Brief Life History of Catherine Jane "Kittie"
When Catherine Jane "Kittie" Hobbs was born on 8 April 1868, in Perry, Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, Hinson Hobbs, was 47 and her mother, Sarah Jane Johnston, was 40. She married Joseph Alonzo Ruff on 25 December 1884, in Lenora, Norton, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Thedford, Thomas, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Minatare, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 17 June 1956, in Columbus, Stillwater, Montana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in East Lawn Cemetery, Minatare, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States.
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- Kittie J Ruff, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mrs Joseph Ruff in entry for Mayme Carlson Bucher, "United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012"
- Catharine Hobbs in household of Hinson Hobbs, "United States Census, 1870"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1883
Historical Boundaries: 1883: Loup, Nebraska, United States
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Hobb(e), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Hobb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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