Myrtle attended the Methodist church.

Interview: Karen Rury's memories of grandma Myrtle, Compiler: Kenneth Rury, Dec 1993
Always taught us how to play cards and was ruthless in playing. Grandma gave us $1 or 10 cents per year for our birthdays and one year gave me Noxema. Grandma made us all birthday cakes and the best fried chicken. Myrtle would specially celebrate our golden birthday which was when I was eleven. Grandma would let me answer the door or run the cashier in the Rury store. Grandma loved cardinals always had fake flowers, knick knacks and doilies. Whenever I got to spend the night at grandma's she always let me have scrambled eggs for breakfast and chicken noodle soup for lunch, which were my favorite. Grandma kept a well groomed circle of flowers in the middle of a very large yard. I used to mow the lawn.

Grandpa loved blue jays and squirrels. Grandpa always had a big garden in the back yard and remembers helping dig potatoes. Grandpa would keep potatoes in the cellar to plant the next year. I played cards with Grandpa and the neighboring farmers in the store in front of the pot belly stove and drink Pepsi and eat planters Spanish peanuts. Grandpa used to pay us 25 cents to catch crawdads for bait and catch fish on the Apple River. Grandpa raised rabbits and pigs.

For some unknown reason Myrtle did not get along with her brother John and sister Fannie. They rarely spoke to each other. Myrtle spent more time with her husband's side.

• Married: 5 SEP 1928 in Council Hill, Jo Daviess, IL
• Note: In 1978 a 50th Anniversary party was held in Preston IA. In attendance where the families of their two children Val & Joan and their neighbors of Preston.

1. Val Edward Rury b: 6 FEB 1931 in Scales Mound, Scales Mound Twp, Jo Daviess, IL c: ABT 1940 in Methodist Church, Galena, Jo Daviess, IL
2. Living

1. Title: Trefethen Web page: http://sugar-river.net/~ctref/Genealogy/TrefGene.html
   TREVETHAN/TREVETHEN TREFETHEN
   * THE NAME: from Trevethan in Gwennap, Eng. (Cornwall?); 'the Meadow-town'
   * May also signify a town among trees, or 'the old town.'
   * Pryce translates it as the 'birds town.'
   * TREVEATHAN would mean 'the rich & fruitful town.'
   * There's an area of Pontypool known as Trevethin, with an ancient parish church dedicated to St. Cadoc. A short history of it is in a book titled TREVETHIN PONTYPOOL: Rees, V.W.T; 1934. (from the GWENT CO. COUNCIL; Miss M.L. Gibbons [letter to Parker S. Tref.])
   * TREVETHAN (from SURNAMES IN CORNWALL; Blewett, R.R.; 1953: excerpts from 'West Britton' newspaper): Places/Names: TREVETHAN... in Eval Parish 1474, 1510, 1549. In Budock Par.; Trefudon, 1306; Trefuthon, 1325, Trefuthen, 1327 & 1517. Tremuthon 1342, Trevethan 1470. Trevethan in Gwennap Par., Trefudon 1302, Trefuthan 1326, Trefuthyon 1516, Trefuthan 1558.
2. Title: Census 1930, IL, Carroll, (Savanna Twp, Savanna City, Ward: 4); [PageDetail], ED 8-17 SD 1 Sheet: 6A & 6B, [RollNo], [Form], NARA T626-408.
   Text: Enumerated: 7 Apr 1930
   House: 147 Family: 151
   Rury, David E., head, owned house worth $1200, not a farm, male, white, 28 yrs, married at age 26, can read/write, bp IL, father bp IL, mother bp IL, citizen, laborer construction company, not currently employed, unemployment schedule line 29, not a veteran.
   Rury, Myrtle L., wife, female, white, 21 yrs, married at age 19, can read/write, bp WI, father bp IL, mother bp IL, citizen, no occupation
   
   House: 159 Family: 163
   RURY, Alfred W., head, own house value $3000, radio, not on farm, male, white, 36yrs, married age 21, read/write, bp IL, parents bp IL, Native Tongue Code State 61, cars fairer (ticket taker?) for Steam Railroad,
   RURY, Virginia A., housewife, female, white, 33 yrs, married age 18, read/write, bp IL, parents IL, Native Tongue Code State 61
   RURY, Paul A., son, 13yrs, in school, read/write, bp IL, parents bp IL, Native Tongue Code State 61
   Sheet: 6B
   RURY, Clyde E., son, 11yrs, in school, read/write, bp IL, parents bp IL, Native Tongue Code State 61
   RURY, Alfred W., son, 3 months, single, not in school, bp IL, parents bp IL, Native Tongue Code State 61
3. Title: Obituary: Myrtle L. Rury
   Myrtle L. Rury, 82, of Preston, died March 20, 1991 in her home in Preston. The funeral was held Saturday in St. John's Lutheran Church, Preston, with the Rev. Marcus Badgley officiating. Burial was in Preston Cemetery. Miller Funeral Home, Preston, was in charge of arrangements.
   
   Pallbearers were Gene Camp, Mike Schmidt, John Schaefer, Larry Scharmbeck, Earl Youngbluth, Darwin Kaczinski, and Bill Oldag. Art Mowatt was the vocalist and Harriet Kukkuck, the organist.
   
   Mrs. Rury was born Nov. 22, 1908, in Council Hill, Ill., to John and Elizabeth Bonjour Trevethan. She married David E. Rury, Sept. 5, 1928, in Galena.
   
   Mrs. Rury and her husband farmed at Scales Mound and also operated a feed and general store at Schapville until 1976, when they retired to the Leisure Lake-Maquoketa area. She moved to Preston after her husband's death in 1982. She was a member of Preston Senior Citizens.
   
   Survivors include a daughter, Joan Oldag of Preston; a son, Val E of Gig Harbor, Wash.; nine grandchildren; two foster grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
   
   She was preceded in death by a sister and two brothers. (Preston Times, March 27, 1991, Page 2)
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