Ruth was adopted by her aunt Emma Ruth Stone Swett after the deaths of her parents when she was 6 yrs old. She never married and always lived with her aunt. She was a public school teacher and lived in Santa Rosa in 1889.
Sources
Family recollections
California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997
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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 ancestors' 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: