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U.S. passport application no. 308511 of Ruth Kelso Clarkson, sworn in Bexar County, Texas, 8 June 1923 (passport issued at Washington 13 June 1923): she travels with her son Herbert, wife of Major Herbert S. Clarkson; typed statements shown.
Image · attached to: Birth, Residence · source: U.S. Department of State passport applications (NARA M1490, roll 2302), via Ancestry
How it is shown: Displayed as the crop of the typed statements; the applicant's photograph and the transfer sheet on the left page are not shown.
Keep in mind: What the page says: sworn 8 June 1923 before D. H. Hart, Clerk, U.S. District Court; 'accompanied by my son, Herbert Kelso Clarkson, six years old' (the word 'seven' is struck out); 'I am the wife of Major Herbert S. Clarkson, U.S. Field Artillery'; 'lawfully married September 18, 1913, at San Antonio'; born San Marcos, Texas, 2 Nov 1891; permanent residence San Antonio; housewife; countries France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland; purpose 'Travel and Study'. Whether this is our person: Confirmed in the R10 return by name, birthplace, the son's age and the 107 W. Craig address that match the 1916 birth certificate and the 1923 passenger list; the tagged person is Ruth Joyce Kelso Clarkson (1891-1973). The page's birth year agrees with the tree (the passenger list says 1892).