Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 574-575 [McCracken]

     EPHRAIM RUDOLPH, who died at Paducah. June 12, 1903, was one of
the oldest and best known residents of McCracken county.  He was
born within six miles of Clarksville, Tennessee, April 26, 1813, a
son of John and Mollie (Stailey) Rudolph, both natives of North
Carolina, where they were reared and married.  They then moved to
Montgomery county, Tennessee, and lived until their deaths.  They
had ten children, of whom Ephraim was the youngest.  The father was
a farmer, and our subject was reared upon the farm, obtaining a very
limited education.  His marriage took place in Montgomery county in
1831, when he was eighteen years of age, to Catherine Carter, who
was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and died in McCracken county,
Kentucky, in 1886.  To this marriage were born the following
children, namely: William Andrew, deceased; Mary Jane, who married
Rev. John D. Kirkpatrick; Thelbert Michael, of Paducah; Lean
Elizabeth, who married C. J. Rudolph, a farmer of McCracken county;
Margaret Adaline, widow of Henry Phelps, of McCracken county.
     In 1840 Mr. Rudolph came to McCracken county, Kentucky,
settling ten miles southwest of Paducah, where he made his home till
death.  He settled here in the woods and cleared off a good farm,
and was one of the oldest pioneers in the county.  For a number of
years he voted the Democratic ticket, but was later a Prohibitionist.  He
was a devout member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church from the time
he was eighteen years of age, and was a ruling elder the greater portion
of that time.  He was a man very highly esteemed in the neighborhood, and
a fine type of the pioneers of long ago.

Rudolph Stailey Carter Kirkpatrick Phelps
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NC Montgomery-TN

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