Ruth was born on 6 March 1910 in South Carolina. Her parents were Tom and Anna Atkins. She married James (or Jimmie) W. Cash in the early 1930s, and the couple had at least two children, one of whom died a few days after birth. Ruth died on 17 April 1991 and is buried in Frederick Memorial Gardens, Gaffney, South Carolina.
Research Notes
1940, both she and J.W. worked in a cotton mill.
FAG memorial gives death year 2001, but headstone is quite clearly 1991.
There is an obituary from the Gaffney newspaper, OCR scan available at newspapers.com
Sources
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5D3-VMG : accessed 1 February 2020), Ruth Adkins in household of Thomas Adkins, Limestone, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 31A, family 62, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1454; FHL microfilm 1,375,467.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6Z6-SR5 : accessed 1 February 2020), Ruth Atkins in household of Tom Atkins, Limestone, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States; citing ED 13, sheet 15B, line 59, family 63, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1690; FHL microfilm 1,821,690.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K48L-BB4 : 21 December 2019), Ruth Cash in household of William Cash, Ward 6, Gaffney, Limestone Township, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11-13, sheet 2A, line 38, family 28, 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 3797.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1QX-7Z3 : 19 May 2014), Ruth A Cash, 17 Apr 1991; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 February 2020), memorial page for Ruth Atkins Cash (6 Mar 1910–5 Feb 2001), Find A Grave Memorial no. 64970793, citing Frederick Memorial Gardens, Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Keith and Linda Sims Robertson (contributor 46970718) .
"South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9NC-RPB : 5 April 2018), Ruth Atkins in entry for Frances Gene Cash, 21 Jan 1930; citing , Cash, Frances Gene, 1930, Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 1,913,717.
"South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SK-7JRM : 23 July 2017), Ruth Atkins in entry for Warren Newton Cash, 07 Apr 1961; citing Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States, , Department of Archives and History, State Records Center, Columbia; FHL microfilm 2,078,211.
Acknowledgements
WikiTree profile Cash-666 created through the import of CashYDNAProject(1).ged on Nov 11, 2012 by Justin Cash. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Justin and others.
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