Jerusha Blake Rist

Jerusha Blake Rist was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, on 25 June 1845, the daughter of Abigail Treat and Joseph Rist. She married Albert Augustus Judson (b. 1840). They lived in Fairfield, Iowa, and had a child named Howard Roth (1873-1874). He died at the age of eighteen months, and he is buried in Fairfield (Jefferson County), Iowa. The Judson's had three more children: Dwight R., Florence A. (died 1949) and Helen Louise (1875-1966), who all resided in Connecticut by 1914. Neither daughter married, but Howard Judson married and raised his children in West Hartford, Connecticut.