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The description fits Ruth Worth though it omits
her native kindness of heart. I have found no memorial
tribute to this grandmother of O. Henry that does not
emphasize her loyalty to her convictions, her practical
efficiency, her self-reliance, and her goodness of heart.
"So genuine was her kindness of heart and sympathy
for suffering," says Church Society, "that the surest
passports to her ministry were sickness, poverty, and
want, and long will she be remembered." Says an-
other local paper: "She was perhaps the best known
and most useful, self-sacrificing woman of her day. A
history of her eventful life cannot be given in a few
words but it would require a volume to do justice to
her honoured career." Six years after her death Mr.
J. R. Bulla, in his "Reminiscences of Randolph County,"
compared her with Pocahontas, Lady Arabella, Flora
McDonald, Queen Margaret, and Queen Elizabeth,
all of whom were hopelessly and pathetically outclassed.
"If Queen Elizabeth," he concludes, "had had as
much wisdom as Ru th Porter, her reign would not only
be extolled by the English but by all the civilized world.
No Queen that Britain has ever had, had the eighth
part of the common sense of Ruth Porter."
Left a widow at the age of forty-three with seven.
children and a mortgaged home she set to work first
with her needle and then with a few boarders to earn a
support for herself and those dependent on her. To--1 -C '7 1 ----- ---
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Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924. O. Henry Biography, book, 1916; Garden City, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139384/m1/55/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.