In a message dated 1/2/2003 9:43:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, rusherdm writes: > > > The name Rude strikes me. I have two dead ends in my family ancestry. I > will try to explain it... > 1. There was a Lewis B. SMITH who married Anna RUDE. Lewis was born Oct. 15, > 1784, who knows where in NY and died June 30, 1858 in Scipio, Cayuga Co., NY. > Anna was born Mar. 10, 1787 in Washington, Litchfield Co., CT and died May > 17, 1848 in Medina, Medina Co., Ohio. They are both buried in Scipio Rural > Cemetery, Cayuga Co., Ny. Lewis was a son of Elijah SMITH and Aimy ____? > Ann was the daughter of Lester RUDE and Phobe SCOTT. That is about all I > know of them. > 2. My great grandfater was one Avery SMITH who married Elsie HUDSON of > Scipio, Cauga Co., NY about 1832. I know they were residing in Middlebury, > Genesee (now Wyoming) Co., NY about the same time or shortly after. Avery > was born 1809 somewhere in NY. Elsie was born the daughter of Richard HUDSON > & Ann PITTS Jul 16, 1808 in Scipio. They probably had their first 6 children > in Middlebury before moving to Medina, Ohio previous to 1850. > NOTE: Both of these SMITH families are as yet unrelated or connected as I > have no further information on them OTHER THAN they are both related by > marriage into the same HUDSON family line. > > Any information on the RUDE name of the area is greatly > appreciated. > Doug Rusher [email protected] Dear Doug, Thank you for your reply. What I know of the ROOD family, is that David Porter Rood (who married "my" Elizabeth BODDY in 1850) was the son of Eli(hu) and Eliza Tanner Rood. Elihu, in turn, was the son of David Rood and his wife Sarah (Rogers) ROOD, we have been told. Apparently David was born in the 1750's in Conn. and lived for a time in Washington County, New York and FairHaven, VT, before migrating to Genesee County, New York, about 1816 (what would later become Wyoming County). David and Sarah (Rogers) were parents of at least 7 children, including two daughters, Lydia and Sarah, who married two of the illustrous Doolittle brothers that founded Wethersfield Springs in Wyoming County. Sorry I can't be of more help to you, but possibly someone else on this list is researching your RUDE family. Good luck! Sincerely, Patty Boddy Tharp > > > ==== NYWYOMIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Wyoming Co. GenWEb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywyomin