Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Mudge, A. L., 1947
Sunday, 30 July 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                            A. L. MUDGE FUNERAL RITES HELD MONDAY

  Funeral services for Arthur Lyon Mudge, 72, who died suddenly in his ranch home here
Friday, January 3rd  at 9:30 a. m. were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 in the Junction
Methodist Church, with the Rev. H. E. Moreland, Vicar of the Trinity Episcopal Church,
officiating.  He was assisted by Dr. W. R. McPherson, local Methodist minister.  The
Masonic Lodge conducted graveside rites.  The Hodges Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
  Burial was made in the Junction Cemetery.
  Mr. Mudge was born in Paignton, Devonshire, England on April 12, 1864, and came to America
with an older brother, landing in New York on November 5, 1884.  They went to Delaware for
a short time, spent the first winter in West Virginia, lived in Aspen, Colorado a short
time, and a little later bought a farm and settled in Nebraska.  Finding the winters too cold,
Mr Mudge left his brother and came to Texas.  He arrived in Junction on July 2, 1887, and
except for two trips back to his birthplace, has lived here since.
  At first he pastured 400 head of yearling steers for one and a half years with the late
James Paterson on his Maynard Ranch near Roosevelt.  He and Mrs. Mudge, the former Miss Ethel
Gordon, only child of the late Capt. G. Keith Gordon, R. N., to whom he was married in 1886,
purchased their ranch, which is known as "Red Hollow Ranch", and for more than 45 years have
been raising registered and grade Hereford cattle, sheep, goats and horses, and doing some
farming.  Their son, Fred, has been associated with them in the ranching industry.
  Mr. Mudge was a member of the Episcopal Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Woodmen of the
World.  He had not been in good health for several years.
  Survivors include the widow, the son, one daughter, Mrs. Jack Molesworth of Clarendon; three
grandchildren -- John M. Molesworth, Patty Molesworth and Fred Molesworth, all of Clarendon;
and three brothers and two sisters, who live in England.
  Active pall bearers were Seaton Prentice, J. M. Livingston, Sayers Farmer, Lee Craven, Clay
Secrest, C. T. Holekamp, Gully Cowsert and Ed Allen.
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