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Ruth Rifenbery 1892 - 1976

Ruth Ann (Barber) Rifenbery of Harveys Lake, Luzerne County, PA was born on December 25, 1892, and died at age 83 years old in September 1976. Ruth Rifenbery was buried at Fern Knoll Burial Park in Dallas.

Ruth Ann (Barber) Rifenbery
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Harveys Lake, Luzerne County, PA 18618
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December 25, 1892
Pennsylvania, United States
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September 1976
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
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    December 25, 1892
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  • Professional Career

    Ruth and her husband John, owned and operated a dairy farm.

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    Ruth Ann (Barber) Rifenbery was born on December 25th, 1892 in Pennsylvania to Alonzo "Lonzo" Barber, who was born in 1860, and Martha Young (1862 - 1937). She had a sister, Stella May Barber (1887 - 1950). Ruth A. Barber married John Catrol Rifenbery (1893 - 1987) in 1913 and they had children Frederick Asa Rifenbery (1915 - 1987), Margaret, William, John and Robert.
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In 1892, in the year that Ruth Rifenbery was born, on October 12th, the "Pledge of Allegiance" was first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools. Composed the previous August by Francis Bellamy, it was to be recited in 15 seconds and originally read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Under God" was added in the 1950's.
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In 1920, she was 28 years old when in September, a bomb exploded in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 people immediately - 8 later died due to their injuries - and injuring another 200. Killing more people than the 1910 bombing of the LA Times (the deadliest terrorist act up until then), no one took responsibility and the perpetrators were never found. Italian anarchists were suspected of the bombing.
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