John Ruedger's Family

From Barbara Leroy: 

 

"I got this information from John Ruedger who was raised by the Blesch family after his parents, John and Margaretha (Gurrad) Ruedger, died in the 1880s. Mary Rosa Blesch (wife of Jacob Blesch) was a younger sister of Margaretha (Gurrad) Ruedger, and the youngest of the Gurrad family to reach adulthood. Their father (Mary Rosa and Margaretha) was Lenhardt Gurrad, who was a merchant of some kind in Europe, who traveled around. He was born in Alsace. When he came to the United States on 11 Jun 1846, he had a money bag full of gold! He used it to purchase a lot of land in south Cook County near what was then called Bremen Station, and is now Tinley Park. At least two of his sons, Francis and Mathias, enlisted and served during the Civil War-Francis being captured and sent to Andersonville Prison! One of Lenhart's sons, John, was a photographer, which is why I have so many Gurrad photos! As Lenhart and his wife, Anna Mary (nee Miller) grew older, they gave the farm over to Mathias. Anna Mary died around 1879; Lenhart passed 20 Jan 1882, leaving a substantial estate to be divided among his living children. The photo below is Lenhart himself.

 

--Photo and Comments from Barbara Leroy.  June 2018.

Name	Edmund T Havens
Residence	Illinois
Enlistment Date	14 Aug 1862
Rank at enlistment	Private
State Served	Illinois
Survived the War?	Yes
Service Record	Enlisted in Company G, Illinois 72nd Infantry Regiment on 21 Aug 1862.Promoted to Full Sergeant.Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 31 Aug 1863.Mustered out on 31 Aug 1863.Commissioned an officer in Company H, U.S. Colored Troops 50th Infantry Regiment on 31 Aug 1863.Mustered out on 15 May 1865.
Sources	Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted MenOfficial Army Register of the Volunteer Force 1861-1865Index to Compiled Military Service Records Citation Information Transcript Residence date: Residence place: Stockton, Illinois, USA Web Address search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=civilwar_histdatasys& h=2620146&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Source Information Title U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Author Historical Data Systems, comp. Publisher Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009.Original data - Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the following list of works.Copyright 1997-2009Historical Data Systems, Inc. PO Box 35Duxbury, MA 02331.O Repository Information Name Ancestry.com Address http://www.Ancestry.com

Ruedger Home on Section 11

--Photo from the collection of Barbara Leroy.

--Lyman Township Plat.  1884.

John F. Ruedger

--Photo from the collection of Barbara Leroy. 

Parents

Havens.  Onarga Cemetery.  Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois.
Edmund Fish Havens & Emily (Tuttle) Havens.

 

Edmund F. Havens brought his wife Emily and four sons to Illinois from Connecticut in 1856 and settled in Ford County. He was elected an associate justice for Ford County in 1860. By 1870, with his boys grown with their own families, he and Emily had moved to Onarga in Iroquois County where he farmed until his death in 1884 at the age of 72.

 

Daughter of Joseph and Mary "Polly" Rose, Emily married her husband, Edmund Fish Havens, in East Lyme, Connecticut, where they lived and had four boys before moving to Illinois in 1856. Emily lived to be 99 years old.

 

--Find A Grave.

1860 Census.

Citation Information

Transcript

Name: John Havens Birth Date: abt 1843 Birth Place: Connecticut Residence Date: 1860 Residence Place: Stockton, Ford, Illinois

Detail

Year: 1860; Census Place: Stockton, Ford, Illinois; Roll: M653_177; Page: 322; Image: 323.

--Note:  Stockton Township in Ford County.  Their parents, Edmund Fish Havens and Emily Tuttle Havens are buried in Onarga, Illinois.

 

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947. Ancestry.com

Name:	Eva Lucelia Havens [Eva Lucelia Adye]
Birth Date:	29 Jan 1846
Birth Place:	Napoli, New York
Death Date:	9 Aug 1916
Death Place:	Eureka, Woodford, Illinois
Burial Date:	11 Aug 1916
Burial Place:	Roberts, Ill.
Death Age:	70
Occupation:	Housework (Invalid 9yrs.)
Race:	White
Marital Status:	M
Gender:	Female
Father Name:	Mr. Adye
Father Birth Place:	New York
Mother Name:	Electa Bush
Mother Birth Place:	Massachusetts
FHL Film Number:	1530923