Comments on: Evelyn Nessie Eleanor Rudd: “A Humble Working-Woman” Doing the Lord’s Work

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:41:11 +0000

Sorry, no, Ryan. My awareness of her life comes solely from published materials and not from personal sources. Best wishes for your continued family history work — and if you have accounts that would be appropriate for this venue, I’d love to have you consider a guest post that would tell us more about Evelyn.

By: Ryan Baxter

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:48:29 +0000

I’m trying to do some research about Evelyn Nessie Eleanor Rudd. My grandmother is Evelyn’s daughter Rachel Mary Molly Rudd (Molly). I’ve been able to access accounts of Evelyn as told by her daughter Katheryn Annie and couple other accounts, however, I continually hear that Evelyn left a journal. Do you have any idea where I might find a copy of that journal (or any other records that might give insights into Evelyn’s life)?

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:26:08 +0000

Perhaps IMDB’s list of Monty Python sketches!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:22:11 +0000

… expects what, Alison? The spinach acquisition? Did I accidently post my shopping list?

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:19:18 +0000

Thank you, Anne and Mark, for the Monty Python references; on this kind of blog, no-one expects…oh, wait…

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:12:50 +0000

The temple work for John was done in 1933 in Idaho Falls, and for Evelyn in 1938 in Salt Lake City — in each case barely a year after they died. Whoever their branch clerk was, he made his reports promptly; and the then-fairly new system of caring for members who had no chance to go to the temple in life worked as planned.

Thanks for remembering and appreciating along with me, everybody. Including the four Yorkshiremen.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:50:00 +0000

A great story. And thanks to Anne for some authentic Yorkshire commentary! What's not to love about a duck, by the way. I'll take mine "Peking" style, thank you. Here, for those of you who haven't got past the Dead Parrot or Silly Walks, is a link to the Four Yorkshiremen.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:44:11 +0000

eeeh bah gum, love a duck.As they say in Yorkshire.

(fights temptation to launch into Monty Python’s ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ skit)

That’s a wonderful account, Ardis, thanks. And how amazing that the couple would have lived and died, presumably, without ever getting to a temple; transatlantic travel being way out of their league, at a guess.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:32:15 +0000

We are over thirteen miles from the nearest branch – that of Middlesborough.

My husband’s grandparents and family were members of the Middlesborough Branch, emigrating to Utah in 1912. My father-in-law was six years old at the time.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:20:08 +0000

Yes, and thanks for including a photo of the proud couple. Wonderful!

Speaking of tracting, I was reminded of my first day tracting on my mission. A kind Seventh-Day Adventist couple invited my companion and I in to talk and when we were done, they fed us (their prepared) dinner. Oh, I still get kind of weepy over that.

And that reminds me of the two Jehovah’s Witness gentlemen who came to our home last Saturday. While I didn’t tell them that they should be drowned for giving out “rubbish,” I did little more than tell them I didn’t have time to talk.

I’m so magnanimous. [long sigh]