Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameStella May Ruttan
Birth24 Nov 1888, St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO
Census21 Apr 1910, Topeka, Shawnee Co, KS
Memoroll#457, pg 6
Census27 Jan 1920, Topeka, Shawnee Co, KS
Memoroll#551, pg 3
Death24 Mar 1974, Columbus, St Clair Co, MI
BurialRochester Cem, Topeka, Shawnee Co, KS
MemoSec. 9, Lot 853
FatherEdwin Ruthoven Ruttan (1851-1906)
MotherSarah Jane Mansfield (1857-)
Misc. Notes
Married Carl C. Currie on 18 Sep 1905 in Topeka, KS, and was divorced before 1920. Carl died there 9 Nov 1953 and is buried in Topeka Cemetery with his second wife Elizabeth.
Listed as Stella Curry in 1910, with husband Carl (27, KS) and daugher Gladys A. (3), married 4 yrs. By 1915, they had added 2yr old son Robert M.
Listed as May in most subsequent census records, such as 1920, where she is listed with the children and a couple boarders as a widow (although she was only divorced). She is listed again as a widow in 1925 with the children, and then in 1930 with only son Robert, where it says she was first married at age 16.
By 1940, she was listed as age 50, a widow, and a lodger with the Roberts family in Topeka.
She had lived in Rochester, Michigan according to cemetery records.
Stella May Currie has her ashes buried in her father Edwin's unmarked plot towards the head area according to the burial car.
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