Obituary

Obituary of Amanda Patton Chiles
(C. Avis Catalog entry#14)
 

Mrs. Amanda Patton Chiles, aged 92 years, Falmouth's oldest and most highly beloved and esteemed woman, died Thursday morning, February 16, 1928, at 11:00 o'clock at the home of her son-in-law, Circuit Court Clerk E. F. Bradford, Jr., on East Shelby street.  She enjoyed good health all through life but had grown rather frail during the past few months, but had never been confined to her bed.  She had splendid rest and sleep Wednesday night and arose Thursday morning at her usual time, but was seized with weakness and returned to bed.  The family was aware that here life was slowly ebbing and they remained at here bedside.  She was clearly conscious to the last minute.  She counted the strokes of the town clock as it was striking and announced it was eleven o'clock, and within the next minute her spirit had left the frail body and returned to the God who gave it.

Mrs. Chiles was born August 12, 1835, at Elizaville, Fleming county, and was a daughter of the late John Poyntz and Julia Anderson Patton.  In early childhood, her parents moved to Minerva, Mason county, where she grew to young womanhood.  She was united in marriage to John Lewis Chiles, of Mason county, on February 20, 1855.  They moved to Falmouth in 1858, where she resided until her death.  When the family came to Falmouth they purchased the farm and home now occupied by Misses Icie and Mary Coleman and resided there during the Civil War.  To this union six children were born, James, Sue, Julia, Charles, John and David.  All have preceded their mother with the exception of John (Jack), who resides in Missouri.  She is also survived by one sister.  Mrs. Lizzie Swoope, of Owensboro, Ky., and six grandchildren, Mrs. C. W. Barnes, of St. Paul, Minn.; Tom C. Bradford, of this city; Mrs. Barbour Shoemaker, of Parkersburg, W. Va; Mrs. H. R. Morris and David Chiles, of Birmingham, Ala., and Miss Nell Patton Bradford, of this city.  Mrs. Chiles' husband died in 1867.  Since 1886 Mrs. Chiles made her home with the family of her son-in-law, E. F. Bradford, Jr., and after the death of her daughter she continued to remain one of the beloved members of the household.  She was a member of the Falmouth Christian church and a sure and steadfast follower of the Christ.

Mrs. Chiles was woman of culture, refined, gentle, kind and affectionate, a friend true as steel, tenderly devoted to the members of her family --  a Christian not only in profession, but in the deeds of her family life.  She came from a fine lineage, that old Kentucky stock so revered and honored in this day when many of the true virtues of womanhood are lost sight of.  She kept young in both mind and spirit.  She was a charming hostess and friends were always met with open-handed hospitality and shared  honors with warm  sympathy and tender consideration.  She was a devoted mother and grandmother with strong maternal instincts.  After her children were grown and went out into the world, she became the mother and guiding counsel to her grandchildren and the devotion that existed between them was a beautiful faith that only ended when the spark of life left her frail body.  We must say that those who knew her best will have a grateful memory of a life well lived and a friend worth while.

Mrs. Chiles was educated at Washington College in Mason county, which was the first school west of the Alleghany Mountains.  Prof. D. H. Baldwin was her instructer.  He afterwards founded the Baldwin Piano Factory in Cincinnati, which is one of the largest piano plants in the world.

The funeral was held at the home Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. L. N. Minks, pastor of the Christian church.  Burial took place in the family lot in Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati.
 

Obituary of Fay Rudd Chiles
(C. Avis Catalog entry #318)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas.  Unknown date.

CHILES

MRS. FAY RUDD CHILES, 5829 El Campo, on Tuesday, September 16.  Widow of Dr. Charles Dwight Chiles.  Survivors:  Daughter, Mrs. William W. Collins, Fort Worth; son, Charles Dwight Chiles Jr., Dallas; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sister, Miss Madge Rudd, Austin, Mrs. L. V. Ragsdale, Fall River, Massachusetts.  Memorial services 4 p.m. Thursday, September 18, Davis Chapel, First Presbyterian Church.  Dr. Robert W. Bohl officiating.  Interment Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama.  Should friends desire memorials may be made to a favorite charity.  Arrangements Robertson Mueller Harper, 1500 Eighth avenue.  924-4233

Obituary of Fay Rudd Chiles
(C. Avis Catalog entry #181)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram,  Wednesday, 9-17-1980

FAY RUDD CHILES
...retired from Brown Securities

Fay Rudd Chiles, 87, of 5829 El Campo, a retired executive secretary of Brown Securities of the Brown and Root Corp., died Tuesday in a hospital.

Mrs. Chiles will be buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Ala.  A memorial service will be announced later.

Mrs. Chiles, a native of Temple, was a descendant of Alexander Hodge, one of the first Anglo-American settlers in Texas.  She was a resident of Austin for 43 years before moving to Fort Worth three years ago.

She was a graduate of what is now known as Texas Woman's University in Denton.  She was a member of the University Presbyterian Church in Austin and was an officer of the Heritage Society of Austin.

She is survived by a son, Dwight Chiles, Jr. of Dallas; a daughter, Mrs. William W. Collins of Fort Worth; two sister, Madge Rudd of Austin and Mrs. L. Z. Ragsdale of Fall River, Mass.; five grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be sent to a favorite charity.

Obituary of James Calvin Rudd
Temple Telegram 5-7-1921
(C. Avis Catalog entry #170)
(Document ID #469)

MORTUARY

James Rudd.

After an illness of just one week's duration, James Rudd, one of the best known and oldest residents of Temple, passed peacefully away in his 71st year at the family residence, 916 South First street, at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning.  His illness was not generally known to his many friends and the news of his demise cames as a great shock and sorrowful surprise to numerous scores.

Mr. Rudd, or "Capt." Rudd, as his closest friends affectionately referred to him, came to Temple in the eighties - in the early days of the city's history - from Dalton, Ga., and from the day of his arrival to his last day on earth was actively and prominently identified with the progress and development of the town and surrounding country.  Born in Madisonville, Tenn., on May 22, 1850, he was a mere boy of 11 with the great conflict between the sections broke in all its fury and before its conclusion he was drawn into its vortex and its impress imprinted upon his subsequent career with painful severity.  At the age of 13 he moved with his parents to Dalton, Ga., where he made his home until his coming to Temple some twenty years later.

His history is that of a man of untiring industry, close attention to business, unflagging zeal and love of family.  He was twice married, his first wife being lost to him prior to his coming here and surviving that union are Lowrey Rudd of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Maud Stokes of Philadelphia, Pa..  In 1892 he was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Mooring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Mooring of this city, a happy and ideal companionship resulting that endured with constancy and an ever increasing idyllism until death challenged its continuance.  To them were born five children, Mrs. Fay Rudd Chiles of Birmingham, Ala.; Chas. M. Rudd, Misses Hilda, Madge and Mildred, all of whom save the gallant young son, survive.

"Capt." James Rudd was a man of the old school, reared to respect the honor attaching to honest toil, the virtues of thrift and frugality and the reward that comes from doing all things well.  These who were closest to him and had opportunity of judging the rugged, sterling composition of his character, learned to respect and venerate the attributes which were unconsciously disclosed.  Devotion to his family verged on the passionate with him and their welfare and safe keeping were bound up in every thought which he possessed.  To them he was ever true and loyal.

The tragic death of his only son, Lieut. Chas. M. Rudd in an airplane accident in California over a year ago, was a blow from the effects of which he never recovered, although outwardly bearing his burden with placid resignation.  In his removal to another world the community suffers the loss of a staid and valuable citizen and the family is bereft of a doting and affectionate husband and father.

In addition to his immediate family two sisters survive, namely, Mrs. Florence Hubbard of Temple and Mrs. Andrews of Atlanta, Ga..  Miss Madge Rudd who makes her home at Greensboro, N. C., is en route home and will arrive Sunday in company with her brother-in-law, Dr. C. D. Chiles, of Birmingham.  Mrs. Chiles has been here with her parents for nearly a month.  Miss Hilda Rudd, who is a student at college in Denton, reached here yesterday afternoon.  The son, Lowrey Rudd, is also due to arrive in time for the funeral, which will be held Sunday afternoon ????? o'clock.

Obituary of Maggie Mooring Rudd
Austin American 1-29-1956
(C. Avis Catalog entry #385)

MRS. JAMES RUDD   
Funeral services for Mrs. James Rudd of 1509 Rainbow Bend will be Monday at 10 a.m. at University Presbyterian Church with Dr. W. M. Logan officiating.

The body is at Cook Funeral Home.

Mrs. Rudd, 86, died in a local hospital Saturday.  She was born in Grimes County, Texas, and was a descendant of one of the members of Moses Austin's colony.  She moved to Austin in 1935.

Mrs. Rudd served on the State Board of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in the early 1920's.  She was an honorary member of the William B. Travis chapter of DRT and of Albert Sidney Johnston chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  She was a past regent of Betty Martin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Temple; and was a member of Thankful Hubbard chapter of DAR of Austin.  She was a member of University Presbyterian Church and a life member of Woman's Auxiliary.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Dwight Chiles of Austin, Miss Madge Rudd of Spartanburg, S. C.; Mrs. T. J. McElhenney of Austin and Mrs. L. V. Ragsdale of Fall River, Mass.; one sister, Mrs. J. Thomas Hall of Nacogdoches; seven grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Dr. T. J. McElhenney, Dr. T. E. McElhenney, Dr. Jake Avis, Jr., Jake Avis, all of Austin and G. Martel Hall of Nacogdoches.  Burial will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Temple.

Obituary of Margaret Mooring Rudd
(C. Avis Catalog entry #278)

Mrs. James Rudd

Funeral services for Mrs. James Rudd, 1509 Rainbow Bend, were held Monday morning at the University Presbyterian Church with Dr. W. M. Logan officiating.

Pallbearers were Dr. T. J. McElhenney, Dr. T. R. McElhenney, Dr. Jake Avis Jr., Jake Avis of Austin, Dwight Chiles of Houston and G. Martel Hall of Nacogdoches.  Burial was under the direction of the Cook Funeral Home in Hillcrest Cemetery, Temple.

Obituary of Alexander Hodge

(C. Avis Catalog entry #47)

Telegraph and Texas Register 9-13-1836,  p. 3, column 3

Deaths
On the 17th ult.
Alexander Hodge, Esq. aged 70 years

Marriage and Death Notices from Camden, SC Newspapers 1816-1865
(C. Avis Catalog entry #650)

p. 67
Camden Journal
Issue of March 28, 1836
Died at his residence "Prospect Hill" Jefferson County, Mississippi, on the 19th January 1836, Capt. Isaac Ross, in the 77th year of his age . . . a native of S. C. and while a minor received a commission to the Patriotic Band under Gen. Sumpter.  In 1808 he removed from Richland District to the West (eulogy).

<Isaac was brother of Arthur Brown Ross>

Obituary of Francis Ross Mooring
(C. Avis Catalog entry #358)

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IN MEMORIAM

Mrs. C. G. Mooring, who after a brief illness, departed this life Tuesday, December 11, was born in Walker county, Texas, near the town of Huntsville, in 1847.  The greater portion of her youth was spent in the town of Navasota, and there she resided after marriage until the family came to Temple.  After several years spent here, the family moved to Mineral Wells, where residence was maintained a number of years and until after the death of her husband, when return was made to Temple, and the home was established with her daughter, Mrs. James Rudd, this period and until her death, extending over eight years.

Mrs. Mooring was member of First Baptist church of this city, and active in the duties of her affiliation as in her life.  She was an enthusiastic member of the D. A. R., the U. D. C. and the D. R. T., these memberships connecting her with the old order of thhings since the foundation of country and state, and again in the partisanship which called for the sacrifices of life and treasures in fraternal strife, as in the foundation of Texas her people took prominent part, and as in the struggle for freedom her forbears had borne arms with distiction and honor.  

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B. W. Vining, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. James E. Green, pastor of First Presybterian church.  Many friends, old and new, attended the last services, and beautiful floral offerings spoke the language of love and of sorrow.

Mrs. Mooring is survived by three daughters:   Mrs. J. C. Rudd of Temple, Mrs. J. Thomas Hall of Nacogdoches, Mrs. A. P. Moran, of San Antonio. 


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Mrs. A. P. Moran returned to here home in San Antonio last night after having been with her sister, Mrs. James Rudd, since the death of their mother, Mrs. Frances Mooring in the mid-week.  Mrs. J. Thomas Hall, of Nacogdoches, another sister, will remain with Mrs. Rudd for a further visit.

The Daily Sentinel, Nacogdoches, Texas, 12-12-1911
Obituary of Francis Ross Mooring
(C. Avis Catalog entry #312)

p. 1

Died From Heart Failure
Mrs. C. G. Moorey, mother of Mrs. J. Thomas Hall, died at the residence of her daughter on North street last night at 12 o'clock from heart failure, and her remains were shipped to Temple for interment on the 11:55 train today.

Mrs. Moorey was taken ill yesterday morning at about 10 o'clock.  A physician was summoned and administrated restoratives and she revived to some extent.  When her physician left her last night at about 10 o'clock she was resting easy, but shortly after he had reached home he was again called and went in all haste, but the lady was dead before he could reach her.

Deceased was quite an old lady and leaves two daughters, Mrs. J. Thomas Hall of this city, and a daughter who lives in San Antonio.  Her remains were accompanied to Temple by Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hall.