Elias H. Rudy

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• Eby ID Number: 00097-5475
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Factory Employee
• Residence: 1945, 63 Church St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Elias Rudy, "was born June 13th, 1882. He resides with his uncle, Menno E. Shantz, at Petersburg, Ontario."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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Elias H. Rudy, 62, died suddenly today at his home, 63 Church St., as a result of a heart attack. He had been suffering from a heart condition for a number of years. Born June 13, 1882 near Bamberg, he was a s/o the late Mr. and Mrs.Benjamin Rudy. As a young man he went to the Canadian West where he established a retail hardware business at Guernsey, Sask. In 1918 he married Mary Ann Shantz, who survives. The late Mr. Rudy returned to the Kitchener area in 1926 and had resided here until the time of his death.He was engaged in the upholstery trade. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three brothers, William of Centreville, Jeremiah of Waterloo, Josiah of Melville, Sask., and by four sisters, Mrs. Noah Snyder of Preston, Mrs. Ellen Porn of Redland, Cal., Mrs. Simeon Gingerich of Waterloo and Mrs. John Blodgett of Rochester,N.Y. Three sisters predeceased him....First Mennonite Cemetery.

Kitchener Daily Record 21 Feb 1945

Elias married Mary Ann Shantz 17 Jun 1918. Mary (daughter of Isaac C. Shantz and Sarah D. Shantz) was born 9 Feb 1882, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Aug 1954, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]