RUDIBAUGH, G. W.

RUDIBAUGH, THOMASBARR, KEATON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/13/2014 at 01:50:56

Biography ~ G. W. Rudibaugh

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 517:

G. W. RUDIBAUGH, resides on section 18, Morgan Township, where he settled in the spring of 1858. All the improvements upon his farm have been made by him. He first purchased thirty-five acres for which he paid $210. He earned the money by teaching, after coming to Decatur County. He had but $2 in money when he arrived here with his wife and two children. His first money he earned at carpentering, in Leon. He taught school during the winter from 1858 to 1865, and was an earnest and successful teacher. He added to his first purchase, as he was able, until he had 117 acres. His farm is well improved, and he has excellent buildings, and an abundance of fruit of various kinds. He is numbered among the prominent citizens of the county. In early life Mr. RUDIBAUGH was a Democrat, and at the breaking out of the Rebellion, was a War Democrat, and voted for LINCOLN. Since 1864 he has been a Republican. He was married in Ohio, to Miss MARY JAME THOMAS, daughter of SAMUEL [and Hannah] THOMAS, now residing in Morgan Township. Mr. RUDIBAUGH has three children, all married – ICIE, wife of BENTON BARR; CHARLES L., on a farm in New Buda Township, and NETTIE, wife of J. A. KEATON, of Washington Territory. Mr. RUDIBAUGH was elected county commissioner in 1873, and served two terms of three years each. In January, 1881, he had the misfortune to lose his left eye, which broke him down so as to incapacitate him from doing but little work. He still lives on his farm, and does his work by hired help.

NOTE: George W. Rudibaugh died in 1914. Mary Jane (Thomas) Rudibaugh was born April 18, 1835, Columbiana Co. OH, and died January2, 1920, Morgan Township, Decatur Co. IA. They were interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Lineville, Wayne Co. IA.

Also interred at Evergreen Cemetery are Icie (Rudibaugh) Barr, born in 1852, died 1919, and Icie's husband Benton Barr, born in 1845 and died in 1910.

Submission by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historical Society Museum, January of 2014

Note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014