History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . s thatof a life well spent in the service of his fellow men. Gabriel Nicholas Rudd was born May 9, 1873, ^his county and diedJanuary 8, 1913, his death being the result of injuries received in a railroadwreck at Terre Haute, Indiana. His parents were Jehu and Sarah (Lasley)Rudd, both of whom were natives of this county. Jehu Rudd received hiseducation in his home schools and, after leaving school, worked on hisfathers farm until his marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Jehu Rudd were the parentsof eight children: Norton, who mar
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . s thatof a life well spent in the service of his fellow men. Gabriel Nicholas Rudd was born May 9, 1873, ^his county and diedJanuary 8, 1913, his death being the result of injuries received in a railroadwreck at Terre Haute, Indiana. His parents were Jehu and Sarah (Lasley)Rudd, both of whom were natives of this county. Jehu Rudd received hiseducation in his home schools and, after leaving school, worked on hisfathers farm until his marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Jehu Rudd were the parentsof eight children: Norton, who married Josephine Osborn; Orpheus, whomarried Anna Hastings; Thomas, who married Alice Adams; Zula, the wifeof Oscar Smith; Gabriel, the immediate subject of this sketch; Ray, whomarried Alice Wright; Grace, who died at the age of eight years, and Erwin,who is unmarried. Gabriel N. Rudd received a good, common school education and fromhis boyhood up was a youth of more than ordinary seriousness, and wastaught to look upon the better and brighter side of things. As a boy he knew. GABRIEL N. RUDD HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 5^5 what it was to work and when he was only fifteen years of age he came toIndianapolis and learned the box-making trade. He continued to reside inIndianapolis until two years after his marriage, when he moved to Claytownship, Hendricks county, where he remained the rest of his life. As afarmer he was recognized as an up-to-date agriculturist, who kept fullyabreast of all the latest advances in farming methods. Mr. Rudd was married on September 28, 1895, to Luella Kendall, thedaughter of Harry and Mary Kendall, and to this union were born threechildren. Lottie Verenia, who died at the age of seventeen months; Eloiseand Theodore. Mr. Rudd was very much attached to his family and wasessentially a domestic man in his tastes. He was never happier than whenseated by his own fireside, and the joys of conjugal bliss were made com-plete by the chatter of his little child
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