Her husband, Pop, Paul Alexander Ruddell......Alexandria aqueduct....these are our cousins, they met on a blind date in the 1930s.........coincidentally, i met your mother on a blind date, 1999...S Ruddell, of Ramsey Creek B church in MO was born in Virginia..

The father of our subject, Rev. Stephen Ruddell, was a native of Culpepper County, Va., and was born in 1768. He was the son of Isaac Ruddell, who also was born in Virginia and moved his family to Kentucky, settling in Bourbon County, where he built what is still known as Ruddell?s Mills. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a Captain in a Kentucky company against the Indians. The mother of our subject was in her maiden days Susan David, and was a native of Culpepper County, born in 1780. Her father, William David, emigrated from Germany to Virginia, later moved to Kentucky and settled in Bourbon County