RUDDY, Barney

RUDDY, MCDEVITT

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Date: 11/24/2001 at 02:03:16

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HAMPSHIRE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 722-725

BARNEY RUDDY, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Lyons; he was born March 20, 1814, in Ireland; in 1840, moved to Boston; in 1858, came to Clinton Co.; owns 105 acres of land. Married Ellen McDevitt in 1858; she was born in 1835, in Ireland; have eight children-Mary A., Susan, John, Sarah, Maggie, Ellen, Celia and Bridget; lost five children in infancy.