Known as Bomba to the Grandchildren. Lived with her family at 605 4th St., Catasauqua.

The Social Security records web site has: 01 Apr 1871 15 Mar 1966 18017 (Bethlehem, Northampton, PA) (none specified) 182-36-1725 Pennsylvania.

Lived at 13 2nd St. during the Davies & Thomas years.

. Ruth spent the first year of her childhood in Parryville and moved to Jefferson County, near Birmingham, where her father James was involved in the iron industry. At the age of nine, she moved with her family to Catasauqua. She attended boarding school in Hackettstown, New Jersey. As a young woman Ruth was very artistic and she did lovely paintings that were copies of well-known Victorian artists. These paintings hung in the family home in Catasauqua and were great favorites of the grandchildren, recalls granddaughter Dr. Ruth Thomas McVey, as they depicted dramatic scenes with wildlife. Grandmother Ruth would tell the stories behind the paintings and the grandchildren would be reduced to tears.