Charles Arthur "Arthur" Rudow

Other Events:

• Military: WW1
• Name: Arthur Rudow
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41767P
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Military: 1916, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Enlistment WW1
• Occupation: 1916, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; plumber
• Epidemic: 1918; spanish influenza
• Website: 2009; Photograph

Notes:

Another Defender Gone

The fellow citizens and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rudow, Sr., will sympathize with them in the sad loss they have sustained through the war by the death of their son Arthur. Last week we reported that the young man was seriously ill overseas with influenza. This week we are called on to chronicle his death, official notice of which was received by his parents on Monday. Deceased was a young man to whom respect and gratitude is due, and in whose heart there stirred the true patriotic spirit which has made the young men of Canada famous throughout the world. Early in the war he enlisted in the ranks of the 118th Regiment. He did not wait for conscription but threw his weight into the fray on the side of justice, at a time when men counted most. Although he did not live to return to his native town, he will always be remembered as one of its heroes. He was overseas since January, 1817. A large proportion of this time way spent in the trenches where he was spared by the bullets, but where he fell victim to the disease which carried away so many of the young men of his age who stayed at home. He leaves his parents, three brothers, and three sisters and a host of friends to mourn their loss. His photo, which arrived too late for this issue, will appear in our next.

Elmira Signet Nov 14 1918



Military:
Service Number: 751544
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Railway Troops
Division: 5th Bn

Website:
Grace Schmidt Room of Local History Digital Collection

Description: Black and white studio portrait photograph, mounted on a mat, of Sapper Arthur C. Rudow, in uniform.

Notes: Sapper Arthur Rudow died at Lille, Belgium on 5 November 1918.

Inscriptions:
Front: Sapper Arthur C. Rudow, Died at Lille, Belgium, Nov. 5, 1918.

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85246177
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41760
• Immigration: 1884
• Immigration: 1885, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1886, Pembroke, Pembroke Twp., Renfrew Co., Ontario; tinsmith
• Naturalization: 1887
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Plumber
• Residence: Jul 1906, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Plumber
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Local Couple 50 Years Married
Mr. And Mrs. Franz Rudow Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary: Married in Germany

Mr. and Mrs. Franz Rudow are today celebrating their Golden Wedding anniversary. Fifty years ago today, July 20, 1883, they were married at Perritz, Germany.

In commemoration, the Ladies' Aid of St. James Lutheran church are holding a surprise celebration in the basement of the church and a huge wedding cake all lighted with candles is being presented to the happy couple.

Both are 73 years of age and enjoy the best of health. Mr. Rudow can not forbear from being active in the plumbing and tinsmithing trade in which he has been engaged for 60 years and each day works with his son at the shop. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rudow were born at Perritz, Germany. The year after they were married their parents and the parents' children all decided to come to Canada. They came over on the steamship Moravia, now out of use. Of this group who came to Canada at this time there remains only Mr. and Mrs. Franz Rudow, of Elmira, Mrs. Rudow's brother, Mr. C. Schultz, 82 of Pembroke, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. W. Schultz, also 82 of Pembroke.

Mr. and Mrs. Rudow lived at Pembroke for 11 years, moving from there to Waterloo where they lived for 10 years. From Waterloo they moved to Elmira in July, 1906, and have lived here since that time, 27 years ago. He has been established in his present business for the past 21 years.

There were seven children, seventeen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A reunion of the family is being held on Saturday when visitors are expected from Toronto, Kitchener and New Dundee.

Elmira Signet, July 20, 1933

[Typist's note: Mrs. Rudow, who is not named in the article, is Olga "Ernestine" Schultz. Typed by Marion Roes, January 18, 2010]

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Franz Rudow Passes Away.

A well known business man, Franz Rudow passed away Wednesday. Feb. 28th. Death was due to a heart attack. Deceased conducted a tinemithing business here for the past 29 years and worked until two weeks previou to his death. He was in his 72nd year and was born in Peritz, Germany He came to Canada about 50 year ago and lived at Waterloo and later in Elmira He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and member of the Oddfellows' Lodge He was married in 1884 and last August Mr. and Mrs. Rudow celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Surviving are his widow, one daughter. Mrs. (Dr.) Hall, Toronto, and two sons, Fred and William of Elmira. Two sons predeceased him. Arthur, who died overseas during the Great War and Frank of Elmira, and a daughter, Mre. Brown of Elmira. also predeceased.

The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon to St. James Lutheran Church for service. Burial was made in the Elmira cemetery. Rev. L. H. Kalbfleisch officiated.

Waterloo Chronicle 8 Mar 1934, p. 3

Franz married Ernstina Schultz 20 Jul 1883, Peritz, , Sachsen, Germany. Ernstina was born 1 Dec 1859, , Germany; died 3 Jun 1940, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85246282
• Name: Ernstina Rudow
• Name: Olga Ernestina Schultz
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41761
• Immigration: 1884, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1885, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran