Merced County CA Archives Biographies.....Ruddle, Ann Elizabeth 1841 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

MRS. ANN ELIZABETH RUDDLE

   One of the best-known and beloved women in Merced is Mrs. Ann Elizabeth
Ruddle. She was born in Jackson County, Ala., on August 25, 1841, the daughter
of the late Thomas Jefferson and Ann (McFarlane) Hardwick, the former born in
Georgia and the latter in Tennessee, where they were married. Soon after their
marriage they moved to Alabama, where Mr. Hardwick was elected judge.

   Judge Hardwick and his family, which consisted of his wife and six children,
crossed the plains in 1859, from Jasper County, Mo., where Mr. Hardwick had been
farming for some years. Upon their arrival in this State they settled on the
Merced River, and there he farmed for many years. He died at the age of
sixty-three. Mrs. Hardwick lived to reach the advanced age of ninety-six, making
her home with Mr. and Mrs. John Ruddle for thirty years prior to her death. They
were both honored pioneers. Everybody knew "Grandma Hardwick," as she was
affectionately called by old and young. She was an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and had scores of friends.

   The Hardwicks had six children: William J.; Amanda Malvina, who became the
wife of James Dickinson; Mary Catherine, who married William Hoskins; Ann
Eliazbeth, Mrs. Ruddle; Jackson Gilmore, who resides near Turlock and is eighty
years old; and Huldah Jane, who became the wife of Mark Howell, at one time
surveyor of Merced County. Of these six children, only Mrs. Ruddle and Jackson
Gilmore Hardwick are living.

   Mrs. Ruddle is familiarly known by her many friends as "Aunt Betty Ruddle."
She is an active member of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church of Merced.


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From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925

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