Ruth Melinda Delvey

Female, #222, (15 June 1838 - 9 September 1923)
Ruth Melinda Delvey|b. 15 Jun 1838\nd. 9 Sep 1923|p222.htm|Joseph Delvey|b. 19 Feb 1803\nd. 2 Aug 1848|p220.htm|Mary Wheaton|b. 15 Nov 1806\nd. 16 Oct 1844|p221.htm|Jonathan Delvey|b. 21 Aug 1770\nd. 14 Dec 1850|p218.htm|Hannah Johnson|b. 15 Aug 1774\nd. 8 Apr 1851|p219.htm|Reuban Wheaton|b. 24 May 1779\nd. 29 Mar 1831|p760.htm|Abigail Partridge|b. 14 Nov 1782\nd. 27 Oct 1850|p762.htm|
Ruth Melinda (Delvey) Harding
     Ruth Melinda Delvey was born on 15 June 1838 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts.4,1,3,5,6 She was the daughter of Joseph Delvey and Mary Wheaton.1,2,3 On 1 June 1859 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Ruth married George Harding, son of Alpheus Harding and Catharine Muzzy Wheeler.4,2,7,3,5,6 Ruth Melinda Delvey and George Harding moved about 1864 to Brush Valley, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, where he worked in a shop.2,7 Ruth Melinda Delvey and George Harding appeared on the Census of 1880 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts.8 Ruth Melinda Delvey and George Harding lived in 1894 in 44 North Main Street, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts.9 Ruth Melinda Delvey died on Sunday, 9 September 1923 in 77 North Main Street, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, at age 85 years, 2 months and 25 days. She died at 11 o'clock in the morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Grace I. (Harding) Whitney.2,6 She was buried on 12 September 1923 in Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts.10,2 Ruth's gravestone inscription in Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts, reads:

George Harding
Dec 17, 1837
Apr 25, 1910
-
Ruth M.
June 15, 1838
Sept 9, 1923
11
Charts
Ancestry of Robert Roy

Children of Ruth Melinda Delvey and George Harding

Citations

  1. Brodeur, Diane, "Descendants of Ruth Melinda Delvey." Manuscript, Oxford, Massachusetts, 1981.
  2. Unknown newspaper, unknown, 1923.
  3. Thayer, Florine Delvey. Delvey Genealogy. Warwick, Massachusetts: manuscript, 1968.
  4. Roper, Kenneth L.. The Ropers A Biographical Record from Circa 1300 to 1982. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1982.
  5. Muse, Jeanne. Family Group Sheets of the Ancestry of Jeanne Muse. Asheville, North Carolina: Jeanne Muse, 20 August 1995.
  6. Allred, Paul W.. Descendants of Peter Delvee. N.p.: manuscript, 11 November 2002.
  7. The Barre Gazette, Barre, Massachusetts, 29 April 1910.
  8. United States Census 1880 for Massachusetts.
  9. Athol, Orange Directory for 1894. Unknown: unknown, 1894.
  10. Stone, Margaret, letter. 1980, from Orange, Massachusetts, to Roy, Robert A.. Personal Genealogical Collection; RR1, Box 308, Paw Paw, West Virginia.
  11. Roy, Robert A.. Gravestone Inscriptions at Riverside Cemetery in Barre, Massachusetts. Lexington Park, Maryland: manuscript, 1983.