Historical records matching Ruth Mary Tallchief
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About Ruth Mary Tallchief
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mar... "Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina" by Maria Tallchief with Larry Kaplan
When my father was a young man, he married a young German immigrant and they had three children--two boys, Alexander (whom everyone called Hunky) and Tommy, and a girl, Frances. They were little children when their mother died. Later, when Ruth Porter, my mother, came to Fairfax to visit her sister, who worked as a cook and housekeeper for my Grandma Tall Chief, Daddy was Fairfax's most eligible bachelor. Mother must have arrived tired and dusty from her long journey, but from what I'm told there was an instant attraction between them.
Mother was born in Oxford, Kansas. A determined woman of Scots-Irish blood, she was beautiful, with light brown hair, gray eyes, and delicate features. My tall and lanky father and my tiny mother made an odd couple physically, but they were very much in love. As soon as they married they started a family, and Daddy's children from his first marriage went to live with Grandma Tall Chief, who brought them up in her house at the bottom of the hill.
I was born in Fairfax in the tiny local hospital on January 24, 1925. The doctor mishandled the forceps, leaving a large red mark on my forehead. Otherwise, I was healthy and normal. They named me Elizabeth Marie after two grandmothers: Eliza Tall Chief, and my Grandma Porter, who'd been named for Marie Antoinette, and with whom I would spend a great deal of time as a child. They called me Betty Marie.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Tallchief
- [8] Maria Tallchief Obituary 2013
- Reference: Chief-2 WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 4 2016, 21:10:00 UTC
- Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Feb 5 2016, 21:35:21 UTC
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Ruth Mary Tallchief's Timeline
| 1899 |
May 20, 1899
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Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas, United States
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| 1922 |
September 13, 1922
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Colorado, United States
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| 1925 |
January 24, 1925
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Fairfax, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
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| 1927 |
1927
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Denver, Bremer County, Iowa, United States
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| 1981 |
November 1981
Age 82
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Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma, United States
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