Ruth ATKINS[1]

Female - 1892


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  • Name Ruth ATKINS 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1892 
    Person ID I439  John Cowan Family Tree
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2018 

    Family Charles Jonathan PUSEY 
    Children 
     1. Harriet Atkins PUSEY
              b. 29 Mar 1867, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1942  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F144  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Ruth paid for the building of the non-denominational Irondale Church. See the history of the Irondale Church at http://www.irondaleontario.ca/church/history

      "Charles' wife Ruth, felt the community needed a church - a place for spiritual guidance as well as a place for the community to gather and celebrate. The Irondale Church was built entirely of Pusey money. It is rather unusual to have a church built for a community using one person's money. Mrs. Ruth Pusey's obituary (as published in the Peterborough Examiner 1892) states "She was a member of the English Church, and showed her fidelity by procuring through her own effects and largely by her own means, the erection of a new church at Irondale, now nearly completed." "

      The building was sold to the Anglican Diocese in 1901 which sold it to a non-profit organization in 2012.

  • Sources 
    1. [S80] Irondale Newletter, http://www.irondaleontario.ca/node/7, Library/JAne Jeffrey Kingan/3-Irondale Newsletter., Page 2, 31 Dec 2018.
      Explains that Robert G Kingan was married in Irondale in 1889