Documented public record
Unlike many earlier family generations known mainly through wills and census references, Ruth West Poston appears in contemporary newspaper marriage coverage, photographs, and obituary notices.
Marriage to Harold Chalmers Poston
The family history identifies the March 29, 1952 ceremony at The Citadel Chapel as the point where the West family connection entered the Poston household.
Archive evidence
The Archive preserves multiple marriage notices, a photograph of Ruth West, and a 1976 obituary record. Those records provide a source-rich twentieth-century counterpart to the older genealogical sections of the collection.
Published research
Documentary evidence and archive links
The linked Archive records are documentary or compiled research aids. Where an Archive page labels an item as a research guide rather than primary proof, this page preserves that distinction.
- Ruth West & Harold Chalmers Poston marriage coverage (1952)
- Photograph of Ruth West
- Ruth West Poston obituary (1976)
- West–Poston marriage — The State, April 7, 1952