Person talk:Ruth Wood (1)


Improbable death date? [7 May 2009]

I removed a death date of "1641-03-17" as it appears to be very improbable, and is not supported by any sources. Ruth is named, so probably living, in her husband's death record of 1676 in Source:Concord, Massachusetts, births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850. According to Source:The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, p. 53, Thomas Wheeler was married to her "by 1644". This type of phrasing usually indicates the existence of documentation that mentions her as his wife at that date, and hence she could not have died in 1641. The date appears to come from the death record for an Alice Wheeler who died in Concord 17 (1) 1640 [17 Mar 1640/41]. --Jrich 14:14, 7 May 2009 (EDT)