Ruth Greenfield

Brief Life History of Ruth

When Ruth Greenfield was born on 26 June 1898, in Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Herbert Greenfield, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Cousins, was 31. She married William Hiram Shepherd on 18 February 1920, in Armel, Yuma, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Armel, Yuma, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Henry Township, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1964, in United States, at the age of 66.

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Family Time Line

William Hiram Shepherd
1900–1958
Ruth Greenfield
1898–1964
Marriage: 18 February 1920
Ben Herbert Shepherd
1921–1998
Leonard William Shepherd
1924–2001
Delbert Carl Shepherd
1926–1932
John Hilding Shepherd
1929–1992
Wilma Ruth Shepherd
1930–2011
Margaret A Shepherd
1933–2022

Sources (20)

  • Ruth Shepherd, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Ruth Greenfield, "Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995"
  • Ruth G, "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1968"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1903

Historical Boundaries: 1903: Adams, Colorado, United States 1903: Yuma, Colorado, United States

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous minor places called Greenfield, for example in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire, from Old English grēne ‘green’ + feld ‘pasture, open country’ (see Field ).

English: habitational name from Green Field in Buckden (Yorkshire), recorded as Grenefel ‘green fell or mountain’ in 1190.

English: variant of Granville .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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