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Ruth Kingsbury

ID #13, (1887-1956)

Father

Frederick John Kingsbury b. 7 Jul 1863, d. 11 Jul 1927

Mother

Adele Townsend b. 23 Aug 1863, d. circa 1944

Relationship

Grandmother of Linda Sargent.

Ruth Sargent
1930 photo

Ruth Kingsbury was born on 29 August 1887, in Waterbury, CT.¹ She was educated between 1904 and 1906 at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY.² She married Richard Collier Sargent, son of George Lewis Sargent and Alice Bessie Forbes, on Saturday, 21 June 1913 in New Haven, CT, . Richard and Ruth are related by 10 different relationships, the closest (other than marriage) being seventh cousins.

Ruth and Richard lived at 326 Willow St, New Haven, CT.² 4 April 1931 Ruth and Richard traveled from Hamilton, Bermuda, to New York City on the ship Veendam. They traveled with their two sons, Richard and Fred, and Ruth's aunt, Alice Kingsbury.³ In 1935 Ruth and Richard moved to North Haven, CT, in a house designed by Brad Tilney, the son of Richard's first cousin who was just beginning his architectural career.² Ruth Kingsbury died on 8 December 1956 in New Haven, CT, at age 69. The cause of her death was lukemia.² She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, CT.⁴

The following excerpt from Sargentrivia, the family newspaper, illustrates the kind of activity women would participate in:

Ruth Kingsbury Sargent, Jane Cater Sargent, Elizabeth Collier Sargent, Elizabeth Day Sargent, Laura Rice Deming and Agnes W.B. Sargent were joint hostesses at Our Society meeting on April 21st at Ruth's home, Ridge Road, North Haven, Conn. Our Society is an ancient charitable sewing club founded in 1831 or 1832 to provide women's and children's garments for the needy. The membership is now limited to 130, with preference given to daughters of members in the filling of vacancies. Because of its size only 3 or 4 meetings (afternoon and supper) are held each year. To-day the work is concentrated on diapers. In the early days some gentlemen are known to have attended the meetings as guests, but for more than a hundred years all males have been excluded. Perhaps their presence was found a hindrance to the production of garments.⁵

Census

1910

New Haven, CT

Ruth Kingsbury appeared on the 1910 Federal Census of New Haven, CT in the household of her parents Frederick and Adele Townsend.⁶

Family

Richard Collier Sargent b. 29 Aug 1888, d. 29 Jan 1962

Children

Richard Collier Sargent Jr+ b. 5 Apr 1914, d. 17 Apr 1985
Frederick Kingsbury Sargent+ b. 29 Apr 1916, d. 2 Feb 1996

Sources of Information

New York Family Bible Records 1581-1917, online database, digitized by ancestry.com, . Original publication: Genealogical Records; Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Taken from Family Bibles 1581-1917, Holy Bible of Daniel Townsend (1798-1960). Www.ancestry.com , updated Jan 2011, viewed Feb 2011.
Personal Knowledge of Researcher.
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Online database www.ancestry.com , Year: 1931; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_4936; Line: 25; ., viewed Aug 2009.
Evergreen Cemetery Office, New Haven, CT, plot listing.
Zeigler Sargent, Sargentrivia (privately published), A family newspaper, Vol 7 No 4, 25 Apr 1949.
Frederick John Kingsbury household, 1910 US Census, New Haven, New Haven County, CT, enumeration district 407, page 8B, image 1065, roll T624_139, National Archives micropublication; digital image Ancestry.com Operations Inc, viewed on Jul 2007.

NOTENOTENOTE

Dates using 'say' are educated guesses by me.
If I don't know a female last name she will be identified with a 'Mrs' and her husband's name.
MALE or FEMALE means I don't know the first name.