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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)
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