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Name

Holly, Ruth Maria

Othernames

Ruth Welch
Ruth Mudge

Genealogy ID

00012

Born

18 JAN 1858

Birthplace

Sullivan, Tioga PA

Deceased

26 SEP 1944

Deceased where

Sullivan, Tioga PA

Cemetery

State Road Cemetery

Titles & honors

East Sullivan Grange P.O.H. #821

Father

Joseph Wilson Holly

Mother

Mary Wood

Spouse

Freeman Welch, Menzo Mudge

Children

Willard Welch
Leland A. Welch
(Boy) Welch
Mildred Ruth Mudge
Harold Menzo Mudge
Helen Dora Mudge

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Obit PDC

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HOLLY - Mrs. Ruth Mudge [SRGP 00012] of East Sullivan Local in Tioga County, Penna. She is 86 years old and lives on the old homestead that has been in the Mudge family over 100 years. Mrs. Mudge is very active, a great reader, and has pieced over 100 quilts. One winter she knitted 50 pairs of mittens for the Red Cross. She is also a member of East Sullivan Grange and Elk Run M. E. Church.

Ruth Mudge, widowed = 12
Death Cert. #82743; Cause Hypostatic pneumonia, congestive heart failure, uremia, senility
b. 18 January 1858, Sullivan Twp., Tioga County, PA; d. 26 September 1944, Mainesburg, PA
Parents Wilson Holly, PA + Mary Wood, PA
Informant H.M. Mudge, Mainesburg, PA RD 1
Signed by J.J. Moore, MD, Mansfield, PA; 28 September 1944
Burial 30 September 1944, State Road Cemetery

HOLLY, Ruth Mary [SRGP 12] Mrs. Ruth Mudge, 86, of Mainesburg, PA, RD 1, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1944 at the home of her son. Mrs. Mudge, a daughter of Wilson and Mary Wood Holly, was born in Sullivan Township January 18, 1858, living the greater part of her life near the place of her birth. In 1876 she married Freeman Welch, who died in 1886. On Nov. 4, 1891 Mrs. Welch married Menzo Mudge who died August 28, 1911. Mrs. Mudge is survived by the following children: Leland A. Welch, Elmira Heights; Mrs. Helen Hilfiger, Towanda, RD 6; Harold Mudge, of Mainesburg; two sisters, Mrs. Mira Saunders, Olean, NY, and Mrs. Ella Carnell, Corning, NY; seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. In early life she became a member of the Rutland Hill Church, later joining the Elk Run Methodist Church, where she was an active member as long as health permitted. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Soper Funeral Home. Burial in State Road Cemetery. Mansfield Advertiser, PA, 4 October 1944, Wednesday, p.1

Ruth HOLLY "Welch" "Mudge" 1858-1944.

Note from Joyce - Ruth is my great great grandmother and I have some of the quilts, and unfinished quilt tops that she made.