Descendants of John Roddy
Notes
Daughter of John Thompson and Mary Elizabeth (Slater) Rutherford.
Used to attend Tantlinger family reunions.
Listed as Charles L on PA 1910 Census
Name given Charles Leonard Lear on son's birth certificate
Social Security Number 175-14-0172A
Aka Charlie or Stumpy.The home where Charlie and Emma raised their children is on Route 259 just outside Bolivar, PA. After their daughter was married, they decided to become tenant farmers on a farm owned by a family named Weed. They rented out the house in Bolivar, but their tenants did not pay the rent causing them to lose the house.
Sometime after their son was married, their son-in-law, Charles Crusan, built them a house on one end of his farm in Westmoreland Co. where they lived out their remaining years.
BRIGHT'S DISEASE
A generic term for all Kidney ailments in the early days. Even as recent as the 50's a kidney problem that produced blood cells, and albumin in the urine was called Brights disease. With the diagnosis techiniques they have today, it is usually called " ---" nephritis. My children's father was first diagnosed with Brights disease in the 1950's. After a biopsy in the 60's it was determined to chronic glomerial nephritis which was a degeneration of the kidneys and resulted in total kidney failure with life only sustained by hemo dialaysis (artificial kidney machine). Nephritis is just an infection of the kidneys which can be acute and kill a person or can be cured with antibiotics. Most likely he died of kidney failure.