Record overview
This April 26, 1976 News and Courier obituary identifies Ruth West Poston of Lake City as the wife of Harold C. Poston and names surviving children. It is useful as a contemporary twentieth-century family record connecting the West and Poston lines and documenting later family continuity in South Carolina.
What this document establishes
- Ruth West Poston was identified as the wife of Harold C. Poston of Lake City.
- The obituary names her parents and surviving children.
- It documents twentieth-century family continuity in South Carolina.
What it does not establish
An obituary is strong kinship evidence for the people it names, but it does not independently prove earlier generations not identified in the notice.
Source provenance
- Publication
- The News and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina
- Date
- April 26, 1976
- Page
- 11
- Archive record
- 28
- Record type
- Contemporary obituary
Extracted OCR text
Newsbank
Charleston News and Courier (published as The News and Courier) - April 26, 1976 - page 11
April 26, 1976 | Charleston News and Courier (published as The News and Courier) | Charleston, South Carolina | Page 11
MRS. H.C. POSTON
LAKE CITY — Mrs. Ruth
West Poston. 52, wife of Harold
C. Poston, died Sunday at a.
.
local hospital.
Funeral arrangements will
be announced by Brockington.
Funeral E.:me.
Mrs.
Poston was bom in
McCall, a daughter of the late
Jim West and Mrs. Ellen Davis
‘West. She was a member of the
Lake
City
First
Baptist
Church.
Surviving in addition to her
husband of Lake City, are: two
sons, Hal Poston of Medical
University of South Carolinain
Charleston, and Phil Poston of
Lake City; a daughter, Miss
Susan Poston of Converse Coal-
lege in Spartanburg.
CITATION (APA STYLE)
(1976, April 26). Charleston News and Courier, p. 11. Available from NewsBank: Access World News - Historical and Current:
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