Ruth
Elizabeth
Wallace
Born in Bengal, India
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Robert Wallace FRCS
and Edith Jane (Barker) Wallace
Sister of
Alice Bristowe (Wallace) Foster, Winifred (Wallace) Gregory, James Robert Wallace Jr., Harold Bruce Wallace, Phoebe Wallace, Dorothy Ruth Phoebe Wallace and Marjorie Isobel Edith Wallace
Died
at age 9
in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Nov 2021
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Biography
Ruth Wallace died young.
Ruth was born in 1890. She was the daughter of Dr. James Wallace and Edith Barker.
She was baptised on 22 July 1890 at Calcutta[1].
Tragically she and her sister Phoebe passed away on 24 September 1899 when a huge landslide (known as "The Darjeeling Disaster") engulfed their boarding school.
9 year old Ruth was buried on 25 September 1899 at Darjeeling Old Cemetery, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India[2][3].
Sources
- ↑ "India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGFS-M3T : 5 February 2020), Ruth Elizabeth Wallace, 1890.
- ↑ "India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG2J-LL7 : 5 February 2020), Ruth Wallace, 1899.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205553487/ruth-elizabeth-wallace : accessed 04 November 2021), memorial page for Ruth Elizabeth Wallace (28 Feb 1890–25 Sep 1899), Find A Grave: Memorial #205553487, citing Darjeeling Old Cemetery, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India ; Maintained by Leon J. Lyell (contributor 49176137)
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