Ruth Verneice (Ashbrook) Perry (1903 - 1977)

Born 7 Jun 1903 in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States

Wife of Alfred Newton Butts — married 11 Jul 1921 in Alameda, California, United States

Died May 1977 at age 73 in California

Biography

Albert R Ashbrook and Clara J Bonney were her parents. ^[1]

She married first by about 1923 to Alfred Newton Butts and their children were:

1. William H., b. abt. 1924
2. Afred Newton, Jr., b. abt. 1926

Newton died in 1935 -- the same year as his sister Leila -- and after their deaths, Verneice married Leila's widower Charles Perry.

Verneice's elder son William, who would have been about 16 in 1940, did not appear in the 1940 census Verneice and Charles Perry.

Charles died in 1962 and Verneice died in 1977, and they are both buried in Clovis Cemetery, Fresno County, California.

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007

• California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCXS-99Z : accessed 22 September 2017), Verneice R Butts in household of Alfred N Butts, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet 9B, line 53, family 137, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 101; FHL microfilm 2,339,836.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K983-WN5 : accessed 22 September 2017), Verneice R Perry in household of Charles A Perry, Councilmanic District 1, Oakland, Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 61-25, sheet 14B, line 42, family 325, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 446.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 79587214, Created by: Jack Runyan, Record added: Oct 30, 2011