Three beautiful little girls pose for their photograph by an unknown photographer in an unknown location. We are lucky that someone identified them as Mary, Belle & Kate, children of Emma Rudd McGinnis. Iggy found that Emma Kate Rudd McGinnis was the daughter of William Mann Rudd. You can view Emma’s photograph in my first post about the Rudd family.
Emma was born as the seventh of twelve children to Dr. William Mann Rudd and Catherine Eliza Rudd. As I was trying to sort this out, I realized that the Dr and his son Jr, who is pictured here, were many years apart in age. Dr was born in 1827 and was 51 when Jr was born in 1878. His youngest child Catherine was born in 1881 when Dr was 54 years old. The children were as follows:
James – 1855
Nancy – 1857
Elvira – 1859
Rosalia – 1860
Davis – 1861
Charles – 1864
Emma – 1867
Virginia – 1871
Alome/Olney – 1874
Ida – 1876
William Jr – 1878
Catherine 1881
Yes, in the days without effective birth control, a woman could be in a state of pregnancy, nursing or otherwise caring for children for thirty years. Wow.
Emma married Bernard McGinnis (1852-?) in 1889 at the age of 19. Their daughters soon followed, Isabelle in 1889, Anna Kate in 1891 and Mary in 1892. Unfortunately, Emma passed away in 1902. While Belle and Mary both do not have living descendants, Anna does. Hopefully one of them may come upon this site and be able to provide some insight into this large family.
Nov 26, 2012 @ 12:21:11
Isabel/Isabelle McGinnis (23 Dec 1889 – Dec 1972) married Jacob L. Pritchard (1885 – 1973) and is buried in Santa Clara, California. She had sons: Bernard Leroy (17 Jul 1912 – 14 Sep 1992), Paul R (1916 – 1927) and Basil (15 Sep 1917 – Jul 1977).
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62390728 – the names on the gravestone are interesting (and a little confusing).
Nov 26, 2012 @ 15:32:39
I think because they are out of order it is confusing.
Bernard 1912
Paul 1916
Basil 1917
Joan 1921
Joseph 1922
Vincent 1924
Richard 1925
Dorothy 1931
It would also be staying with the family precedent for her to be having children into her 40s. I wonder if they were Catholic.
Nov 27, 2012 @ 19:22:23
What a treasure for the relatives of Anna Kate! I hope they come by someday!
Dec 14, 2012 @ 03:15:14
Actually, her name wasn’t Anna. It was Kate (Catherine Elizabeth McGinnis) and she became a nun and had no children. Belle and Mary did have children, and grandchildren. Belle is my grandmother.
Dec 14, 2012 @ 05:39:19
Apr 21, 2013 @ 18:24:42
I am the granddaughter of Joethan Murray, Nancy Rudd’s son. Sister Mary Basil McGinnis, was my grandfather’s first cousin. “Cousin Kate”, as we referred to her, was a nun with the BVM order in Dubuque, Iowa when I lived there with my husband in 1969 and 1970. We visited Kate at her residence in 1970–I think she was 88 at the time. She was a delightful woman, trying to ply us with sweets (the only thing she had to offer us). She was the author of a number of religious poems that always rhymed, sometimes with a bit of desperation. When we saw her, she was wearing the (then) more modern short habit. The skin on the side of her face was baby-soft, the result of wearing a habit for so many years. She visited my grandfather in Oregon in 1971 or so–after almost a lifetime of not seeing him. I do have a picture of Kate, taken in Dubuque. She showed us the grounds of her order, pointing to the grave markers of members of her order. She is most assuredly buried there.
Dec 02, 2012 @ 20:25:38
Very interesting hair styles. Most photos of sisters show similar and not dissimilar hair fashions.
Dec 27, 2012 @ 14:32:01
The McGinnis girls and the Colter boys were first cousins, and all of them lived nearby or actually WITH their grandparents Dr. William Mann Rudd and Eliza Catharine Mann Rudd (yes, Eliza’s maiden name was the same as William’s middle name) in Springerville (Round Valley) Arizona Territory. A very big group of RUDD family members lived there in Arizona in those days (end of 1800′s) and while Springerville was not a big city, it does look like a photographer was there at that time, and as Mrs Marvel points out – the backgrounds of the photos are the same! Same photographer. My guess is that if this was a traveling photographer, then most all of the family members were photographed at that same time. And this was probably about 1894 or 1895. My grandmother “Belle” (Isabel McGinnis Pritchard) was born Dec 23, 1889, and when this photo was taken she was 4, her sister “Kate” was 3, and little sister Mary Rose McGinnis was 2 yrs old. What a treasure to see these old photos of our family!
Apr 21, 2013 @ 18:27:49
I have a large Rudd family photo probably taken at the family ranch. Nancy is a young woman then. I would love to know who all the family members are!