Lacrosse-Sauk County WI Archives Biographies.....Ruedy, Anna 1795 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Roxanne Munns rmunns@uwalumni.com May 15, 2007, 9:20 pm Author: Unknown ANNA RUEDY, P. O. Bangor; widow of Florian Ruedy, who was born in Switzerland in 1797; married in Switzerland to his present widow, Anna Ruedy, who was born in 1795. They emigrated to Highland, Ill., in 1840, where they lived about four years; thence to the town of Honey Creek, Sauk Co., Wis. They were one of the few German families of Sauk Co. who were the first settlers of the town of Bangor, where they settled in 1851. They first settled on the farm where Mrs. Ruedy now lives, Sec. 8. They brought five children to this country, only one of whom - Mrs. Christina Wolf - is now living. The names of the four children deceased were Christian, born in 1823, died 1879; Margaret, Lucy, and John, who died in 1878. The wife of the latter, Ursula, daughter of Peter Saxon, resides at the homestead; her parents emigrated to this country from Switzerland in 1854, and came to La Crosse Co. in 1855; her father died in 1875; her mother still resides in Bangor. Mrs. Ursula Ruedy has four children - Anna, Ursula, Christina and Peter. Additional Comments: From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 836. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/lacrosse/bios/ruedy614gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb