RUDISILL, Milford B. - Putnam

MILFORD B. RUDISILL, familiarly known as "Cap. Rudisill," deputy clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, was born at Greencastle June 13, 1832. He graduated at Asbury University with the class of '52, and during the winter of 1853-'54 was principal of the Greencastle High School, studying law in the meantime. He was admitted to the bar at Greencastle in 1855, and during the same year was deputized as clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, by Jacob Maginnis, and served as such under his successors, Melvin McKee and Henry C. Priest, until 1872, when the latter died, and Mr. Rudisill was appointed to fill the vacancy. In the fall 1874 he was deputized by Clerk Moses D. Bridges, and afterward by his successor, John W. Lee, serving in the same office over thirty years. Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen he was deputy recorder under his father. In politics he is a Democrat. May 7, 1863, he was married at Greencastle to Miss Mary E. Eads, daughter of John and Cynthia G. [Adams] Eads, of Garrard County, Kentucky, who died at Greencastle in 1871, leaving one daughter--Callie. She was a member of the Christian church. Mr. Rudisill's father, David Rudisill, was a native of North Carolina, and of "Pennsylvania Dutch" ancestry. He came to Putnam County in 1827, locating at Greencastle. He was a carpenter by trade, and in politics a Democrat. He served two terms, two years each, as sheriff and tax collector of Putnam County, as county recorder eight years, deputy sheriff fifteen years, and justice of the peace several years. He had two sons besides Milford B., who served as county officers, both as principals and deputies. He died at Greencastle February 29, 1884, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. the mother, Barbara [Carpenter] Rudisill, was also born in North Carolina and of German -Irish ancestry. She came to Putnam County, with her husband and family, in 1827, and died at Greencastle in 1865, aged nearly seventy years. They were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters.