Elton Ray Rundell

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Ray married Beryl Ozelle Prater Stafford Co., Ks.. Beryl (daughter of John Alan Prater and Lillie May Hinshaw) was born 19 Jan 1898, Stafford, Stafford Co., Ks.; died 30 Sep 1960, Hays, Ellis Co., Ks.; was buried , Valley View Cem., Garden City, Ks.. [Group Sheet]

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He was killed in auto accident when he was moving from Kan. to Ark.

John married Lillie May Hinshaw 17 Mar 1887, Cass Co., Mo.. Lillie was born 19 Jan 1870, Stafford Co., Kan.; died Dec 1954, Clinton, Mo.. [Group Sheet]

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The Prater & Henshaw families were closely related back in earlier
Kentucky. Many of Archibalds descendants were found in Floyd Co., KY.

I do not know how the following Henshaw family is related to Lillie
Mae Henshaw but I include this info. here for other researchers who
may have a interest in this family:

Floyd Co., KY. Deed Book G page 94 2 Sept., 1854
Harris Hanshew and Eva Hanshew, his wife, late Eva Prater, William Prater,
Danial richardson and Mary Richardson, his wife, late Mary Prater, Samuel
Prater, Elias Prater, Thomas Prater sold to John Shepard for $300. dollars all
claim to land which was alloted to us by the commissioner appointed by the
Floyd Co., Court to lay off the same... on Brushy Fork of Beaver Creek also
all our interest in a tract on Bushy fork of Beaver Creek (there is 30 A. in
this boundary claimed by a prior survey containing 180 A.)
Signed Harris Hanshew, William Prater, Daniel Richardson, Mary Richardson,
Thomas Prater, elias Prater, Samuel Prater.
(note: Signed with an X by each person beside their name)

Acknowledged by Harris Hanshew and Eva, Daniel Richardson and Mary,
and Elias Prater on 2 Sept., 1854, William Prater on 11 Sept., 1854;
Thomas Prater on 17 Sept., 1855 and Samuel Prater on 17 Mar., 1856.

Deed Book G page 138 22 Oct., 1856:

Thomas Prater Sr. and Sarah, his wife sold to David Martin for $200. land on
Salt Lick a branch of Beaver Creek which I sold unto the said David martin on
15 Mar., 1853 for which he held on me a bond bearing the same date.
Signed: Thomas Prater & Sarah Prater
(note: Signed with an X beside their names)

Deed Book F page 543 11 Feb., 1854

Harris henshoe sold to Samuel Prater 25 A. for $1. land on the Trace Fork
of Middle Fork beginning at the Big Lick ... across said creek to conditional
line between Samuel Prater and David W. Allen .. also including all land in
back survey made by Henshoe from the dividing line between Thomas Prater and
Samuel Prater up to the dividing line said Prater and D.W. Allen.
Signed: Harris Henshoe
(note: Signed by an X beside the name)

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Notes:

He is listed in the 1870 Cass Co., MO. U.S.Federal Census.
Listed on page 638 living Pleasant Hill Township.

According to the History of Cass Co., MO. William W. Prater had
moved to Cass Co., MO. in 1866, shortly after his marriage to
Russia Dudley in 1864 at Flemingsburg, KY.

William married Russia Henry Dudley, Moore Flemingsburg, Fleming Co., Ky.. Russia (daughter of Henry Bruce Dudley and America Moore) was born 09 Oct 1846, Fleming Co., Ky.. [Group Sheet]

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Her father was Henry Bruce Dudley and mother was Elizabeth America Moore.
He early life was affected by the death of her father in jalapa, Mexico (1847)
where he had gone with Cat. Cox as a volunteer in the Mex. War. Her mother
Eliz., died at an early age, Jan. 1, 1859 leaving Russia in the care of her
maternal grandparents. John H. and Suzan Cord Moore. Tragedy struck again when
her grandfather died after spending sone time in a northern prison during the
Civil War.
Russia taught one year in an elementary school in Flemingsburg, Ky. at the age
of 17. It was while she was teaching that a young soldier returning from the
southern army saw her and said to himself, "I'm going to marry that little
widow". Russia was wearing mourning for her grandfather.
The soldier was William Wallace Prater, who in 1864, became her husband. In
about 1866 they migrated to Cass Co., Mo. living about one mile east of
Pleasant Hill, Mo. He died in 1888 leaving her with a family to raise.
Her ancestry is as follows:
Her father Henry Bruce Dudley
GF. Joseph Dudley b. 8 July, 1797 Fleming Co., Ky. m. Harriet Hackley Bruce
GGF. Wm. Dudley b.10 Feb., 1756 England m. Eliz. Hite Taylor
The following is the line of Elizabeth Hite Taylor
Parents: Simon Taylor 1728-1786 m. Anna Marie Hite 1728-1833 / W. Va.
Hite: Father Col. John Hite officer of Va. Colonial troops 1710-1792
who was the son of Joost Hite and Anna Marie Du Bois. He married
Sara Elting who was daughter of Cornelius Elting & Rebecca Van Meter 1686-1755
Parents of Rebecca Van Meter was Joost Jansen Van Meteren who came with his
father from Holland in 1662 married Sara Du Bois 1662-1706.
The parents of Sara Du Bois were Louis Du Bois 1626-1695 married 1655 to
Catherine Blanchen b. 1629, Artois, France d. 1713 Kingston, N.Y., they were
French Huguenots who arrived in this country 1660 seeking religious freedom.

Taken form the History of Cass Co., Mo.

G.B.Prather (1994)