THE people

Ruth Murray Dodd

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

August 12, 1890

PLACE OF BIRTH:

Ohio

City of Birth:

, Ohio, ,

DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

PLACE OF DEATH:

Chicago

,

Cook

,

IL

City of Death:

Chicago, IL, Cook,

GENDER:

M

OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Ruth M. Dodd

MAIDEN NAME:

Dodd

ETHNICITY:

RACE:

NATIONALITY:

RELATED TO:

James Foster and Ruth Emma (Murray) Dodd
Dr. Charles Owen

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

PLACE OF MARRIAGE:

DATE OF ADDRESS:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

,

Delaware

Ohio

,

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

School girl

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

13

MARITAL STATUS:

Single

other information

MORGUE:

IDENTIFIED BY:

Dr. E. S. Coe

FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:

Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, OH

OTHER NOTES:

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)

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2 & 4
Downers Grove Reporter (Downers Grove, IL) 7 Jan 1904, p1 col 1

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Karl Sup
Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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