On this date (March 14) in 1923, Lawrence and Clarinda Rudeen were married. Here’s what I wrote about their wedding day in the Rudeen Family History (1997): They were married on March 14, 1923 at Clarinda’s home. The weather turned nasty that day, preventing many of the guests from returning home. Lawrence and Clarinda had […]
OTD: 100 years ago today – Augusta Rudeen
On this date in 1915, my great-grandmother Augusta Mathilda (Gustafsdotter) Rudeen passed away. The February 25, 1915 edition of the Wahoo Wasp noted this item: Mrs. Rudeen who has been seriously ill with pneumonia since the death of her son, Harry, last week, quietly passed to the great beyond, Monday, February 22. I have a copy […]
OTD: 100 years ago today – Harry Rudeen
It had been previously noted in the February 18 edition of the Wahoo Wasp: Harry Rudeen is seriously ill at this writing. Harry was the younger brother of my grandfather, Lawrence Rudeen. Then from the February 25, 1915 edition of the Wahoo Wasp: Harry Rudeen passed away February 15, 1915 at the home of his […]
Book review: “Giants in the Earth” by Rölvaag, 1927
I can’t believe I’d never heard of this book before, “Giants in the Earth“. It was written in 1927 by Ole Edvard Rölvaag, a Norwegian immigrant and a professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The book is a fictionalized account of original homesteaders on the South Dakota prairie, and goes into quite a […]
Marriage Record, Lawrence and Clarinda Rudeen
While she was in Colorado for Thanksgiving, Florence asked about a marriage certificate for her parents, Lawrence and Clarinda Rudeen. I had never seen one, so we looked up the instructions for ordering a copy. Florence handled all the details and sent me my copy last week! She said in a note, “Notice the name […]
