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Ruth M. Russell Gravestone Inscription Fund

The purpose of this campaign is to inscribe the name of a forgotten woman journalist on a gravestone in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  

In 1919, reporter Ruth Russell (1889-1963) covered the Irish War of Independence for the Chicago Daily News. She focused on women, children, and laborers in the shadows of the revolution. On return to America, she promoted Irish freedom through a book and public testimony. Ruth later became a Chicago public school teacher, student journalism adviser, and novelist.

Ruth and her sister Cecilia, both unmarried teachers, lived together in Chicago and Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Cecilia was a romance language instructor at the University of Arkansas. Cecilia died in 1959.  When Ruth died four years later, she was interred with her sister, according to the wishes of her will.

But Ruth's name was never inscribed on the gravestone, her other family by then deceased. I have contacted church officials about correcting this oversight. Read "Ruth Russell in Revolutionary Ireland" on my Irish history blog to learn the full story of her life.

Organizer

Mark Holan
Organizer
Arlington, VA

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