Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Jessie Louise Bell (1887-1963)



Jesse Louise Bell was born In September 1887 in Hays, McCracken County, Kentucky.  She was the fourth of six children born to Wyley Jesse Bell and Elizabeth Eaker.  Throughout her youth, she helped her father work on the family’s dairy farm in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky.

Jessie married Ernest A. Rudolph on November 30, 1911 in McCracken County, Kentucky.  She was 24 years old and he was 27 years.  Ernest was born in 1884, the son of William A. Rudolph and Elizabeth A. "Bettie" Rudolph.

After their marriage, Ernest and Jessie settled in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, where Ernest worked as a train conductor for the Illinois Central Rail Road.  By 1930, they had moved back to McCracken County, Kentucky, where they purchased a home in Paducah, worth $5,000.  Ernest and Jessie had at least three children:

            E. A.                           born August 13, 1917, stillborn
            Ernest A., Jr              born 1919
            Robert B.                   born March 17, 1925

Ernest A. Rudolph died on August 11, 1954 in McCracken County, Kentucky.  He was 70 years old at his death.  Jessie followed her husband in death one decade later.

Jessie Louise Bell Rudolph died on February 5, 1963 in McCracken County, Kentucky at the age of 75 years.


Notes for Jessie Louise Bell
Birth:  Year: 1900; Census Place: Florence Station, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: T623_540; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 74.
Marriage:  FamilySearch.org, Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979
Death:  Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, comp.. Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.

Notes for Ernest A. Rudolph
Birth, Residence & Occupation in 1920:
Residence & Occupation in 1930:
Death:  Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, comp.. Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.

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