Ruth Sweetnam, 18031903 (aged 100 years)

Name
Ruth /Sweetnam/
Given names
Ruth
Surname
Sweetnam
Name
Ruth /Talbot/
Type of name
married name
Birth
Note: This data is SUSPECT, and the Birthdate is UNLIKELY. As a popular figure in LDS history mythology, there many popular stories which have little or no evidence regarding Ruth Sweetnam's historicity, and which are beyond the scope of this amateur genealogy site to address.
Religious marriage
Address: Cathedral of St Michael and St George
Note: Morris family tree reports marriage at St. George Church, Grahamstown, but the citation for the event does not mention the location only that the marriage occurred in South Africa.
Birth of a daughter
1843 (aged 40 years)
Birth of a son
Death of a father
1857 (aged 54 years)
Birth of a daughter
1857 (aged 54 years)
Birth of a son
1859 (aged 56 years)
Death of a mother
Census

1880 United States - Census transcript - Ruth Sweetnam - Household

NameAgeSexMonRelationSMW/DMYOccupationUnEmSickBlindDDIdioticInsaneDisabledSchoolReadWriteBPFBPMBP
Ruth Sweetnam77FwifeKeeping houseNoNoEnglandEnglandEngland
Edward William Talbot29MsonLaborer6South AfricaEnglandEngland
Elisa Talbot23FdaughterHousekeepingSouth AfricaEnglandEngland
Hannah Talbot37FdaughterFitsNoNoSouth AfricaEnglandEngland
Hyrum Percel Talbot21MsonFarmingSouth AfricaEnglandEngland
Marriage of a son
Death of a husband
1895 (aged 92 years)
Death of a daughter
1897 (aged 94 years)
Death
1903 (aged 100 years)
Family with parents
father
mother
17801869
Birth: April 12, 1780Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdoms
Death: September 19, 1869Post Retief, Fort, Beaufort, South Africa
Marriage MarriageDecember 20, 1802Wartling, Sussex, England, United Kingdoms
13 months
herself
18031903
Birth: 1803 20 22 Sittingbourne, Kent, England, United Kingdoms
Death: 1903
Family with Henry Talbot
husband
herself
18031903
Birth: 1803 20 22 Sittingbourne, Kent, England, United Kingdoms
Death: 1903
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 20, 1833Grahamstown, Makhanda, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
11 years
daughter
18431897
Birth: 1843 30 40
Death: 1897
8 years
son
18511933
Birth: January 12, 1851 38 48 Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa
Death: November 9, 1933Blackfoot, Bingham county, Idaho, USA
7 years
daughter
18571925
Birth: 1857 44 54
Death: 1925
3 years
son
18591942
Birth: 1859 46 56
Death: 1942
Census
Birth

This data is SUSPECT, and the Birthdate is UNLIKELY. As a popular figure in LDS history mythology, there many popular stories which have little or no evidence regarding Ruth Sweetnam's historicity, and which are beyond the scope of this amateur genealogy site to address.

Religious marriage

Morris family tree reports marriage at St. George Church, Grahamstown, but the citation for the event does not mention the location only that the marriage occurred in South Africa.

Census
Shared note

1880 United States - Census transcript - Ruth Sweetnam - Household

NameAgeSexMonRelationSMW/DMYOccupationUnEmSickBlindDDIdioticInsaneDisabledSchoolReadWriteBPFBPMBP
Ruth Sweetnam77FwifeKeeping houseNoNoEnglandEnglandEngland
Edward William Talbot29MsonLaborer6South AfricaEnglandEngland
Elisa Talbot23FdaughterHousekeepingSouth AfricaEnglandEngland
Hannah Talbot37FdaughterFitsNoNoSouth AfricaEnglandEngland
Hyrum Percel Talbot21MsonFarmingSouth AfricaEnglandEngland