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| 6851 | The known data for Bridget (unknown) (Very) Giles does not match to be Henry's daughter. She was likely his granddaughter but by which of his daughters is not known. Some people have mistakenly assigned Bridget Scudder, daughter of Henry Scudder of Horton Kirby, Kent, as the Bridget who married Thomas Very; that Bridget was widowed at Strood, Kent, England and then went to New England where she later married Edward Giles. Bridget Giles is more likely a niece than a sister of Rev. Henry Scudder based on the wording of his will. Bridget is named as a "cousin" to Rev. Henry Scudder in his 1651 will and not as a sister in the manner that Rev. Scudder referred to his brother Thomas Scudder in New England and his children. He referred to his "cousins" Elizabeth Lathrop, her brother John Scudder and Bridget (unknown) Giles. In his era "cousin" was used to describe a number of possible relationships but would not usually be used to describe a "sibling." Her age has been adjusted to be more in line with the births of her children and her own death. Bridget came to America as a widow with her family, then married Edward Giles in 1636 and had a family with him. She is mentioned in the will of Reverend Henry Scudder as a cousin living in New England, along with others named by Rev. Henry as "cousins," John Scudder and Elizabeth Lathrop. These 2 are known to be the reverend's nephew and niece. Bridget was a member of the First Church of Salem in 1648. She lived with her first son, Samuel, on the north side of Cedar Pond and the brook running from it, about sixty rods from the almshouse in Danvers, where they owned a large tract of land. There her descendants lived for a century afterwards, as shown by various deeds, wills, and other records, as well as family tradition. Perhaps the greater number of her descendants moved to Salem, where the majority became seamen. On 10 November 1671 Bridget Giles of Salem, widow, gave to "my son Eliezue Giles" of Salem, husbandman, "twenty acres of upland and meadow formerly belonging to my husband Edward Giles of Salem deceased." Bridget's will was written on 14 January 1668/9 and proved on 30 November 1680. In it "Bregett Giles of Salem, widow," bequeathed to son Samuell Very 20s.; to son Thomas Very 20s.; to Mary Cutler of Reading the wife of Thomas Cutler 40s.; to "Briegett Very the daughter of my son Thomas Very" a cow at eighteen or at marriage; to "my son Eliazer Gilles" one ten acre lot "which sometime belonged to Goodman Addams of Nuberie of whom my husband bought it" and some meadow adjoining; and to "my son John Geiles" the residue. | Very, Mrs Bridget unknown (I630)
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| 6852 | The link to Captain Jesse Scudder is not proven. Looking at the 1810 and 1830 census of Jesse, you can find that he had one son who was not enumerated in the later census. | Scudder, Amos Augustus (I15167)
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| 6853 | The maiden name of this Elizabeth is not known by any primary source. For years some erroneously gave her the name Elizabeth Hales along with the misinformation that that family was from Groton, Suffolk. In the 1980s the Scudder Association made a serious attempt to research the family's origins in England. With the earlier discovery of the Scudder wills of Kent County, including the will of Elizabeth's husband Henry, made 29 September 1594, and the will of their son Rev. Henry Scudder, the research focused efforts in Kent county. However, out of curiosity about the old error of ties to Groton, Suffolk, they also surveyed Suffolk for any primary source records that might belong to those of the Scudder name. The finding was that no Scudders left any records in Suffolk County until the late 1600s, after the Horton Kirby, Kent branch of the Scudder family immigrated to America.* A more recent survey of Scudder records online produced the same negative results, whereas more than 200 early Kent County primary source records were readily found online. This misinformation about an alleged Scudder family connection to Groton, Suffolk appears in print in Mary Powell Bunker's Long Island Genealogies, but with no source. This error was corrected in the 1990s in several issues of Scudder Searches published by the Scudder Association. *There is one record for a Mildred Scudder married in Suffolk in 1616 who has no relevance to Henry's family or association of record with an other Scudder family of Kent. Elizabeth's name as unknown is also discussed in the article about her son Thomas and his wife, also an Elizabeth unknown, in "Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers!. She Was Another Man's Wife!—Correction #2. https://scudder.org/correction-2-thomas-scudder-elizabeth-lowers/ Elizabeth is mentioned as executrix in the will of her husband Henry Scudder, yeoman of Kent, England, who made his will 29 September 1594. The will was proved 5 November 1595 so he died between those dates. The family had 3 sons and 5 daughters whose dates are estimated either from statements in the will or from other records that pertain to the sons that assist in estimating their ages. "Abstract: Henry Skudder Wife: Elizabeth (Executor) 29 Sep 1594 Sons: Henry, Thomas, John Horton Kirby Daughters: Elizabeth, Bridgett, Alice, Martha, Jane Overseers: John Humfry, the elder; Wm Skudder, my brother; Anthony Comfot(?) YEOMAN Proved 5 Nov 1595 Witnesses: John Swarland, vicar of Horton Kirby; John Foster; Christopher Hancock Comment: Extensive lands in parishes of Horton Kirby and Sutton at Hone. Father of the Rev Henry [Eng] and Thomas of Salem." Scudder Searches, Scudder Association, Fall 1992, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp 5–6. Renters of family properties were: Timothye Skudder,* Michell Pickwell, Christopher Harris, Thomas Adams Additional caution by the current genealogist for the Scudder Association Foundation, but not stated in the above issue of Scudder Searches: Multiple people had the same names at the same time in various parts of Kent county and in their region in particular. Do not confuse this family with that of Henry Scudder, miller. also of Horton Kirby who made his will 6 weeks after Henry, the yeoman's, will was proved. That other Henry's will was made 24 Dec 1595 and proved 27 Jun 1600. This asterisk is part of the add on commentary. *This Timothy renter may be the Timothye, son of Willy of Stone who died before 1597 when his widow made her will. He had sons Tymothye and Willy and 2 sons John, the elder and the younger. These additional Scudders not in the direct line of this Henry, yeoman of Horton Kirby, w. p. 5 Nov 1595, are only the tip of the iceberg so far as there being multiple cousins having the same names living in the same small corner of Kent. This is why the Skudder lineage chart posted in Memories is so important to help keep this particular family line accurate and separate from others. It is also why we cannot assume anything and need primary sources. There are in addition, many other Scudders in different parts of Kent which is the county where this surname is centered. None are found at Suffolk in the 1500s to late 1600s which was an old unfortunate error. Young girls were taught that they had to obey their parents instantly. As a father dominated a household, this basically meant that the girls grew up to instinctively obey men. Even uncles, older brothers and male family friends could expect instant obedience from girls. Girls received no formal education (though very few boys did) but they were taught that their sole function in life was to marry, have children and look after their homes and husbands. Girls were taught that God had commanded them to be obedient to men, be it father or husband. Girls from a poor home received no education as we would recognise it. They learned skills for life from their mothers. Girls from the homes of the rich received some form of education but it was in things like managing a household, needlework and meal preparation. It was generally believed that teaching girls to read and write was a waste of time. Young ladies from a rich family would have no choice over who their husbands would be. Marriages were frequently arranged so that the families involved would benefit – whether the young lady loved her future husband was effectively irrelevant. In fact, it would not have been unusual for a couple to meet for the first time at their wedding. There was no legal age for marriage and many girls aged 14 would have got married at that age. In the homes of the poor, there was almost a rush to marry off daughters as it was believed that once they reached a certain age, about 14, they would have been seen as being too old for marrying off and therefore a liability at home, one extra mouth to feed and no extra income coming into the house. Once married, the main function of a wife was to produce a son to continue the family line. This was true for royalty right down to the common peasant. In would not have been unusual for wives to be pregnant every twelve months. In Tudor England, pregnancy and especially childbirth was dangerous for the wife. Death in childbirth was not unusual. One ‘tradition’ at this time was for a wife to prepare a new baby’s nursery but to also make arrangements for the baby should she, the mother, die in childbirth. The actual act of childbirth was assisted by a ‘midwife’. In fact, this was usually an elderly female relative or female neighbour with no medical knowledge. Complications were frequent and death not unusual in childbirth, but no proper doctors existed in times to change this. Even if a delivery of a baby was successful, the mother could still fall prey to illness due to the lack of hygiene during childbirth.Puerperal fever and post-birth infections were both killers. The way women dressed was also strictly controlled. Women who were not married could wear their hair loose. Married women had to hide their hair away under a veil and a hood. Queens might wear their hair loose on state occasions but this was only tolerated because they had to wear a crown. A woman’s dress covered nearly everything. Sleeves came down to the wrists and even in summer dresses reached the floor. Corsets were common but a plunging neckline would be considered acceptable. For queens, ceremonial dress could be even of a challenge as their dresses could be beautiful to those looking at them but they were both bulky and weighed a great deal as they were usually encrusted with jewels. Worn on a hot evening at a state occasion, such dresses must have been uncomfortable to wear. | Elizabeth (I717)
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| 6854 | The marriage of John Scudder, (b. about 1590), to Elizabeth Stoughton is recorded on the Malden, Essex Parish Register 4 September 1613. The christenings of John's children are recorded on the Strood, Kent parish registers. See: D. B. Scudder, ed., "John and Elizabeth Scudder of Strood, England, and Barnstable, MA, once again," Scudder Searches, v. 5, no. 2, (Summer 1993): 6. After John, died between 1626–1627, his widow Elizabeth married as his second wife, Robert Chamberlaine, the Strood Parish pastor. The record of this marriage stated that Elizabeth was the daughter of "the Rev'end Divine that was, Mr. Thomas Stoughton." Robert and Elizabeth had three children, all baptized at Strood. Robert died and was buried at Strood on 1 June 1639. John Blythe Dobson, "A Note on the Reverence Robert Chamberlayne of Strood, Kent, Father-in-law of Capt. Richard (1) Betts of Newtown, Long Island," The American Genealogist, volume 79, no. 3, (July 2004): 228. https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/documents/Chamberlayne_2004.pdf The widowed Elizabeth came to New England with her children, Elizabeth Scudder and Samuel and Joanna Chamberlain, following her brothers Thomas and Israel Stoughton and her son John Scudder, all of whom were there by 1635. She was in New England by 6 October 1644, when, as "Mestres Chamberlin," she joined the Reverend John Lothrop's church at Barnstable. She apparently moved to the Bay colony shortly thereafter, for on 14 May 1645, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, calling her “Mrs Chamberlin, widowe, sister to Mr Israell Stoughton," directed, '[u]pon weighty reasons moveing," that she be allowed either a cow or £5.40. | Scudder, John (I716)
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| 6855 | The Marsh family is English in origins. Several different Marsh families came to America very early in the 1600s. The first Marsh to come to America seems to be one John Marsh who came to Salem, Massachusetts in 1633. There were many others who arrived from various parts of England during the next few years. | Marsh, David (I1447)
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| 6856 | The Mormons had been expelled by mobs from Nauvoo, Illinois, in February 1846, and Helaman was born on the trail. He grew up in Salt Lake City and helped colonize Overton, Nevada, from 1868 to 1871. He lived in the United Order in Prattsville, where he was bishop, and then worked as a policeman in Salt Lake City, where he was chaplain of the Utah legislature. Helaman was one of the first Mormon missionaries to Mexico, and in 1876 at Hermosillo, Sonora, he and Meliton Trejo performed the first baptisms recorded by the LDS Church in that country. He later served as president of the Mexican Mission based in Mexico City for part of the 1880s. After his release, he moved to Colonia Dublan in Galeana, state of Chihuahua , Mexico, where he died. | Pratt, Helaman (I6093)
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| 6857 | The name of Catharine Estey's mother has been a subject of debate. There was a marriage between Jeffrey Estey in 1606 at Freston, Suffolk, England to a Margaret Pett. Sources in print accepted that marriage for years, despite the fact that Jeffrey's children were christened in 1625, 1627 and 1629. Were they married 19 years before they had children? Another possibility presents thanks to this link with its well sourced explanation: https://www.wyman.org//Genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I50657&tree=Wyman This source suggests: A marriage was more recently found between a Jeffrey Estey and Mary Salmon at Old Newton, Suffolk on 1 September 1624. That makes more sense to belong to Jeffrey Estey whose first child was born in 1625. This source suggests the earlier marriage to Margaret Pett was a different Jeffrey Estey, a cousin, son of Edmond. The will of Richard Salmon dated 20 May 1636 mentions his "Daughter Eastes," still in England. If this is Jeffrey Estey's correct wife, they likely immigrated to Salem, Massachusetts soon after. Another possibility is that Jeffrey married twice which is logical to consider since he may have been over 40 years old in 1624. Jeffrey "Estes," Catherine's father, who had resided in Salem, Massachusetts, died 4 January 1657/58 in Huntington and his death is the first recorded death there. In his will, he left his house and lot to his grandson, Jonathan Scudder, and the remainder of his estate to his son-in-law, Henry Scudder. On Huntington records, Catherine Estey is mentioned as widow of Thomas Jones and involved in land records with her son after 1670. See Charles R. Street, Huntington Town Records, v. 1, 299–300. Catherine's sister-in-law, Mary Towne, who had married her brother, Jeffrey, was executed as a witch in Salem in 1692. | Estey, Catharine (I219)
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| 6858 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her, including Abial; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Abial (I65439)
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| 6859 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her, including Abial; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Nathan (I65446)
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| 6860 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her, including Abial; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Sabin, Zeruiah or Zerviah (I65450)
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| 6861 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her, including Ezra; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Ezra (I65449)
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| 6862 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her, including Hannah; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Hannah (I65448)
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| 6863 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Alexander, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Alexander (I65458)
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| 6864 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Charles, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Charles (I65451)
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| 6865 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Eunice, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 Youngest child of Nathan Bingham and Zeruiah Sabin | Bingham, Eunice (I65460)
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| 6866 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Isaac, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Isaac (I65453)
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| 6867 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Oliver, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Oliver Sabin (I65452)
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| 6868 | The original image shows Nathan Bingham's marriage in 1777 to his first wife Susanna Stark and his 3 children by her; his 2nd marriage in 1784 to Zeruiah or Zerviah Sabin and their 6 children, including Susannah, & some death records for family members. From "Connecticut Marriages," film 007616200. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V5-VCN9?i=43&cc=2448941 | Bingham, Susannah (I65454)
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| 6869 | The original source is from Nellie Jane Davis Scudder's Bible, in the possession of Barbara Jean Scudder Stroud. | Source (S118)
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| 6870 | The record of the First Church in Huntington lists Jerusha's husband as Ananias Carll. | Scudder, Jerusha (I37825)
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| 6871 | The Reverend Doctor Eli F. Cooley of the First Presbyterian Church of Ewing, gathered genealogical information about the families of his congregation in preparation for a sermon in 1839. After, he continued his research. He collected his information from the examination of deeds and wills, surveys and family bibles, and from daily conversation with aged persons of his acquaintance. After his death, his work was continued by his son, Prof. William S. Cooley, of Philadelphia. He died 7 February 1882, and his and his father's papers came into the possession of Miss Hannah L. Cooley, of Ewing, Mercer county, New Jersey. She prepared the notes for the publication of this book. | Source (S15)
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| 6872 | The Reverend Jacob D. Fonda was the last regular pastor of the Old Caughnawaga Church, in the eastern part of the village of Fonda, serving from 1836 to 1842. It is interesting to note that his wife was a sister of Dr. Scudder, the first medical missionary to India. On December 9, 1842, the entire original church edifice and parsonage were sold at a Sheriff’s sale at the Old Court Rouse to Jacob for $1,316.56, who took it because of the debt the remainder of the congregation owed him for salary and were unable to pay. He subsequently sold and assigned his rights to Reverend Douw Van O Linda. The last services in the church were held during the summer of 1844. From the church at Fonda, Jacob served in the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church, Greenport, Columbia county, New York, beginning March 10, 1842, until April 1848, Reverend Jacob D. Fonda's grandaughter, Kornelia was a survivor of the Titanic. | Fonda, Reverend Jacob Douw (I803)
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| 6873 | The Scudder Association formerly designated William Scudder as the fifth child of Thomas and Elizabeth (unknown) Scudder. In the 1990s, the Association realized he was the eldest child and changed their records and numbering system accordingly. William's mother was not Elizabeth Lowers who married a different Scudder, relationship not known. See "Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers! She Was Another Man's Wife!–Corrections # 2," Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 1, no. 3, (December 2019), https://scudder.org/correction-2-thomas-scudder-elizabeth-lowers/. The surname of William's wife Penelope is also not known. | Scudder, William (I203)
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| 6874 | The Scudder's lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. | Scudder, Wheeler Lord (I17882)
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| 6875 | The Stevens Point Journal, Wisconsin, reported on 24 October 1885 that Esther had a cancer removed from her breast at the residence of Jason Crowl by Drs. Nourse and Omich. | Topping, Esther (I13341)
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| 6876 | The story is that this son was born of an unnamed woman while Benedict's wife was visiting her mother in Philadelphia. This illegitimate was treated as an equal to Benedict's other children and was looked after in his will. | Gage, John (I12611)
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| 6877 | The story of Ida Scudder's visionary mission begins in the late 1800's when she was a young American girl reluctantly visiting her medical missionary father, John Scudder, at his post in Tamil Nadu, South India. One fateful night, Ida was asked to help three women from different families struggling in difficult childbirth. Custom prevented their husbands from accepting the help of a male doctor for them and being without training at that time, Ida herself could do nothing. The next morning she was shocked to learn that each of the three women had died. She believed that it was a calling and a challenge set before her by God to begin a ministry dedicated to the health needs of the people of India, particularly women and children. Consequently, Ida went back to America, entered medical training (practically unheard of for women at that time) and, in 1899, was one of the first women graduates of the Cornell Medical College. Shortly thereafter, Ida returned to India and opened a one-bed clinic in Vellore in 1900. Two years later, in 1902, she built a 40-bed hospital, the forerunner of today's 1700-bed medical center. In 1909, she started the School of Nursing, and in 1918, her fondest dream came true with the opening of a medical school for women. (Men were admitted in 1947). With the training of these women as doctors and nurses, Indian women would now begin to have access to health care professionals. This was the beginning of the vision of Ida S. Scudder which continues to grow to this day. In addition to the care of women, Ida Scudder saw the need for bringing health care to the poor, the disabled, and the neglected of India. She traveled regularly to outlying villages, bringing medical care to the doorstep of poor villagers, many of whom had never seen a real doctor or nurse, starting CMC's first "roadside" dispensary in 1916. Over the years, these roadside dispensaries have developed into extensive rural health and development programs that have become internationally acclaimed in the Community Health field. These dispensaries have attracted members of the medical community from around the world, from young medical students to nurses to highly skilled surgeons, to study and contribute their skills. Ida retired in 1946 at the age of 75 and was succeeded by one of her most distinguished students, Dr. Hilda Lazarus. Ida continued to be active for another decade. She taught her weekly Bible class, advised doctors on difficult cases, and entertained friends. She lived to see the establishment of a modern medical complex with nearly 100 doctors, a 484-bed general hospital, a 60-bed eye hospital and numerous mobile clinics, all serving some 200,000 patients and training some 200 medical students each year. | Scudder, Dr. Ida Sophia (I1283)
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| 6878 | The surname for Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Scudder (T), is not known by any primary source record. She was not Elizabeth Lowers who md. a Henry Scudder of North Cray, Kent, relationship unknown to the Horton Kirby, Kent family. See "Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers! She Was Another Man's Wife!–Corrections # 2," Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 1, no. 3, (December 2019), https://scudder.org/correction-2-thomas-scudder-elizabeth-lowers/. In Scudder Searches, v. 1, no. 2, (Summer 1989), this corrections was again addressed as follows: "There are several old Scudder family history errors, some originating more than one-hundred years ago, that still continue to raise their heads. Although all or most have been corrected in various issues of the Scudder Association Bulletin (published 1936–81), they seem to have a life of their own and just don't go away. This note is intended to call attention to them and thus to lay them to rest, once and for all...." The Scudder Searches article then addresses the error "made by H. F. Waters in his Genealogical Gleanings in England, based on the 1645 will of John Lowers of Darenth, Kent. (It has been prolonged by Moses Bigelow, who, in his The Scudders of Trenton, (Somerset Press, 1948), misread the name of John Lowers as Somers) but perpetuated the error of Elizabeth's "maiden name" along with other errors in his work. In the will under discussion, John Lowers mentions 'my sister' Scudder and names her children as Thomas, Henry, William, John, Elizabeth and Martha. Doubts of the correctness of this identification were raised when Scudder researchers read the Lowers will, since if Thomas of Salem had a daughter Martha, she probably would have died long before 1645. Later, the 1641 will of Henry Scudder of North Cray was discovered." It proves that Henry of North Cray is the husband of Elizabeth Lowers and not Thomas (T) of Salem. Thus, the maiden surname of Thomas of Salem's wife remains unknown as it does not appear in any document. The article then invites, "(Please see page 16 for abstracts of these two wills.)" The article continues, "Thomas and his brother, the Reverend Henry Scudder of Collingbourne Ducis, were born in or near Horton-Kirby parish in Kent, England. Thomas's brother was highly thought of as a clergyman. Members of their family had lived there for almost two hundred years prior to their birth. It was there, according to family tradition, that Thomas married Elizabeth in St. Mary's Church. And it was there that Thomas and Elizabeth reared their children. Unfortunately no records that early for that parish survive. "[Thomas did not leave a record to explain] why he uprooted his family and migrated to the new world. Thomas had property in Kent, land and houses he inherited from his father. Although economic times were worsening in England, there is no evidence that Thomas was suffering. It is possible that Thomas may have departed Kent after 26 March 1637 to avoid possible loss of a suit for heavy damages against him." See corrections and further discussion in "Thomas Scudder, b. 1587, Ancestor of the American Scudder (T) Line, Left England Amid Turmoil , Contention and with a Little Mystery," Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, Scudder Association Foundation, volume 2, no. 1, (Spring 2020), scudder.org. At some point in time, Thomas (T) transferred ownership of his property in Kent to Henry. Thomas (T) and his family arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, before 25 December 1637 when he received 2 portions of land of 1/2 acre each. The Salem area had been inhabited by English colonists for about 10 years before Thomas arrived with his family. In 1623 a group of colonists had attempted to set up a fishing establishment at Cape Ann, on the north shore of Massachusetts. The project failed but a few men led by Roger Conant did not give up and in 1626 moved and settled in Naumkeag, which later became Salem in 1629. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was issued a charter by the king in 1629 giving the colony the rights of autonomy and self rule. The colonists were intent on establishing a commonwealth where the Puritan Church could exist and their rights would be upheld. They intended to worship God without the interference of the bishops of the Church of England and rejected anyone who did not follow their principles. Ministers began arriving in 1629 and began the job of organizing their churches. It was becoming clear that Salem was separating from the Church of England. In August the covenant was accepted. There was little in the way of organization that resembled the Church of England; the Book of Common Prayer was conspicuously left out of worship. The land within Salem Town was not fertile, but expansion into surrounding areas through land grants produced agriculture. One of the areas of expansion was Salem Village. The first real steps toward an independent township for Salem Village was in 1638. In the 1630's there was a threat of charter revocation and the colonists responded by preparing a defense. Roger Williams, in an act of defiance cut the cross out from the English flag. It would not be reinstated until 1680, in the years after King Phillip's War when the colonial leaders sought to re-institute discipline. The 1630's saw population expansion, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson, and the Pequot Indian War. The growth of population was due to the repressive government of King Charles I in England. Anne Hutchinson defied the ruling authority by criticizing the doctrine of the elect. She amassed a large following and was eventually driven out of Massachusetts to Rhode Island. From there she went to New York where she and her family were killed by Indians. The Pequot Indian War was the first time the colony as a whole was engaged in war with Indians and the first instance of Indians using guns against the white settlers. In the 1640's the high rate of immigration slowed considerably with the Puritans in power in Parliament and the English Civil War in progress. The main reason for migrating to New England was gone. While the Puritans were in power in England, the persecution against them had ended. It was necessary for the colony to develop her own system of trading and increase exports to maintain her position. The colonists were self-reliant and did not turn to England for help. From the beginning Massachusetts was determined to run her affairs her way and claimed sovereignty. She would not acknowledge the right of the King to revoke her charter. By 1640 Salem would be the second most important colonial town next to Boston. In 1643 several colonies formed a confederacy. Under Cromwell in the 1650's England left the colonies to themselves and during this time they prospered. The church was the most prominent organization in the towns and by 1655, Salem was considered a well organized and well governed community in addition to being an extremely important trading port. When Thomas arrived in Salem, he probably lived in a village, beyond which were his privately owned fields. The typical village was composed of houses grouped around a plot of land held in common by the community. The dominant structure on the common was the meetinghouse, where the pastor, the most important figure in the community, held long Sabbath services. The meetinghouse of the chief village of a town (in New England a town corresponds to what is usually called a township elsewhere in the United States) was also the site of the town meeting, traditionally regarded as a foundation of American democracy. In practice the town meeting served less to advance democracy than to enforce unanimity and conformity, and participation was as a rule restricted to male property holders who were also church members. The first mention of Thomas in Salem is 25 December 1637, when "Goodman Skudder" was granted two quarter acres of marsh and meadow land at one of these town meetings. The term used to describe him, "Goodman," means that he was in good standing in the community; a member of the middle class. In his will dated 30 September 1657 and probated 29 June 1658, Thomas named his wife, Elizabeth, his sons, John, Thomas, and Henry, his daughter, Elizabeth Bartholomew, and a grandson, Thomas, son of Thomas' deceased son, William. He divided his goods equally among the heirs, except for a cow which he left to his wife. | Scudder, Thomas (I127)
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| 6879 | The surname for Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Scudder, is not known by any primary source record. See "Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers! She Was Another Man's Wife!–Corrections # 2," Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 1, no. 3, (December 2019), https://scudder.org/correction-2-thomas-scudder-elizabeth-lowers/. In Scudder Searches, v. 1, no. 2, (Summer 1989): 2, this correction, previously made, was again addressed as follows: "There are several old Scudder family history errors, some originating more than one-hundred years ago, that still continue to raise their heads. Although all or most have been corrected in various issues of the Scudder Association Bulletin (published 1936–81), they seem to have a life of their own and just don't go away. This note is intended to call attention to them and thus to lay them to rest, once and for all...." The article then addresses the error "made by H. F. Waters in his Genealogical Gleanings in England, based on the 1645 will of John Lowers of Darenth, Kent. (It has been prolonged by Moses Bigelow, who, in his The Scudders of Trenton, misread the name of John Lowers as Somers.) In the will, Lowers mentions 'my sister' Scudder and names her children as Thomas, Henry, William, John, Elizabeth and Martha. Doubts of the correctness of this identification were raised when Scudder researchers read the Lowers will, since if Thomas of Salem had a daughter Martha, she probably would have died long before 1645. Later, the 1641 will of Henry Scudder of North Cray was discovered. It proves that he, not Thomas of Salem is the husband of Elizabeth Lowers. Thus, the surname of Thomas of Salem's wife remains unknown. (Please see page 16 for abstracts of these two wills.)" | Elizabeth (I212)
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| 6880 | The surname for Henry's mother Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Scudder, is not known by any primary source record. See "Thomas Scudder Did Not Marry Elizabeth Lowers! She Was Another Man's Wife!–Corrections # 2," Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, volume 1, no. 3, (December 2019), https://scudder.org/correction-2-thomas-scudder-elizabeth-lowers/. In the Scudder Association's renumbering of Thomas I's (T's) family, Henry is listed as 5th and youngest child. About 1651, Henry moved from Salem to Southold, Long Island. On 1 March 1656, Henry sold his Southhold house and home lot of 21 acres to John Elton in preparation of moving to Huntington with Jeffrey Este, his father-in-law. Both Henry and Jeffrey bought land on East Neck on the waterside. In his will, dated January 25, 1661, Henry made his wife, Catharine, executrix and left 10 pounds each to his children Moses, David, Mary and Rebecca. To his oldest son, Jonathan, he left 20 pounds and the house and land that Catharines's father, Jeffrey, had left him. | Scudder, Henry (I205)
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| 6881 | The town of Cloud Chief was named for Cloud Chief, one of the Southern Cheyenne chiefs who had negotiated with the United States under provisions of the Dawes Act for opening the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reserve to settlement. The townsite was platted in April, 1892, as Tacola. The Cloud Chief post office was established in March and Cloud Chief was designated by the U.S. Congress as the county seat of H County, Oklahoma Territory. In 1900 the people of Washita County, by a vote of 1,349 in favor to 282 in opposition, illegally moved the courthouse under gunfire to New Cordell. Congress approved the move in 1906. The Cloud Chief public schools opened for the 1892-1893 school year and closed after the 1959-1960 school year. The high school was known as the Cloud Chief Warriors. The Cloud Chief post office opened on March 29, 1892, and closed on December 31, 1964. | Hackler, Arthur Loyd (I42416)
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| 6882 | The town of New Fairfield is situated in the northern part of Fairfield County. It's bounded on the north by Sherman, on the east by Litchfield County and the town of Brookfield, on the south by Danbury and on the west by Putnam County, New York. The town was granted to twelve proprietors, who purchased 31,000 acres of land from Chief Squantz of the Scatacook Indians.These proprietors made a division and allotment of the land and surveyed it about 1736-1737. The town of New Fairfield was incorporated in 1740. It is now a town of about 13,000 citizens. Among the early residents were Medack Rogers, Jeroe Scudder, Thomas Burse, the Beasleys, the Penfields, the Treadwells and Amos R. Stevens. | Scudder, Reverend Isaac (I5438)
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| 6883 | The Turnbow properties were near Eden Valley on the Palouse River, about five miles from Palouse. Garfield is on the State highway 27 north of Eden Valley. Maxwell was probably born on the farm, which would be appropriately Whitman County. However, by the location of the farm, the birth could be listed at Palouse. | Turnbow, Maxwell B. (I20417)
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| 6884 | The twins died in an influenza epidemic. Their mother a few days later. | Scudder (I15348)
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| 6885 | The will of Aaron Gold, dated 2 July 1811, names his son, Samuel. | Gold, Samuel (I502)
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| 6886 | The will of Benjamin Scudder, dated 17 May 1732, proved 21 October 1739, lists Ruth as Ruth Rogers. | Scudder, Ruth (I191)
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| 6887 | The will of Benjamin Scudder, dated 17 May 1732, proved 21 October 1739, lists Peter as the youngest son. The marriage of Peter Scudder on 22 June 1758 to Katherine Mott states that he was a widower and that she was a widow. So is Mott her maiden name or married name of her first husband. The record as transcribed does not clarify. Records of the First Church in Huntington, Long Island, 1723–1779, being the record kept by the Rev. Ebenezer Prime, (Huntington, N.Y.: for Moses L. Scudder, 1899), 93. | Scudder, Peter (I196)
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| 6888 | The will of Benjamin Scudder, dated 17 May 1732, proved 21 October 1739, names Sarah's husband as Epenetus Platt, Jr. | Scudder, Sarah (I192)
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| 6889 | The Will of Rhodin Hord, 5 September 1822 (proved December 1822), Office of the county Clerk, Maysville,Kentucky, Will Book E, pages 321-322, mentions daughter Mary, "now Mary Scudder," and is witnessed by Charles Scudder. | Hord, Mary (I6)
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| 6890 | The work cited was done by Mrs. Hale for the Hatch Genealogical Society, and was published in 1925. | Source (S313)
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| 6891 | The World War I draft registration card was completed in Great Falls, Montana. Clarence said he was a rancher. At the time of the 1920 census, he was a prisoner in the Cascade county jail. | Scudder, Reverend Clarence Roy (I17681)
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| 6892 | Thelma died as an infant. Was originally buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near Maysville, Benton county, Arkansas. When Beaver Lake was created, the grave was moved to Oak Grove Cemetery, Rogers, Benton county, Arkansas. | Jackson, Thelma (I3453)
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| 6893 | Thelma was a retired employee of Grants Department Store and a member of Ormsby Heights Baptist Church. | Rogers, Thelma Evelyn (I32807)
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| 6894 | Thelma was an accountant for Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital. | Brence, Thelma (I42442)
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| 6895 | Thelma was secretary to the Superintendent of Public Schools in Macomb. She was later a bank teller in Macomb and California. She was an artist as a hobby. | Landis, Thelma Louise (I49267)
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| 6896 | Thenford was a lawyer. | Woodhull, Thenford D. (I26876)
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| 6897 | Theodocia and her husband were missionaries in Borneo and China. During her time in the East Indies, she became very proficient in the Chinese language, enough that she was able to conduct a school for Chinese children. She died giving birth to her youngest child. | Scudder, Theodosia Rachel (I802)
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| 6898 | Theodor was naturalized 19 April 1955 in Los Angeles. | Bavin, Theodor A. (I37771)
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| 6899 | Theodore and his family were living with his father in Los Angeles in 1910. | Scudder, Theodore Yeoman (I15156)
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| 6900 | Theodore attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He became an attorney in New Jersey, and in 1908 was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. | Badgley, Theodore Johnson (I23029)
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