Ruth McBride
The good people of Lucas honored mother McBride unawares on the 79th. anniversary of her birth, and presented her with a comfortable upholstered rocking chair. The presentation was further supplemented by an excellent dinner, which all enjoyed. The company present, of forty persons, was composed chiefly of the older residents and pioneers of this county and was as venerable an assembly as we ever met with. Ruth McBride was born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, March 23, 1806. She came to this county with her parents, Benjamin and Susanna Barnes in the autumn of 1813, and has resided in this place ever since that date. She was married in 1825 to Alexander McBride, who died in 1880. She was the mother of eleven children, six of whom are now living, the elder of whom, Thomas McBride, Esq., is an eminent lawyer of Mansfield, Ohio. One is located in Olney, Ill., and two in the State of Kansas. Her only daughter is Mrs. Samuel Barr, of Lucas, with whom she makes her home.
From the Mansfield Herald, April 2, 1885, Vol. 35, No. 20