Maud Ruth Houck

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Maud Ruth Houck

Birth
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
Death
5 May 1901 (aged 2)
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
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Maudie was the blonde-haired blue-eyed daughter of Nina Virginia Nelson and Kelley Houck (Houk). She was a pretty child and the darling of her family.

When they discovered that she suffered from the same disease that had taken her brother Eugene, they were devastated. At the turn of the century, the only option they had to help their little girl was to remove her eyes in a vain attempt to keep the retinoblastoma from spreading to her brain. Unfortunately, the surgery was not successful.


Maudie was laid to rest in the churchyard beside her brothers Eugene and Oscar.

Her little sister Mabel was born 7 months after her death. Fourteen years later, her brother Jerome named his own daughter Virginia Ruth after Maudie and her mother.

"There are moments that the words don't reach
There is suffering too terrible to name.
You hold your child as tight as you can,
and push away the unimaginable."
(From Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Maudie was the blonde-haired blue-eyed daughter of Nina Virginia Nelson and Kelley Houck (Houk). She was a pretty child and the darling of her family.

When they discovered that she suffered from the same disease that had taken her brother Eugene, they were devastated. At the turn of the century, the only option they had to help their little girl was to remove her eyes in a vain attempt to keep the retinoblastoma from spreading to her brain. Unfortunately, the surgery was not successful.


Maudie was laid to rest in the churchyard beside her brothers Eugene and Oscar.

Her little sister Mabel was born 7 months after her death. Fourteen years later, her brother Jerome named his own daughter Virginia Ruth after Maudie and her mother.

"There are moments that the words don't reach
There is suffering too terrible to name.
You hold your child as tight as you can,
and push away the unimaginable."
(From Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda)

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2000
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5058452/maud_ruth-houck: accessed ), memorial page for Maud Ruth Houck (16 Jan 1899–5 May 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 5058452, citing Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery, Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by Armantia (contributor 19036309).