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Ruth Emma Murray Dodd

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
March 30, 1856
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Mrs. J. F. Dodd; Mrs. J Foster Dodd, Emma Murray
MAIDEN NAME:
Murray
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 Delaware 
 OH
RELATED TO:

James Foster Dodd, husband
Ruth Murray Dodd, daughter
Mary Murray Owen, sister
Sarah Murray Battenfield, sister
Charles Murray, brother

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
47
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, OH
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

One of 12 in the party with Dr Charles Owen.

Christmas of 1903 was a family-filled holiday for the four Murray siblings: Charlie, Mary, Emma and Sarah. It began with a long train ride of fifteen hours for Sarah's family who came from Delaware, Ohio, and eighteen hours for Emma's family and Charlie who came from Martinsburg, Ohio. When they were all gathered at Mary's home in Wheaton, Illinois, west of Chicago, there were at least twelve, including a family friend and nursemaid.  The culmination of the holiday was to be a theater excursion to a spectacular Mr. Bluebeard matinee in Chicago's glamorous new theater, the Iroquois.  During their last Christmas together, there were thirteen in the Murray family. Two weeks later, thirteen was reduced to three. (Find a Grave)

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2 & 4
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44619142/ruth-emma-dodd
Downers Grove Reporter (Downers Grove, IL) 7 Jan 1904, p1 col 1
The Weekly Pantagraph 01 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 5

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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