CA1077

Abstract of Florence Rudd Application for Widow's Indigent Pension
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1077)

found at fold3.com

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Wash June 23 19
REJECTED
No. 7201
Widow's Indigent Pension
Florence Rudd
Filed June 18, [19]19
Widow of W. H. Rudd
H. 2 Tenn Inf (Vaughn)

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Davidson County Tennessee
Name:  Mrs. Florence Rudd, 903 Central Avenue, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
How long in State:  Have just returned to this state
When, where born & maiden name:  Florence White, Millersburg, Rutherford County, Tennessee  Jan 8 1857
When, where husband born and marriage info:  William H. Rudd born at Madisonville, Tennessee Monroe County in Oct 12 1841 married in Nashville Tennessee Oct 15, 1874 by Philip Fall, Minister of Church of Christ
Husband's military enlistment or service:  Madisonville, Tenn 1861 Co. H. 2nd Tennessee  Col. J. Vaughn  1861-1865.  Unit surrendered in 1865.  I think at Vicksburg Miss, records lost in a flood
Where did husband die:  Dalton Georgia 1892
Children with husband:  2 girls 42 & 36 years   2 boys 29 & 34 years
Property or income:  None
What property of income did husband leave:  had none, husband left nothing
Name of another contact:  J. C. Rudd  Temple Texas
Sworn and signed June 18 1919 Davidson County

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p. 4 - signature of witness

p. 5 - 10/14/1919 - Pension board reports that it has no proof that husband was ever in the war after Vicksburg in July 1863.

p. 6 - Marriage Certificate dated 10/15/1874  Davidson Co., Tennessee

p. 7-8 - Letter to Board from widow wanting update (living in Louisville, Kentucky)

p. 9 - #7201 Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners asks Adjutant General for official service record June 23 1919
Widow claims W. H. Rudd was in Co. H, 2 Regiment Tenn Inf (Vaughn) CSA and was Captain of the Company; was captured and paroled at Vickburg, Miss. in July '63, and afterwards discharged with the regiment, at the end of the war.

p. 10 - Response from Adjutant General:
W. H. Rudd not found as of any 2 Tenn. C. S. org'n.  Records show a William H. Rudd 1 Sgt & Lt. Capt 3 (Lillards) Regt, Tenn. Mtd Inf CSA.  enlisted Apr. 26, 1861; Elected 1 St. May 14, 1862 & promoted Capt. (date not stated).  Union prisoner of war records show him captured at Vicksburg, Miss July 4 1863 & paroled there July 10, 1863.  John C. Vaughn was Colonel of 3d (Lillards) Mtd Tenn Inf.

p. 11-14 - Response to Board from widow (living in Bear Creek, Alabama):
"You say the Board was not pleased with Mr. Rudd's war record.  Well if they were not they could not be with yours or any other Southern Soldier, he was in the army from start to finish and was a brave soldier and the men in his Co. all thought well of him.  You are mistaken, he never was a prisenor never.  And never came home until everything was settled and he had to come.  Now where did you get the idea that Mr. Rudd was a prisenor.  I never knew that, he never knew it, and if he had been a prisenor, he was not compelled to enter the service again.  I know men right here that was prisoner that never went back in the service for they didn't come home til after the war was over.  ... going to put it in the hands of a lawyer ..."