Ruth's husband, John, is not buried here, but in Portsmouth, OH, with his second wife, who he met and married after Ruth's death.
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From "The Minteers As I Have Known Them" by Josephine Minteer Dickinson (1961 limited-edition private printing of 200 copies), youngest and last surviving of William Minteer and Mary Nicholson's 85 grandchildren:
"Ruth Irene - Married John Murphy. While very young she went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, stayed there to attend college and taught until her marriage. Her husband taught at the University of South Dakota where they lived until her mother died. At that time she came back home to care for her father and divided her time as best she could between the two places until Jim's death in 1960."
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From "Poor But Rich", the collection of stories that Ruth's niece Betty Minteer wrote towards the end of her life and sent to her nephew Rob Minteer:
"My Aunt Ruth was a dear friend to me. Only when I got older—and, hopefully, wiser—did I realize what a struggle older people had during the Depression days and into the following years. Many banks closed and my Aunt told me she was able to get some money returned. Not all, though. My Aunt was a class act. Though married, she had no children but I liked her and we became close. I remember she always would tell me when I sat down "always keep my legs crossed." I finally figured that out. I was thirty-some years old when I had my breast removed and my aunt told me to tell any man that came into my life romantically that I lost my breast falling over a picket fence. I just laughed and always told the truth!"
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In 1900 she and her parents and brother lived in a house at 19 Sweeney Avenue in Allegheny, PA that they were renting. What was Sweeney Avenue is now Sunday Street in the 1100 block and Sunday Way in the 1200 block, so it has proven impossible to determine exactly where 19 Sweeney Avenue was. James was a carpenter.
Within a few years her father bought a house out in Avalon on Home Avenue and physically moved it down the hill to its current location. In 1910 the four of them lived there, at what was numbered 406 McKinley Avenue in Avalon, PA. James owned their home, with a mortgage. He was a carpenter working for a contracting company, but whether his own or someone else's is not known. (Many street numbers in Avalon were changed in the next decade, with 406 becoming 316.)
In 1930 she and her husband lived in a house they were renting for $25 a month at 801 East Fourteenth Street in Pawhuska, OK. He was a teacher at the High School, and they did not have a radio.
In 1940 they lived in a house that they were renting for $30 a month at 724 South Third Street in Aberdeen, SD. (The census taker recorded it as Fourth Street, but John's WWII draft registration says Third, and the picture on Google Maps on Third matches a picture that I have that Marvin had.) John worked as a professor at the college and in 1939 had an income of $2600 for 42 weeks of work.
In 1950 Ruth lived in the Graham Hall Dormitory in Aberdeen. (As of October 2022 I have not been able to find John in the 1950 census records.)
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From "The Minteers As I Have Known Them" by Josephine Minteer Dickinson (1961 limited-edition private printing of 200 copies), youngest and last surviving of William Minteer and Mary Nicholson's 85 grandchildren:
"Ruth Irene - Married John Murphy. While very young she went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, stayed there to attend college and taught until her marriage. Her husband taught at the University of South Dakota where they lived until her mother died. At that time she came back home to care for her father and divided her time as best she could between the two places until Jim's death in 1960."
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From "Poor But Rich", the collection of stories that Ruth's niece Betty Minteer wrote towards the end of her life and sent to her nephew Rob Minteer:
"My Aunt Ruth was a dear friend to me. Only when I got older—and, hopefully, wiser—did I realize what a struggle older people had during the Depression days and into the following years. Many banks closed and my Aunt told me she was able to get some money returned. Not all, though. My Aunt was a class act. Though married, she had no children but I liked her and we became close. I remember she always would tell me when I sat down "always keep my legs crossed." I finally figured that out. I was thirty-some years old when I had my breast removed and my aunt told me to tell any man that came into my life romantically that I lost my breast falling over a picket fence. I just laughed and always told the truth!"
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In 1900 she and her parents and brother lived in a house at 19 Sweeney Avenue in Allegheny, PA that they were renting. What was Sweeney Avenue is now Sunday Street in the 1100 block and Sunday Way in the 1200 block, so it has proven impossible to determine exactly where 19 Sweeney Avenue was. James was a carpenter.
Within a few years her father bought a house out in Avalon on Home Avenue and physically moved it down the hill to its current location. In 1910 the four of them lived there, at what was numbered 406 McKinley Avenue in Avalon, PA. James owned their home, with a mortgage. He was a carpenter working for a contracting company, but whether his own or someone else's is not known. (Many street numbers in Avalon were changed in the next decade, with 406 becoming 316.)
In 1930 she and her husband lived in a house they were renting for $25 a month at 801 East Fourteenth Street in Pawhuska, OK. He was a teacher at the High School, and they did not have a radio.
In 1940 they lived in a house that they were renting for $30 a month at 724 South Third Street in Aberdeen, SD. (The census taker recorded it as Fourth Street, but John's WWII draft registration says Third, and the picture on Google Maps on Third matches a picture that I have that Marvin had.) John worked as a professor at the college and in 1939 had an income of $2600 for 42 weeks of work.
In 1950 Ruth lived in the Graham Hall Dormitory in Aberdeen. (As of October 2022 I have not been able to find John in the 1950 census records.)
Ruth's husband, John, is not buried here, but in Portsmouth, OH, with his second wife, who he met and married after Ruth's death.
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From "The Minteers As I Have Known Them" by Josephine Minteer Dickinson (1961 limited-edition private printing of 200 copies), youngest and last surviving of William Minteer and Mary Nicholson's 85 grandchildren:
"Ruth Irene - Married John Murphy. While very young she went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, stayed there to attend college and taught until her marriage. Her husband taught at the University of South Dakota where they lived until her mother died. At that time she came back home to care for her father and divided her time as best she could between the two places until Jim's death in 1960."
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From "Poor But Rich", the collection of stories that Ruth's niece Betty Minteer wrote towards the end of her life and sent to her nephew Rob Minteer:
"My Aunt Ruth was a dear friend to me. Only when I got older—and, hopefully, wiser—did I realize what a struggle older people had during the Depression days and into the following years. Many banks closed and my Aunt told me she was able to get some money returned. Not all, though. My Aunt was a class act. Though married, she had no children but I liked her and we became close. I remember she always would tell me when I sat down "always keep my legs crossed." I finally figured that out. I was thirty-some years old when I had my breast removed and my aunt told me to tell any man that came into my life romantically that I lost my breast falling over a picket fence. I just laughed and always told the truth!"
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In 1900 she and her parents and brother lived in a house at 19 Sweeney Avenue in Allegheny, PA that they were renting. What was Sweeney Avenue is now Sunday Street in the 1100 block and Sunday Way in the 1200 block, so it has proven impossible to determine exactly where 19 Sweeney Avenue was. James was a carpenter.
Within a few years her father bought a house out in Avalon on Home Avenue and physically moved it down the hill to its current location. In 1910 the four of them lived there, at what was numbered 406 McKinley Avenue in Avalon, PA. James owned their home, with a mortgage. He was a carpenter working for a contracting company, but whether his own or someone else's is not known. (Many street numbers in Avalon were changed in the next decade, with 406 becoming 316.)
In 1930 she and her husband lived in a house they were renting for $25 a month at 801 East Fourteenth Street in Pawhuska, OK. He was a teacher at the High School, and they did not have a radio.
In 1940 they lived in a house that they were renting for $30 a month at 724 South Third Street in Aberdeen, SD. (The census taker recorded it as Fourth Street, but John's WWII draft registration says Third, and the picture on Google Maps on Third matches a picture that I have that Marvin had.) John worked as a professor at the college and in 1939 had an income of $2600 for 42 weeks of work.
In 1950 Ruth lived in the Graham Hall Dormitory in Aberdeen. (As of October 2022 I have not been able to find John in the 1950 census records.)
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From "The Minteers As I Have Known Them" by Josephine Minteer Dickinson (1961 limited-edition private printing of 200 copies), youngest and last surviving of William Minteer and Mary Nicholson's 85 grandchildren:
"Ruth Irene - Married John Murphy. While very young she went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, stayed there to attend college and taught until her marriage. Her husband taught at the University of South Dakota where they lived until her mother died. At that time she came back home to care for her father and divided her time as best she could between the two places until Jim's death in 1960."
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From "Poor But Rich", the collection of stories that Ruth's niece Betty Minteer wrote towards the end of her life and sent to her nephew Rob Minteer:
"My Aunt Ruth was a dear friend to me. Only when I got older—and, hopefully, wiser—did I realize what a struggle older people had during the Depression days and into the following years. Many banks closed and my Aunt told me she was able to get some money returned. Not all, though. My Aunt was a class act. Though married, she had no children but I liked her and we became close. I remember she always would tell me when I sat down "always keep my legs crossed." I finally figured that out. I was thirty-some years old when I had my breast removed and my aunt told me to tell any man that came into my life romantically that I lost my breast falling over a picket fence. I just laughed and always told the truth!"
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In 1900 she and her parents and brother lived in a house at 19 Sweeney Avenue in Allegheny, PA that they were renting. What was Sweeney Avenue is now Sunday Street in the 1100 block and Sunday Way in the 1200 block, so it has proven impossible to determine exactly where 19 Sweeney Avenue was. James was a carpenter.
Within a few years her father bought a house out in Avalon on Home Avenue and physically moved it down the hill to its current location. In 1910 the four of them lived there, at what was numbered 406 McKinley Avenue in Avalon, PA. James owned their home, with a mortgage. He was a carpenter working for a contracting company, but whether his own or someone else's is not known. (Many street numbers in Avalon were changed in the next decade, with 406 becoming 316.)
In 1930 she and her husband lived in a house they were renting for $25 a month at 801 East Fourteenth Street in Pawhuska, OK. He was a teacher at the High School, and they did not have a radio.
In 1940 they lived in a house that they were renting for $30 a month at 724 South Third Street in Aberdeen, SD. (The census taker recorded it as Fourth Street, but John's WWII draft registration says Third, and the picture on Google Maps on Third matches a picture that I have that Marvin had.) John worked as a professor at the college and in 1939 had an income of $2600 for 42 weeks of work.
In 1950 Ruth lived in the Graham Hall Dormitory in Aberdeen. (As of October 2022 I have not been able to find John in the 1950 census records.)
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