Ruth Murray Dodd

Identified by Dr. E.S. Coe.  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)