Information about Owen  In-Laws

from Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York
by John H. Selkreg, 1894; D. Mason & Co., Publisher

Part III - Family Sketches

Eleanor is daughter of Nathaniel, granddaughter of Jonathan
RUDY, Henry, jr., was born in Ulysses, July 15, 1835, at the old homestead. He was educated in the common schools and two terms at Trumansburgh Academy He was one of a family of nine children, and grew to manhood on the home farm. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching school, and taught three winters. In 1857, he went to Rockford, Ill., and taught school two winters in the town of Owen. In the spring of 1858 he went on the Dakota frontier and assisted in the survey of Sioux Falls town site, remaining there through the summer. He returned to the home farm in 1859. August 22, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, 137th N.Y. Vols.; was promoted to sergeant, and at Lookout Mountain to first lieutenant. He took part in eighteen engagements, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain; was with Sherman in the great march to the sea. He was wounded three times-once in his side, was shot through the neck, and received a shell wound in his forehead. and was twice carried off the field for dead. He missed only one engagement the regiment was in, because in the hospital thirty-two days from scurvy, sores on legs, during a three years' service. He was mustered out by reason of the close of the war, in June, 1865, and received an honorable discharge. He is not pensioned. June 18, 1872, he married Cora C. SIRRINE, of Trumansburgh; they have had two children: Arthur H., born September 12, 1873, died August 22, 1879, and Laura C., who is living at home. Mr. RUDY continued farming some years after the war, but is now retired from active labor, and is living in the village of Trumansburgh.

His father, Henry RUDY, sr., was born on his father's farm near where he settled January 31, 1803, and died December 14, 1893. He married Eleanor OWEN, of Hector. by whom he had nine children: Lewis, Ann, Miner, John, Henry, jr., Mary, James, William, and Julia.

Mr. RUDY, since his retirement, has been active for the public, having been president of the Fair for three years and a director, member of the school board, church trustee and deacon of the Baptist church, president of the Board of Health, and post commander of Treman Post, G.A.R. No. 572. John RUDY, grandfather of the subject, was born in Bucks county, Pa, February 22, 1774, and settled near Trumansburgh in 1800. His wife, Lucy EASLING, was born in Ulysses, April 27, 1784, and died March 9, 1843; he died January 14, 1833.

Mary E is granddaughter of Jonathan s/o our Jonathan
d/o Levi Hedley

SMITH, A. Belmont, was born in Trumansburgh April 16, 1860, and was educated in the Union School and the Academy. He is a coal dealer and insurance agent by occupation. June 22, 1893, he married Fannie OGDEN of Covert, Seneca County. Mr. SMITH's father, John De Motte SMITH, was born in Lodi, Seneca county, December 10, 1832 was educated in Ovid Academy, Rutgers College, and graduated from Hobart Collage, Geneva. He studied law with SMITH & BARTO and was admitted to the bar. Upon the retirement of Mr. SMITH, who went to Syracuse, he became a partner with Judge Henry C. BARTO. He was a sound lawyer, an able advocate, and a generous foe, and his death created a vacancy in the bar of this county which was hard to fill. He was a Mason, and from early manhood was prominently identified with its affairs. He was one of the most companionable of men, a good husband and father. May 5, 1857, he married Mary E. OWEN of Waterburg, town of Ulysses, and they had two children, Cora 0., and A. Belmont. Early in life he took much interest in the State militia and rose through the successive grades to the rank of colonel of the Fiftieth Regiment of the National Guard. During the war he was a Union man, a war Democrat, and was identified with such men as General DIX, Daniel S. DICKENSON of New York, and others. He died February 25, 1892, and his wife survives him, residing at his late home on Elm street with his daughter.

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