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Ruth Fischer

Updated May 27, 2025
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Ruth Fischer
Tragic to believe in the turn of the century-school gossip about Ruth being fostered and feeling burdened in a strange land caused this 10 year old girl to take her own life on November 23,1915
Date & Place: in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States
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It was reported at the Chicago newspaper 1915 she told someone named Ethel Greenfield (could be a neighbor or maid) “You don’t need to carry my lunch to school. I’m going to shoot myself tonight.” Which Ethel thought of this as childhood nonsense. Now, if a kid says something like that-now, I can’t believe if they are just messing around. Nowadays we would take that as something serious
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Ruth Camilla Fischer
Ruth Camilla Fischer was born on September 17, 1905 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States, and died at age 10 years old on November 23, 1915 in Chicago. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruth Camilla Fischer.
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