Her husband met an untimely death (maybe Civil War) leaving her as the guardian of 3 young girls.
Sources
*1850 US Federal Census shows her as a teenager in the household of Hubara C. Hampton with wife Sarah and several named children living in District 31, Forsyth, Georgia.
1860 US Federal Census shows her as Emeline Braswell, with husband M. Braswell and 3 daughters living in Forsyth, Georgia.
1870 shows her as head of household with daughters still at home living in Roswell District, Cobb, Georgia.
Ancestry.com provided names of her parents and marriage date.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruth: