Adelaide was the eldest child of John C. Rudolph and Martha G.(nee Workman). One of John's sisters, Lucretia, married James A. Garfield, who would become the 20th President of the United States. Adelaide's siblings were: Gilbert S.(born 1860 in Illinois), and twins, Lewis P. and Ernest J.(born 1863 in Ohio). After her father's death in 1862,while serving as an army wagon master in the U.S. Volunteers during the Civil War, Adelaide remained in Hiram, Ohio(Portage County) with her family. Her mother moved in Cleveland by 1900 and by 1910, Adelaide was shown in the U.S. Census living with her there working as a librarian. Prior to 1918 she moved to New York City and took a job as a librarian for an art society. He mother apparently moved with her as her death certificate shows that she died in Manhattan, April 17, 1918. The 1940 U.S. Census shows Adelaide residing back in Cuyahoga County Ohio in Ward 2 in the City of East Cleveland, 80 years old, single(She never married.), a lodger residing in the home of Alarich Hovart on Wadena Avenue. She had resided in New York as of 1935. Her death certificate shows that she died in Cleveland, August 22, 1953 while residing at the New Amsterdam Hotel. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York with her mother.
Her brothers left Ohio to mine for gold in Colorado.
Her brothers left Ohio to mine for gold in Colorado.
Adelaide was the eldest child of John C. Rudolph and Martha G.(nee Workman). One of John's sisters, Lucretia, married James A. Garfield, who would become the 20th President of the United States. Adelaide's siblings were: Gilbert S.(born 1860 in Illinois), and twins, Lewis P. and Ernest J.(born 1863 in Ohio). After her father's death in 1862,while serving as an army wagon master in the U.S. Volunteers during the Civil War, Adelaide remained in Hiram, Ohio(Portage County) with her family. Her mother moved in Cleveland by 1900 and by 1910, Adelaide was shown in the U.S. Census living with her there working as a librarian. Prior to 1918 she moved to New York City and took a job as a librarian for an art society. He mother apparently moved with her as her death certificate shows that she died in Manhattan, April 17, 1918. The 1940 U.S. Census shows Adelaide residing back in Cuyahoga County Ohio in Ward 2 in the City of East Cleveland, 80 years old, single(She never married.), a lodger residing in the home of Alarich Hovart on Wadena Avenue. She had resided in New York as of 1935. Her death certificate shows that she died in Cleveland, August 22, 1953 while residing at the New Amsterdam Hotel. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York with her mother.
Her brothers left Ohio to mine for gold in Colorado.
Her brothers left Ohio to mine for gold in Colorado.
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