| Name |
Virginia Ruth Brenholts |
| Birth |
4 Dec 1911 |
Nelsonville, Athens, Ohio, United States  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Ω Census daughter |
1 Jan 1920 |
911 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States [4] |
- Roy was a manager in the coal business, owned his home with no mortgage.
Witness Role: Principal: [I756] Roy BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: head of household: [I756] Roy BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: wife: [I757] Jessie Marguerite MATTICKS
Witness Role: daughter: [I758] Virginia Ruth BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: daughter: [I761] Barbara Lee BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: son: [I763] Alfred Roy BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: mother-in-law: [I791] Lillian Gertrude LEGGE
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| FACTSailed |
From 12 Jun 1928 to 22 Jun 1928 [5, 6] |
| from Italy to New York |
- Marguerite Brenholts and her 3 children (Virginia, Barbara, Alfred) returned to the port of New York from Genoa, Italy, via the SS Conte Grande.
This was the maiden voyage of the SS Conte Grande sailing from Genoa, to Naples, and then on to New York City. The captain of the ship sent a postcard to young Barbara as he was leaving NYC.
Her friend Gladys Chamberlain, with Gladys' son Tom, returned from Southampton England in August of this same year.
Not sure of the duration of this trip or the itinerary, though this seems to be the "return to America" after an extended stay in Europe for the recently divorced friends, Marguerite and Gladys, with their children.
Witness Role: Principal: [I757] Jessie Marguerite MATTICKS
Witness Role: Child: [I763] Alfred Roy BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: Child: [I761] Barbara Lee BRENHOLTS
Witness Role: Child: [I758] Virginia Ruth BRENHOLTS
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| Misc |
28 Apr 1929 |
Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States |
| Fought off a burglar |
- Article in the April 22, 1929 issue of The Columbus Citizen.
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| Name |
From 24 Jun 1929 [1, 2, 3] |
| Virginia B. Campbell |
| Ω Census wife |
1 Apr 1930 |
Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States [7] |
- Witness Role: Principal: [I759] James Byron CAMPBELL
Witness Role: head of household: [I759] James Byron CAMPBELL
Witness Role: wife: [I758] Virginia Ruth BRENHOLTS
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| FACTSailed |
1934 [1] |
| around the world |
- From Joan Campbell:
Mother’s 1934 travel with her Grandmother Matticks was a trip around the world, starting in New York and ending up in L.A. China was one of the last places they visited — I know they stopped in Ceylon, too, before that, and obviously there were European ports near the beginning. I’ll have to dig around and see if I have any more detail, such as the name of the ship they took from NYC. In the depths of the depression, few people had money to spare, but my great-grandmother somehow did, and she really wanted to take this trip - but not alone. First she asked Bobbie, who was timid about it, so as second choice, she asked Bobbie’s older sister, my mother, and even though Ginny was married by that time, she told me it took her about 5 seconds to say “yes.” They had a glorious time. Apparently my dad was a good sport about the whole thing.
I have nothing to show what ship they took from New York to England, nor the dates. However, they traveled on from England to Shanghai on the Yasukuni Maru, and then from Shanghai to Los Angeles on the Tatsuta Maru. After a short visit in the L.A. area, they boarded the S.S. California (of the Panama Pacific Line) on July 23, 1934 and sailed through the Panama Canal to New York City, landing on August 6th. According to a chart in the Passenger List for that voyage, the one-way fare from L.A. to NYC in First Class was $185.00.
Mother said that on each of these three ships, her grandmother would claim one day it was Ginny’s birthday, so my mother was thrown three birthday parties on the trip!
Witness Role: Principal: [I791] Lillian Gertrude LEGGE
Witness Role: Companion: [I758] Virginia Ruth BRENHOLTS
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| Residence |
1943 |
509 Brevoort Rd, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States [8] |
- Witness Role: Spouse: [I759] James Byron CAMPBELL [8]
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| Residence |
From 1944 to 1945 |
Short Hills, Essex, New Jersey, United States [6] |
- Ginny stayed with her sister, Record: "Bobbie" (along with Bobbie's husband and 3 daughters) during the war, when her husband was overseas.
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| Group |
Apr 1967 |
Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States [9, 10] |
| member of DAR |
- Member #523370, Columbus Chapter 4022OH, via Record: "Silas BATES".
Referencing the memberships of her grandmother Clara Alma Bates Brenholts and relative Katherine Bates Bennett.
Application process started 25 Apr 1966. She was accepted by the National Board of Management on 15 Apr 1967.
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| DAR ID |
523370 |
| Family Search ID |
LX3Z-5DJ |
| Photos |
Go to Photo Gallery for Virginia Ruth Brenholts |
| _UID |
FCC361FABB9C4858BEC76EDF73CC8B2AD74D |
| Death |
11 Mar 1999 |
Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States [2, 3] |
- She had lived at an assisted care facility in Worthington, Ohio since 1995.
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| Person ID |
I758 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Apr 2025 |
| Father |
Roy Brenholts, b. 12 Aug 1886, Monday Creek Junction, Hocking, Ohio, United States d. 24 Dec 1962, Park Medical Hospital, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Jessie Marguerite "Peggy" Matticks, b. 15 Nov 1889, Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States d. 11 Sep 1945, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States (Age 55 years) |
| Marriage |
16 Jun 1910 |
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States [10, 11, 12, 13] |
- Transcribed by Record: "Joan Campbell", (granddaughter of the couple) from an undated newspaper clipping
BRENHOLTS - MATTICKS
Wednesday evening at eight o'clock was the hour when in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. L.C. Sparks united in the holy bonds of matrimony Miss Marguerite Matticks, daughter of Mrs. David William Matticks of 202 West Church street, and Mr. Roy Brenholts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brenholts of Woodland avenue, Columbus.
The ring service was used and the wedding was beautiful in its simplicity. Miss Pearl Bourner presided at the organ and at the appointed hour the bridal party entered to the strains of Lohengrin's wedding march, while the recessional was Mendelssohn's march. Mrs. Matticks gave her daughter in marriage and Miss Bernice Bates of Parlette, Ohio, cousin of the groom, was her maid of honor. Mr. Raymond Matticks, brother of the bride, attended the groom. Miss Matticks, who is one of Newark's most charming and beautiful young women, was a vision of loveliness in a white silk voile robe over white messaline with trimmings of Duchess lace and pearls and a full length veil caught in her coiffure with bride's roses. She carried a bouquet of bride's roses with a shower of swansonia and her only ornament was an exquisite gold necklace of amethysts, pearls and diamonds, the gift of the groom.Miss Bates was gowned in white chiffon over satin, carried pink sweet peas and wore a wreath of the same flowers, while Mrs. Matticks wore a dainty gown of white bastiste and Valenciennes lace.
Following the marriage service the relatives and a few intimate friends of Mr. and Mrs.Brenholts were invited to the home of the bride's mother where an informal reception was held and a buffet luncheon served. The parlors were elaborately decorated with ferns, smilax, laurel and other spring flowers. When the bride's cake was cut the thimble was found by Miss Ruth Miller, the coin by Mrs. Williams, and the ring by Miss Bernice Hatch, who also was the fortunate recipient of the bride's bouquet. During the evening many congratulations and best wishes were given and received.
Sometime during the evening the young people slipped away from their guests and entering Mr. Brenholts' White Steamer touring car started on a trip through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. On Saturday they will join a house party at the home of Miss Gladys Taber in Araor, Ind., a schoolmate of the bride at Oberlin, and in the evening a dance will be given in their honor. They will then proceed through Michigan, visiting Gull Lake and many other points of interest, returning through Detroit and Toledo. They will reside for the present at the home of the groom's parents in Columbus and probably this fall will take up their home in West Virginia. Mrs. Brenholts' going away gown was a grey cloth Russian blouse suit with accessories of the same color.
The bride was one of the most popular young women of this city's younger social set and has lived in this city all her life. She is a graduate of the Newark High school in the class of '08, and this past year was a student at Oberlin College. Mr. Brenholts graduated from the Ohio State University in '07 in the mechanical engineering department, is a member of the Iota Chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity and is also a member of the honorary fraternity for engineers, the Sigma Xi. He and his father are coal mine operators in the Hocking Valley, West Virginia and Kentucky. Mrs.Brenholts presented her maid with a beautiful topaz brooch, while the groom gave his best man a pearl scarfpin.
Among the out of town guests present at the marriage were Mr. and Mrs. Irwin, and Miss Dorothy Irwin, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brenholts, Miss ___m Smith, Mrs. Z. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. Woods, all of Columbus, Mrs. ___uhar and Mrs. Corbin, aunts of the bride from Zanesville, Misses ___ha and Bernice Bates of Parlette, Ohio, Mr. George Fairbanks of Springfield, Mrs. John Hoagwood of Mt. Vernon, Mr. Brown of Columbus, Mrs. Charles Adams of Parkersburg, W. Va., Miss Spencer of Granville, Mrs. A. K. Keller of Pittsburg, Miss ___rd and Miss Eva Brenholtz of ___esville.
--From an undated, tattered newspaper clipping. The wedding date was June 15, 1910 in
Newark, Ohio.
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| Notes |
- Marriage Status: Divorced
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| Family ID |
F255 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Husband |
James Byron Campbell, b. 31 Dec 1905, Pennsville, Morgan, Ohio, United States d. 14 Jan 1988, Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Jun 1929 |
St. James Church, Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States [14] |
- Jimmy and Ginny eloped.
Ginny lied about her age on the marriage license application, stating that she had turned 21 on 4-Dec-1928, when she had in fact turned 17. She also stated that her residence was in East Union, Wayne County, Ohio. The remaining information was truthful.
From their daughter:
There were, as I recall, two other couples who were to run off and marry at the same time, but the others chickened out. After my parents were married in Wooster, they came back to Columbus and didn’t tell anyone. My mother continued living with her parents (well, their marriage was ending, so I don’t know if her father was still living in the family home), and she finally told her mother SIX MONTHS LATER that she’d gotten married, to which her mother replied, “Well, you know we have to tell your father.”
2022 Note from their daughter, accompanying the marriage license image:
Here's the marriage certificate for my parents when they eloped. Of course, they both really lived in Columbus, so there's no truth to the listing of Toledo and E. Union. Witness Jane Dodd was Mother's good friend. Maybe she was one of the other "kids" who had intended to run off and marry at the same time but chickened out.
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| Children |
| | 1. Infant Campbell, b. 7 Aug 1943, Mt. Carmel Hospital, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States d. 7 Aug 1943, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Living |
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| Family ID |
F257 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2025 |
1911 - 1999 (87 years)
