Our only information about Ruth comes from vital and census records which show that she married George K Paul on June 22, 1847 in Newington, New Hampshire and then moved to Lowell, Massachusetts. We find the family in the Lowell 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870 census.
From Lowell directory records, we learned that George worked and lived at the Boott Corporation in Lowell from around 1847 to 1855 but by 1859 he was working in the gas fixture and gas pipe fitting business. We haven't reviewed every directory where he is listed yet but know that he formed the George K. Paul & Company and from his obituary we learn it was located at 64 Union Street in Boston in 1872. His death record tells us he died of consumption and lists his parents as Nathaniel and Mary Paul. His obituary from the Boston Post is shown below:
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.... Mr George K. Paul, of the firm of George K Paul & Co., steam and gas-pipe fitters, 64 Union street, died in Lowell yesterday morning after a long illness, at the age of 55. He was a native of Newmarket, N. H., resided in Lowell from 1843 to 1857, and then came to Boston. He leaves a widow, two daughters and a son.
George did not leave a will. From his probate records we learn that the court appointed his wife Ruth as his administratrix requiring her to post a $20,000 bond. The estate was appraised at a value of $4600 in real estate and a personal estate valued at $16,709.16, $8000 of which was capital stock in the George K Paul Company.
In the 1880 census we find Ruth listed as a widow with her two daughters and her son. She died at the age of 78 on February 22, 1899 of paralysis. Her death record lists her maiden name as Stackpol. We're confident that this is an error as the record calculates to her date of birth and lists her parents as Seth R and Martha Boardman.
CHILDREN:
Martha Abba Paul (1848-????)
Katherine Paul (1851-1922) - married Lewis Smith
George Shackford Paul (1855-1920) - married Edna Adelaid Hobbs
SOURCES:
1850 United States Federal Census, Middlesex, Massachusetts, population schedule, Lowell, page 547 (handwritten), 273 (stamped), dwelling 766, family 932, George K Paul; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 July 2015).
1855 Massachusetts State Census, Middlesex County, population schedule, Lowell, dwelling 318, G K Paul; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 16 February 2014).
1860 United States Federal Censu, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Lowell, Page No 262, George K Paul; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 February 2014).
1865 Massachusetts States Census, Middlesex County, population schedule, Lowell, Ward 3, dwelling 382, family 482, George K Paul; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 16 February 2014).
1870 United States Federal Census, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Lowell, enumeration district (ED) Page No 163, Page No 163, dwelling 598, family 842, George K Paul; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 16 February 2014).
The Association, Contributions to the Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell Mass.: organized Dec 21, 1868, Vol. I (Lowell: NE, Bacheller & Livingston, 1879), page 159; digital image, Google Books (https://books.google.com : accessed 20 December 2015
Boardman Samuel Lane, 1836-1914, Family memorial: records of the Boreman, Bordman and Boardman families of New Hampshire and Maine (Augusta, Maine: no date given, before 1876), page 39-; digital image, Archive.org (https://archive.org : accessed 13 April 2015.
Fitts James Hill, Rev. and Edited and Arranged by Rev. N. F. Carter, History of Newfields New Hampshire 1638-1911 (Concord, N. H.: 1912), page 600, 602; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 16 February 2014
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, , George K Paul, 6 March 1872; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 December 2015); Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, , Ruth W Paul Stackpole, 22 February 1899; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 February 2014); Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts..
"Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 December 2015), George K Paul, Middlesex, Massachusetts Case 8583.