Reverend Walter Tracy Scudder

1869 - 1948  (79 years)

• Name	Walter Tracy Scudder
  Prefix	Reverend
  Birth	8 Apr 1869	India   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Sep 1948	Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York
  Person ID	I1282	Scudder
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Dr. John Scudder, II,   b. 29 Oct 1835, Chavagacherry, Ceylon d. 23 May 1900, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India (Age 64 years)
  Mother	L. Sophia Weld,   b. 25 Oct 1838, Braintree, Orange, Vermont, United States d. 30 Aug 1925, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1861	Hudson, Summit, Ohio   [1, 4]
  	Sophia Weld and John Scudder, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789–2016," https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q217-PS1R
  Family ID	F528	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dr. Ellen Emma Bartholemew,   b. 21 May 1872, Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut d. 10 Apr 1938, Clifton Springs, Ontario, New York (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1899  [5]
  Children	1. Dr. John Scudder, III,   b. 28 Oct 1900, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India d. 6 Dec 1976, New York City, New York (Age 76 years)   2. Dana Bartholomew Scudder,   b. 21 Dec 1901, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India d. 24 Apr 1982, Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York (Age 80 years)   3. Laura Neal Scudder,   b. 5 Oct 1905, Ranipet, Madras, India d. 16 Feb 1997, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 91 years)   4. Walter Tracey Scudder, Jr.,   b. 25 Aug 1907, India d. 3 Aug 1972 (Age 64 years)   5. Frances Ellena Scudder,   b. 5 Mar 1914   d. 2 Sep 1986, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Walter graduated from Rutgers University in 1892. After his marriage, he and Ellen joined the others of his family in India. Because of various needs of the mission, they were sent from one station to another. It was not until after 1909 that their work centered in Tindivanam, a station started by Walter's father. Walter made the village school an accredited High School by adding a fourth, fifth, and sixth form and erecting a building. After World War I, he was able to build a new edifice that opened officially in 1925. In addition to his work in Tindivanam, Walter was made treasurer of the mission. Due to the malfeasance of an assistant secretary, however, money was misappropriated and Walter felt that he was to blame. The worry affected his health, and he returned to America. He was able to repay the money his clerk had stolen, and spend his retirement years in some degree of happiness.

  
  

• Sources

  [S178] Family Group Record for John Scudder and Laura Potter (Sophia) Weld. [S398] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254754; National Archives Film T9-0754; Page 177C. [S64] A Thousand Years in Thy Sight, the Story of the Scudder Missionaries of India, p. xiii. [S64] A Thousand Years in Thy Sight, the Story of the Scudder Missionaries of India, p. xii. [S64] A Thousand Years in Thy Sight, the Story of the Scudder Missionaries of India, p. 179.