Elizabeth King “Betty” Rutherford

Name and Vital Dates

Full Name: Elizabeth King “Betty” Rutherford (loc. desc: of Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and later Virginia).
Gender: Female.
Lifespan: Born 25 September 1920 at Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA; died 25 August 2012 at Fauquier County, Virginia, USA (aged 91).

Lineage: Great-granddaughter of George Rutherford of Armagh, and part of the American continuation of the Drumsavage Parish Rutherford branch.
Parentage: Daughter of John William Rutherford (1892–1945) and Elizabeth Roden “Bessie” King (1895–1996).
Residence (1930): Recorded at Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; marital status single; relation to head of house daughter.

First Marriage: Married 13 February 1943 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA, to Francis A Woodruff (1912–1944).
Second Marriage: Married 4 June 1944 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA, to Joseph Kindle Allen Sr (1915–1995).
Issue (Children): Genealogical sources record five children with Joseph Kindle Allen Sr; names are not published here where descendants may still be living.

Early Adulthood: Raised in the Upper Darby household of her parents during the interwar years, part of the fourth American generation of the Armagh Rutherford line.
Voyage (1949): Departed 9 July 1949 from New York, New York, USA, aboard theQueen of Bermuda.
Residence (1950): Recorded at Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; marital status married; relation to head of house wife.
Residence (before 1951): Recorded in Pennsylvania.
Later Residences: Associated before August 2012 with Warrenton, Virginia, USA, and Hawaii

Residence (1950): Recorded at Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; marital status married; relation to head of house wife.

Demise: Died 25 August 2012 at Fauquier County, Virginia, USA (aged 91).
Burial: Buried after 25 August 2012 at National Memorial Cemetery at Quantico, Triangle, Prince William County, Virginia, United States of America
Descendants: Survived by five recorded children and further descendants; living family members are not named in this catalogue entry.

Armagh to Virginia: Elizabeth King Rutherford carried the Armagh–Delaware County Rutherford branch into the mid-twentieth century through wartime marriages in Philadelphia, travel aboard theQueen of Bermuda, and a long life ending in northern Virginia.