Individual Notes
Note for: Alma Elizabeth Hocking, 20 Jun 1886 - 7 May 1953
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Burial: Date: 9 May 1953
Place: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA
Birth Note: Source: There is no copy of the issued birth certificate in this folder. However, Elizabeth Rittenhouse Lamb stated she has a photostatic copy from the Illinois Department of Health.
Individual Note: ~TEMPLE WORK: Sealing appears to have been performed in AZ Temple for Alma Elizabeth and her husband. Her sealing to her parents and their sealing were performed in the LA Temple (I have temple copy in my my hands which does not list temple for baptism or endowment; TIB records copied Aug. 1993 at Salt Lake City said Salt Lake Temple for baptism and endowment.) Submitted by Judith Lamb Tucker (now Rittenhouse).
BIRTH CERTIFICATE: Photostatic copy from Illinois Dept. of Health in possession of Judith Rittenhouse, 2434 E. Contessa St., Mesa, AZ 85213.
DEATH: Died in her home.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: Photostatic copy of No. 007663 from Oklahoma Dept. of Health in possession of Judith Rittenhouse.
DAR National No. 101958; photostatic copy in possession of Judith Rittenhouse.
PAPERS: Letters from Elizabeth's parents and self and many other papers in possession of Judith Rittenhouse.
~TIB: Baptized 12 Aug 1968 and endowed 27 Aug 1968 in Salt Lake Temple, Temple Index Bureau, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Microfilm 1,263,008, from No. SL98288. Lists father Scott Alfred Hocking and mother Sarah Bunting; married Frank Austin Rittenhouse on 22 June 1910. Submitted by Judith Lamb Tucker (now Rittenhouse). Hand copied by same Judith Rittenhouse on 7-29-93 in Salt Lake City, UT.
BURIAL: Fair Lawn Cemetery Mausoleum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Individual Notes
Note for: Austin James Rittenhouse, 13 Mar 1911 - 7 May 1963
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Burial: Date: 10 May 1963
Place: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA
Individual Note: FAMILY BIBLE: Rittenhouse Family Bible in possession of Judith Rittenhouse, 2434 E. Contessa St., Mesa, AZ 85213.
LIFE: Austin James known as "Buddy." He never married and had no issue. He fell in love while in undergraduate school and wanted to get married. His father told him he was not to get married and if he did he would be disowned. His father wanted him to be a lawyer even though Buddy had a stuttering problem. Buddy was not happy in the legal profession, though he enjoyed his years with the State Department. In 1948, Buddy changed his profession to interior decorating. While living in New York City, he was seated on a bus one day when a Negro man who smelled terribly sat down next to him. So Buddy got up to move to another seat. The Negro man was really vocal about that and Buddy told him that he wouldn't sit next to a white man who smelled that badly.
Sometime after his niece Judith Lamb turned 15 and had a driver's license, Uncle Buddy drove to Greenwood, Mississippi, in his brand spanking new convertible. He told Judith she could drive her girlfriends around in it, BUT they were not to sit on the "boot" where the top folded down. Of course, they did sit on it and the mechanism was somewhat bent and my Uncle quite unhappy. Judith cannot remember a bad scene or punishment or any other consequences from Uncle Buddy or her parents. Ted says that people can sit on them and not hurt them; if they do it's easy to fix. Maybe that's why I didn't get into serious trouble.
A printed card in his ERL folder B1: Doc 8 announces the association of Mr. Austin J. Rittenhouse with Hubbard Travel Service, 124 Easat 40th Street, New York City. No date. On the back he wrote a note to his sister probably: "Honey, Please send me your list of friends in D.C. with addresses and if you took the 2 copies of the Okla. City Social Register that mother had, send me the latest one--I've written MM to send a current one, but don't know if I'll get it from her. Don't you like these cards?
An e-mail from Susan Griffith to her sister Judith Rittenhouse and neice Molly Lamb on 30 Mar 2007 tells us, "I recognized several of the small pressed glass dishes as they had belonged to Uncle Buddy. Uncle Buddy had an antique shop in Wichita Falls, Texas shortly before he became sick with his stomach cancer. He specialized in glass ware. He sold the shop to his business partner when he could no longer work."
DEATH: He died at the home of his sister, Elizabeth Rittenhouse Lamb, 125 Riverside Drive, Greenwood, MS, exactly 10 years to the day of his mother's death. Died Single.
INTERNMENT: Next to his Hocking grandparents at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
COLLEGE DEGREE: L.L.B. Degree from Washington- Lee University.
SOURCE: Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb, 125 Riverside Dr., Greenwood, Mississippi 38930.