Name: Blackledge, Ruth Ann(Pickett)
Burial Date: 1905, 09/25
Age at Death: 62
Plot Location: 249 I
Notes: 1st wife of William Levi Hiram




| Birth: |
Sep. 28, 1842
Randolph County
Indiana, USA |
| Death: |
Sep. 22, 1905
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA |

Sterling Kansas Bulletin, September 29, 1905Obituary
Mrs. Hiram BlacklegeRuth Ann Pickett was born in Randolph Co., Indiana, Sept. 28, 1842, and died in Sterling, Kansas, Sept. 22, 1905, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 24 days. She was joined in marriage to Hiram Blacklege at the age of 22 years. To this union were born nine children; one died in infancy; the other eight are still living, six of them being present at her funeral.
Thirty-two years of her married life was spent in Kansas. She was a member of the Friends Church to which she was loyal as long as she lived. Without a moment’s warning and apparently in full health, she was taken from labors to her reward. She was a faithful wife and mother. Funeral took place from the Friends Church on Monday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by Ira S. Bundy, assisted by Rev Sill of the U. B. Church.
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Parents:
John B. Pickett (1818 – 1897)
Merab Cox Pickett (1821 – 1853)
Spouse:
Hiram Blackledge (1842 – 1931)*
Children:
Julia Etta Blackledge Rhyason (1865 – 1952)*
William Levi Blackledge (1866 – 1954)*
Lydia Alta Blackledge Carter (1868 – 1963)*
Mazana Jane Blackledge Meador (1871 – 1954)*
Eldora Blackledge (1873 – 1873)*
John Charles Blackledge (1874 – 1964)*
Rufus Elbert Blackledge (1879 – 1962)*
Rhoda Ethel Blackledge Welker (1883 – 1966)*
Siblings:
William C. Pickett (1841 – 1929)*
Ruth Ann Pickett Blackledge (1842 – 1905)
Mazana Jane Pickett Hill (1845 – 1922)*
Henry Pickett (1848 – 1927)*
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Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA |
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