REUBEN RUDOLPH ALLDREDGE was the son of MARTHA JANE JOHN and WILLIAM E. ALLDREDGE.
He was born in Iowa but migrated with much of his family to Oregon in 1883 by wagon train under the direction of A.F. Surfus. (A published account of this trek can be found in the "Covered Wagon Women" series by the University of Nebraska Press.) In Clackamas County in 1884 he married Kansas-born NELLA MCCLELLAN, a private nurse, and had three daughters, two surviving.
An infant, GLADYS CLARA, lived six days in December of 1900 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the old section of Mountain View Cemetery in Lot/grave 322. She may have been a victim of a local and ongoing diptheria epidemic prevalent at that time, and a number of other children buried in the same row died around the same time.
Their known children:
1) Edith Olive Alldredge Armstrong (1895-1985).
2) Gladys Clara Alldredge (1900-1900).
3) Grace Elizabeth Alldredge Lewis (1906-1995)
REUBEN, called DUBE by those who knew him, worked early in his marriage in a livery stable in Oregon City. When his girls were young his usual practice was to ride a gentle horse home at lunchtime and let it graze on the lawn with his youngest daughter GRACE sitting on its back. In 1901 he and a partner bought a feed and livery stable of their own in nearby Canby or Hubbard, south of Oregon City.
Eventually they lost the stables to a fire and with the insurance money and the advent of the automobile, he turned to wage work. On the 1920 census he worked for a paper mill along the Willamette River. By 1930 he worked as a teamster for the city.
He came from a musical family; five of his brothers performed as the Alldredge Quintet in and around the Portland/Oregon City area for many years. His first name is misspelled on his headstone - he used "Reuben" with an "e".
NELLA and REUBEN are buried here at Mountain View side by side, as is eldest daughter EDITH OLIVE (ALLDREDGE) ARMSTRONG with much of her family. Daughter GRACE ELIZABETH (ALLDREDGE) LEWIS is buried beside her husband JAMES PATTON LEWIS in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Clark Co., WA.
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Sources: Federal census, family history, WA Digital Archives.
He was born in Iowa but migrated with much of his family to Oregon in 1883 by wagon train under the direction of A.F. Surfus. (A published account of this trek can be found in the "Covered Wagon Women" series by the University of Nebraska Press.) In Clackamas County in 1884 he married Kansas-born NELLA MCCLELLAN, a private nurse, and had three daughters, two surviving.
An infant, GLADYS CLARA, lived six days in December of 1900 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the old section of Mountain View Cemetery in Lot/grave 322. She may have been a victim of a local and ongoing diptheria epidemic prevalent at that time, and a number of other children buried in the same row died around the same time.
Their known children:
1) Edith Olive Alldredge Armstrong (1895-1985).
2) Gladys Clara Alldredge (1900-1900).
3) Grace Elizabeth Alldredge Lewis (1906-1995)
REUBEN, called DUBE by those who knew him, worked early in his marriage in a livery stable in Oregon City. When his girls were young his usual practice was to ride a gentle horse home at lunchtime and let it graze on the lawn with his youngest daughter GRACE sitting on its back. In 1901 he and a partner bought a feed and livery stable of their own in nearby Canby or Hubbard, south of Oregon City.
Eventually they lost the stables to a fire and with the insurance money and the advent of the automobile, he turned to wage work. On the 1920 census he worked for a paper mill along the Willamette River. By 1930 he worked as a teamster for the city.
He came from a musical family; five of his brothers performed as the Alldredge Quintet in and around the Portland/Oregon City area for many years. His first name is misspelled on his headstone - he used "Reuben" with an "e".
NELLA and REUBEN are buried here at Mountain View side by side, as is eldest daughter EDITH OLIVE (ALLDREDGE) ARMSTRONG with much of her family. Daughter GRACE ELIZABETH (ALLDREDGE) LEWIS is buried beside her husband JAMES PATTON LEWIS in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Clark Co., WA.
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Sources: Federal census, family history, WA Digital Archives.
REUBEN RUDOLPH ALLDREDGE was the son of MARTHA JANE JOHN and WILLIAM E. ALLDREDGE.
He was born in Iowa but migrated with much of his family to Oregon in 1883 by wagon train under the direction of A.F. Surfus. (A published account of this trek can be found in the "Covered Wagon Women" series by the University of Nebraska Press.) In Clackamas County in 1884 he married Kansas-born NELLA MCCLELLAN, a private nurse, and had three daughters, two surviving.
An infant, GLADYS CLARA, lived six days in December of 1900 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the old section of Mountain View Cemetery in Lot/grave 322. She may have been a victim of a local and ongoing diptheria epidemic prevalent at that time, and a number of other children buried in the same row died around the same time.
Their known children:
1) Edith Olive Alldredge Armstrong (1895-1985).
2) Gladys Clara Alldredge (1900-1900).
3) Grace Elizabeth Alldredge Lewis (1906-1995)
REUBEN, called DUBE by those who knew him, worked early in his marriage in a livery stable in Oregon City. When his girls were young his usual practice was to ride a gentle horse home at lunchtime and let it graze on the lawn with his youngest daughter GRACE sitting on its back. In 1901 he and a partner bought a feed and livery stable of their own in nearby Canby or Hubbard, south of Oregon City.
Eventually they lost the stables to a fire and with the insurance money and the advent of the automobile, he turned to wage work. On the 1920 census he worked for a paper mill along the Willamette River. By 1930 he worked as a teamster for the city.
He came from a musical family; five of his brothers performed as the Alldredge Quintet in and around the Portland/Oregon City area for many years. His first name is misspelled on his headstone - he used "Reuben" with an "e".
NELLA and REUBEN are buried here at Mountain View side by side, as is eldest daughter EDITH OLIVE (ALLDREDGE) ARMSTRONG with much of her family. Daughter GRACE ELIZABETH (ALLDREDGE) LEWIS is buried beside her husband JAMES PATTON LEWIS in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Clark Co., WA.
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Sources: Federal census, family history, WA Digital Archives.
He was born in Iowa but migrated with much of his family to Oregon in 1883 by wagon train under the direction of A.F. Surfus. (A published account of this trek can be found in the "Covered Wagon Women" series by the University of Nebraska Press.) In Clackamas County in 1884 he married Kansas-born NELLA MCCLELLAN, a private nurse, and had three daughters, two surviving.
An infant, GLADYS CLARA, lived six days in December of 1900 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the old section of Mountain View Cemetery in Lot/grave 322. She may have been a victim of a local and ongoing diptheria epidemic prevalent at that time, and a number of other children buried in the same row died around the same time.
Their known children:
1) Edith Olive Alldredge Armstrong (1895-1985).
2) Gladys Clara Alldredge (1900-1900).
3) Grace Elizabeth Alldredge Lewis (1906-1995)
REUBEN, called DUBE by those who knew him, worked early in his marriage in a livery stable in Oregon City. When his girls were young his usual practice was to ride a gentle horse home at lunchtime and let it graze on the lawn with his youngest daughter GRACE sitting on its back. In 1901 he and a partner bought a feed and livery stable of their own in nearby Canby or Hubbard, south of Oregon City.
Eventually they lost the stables to a fire and with the insurance money and the advent of the automobile, he turned to wage work. On the 1920 census he worked for a paper mill along the Willamette River. By 1930 he worked as a teamster for the city.
He came from a musical family; five of his brothers performed as the Alldredge Quintet in and around the Portland/Oregon City area for many years. His first name is misspelled on his headstone - he used "Reuben" with an "e".
NELLA and REUBEN are buried here at Mountain View side by side, as is eldest daughter EDITH OLIVE (ALLDREDGE) ARMSTRONG with much of her family. Daughter GRACE ELIZABETH (ALLDREDGE) LEWIS is buried beside her husband JAMES PATTON LEWIS in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Clark Co., WA.
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Sources: Federal census, family history, WA Digital Archives.
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