| Birth: | 9 Dec 1865 in New Orleans, LA |
| Death: | 30 May 1912 in Lake Charles, LA |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Hiram Langdon Nourse, Jr. b. 17 Aug 1837 in Orrington, ME |
| Mother: | Catherine Ann Haner b. 12 Jan 1842 in New Orleans, LA |
| Spouses & Children |
| Oliver Henry O'Bryan (Husband) b. 20 Feb 1862 in Perry, LA | |
| Marriage: | 9 Dec 1886 in Vermillion Parish, LA |
| Children: | |
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| Notes |
died at 46 y 5 m 21 d (born abt 12 9 65 then)
!BIRTH: pink notes (Ruth O'Bryan's handwriting) says 12 20 1865Other
sources,
such as green carbon, say 12 9 (her anniversary)
died at 46 y 5 m 21 d (born abt 12 9 65 then)
Ruth Abigail Nourse , the mother of Ruth O'Bryan, grew up in New Orleans, where she received a Testimonial of Merit from her teacher at Live Oak Public School. She was the sister of Dora Elizabeth Nourse, who married Clarence Daniel O'Bryan, who was her husband's brother (and Louis P. O'Bryan's father). Her father died before she was six. She attended the Episcopal Church, and probably learned to
play the piano from her mother. Her sisters, brothers and mother all used personal calling cards. Her daughter Ruth O'Bryan remembered that her family used to enjoy singing around the piano as their mother played. The O'Bryan family shared other cultural pursuits. A pencil drawing by 10-year-old Ruth O'Bryan became a bookmark in a multi-volume set of literary classics. Though historian Perrin wrote that Ruth Abigail Nourse had become a "staunch Catholic" like her husband, he was wrong. After Oliver died in 1905 his children were raised Episcopalian. She died at 6:30 am, Thursday, May 30, 1912. The funeral was held at her home at 204 Moss Street in Lake Charles, LA, and she was buried the next day at Orange Grove Cemetery.