LINCOLN COUNTY, NC - BIOGRAPHIES - Michael Rudisill
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Michael Rudisill , Pioneer of Lincoln County NC
Contributed by Jodie Gee May 6 1997


Michael Rudisill was born on 11 Sep 1723 in  Michelfeld,Germany on the
Upper Rhine  section near  Switzerland. He was the son of Weyrich and 
Barbara Seigfried Rudisill.   When just a boy, an arrow shot by a 
playmate, struck out one of his eyes.Sometime around 1750, Michael 
Rudisill came to Lincoln County N.C. from Pa. and settled on Leeper's 
Creek, about 4 miles from Iron Station.

The country was  then a wilderness occupied by Indian  natives, with whom 
he and his family lived in peace. So much so, that he left his family to 
make a visit to Pa. He brought back wheat seed which was propagated for 
seeding and after a hundred years his wheat seed is still producing.

He acquired a large amount of land on both sides of Leeper's Creek -
portions of which, were later acquired by son-in-law Jacob Link.
Michael Rudisill and family were some of the early pioneers that spent 
their lives in service to God and in the opening and building of Lincoln 
County,N.C.

Children of Johann Michael and Catherine Rudisill:
Henry Rudisill married Catherine Friday and Saloma Sides

Phillip Rudisill married Elizabeth Johnson

Susanna Rudisill married John Derr

Jacob Rudisill married Susanna Hoyle

Hannah Rudisill married John Gottfried Arends(Arndt)

Elizabeth Rudisill married Matthias Devault

Barbara Rudisill married John Cansler

Catherine RUDISILL married Jacob LINK

John Rudisill married Dorothy ?