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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Miss Ruth M. Hinshaw, Retired School Teacher, Has Passed, Feb. 17, 1921

The Passing of a Good Woman

Miss Ruth M. Hinshaw, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of the county, passed away at the home of her niece at Snow Camp on Friday, Feb. 4, at 1:30, aged 67 years, 11 months and 12 days. She was buried on Sunday at 11 o’clock at Cane Creek, where she was a faithful member. The funeral was conducted by Mrs. Georgia Reece, assisted by Alfred Zachary. She leaves two brothers in Indiana and a number of nieces and nephews. Her nearest relatives here consist of her nieces and nephews, Mrs. J.C. Griffin, Bulah Allen and Charles Stuart of Snow Camp, Mrs. Flora Hadley of South Fork, Amick Andrews and Mrs. W.O. Bear of Siler City, Route 1, and Mrs. J.M. Buckner of Graham.

Her life work consisted mostly in teaching. She taught for over 30 years in the public schools and about 40 subscription schools.

She was a life-long member of the Friends Church and as long as her health would permit was active n all kinds of church work. She was superintendent of the Sabbath school for a long time, had charge of the blackboard exercise for a number of years, also taught a Sunday school class.

She was public spirited and labored not only for herself but for the betterment of all about her and whom she knew. She was an untiring worker in the cause of temperance and was secretary and treasurer of the Women’s Missionary Society at Cane Creek for a long time.

She was a most estimable woman, widely known and held in high esteem by all who knew her. Although modest and unassuming, she was a natural leader, as evidenced by the work of her life.

Her suffering seemed to be only for a short while, and as she passed from this life she opened her eyes heavenward and there came over her face a look of serene happiness. From her sorrow and suffering she is now at rest. We can not see her face or hear her voice, yet she leaves to us a priceless heritage of a life well spent and she shall ever live in our memory and we shall hope and pray that her good work may be manifest in the lives we live and in the generations to come.

From the front page of The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Feb. 17, 1921

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