Bio: Vater, Ruth Lillian (1898 - 1987)

 

Contact: Helen Blaha

 

Sources: Family Album

 

Surnames: Vater

 

Ruth Lillian Vater--20 Nov 1898 - 15 Nov 1987

      Ruth Vater, Clark County, Wis. School Teacher

 

Ruth Lillian Vater was born 20 Nov 1898, the daughter of first daughter and second child of Robert William and Henrietta Katherine (Schoensiegel) Vater.  At the time of the 1900 Census, she was living in Plymouth, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin where we believe she was born.  She taught school in her earlier years and later worked as a Stenographer in Madison, Dane Co., Wisconsin.  She married Niles Ronald Moody 24 Nov 1947, in Madison.  Ruth died just five days before her 89th birthday, 15 Nov 1987.

 

 

 

This was either at White School in Hixton Township or at the Loyal Elementary School.

 

Ruth Vater (born Nov. 20, 1898) was the daughter of Robert William and Henrietta Vater of Withee, WI.

 

 

1910 Federal Census,  Longwood, Clark, Wisconsin

 

Name: Robert Vater
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Marital status: Married
Race : White
Gender: Male
Immigration year:
Father's birthplace: Germany
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Family number: 40
Page number: 2
Household Members
Head: Robert Vater M 40y
Spouse Henrietta Vater F 40y
Child Arno Vater M 14y
Child Ruth Vater F 11y
Child Alice Vater F 5y
Child Gladys Vater F 3y
Other: Carl Pankon M 26y

 

1920 Federal Census, Clark, Wisconsin

 

Name: Ruth Vater (1898)
Age: 21

Occupation: Teacher
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relationship to head of household: Daughter
Gender: Female
Race: White
Marital status: Single
Father's birthplace: Wisconsin
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Household Members
Parent Robert W Vater M 49y
Parent Henrietta Vater F 49y

Children
Arnold Vater M 24y
Ruth Vater F 21y
Alice Vater F 16y
Gladys Vater F 13y
Carl Vater M 9y
Neil Vater M 4y1m
 

 

1930 Federal Census, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin

 

Name: Ruth Vater
Gender: Female
Age: 31

Occupation: Stenographer
Marital status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Estimated birth year: 1899
Father's birthplace: Wisconsin
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Enumeration district number: 0030
Family number: 306
Sheet number and letter: 12A
Line number: 4
Household Members
John C Kopp M 40
Hilda G Kopp F 35
Lodger: Ruth Vater F 31

 

 

 

 


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