1952 marriage evidence
The April 6, 1952 News and Courier report documents the marriage of Ruth West and Harold Chalmers Poston at The Citadel Chapel and states that the couple would make their home in Florence. The April 7 issue of The State provides separate marriage-period coverage.
1976 family evidence
Ruth West Poston’s April 26, 1976 obituary identifies her as the wife of Harold C. Poston of Lake City and names surviving children, providing a strong contemporary kinship record.
Evidentiary limit
These records document the twentieth-century household and family relationships. They do not independently prove every generation between the modern family and the nineteenth-century Hugh/Andrew Poston branches; that remains a genealogical verification task.