My "Grandmother", I never knew. " When she died the Bishop of Cincinnati called the Bishop in Charleston and told him she needed not be prayed for because she was already a Saint on Earth if there ever was one." per her daughter, Ruth Ann .
Mother: Eleanor Pettigrew Poff Hicks 1881-1980
Father: John William Poff 1875-1905
Step Father: Andrew B. Hicks 1879-1950
Married, March 21, 1923: Charles Irvin "Jack" Detzel (Divorced April 2, 1929)
Children: Mary Kathleen Detzel Harrison 1924-2006
Ruth Ann Detzel Salisbury 1925-1975
Billy Eugene Detzel 1926 - Living
Siblings: Houston Lee Poff 1901-1987
Stella V. Poff 1909-1991
Mary V. "Molly" Poff 1906-1935
Grace Hicks 1914- ?
Ruth left for her family her "Life Story" and "Diary", which details her love for her children and her hardships of the 1920's. Ruth spent over 15 years battling Tuberculosis and spent these years mostly in the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Sanatarium in Cincinnati, OH. This is where the Diary was written, dates were July 1936- Feb 1938. She was very detailed in each account giving us dates, names, addresses, etc of her life. These documents were a gift to her family and treasured words.
Ruth quotes in her Diary part of a poem by Edwin Markham, American Poet, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None travel alone. All that we send in to the lives of others, comes back into our own".
Mother: Eleanor Pettigrew Poff Hicks 1881-1980
Father: John William Poff 1875-1905
Step Father: Andrew B. Hicks 1879-1950
Married, March 21, 1923: Charles Irvin "Jack" Detzel (Divorced April 2, 1929)
Children: Mary Kathleen Detzel Harrison 1924-2006
Ruth Ann Detzel Salisbury 1925-1975
Billy Eugene Detzel 1926 - Living
Siblings: Houston Lee Poff 1901-1987
Stella V. Poff 1909-1991
Mary V. "Molly" Poff 1906-1935
Grace Hicks 1914- ?
Ruth left for her family her "Life Story" and "Diary", which details her love for her children and her hardships of the 1920's. Ruth spent over 15 years battling Tuberculosis and spent these years mostly in the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Sanatarium in Cincinnati, OH. This is where the Diary was written, dates were July 1936- Feb 1938. She was very detailed in each account giving us dates, names, addresses, etc of her life. These documents were a gift to her family and treasured words.
Ruth quotes in her Diary part of a poem by Edwin Markham, American Poet, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None travel alone. All that we send in to the lives of others, comes back into our own".
My "Grandmother", I never knew. " When she died the Bishop of Cincinnati called the Bishop in Charleston and told him she needed not be prayed for because she was already a Saint on Earth if there ever was one." per her daughter, Ruth Ann .
Mother: Eleanor Pettigrew Poff Hicks 1881-1980
Father: John William Poff 1875-1905
Step Father: Andrew B. Hicks 1879-1950
Married, March 21, 1923: Charles Irvin "Jack" Detzel (Divorced April 2, 1929)
Children: Mary Kathleen Detzel Harrison 1924-2006
Ruth Ann Detzel Salisbury 1925-1975
Billy Eugene Detzel 1926 - Living
Siblings: Houston Lee Poff 1901-1987
Stella V. Poff 1909-1991
Mary V. "Molly" Poff 1906-1935
Grace Hicks 1914- ?
Ruth left for her family her "Life Story" and "Diary", which details her love for her children and her hardships of the 1920's. Ruth spent over 15 years battling Tuberculosis and spent these years mostly in the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Sanatarium in Cincinnati, OH. This is where the Diary was written, dates were July 1936- Feb 1938. She was very detailed in each account giving us dates, names, addresses, etc of her life. These documents were a gift to her family and treasured words.
Ruth quotes in her Diary part of a poem by Edwin Markham, American Poet, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None travel alone. All that we send in to the lives of others, comes back into our own".
Mother: Eleanor Pettigrew Poff Hicks 1881-1980
Father: John William Poff 1875-1905
Step Father: Andrew B. Hicks 1879-1950
Married, March 21, 1923: Charles Irvin "Jack" Detzel (Divorced April 2, 1929)
Children: Mary Kathleen Detzel Harrison 1924-2006
Ruth Ann Detzel Salisbury 1925-1975
Billy Eugene Detzel 1926 - Living
Siblings: Houston Lee Poff 1901-1987
Stella V. Poff 1909-1991
Mary V. "Molly" Poff 1906-1935
Grace Hicks 1914- ?
Ruth left for her family her "Life Story" and "Diary", which details her love for her children and her hardships of the 1920's. Ruth spent over 15 years battling Tuberculosis and spent these years mostly in the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Sanatarium in Cincinnati, OH. This is where the Diary was written, dates were July 1936- Feb 1938. She was very detailed in each account giving us dates, names, addresses, etc of her life. These documents were a gift to her family and treasured words.
Ruth quotes in her Diary part of a poem by Edwin Markham, American Poet, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None travel alone. All that we send in to the lives of others, comes back into our own".
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