Individual Details
Vance Rutledge McDonald Sr.
(10 Apr 1884 - Abt 1937)
Name Suffix: Sr.
His nephew Crawford McDonald in telephone interview conducted 5/3/04 said Vance Rutledge became a fur trapper in Alaska and at some point all of the dogs on his sled fell into the ice. He was forced to walk 14 miles in the snow with only two dogs remaining and was taken in and nursed by aneskimo village. As a result of this misadventure he contracted tuberculosis and died only a year or two after returning home to Memphis.
His nephew Crawford McDonald in telephone interview conducted 5/3/04 said Vance Rutledge became a fur trapper in Alaska and at some point all of the dogs on his sled fell into the ice. He was forced to walk 14 miles in the snow with only two dogs remaining and was taken in and nursed by aneskimo village. As a result of this misadventure he contracted tuberculosis and died only a year or two after returning home to Memphis.
Events
| Birth | 10 Apr 1884 | Ashland, Benton Co., MS | |||
| Death | Abt 1937 |
Families
| Spouse | Ethel FULLER (1889 - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Judge William Tate "Will" McDONALD (1862 - 1943) |
| Mother | Pauline Athlena "Lena" SONDHEIM (1858 - 1952) |
| Sibling | Prather Sondheim McDonald (1887 - 1932) |
| Sibling | William Percy McDonald Sr. (1890 - 1969) |
| Sibling | Pauline Elizabeth "Ladybird" McDONALD (1894 - 1998) |