| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
Blucher Wellington Rhoades Mary Catherine Seibert Francis "Frank" Daniel Stickney August 17, 1912 St. Stephen's Rectory Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota Pastor J. H. Gaughan officiating; Witnesses were Edgar Penn and Catherine Flaherty Telephone operator; later mother and homemaker |
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| Children: | Alice Ruth | Apr. 26, 1913 | † May 12, 1967 |
| Notes: | Anna, as she liked to be called, was the eldest of nine children of Blucher Wellington and Mary Rhoades. Her birth |
| certificate lists her as Rufus aka Anna. She was a bright student who loved
school and excelled in her studies but wasn't allowed to complete
more than the 8th grade as she was needed at home to help her
mother raise her siblings. Anna always regretted not being able
to complete her education.
At the time of the June 4, 1900 U.S. Federal Census, R. E. was 13 years old and living with her parents and three siblings at 3237 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. She was attending school at the time [Source: 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Minnesota, Hennepin, Minneapolis Ward 7, Dist. 80, E.D. 80, Roll T623_768, p. 12A]. At the time of the April 16, 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Ruby Edna was 23 years old and living with her parents and six siblings at 3237 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. She was single and working as a telephone operator [Source: U.S. Federal Census, Roll T624_703, Part 2, Minneapolis Ward 7, Dist. 129, p. 46A]. In the 1910 Minneapolis city directory, Ruby was listed as a telephone operator boarding at 3237 Cedar Avenue with her parents and brother Charles. At the time of the January 8, 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Ruby E. was 32 years old and living with her husband Frank and their six-year-old daughter, Alice R. in their rented apartment at 1502 2nd Ave. S., Apt. 403 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. Her husband was working as an accountant for the railway. Ruby said she was born in Minnesota, and both her parents were born in Pennsylvania. She could speak English. At the time of the April 10, 1930 census, Ruby was 40 years old and living with her husband Frank and their 17-year-old daughter Alice at 3649 Elliot Avenue in Minneapolis. For $37 a month they rented part of the home of Axel and Ellen Erickson, a couple from Sweden in their early 60s. The house was valued at $12,000 (approx. $120,000 in 2001 dollars). Neither the Stickneys nor the Ericksons owned a radio. Ruby said she was married when she was 22 and Frank was 25 years old. She stated that she was born in Minnesota as was her father, however her mother was born in Pennsylvania. Sometime between 1932 and Apr. 1, 1935 Frank and Ruby Stickney moved to 2600 10th Avenue S. in Minneapolis, MN and were living there at the time of Frank's death in February 1939 at age 55. [Sources: 1910, 1932, 1936, 1937 and 1939 Minneapolis City Directories; Frank D. Stickney death certificate] At the time of the Apr. 15, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Ruby was 53 years old, widowed and living with her 30-year-old son-in-law Richard B. Qvale, 7-year-old granddaughter, Diane, and her 26-year-old daughter, Alice R., in a home rented for $35/month located at 2600 Tenth Avenue South, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. In April 1935 her son-in-law had been living in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, but she, her daughter and granddaughter had been living in the same house in which they were currently residing. Her son-in-law Richard had had five years of college education, daughter Alice had attended high school through her junior year, and she herself had attended her freshman year of high school, although she did not complete it. Granddaughter Diane was currently in first grade. In 1939 Richard was employed as a draftsman for Northern Pump. He worked 40 hours a week for 13 weeks and earned $225, but he had additional income from other sources. Alice was employed as a saleswoman at a retail store; she worked 15 weeks in 1939 and earned $175. Ruby stayed home and cared for her granddaughter. |
| Ancestry: | The Roth Line |
| The Robert Stickney Line [through marriage] | |
| The Stephen Webster Line [through marriage] | |
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