner Palmer whose family could trace themselves back to colonial times. She never complained about the continual uprooting of the family but did demand he pay attention to her. Mostly he did. They had a stormy life at first but the last 20 years were spent in harmony as they had time to enjoy life and travel around the country of the Southwest which both of them loved so much, once the children left home.
Arthur was an excellent landscape painter and left upwards of 400 paintings, some sculpture, and various wood and metal block prints. He painted, with very few interuptions, from the early days (1920s) in Chicago and (1930s) in New York to the last few years of his life in California. He never paid much attention to trying to market his paintings, rather, he seemed to enjoy more the act of painting than admiring his finished product.
Arthur worked first as Art Editor on the Chicagoan magazine, where he lived after graduating from the University of Minnesota. While in Chicago he once dated Ann Southern, who later became an actress on her own TV show, but at that time was in a chorus line. He then moved to New York where he designed various animal signs to designate directions and locations in the Bronx Zoo. He worked on the New York World's Fair of 1939 where he designed all the walkway lighting and also worked as artistic consultant on the color lighting of the fountain display. Claiming "Elisabeth is a pioneer woman" he then decided to go to Alaska "our last frontier where one can homestead and live simply." With a one year old son and all thier possessions they set off in thier 1940 Ford sedan. They made stops in New York, Michigan and Minnesota to visit relatives on the western journey. In Minneapolis they saw Arthur's mother Annie, and there they also tried to get Arthur's Uncle Maurice Schumacher (who had married successively two Arthur's mother's (McNulty) sisters) to give them leads to possible jobs in Alaska where Maurice had business interests. Maurice thought the idea crazy and would not help in any way. They also visited the town he grew up in and his Uncle Michael Ruddy in Fairfax, Minnesota. They finally reached Washington state where they found out from the doctor that the child they had brought from New York couldn't take the cold, humid climate in Seattle and they were forced to abandon the Alaskan Dream and turn south, living first in Portland, Oregon, and then in one place after another in Southern California as Arthur followed aircraft design employment. In 1950 the family returned for a year to Seattle where Arthur worked on contract with Boeing. During the high school years of sons Michael and James, Arthur finally brought a halt to the family's life of 'musical houses' and bought, in 1953, a house on the coast in Encinitas, California, located 20 miles north of San Diego. After the Michael and James graduated (1956 and 1959) and left home, Arthur did take a temporary contract job for two years in Fort Worth, Texas after which he returned to Encinitas to the house he had purchased in 1953. This house became the last move and there he lived out his remaining retirement years with Elisabeth, making vacation trips to Ireland, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He died in 1987.
More About Arthur Hugh Ruddy:
Burial: Oceanside, California
Degree: June 18, 1924, BS University of Minnesota
Social Security Number: 534-18-0781 from Washington State
Notes for Elisabeth Gardner Palmer:
Elizabeth Gardner Palmer left to her son Michael Ruddy sets of spoons belonging past relatives. They were marked as follows: PMG for Phoebe M. Gilmore, wife of Dr Samuel Gilmore and Mother of Jennie (Gilmore)Palmer; MMO for Mary Mulford Osborne wife of Dr Jedediah Palmer M; and, MN for Mary Niles mother of Peleg Gardner father of Katherine (Kate Gardner) Potter.
"Life on the Wing: being a 'PK' (preacher's kid.) The family went first to Upstate New York then to Pennsylvania and finally back to New York and Lima a suburb of Rochester." - Elisabeth Ruddy
Elisabeth Gardner Palmer was born in Union Springs, New York. She grew up the daughter of a Presbyterian Minister father and a staunch prohibitionist mother. As she grew up she spent a lot of time with her relatives where she learned all the family interconnections. Her mother, a member of the DAR, spent hours recounting the family history of the Potters and Palmers and their various adjunct lines.
Elisabeth graduated from Mount Holyoke women's college then moved to "The City", New York, and became an editor for Crowell magazine. During her entire life she wrote poetry and prose stories and from time to time had them published. She followed her husband Arthur Ruddy all over the West as he sought to homestead and live the simple life, but Arthur was forced more than once to return to that which provided a living: Aircraft Design. She raised three boys, "each one worse than the one before." The youngest, Samuel, had a birth defect which required two operations and left him blind and somewhat retarded. The eldest Michael has been married 3 times and the middle one, James, went into, then out of, the Catholic Priesthood and then went on to a telemarketing career in Southern California, Cinncinati and Boston. Elizabeth after living forty four years in the family house at 1957 Crest Drive in Encinitas and then moved to Tennessee with Samuel in 1998. She died in Union City, TN at 11:40pm Feb 2, 1999 at age 92.
According to Elisabeth she used to date Fredrick Wright Palmer (b.1906) during college days, "nothing romantic, though, we were cousins."
More About Elisabeth Gardner Palmer:
Burial: Eastview Cemetery, Union City, Obion County, Tennessee
Marriage Notes for Arthur Ruddy and Elisabeth Palmer:
Elisabeth and Arthur met in March of 1933 and in June 1933 decided to get married. Elisabeth's father, Samuel Palmer, was a Presbyterian Pastor in the Church in Cohocton. As the couple headed up from New York City for the ceremony, Samuel Palmer was rushed to the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester to have an emergency colonoscopy. Great Uncle Fred Palmer was chaplain of the Rochester Hospitals and so he was able to arrange for the ceremony to be held in the room where Samuel was recuperating. Elisabeth writes in her memoirs, "I always believed marriage was a commitment between two people, not a family circus." So Elisabeth and Arthur obtained a marriage license in Cohocton. Ring? Well, Elisabeth never had a ring for what she termed "her engagement period" and they had not even thought about it until the bride to be's mother, Bertha (Potter) Palmer, asked where it was. Upon finding they had none Bertha produced Sophia (Welter) Potter's wedding ring, a slim gold band that Elisabeth "would have chosen for herself" and Elisabeth was "delighted" as she got herself ready. Elisabeth still wears that band(1998) and says she "has never had it off." On the drive over from Cohocton to Rochester suddenly calm, self-controlled Bertha became fluttery and nervous. "Have you got the License?" "Yes." "Do you have the ring?" "Yes," Elisabeth's brother Morris answered, "and the shotgun, too!" This brought a horrified exclamation of "Morris!" from Bertha. They arrived at Strong Memorial where Samuel was waiting, propped up in bed with pillows. Great Uncle Fred read the long passages and Samuel the important parts. When Arthur and Elisabeth were back home amongst their friends in New York, Arthur used to say, "Elisabeth didn't kiss me but the minister instead and I couldn't move with her brother's shotgun in my back!"
Endnotes
1. Marriage License Register at Prairie Du Chein, Wisconsin,
Ellen listed her parents as Pat and Margaret.
2. Marriage License Register at Prairie Du Chein, Wisconsin,
James was listed here as James M Ruddy (I have not seen the "M"
elsewhere).
3. Obituary in the New York Mills Journal, 3, MIKE MURPHY IS
DEAD
Michael Murphy a highly respected citizen of
Homestead died Saturday evening at the age of 65 in his home in Homestead. Mr
Murphy was born in Ireland and came to this country at the age of eight years.
He enlisted with the 2nd Misouri cavalry during the civil war. He settled in
Renville County Minnesota where he resided twenty seven years and {?was married
to Miss} Mary A Devaneh at New Ulm in 1870. Twelve Children blessed this union,
nine of which are still living. The oldest is 32 years of age and the youngest
five. The children were all with him when death came except three, Thomas J
being and Box Elder, Montana, Mrs J Butler at Fairfax Minnesota and Mrs Hamlet ,
Elk River. He was a member ot fhe GAR and a the Catholic Church. Ther funeral
occured yesterday at the Catholic Church in Perlham.
4. US Census of 1900, Michael Murphy age 59 born June 1840
Married 29 years.