Mary Elizabeth Rudy

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Rudy was born on 25 November 1848, in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Josiah Rudy, was 22 and her mother, Anna Maria Biehl, was 22. She married Henry Buhring on 1 January 1873, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Cressona, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 27 August 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Buhring
1845–1898
Mary Elizabeth Rudy
1848–1896
Marriage: 1 January 1873
Ida Bell Buhring
1873–1939
Anna May Buhring
1880–1971

Sources (13)

  • Mary A Rudy in household of H Rudy, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mary Eliz R Buhring, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
  • Mary Elizabeth Rudy in entry for Ida Bell Buhring Rasmussen, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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World Events (7)

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

Name Meaning

South German: variant of Rudi .

Ukrainian, Rusyn, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic); Rusyn (from Slovakia), Slovak, and Czech (also Rudý): nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Ukrainian and Polish rudy, Slovak and Czech rudý ‘red, reddish-brown’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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