Ruth (Doyle) Dent (1891 - 1987)

Ruth was born in 1891 to Charles William Doyle from India and Minnie E Cunningham from England. Census records indicate that she had two years of college. Ruth married twice, widowed once and divorced once before she passed away in 1987 at 95 years old. She had no children. After her first husband's death, she spent some time traveling, once to England and once to Italy.

Timeline with Sources

• 1891 Aug 24 - Birth - California

• 1900 United States Federal Census[1] - Santa Cruz Ward 3, Santa Cruz, California - Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - Household members: Chas Wm Doyle 47; Minnie E Doyle 32; Charles Doyle 12; Horace Doyle 11; Ruth Doyle 8; Dorothy Doyle 4

• 1910 United States Federal Census[2] - Oakland Ward 1, Alameda, California - Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - Household members: Minnie E Doyle 46; Childs C Doyle 22; Horace Doyle 21; Ruth Doyle 18; Dorothy Doyle 14

• c 1917 - Marriage to Elmer Sherlock Dent - from 1930 Census

• 1920 United States Federal Census[3] - Oakland, Alameda, California - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - Household members: Minnie E Doyle 48; Dorothy Doyle 22; Elmer S Dent 30; Ruth Dent 27 (Elmer and she are living with her widowed mother and sister)

• 1930 United States Federal Census[4] - San Francisco, San Francisco, California - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife - Age at First Marriage: 24 - Household members: Elmer S Dent 41; Ruth D Dent 37; Minnie E Doyle 63

• 1940 United States Federal Census[5] - San Francisco, San Francisco, California - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife - Highest Grade Completed: College, 2nd year - Household members: Elmer S Dint 51; Ruth D Dint 47

• 1948 Nov 1 - Death of husband Elmer Sherlock Dent - San Francisco, California

• 1951 Aug 1 - Departure from Naples, Italy - Arrived in NY 1951 Aug 23 aboard the "Nea Hellas" - New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957[6]

• 1952 Nov 6 - Departure from Southampton, England - Arrival 1952 Nov 11, New York, New York aboard the "United States" - New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957[7]

• 1955 Apr 18 - Marriage to Julian Sidney Caheen - Los Angeles, California - California, Marriage Index, 1949-1959[8]

• bef 1963 Sep 4 - Divorced from husband Julian Sidney Caheen, who remarries by this date. - California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985[9]

• 1987 Feb 11 - Death - Santa Clara, California - California, Death Index, 1940-1997[10] (The Index lists her as Dent, not Caheen)