Ludy, Adam Charles 1834 - 1907

LUDY, ADAMS, WEEKS, BLANCHARD, ALBRIGHT, VAN SICKLE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:38:44

Elkader Register, Thur., 28 Mar. 1907. Strawberry Point column.

Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the family home southeast of this city were held the funeral services of A. C. Ludy, Rev. C. W. Rodgers officiating. The services were in charge of Strawberry Point Lodge A.F. & A.M., interment being in the Strawberry Point cemetery. Brother members of both the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders accompanied the remains to their last resting place, where the Masonic burial rites were observed.

Mr. Ludy suffered only a brief illness of about a week from pneumonia and passed peacefully away at 2 a.m. Monday morning. Hopes for his recovery had been abandoned several hours previous to his death and absent members of the family were summoned. He died surrounded by all the surviving members of his immediate family.

Adam Charles Ludy was born at Reading, Penn., March 1834. He emigrated with his parents to Freeport, Ill., in 1842, where he was married to Lydia Adams in the year 1855. The deceased moved to Lodomillo township, Clayton county, with his family in the year 1872, and settled upon the farm where he has since continuously resided until his death March 18, 1907.

The deceased was a member of Strawberry Point Lodge A.F. & A.M., No. 1_0 and of York Lodge No. 75 I.O.O.F.

He is survived by his widow, one son, J. C. Ludy, and three daughters, Mrs. B. T. Weeks, Mrs. J. W. Blanchard and Mrs. C. I. Albright, and Lizzie Van Sickle, daughter of Mrs. Lizzie Ludy Van Sickle, deceased.