Ruby Alicia (Fowler) Bencsik (1883 - 1963)

Born 3 Sep 1883 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Harrison Bencsik — married 23 Mar 1915 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Died 24 Jan 1963 at age 79 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA

Biography

Ruby was born 3 September 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, though her father may have lived outside the city in Chartiers Township at the time she was born.^[1] She was the daughter of John Leyburn Fowler and Elizabeth C. Boyd.

She married Charles Harrison Bencsik on 22 March 1915 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, in a ceremony performed by Felix Lemke, J.P.^[2]

Ruby died 24 January 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio,^[3] and she is buried there with Charles in the Saint Joseph New Cemetery.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Her father provided a list of his children and their birth dates when he applied for his military pension. John L. Fowler (Pvt., Co. K, 13th Pa. Vol. Inf., Civil War), pension no. 936819, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications …, 1861–1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
2. ↑ Michigan Department of Vital Records, Return of Marriages 5: 135, no. 115427, Chas. H. Bencsik and R. Alicia Fowler, 22 March 1915, Detroit, Wayne County; digital image, FamilySearch, “Michigan Marriages, 1868–1925,” (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67SS-M6P : accessed September 2015).
3. ↑ "Bencsik, Ruby Fowler," obituary, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 January 1963, p. 6-B; digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/104332505/?terms=Bencsik : accessed December 2017). “Ohio, Death Index, 1908–1932, 1938–1944, and 1958–2007,” Ruby Bencsik, 24 January 1963, Hamilton County; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKLH-TTR : accessed September 2015).
4. ↑ T.V.F.T.H., “Ruby Bencsik,” Memorial no. 129070961, posted 2 May 2014; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129070961/ruby-bencsik : accessed December 2017).