Documentary profile
Ruth West Poston is documented in the archive through contemporary newspaper material. The April 6, 1952 News and Courier notice records her marriage to Harold Chalmers Poston and states that the couple would make their home in Florence. Her April 26, 1976 obituary identifies her as the wife of Harold C. Poston of Lake City and names surviving children.
Source trail
Marriage notice — April 6, 1952Direct evidence for the marriage and planned Florence residence.The State — April 7, 1952Independent coverage from the same marriage period; OCR is limited.Obituary — April 26, 1976Direct family and kinship evidence.Photograph of Ruth WestVisual family record preserved in the archive.
What these sources establish
- A contemporaneously reported marriage to Harold Chalmers Poston.
- A stated Florence residence following the marriage.
- Later Lake City family context and surviving children as reported in the 1976 obituary.
What they do not establish
These twentieth-century newspaper records do not independently prove the complete nineteenth-century descent chain connecting the modern family to Andrew Poston’s branch. That question requires a generation-by-generation genealogical source trail.