Ruth Darrow Smith and Milton Rutherford Moffett and TB

Ruth Darrow Smith is part of a long chain that is one of the reasons we are all here. There was a shown on TV years ago called connections where the narrator showed how one event connected to another to cause something totally different down the line, this is my version.
  Ruth Darrow Smith born in 1901 was one of five children. I don't know for a fact but I get the impression Ruth and Emilie were close. Maybe it was the year difference in their ages or the fact that Emilie would look after Cornelia after Ruth's death, but I feel they were close.
  Ruth has been described as an out going people person by people who worked with her.
  Her brother, Dudley sometime in the twenties got involved with a women named Helen, her last name is lost. She contracted TB. Ruth, Dudley and Emilie's mother Maryann Harden Smith chose to nurse her back to health. TB settles mostly in the lungs and spreads, when active, from a cough or a sneeze. One in ten die from the disease. Helen infected Ruth and her younger sister Cornelia, nick named Babsie. I don't know what happened to Helen, but Ruth and Babsie contracted the disease. Babsie would die of the disease in 1928. Ruth would move to the southwest for her health in the early twenties.
  In Philadelphia, in 1905, James Renwick Moffett and his wife Gertrude Stickland Moffett would become the proud parents of Milton Rutherford, their first.
  Sometime after 1910, James and Gertrude and their small family would move to Baltimore, where James would open the Moffett Lynch Advertising Agency. It would specialize in ethical advertising.
  Somewhere before 1913, James contracts TB and because of his health is forced to move to the southwest. Their son, Milton mets Ruth, they marry.
 James would die in 1928 at forty-four. His death would start the downward spiral of Milton drinking as far as I can tell. The great depression a year later didn't help.
  When Ruth got sicker, Milton promised to stop drinking and like any good alcoholic he didn't drink again until after her death.
  Milton would die in 1965, alcohol was a contributing cause.
  An act of kindness sometime in the 1920's would lead to two people from two seperate eastern cities to met and fall in love in El paso Texas.
  Their daughter, Cornelia Ruth Moffett would come east to spend sometime with her Aunt Emilie, meet and marry a man who came from a family with an alcoholic father. The two children of alcoholic would have four children. Each Child would deal with alcoholism in their own way.