RUBY, Richard Frederick "Fred"^[1]

1884 - 1955  (71 years)

• Name	RUBY, Richard Frederick
  Nickname	Fred
  Birth	22 Jan 1884	Elk Horn, Shelby County, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	May 1955	Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA   [2]
  Death	10 May 1955	Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA   [1]
  Age	71 years
  Person ID	I13679	Dutton Ancestry
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2017

  
  

  Family	SCHMALE, Adele           b. 2 Nov 1878, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany           d. 4 Jul 1954, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA (Age 75 years)  [1]    Other partners: RUBY, Carl Benjamin (m. 1902)
  Children	1. RUBY, Sgt Christopher Benjamin "Chris"           b. 09 Aug 1913, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 23 Aug 1969 (Age 56 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   2. RUBY, Adele           b. 27 Nov 1915, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 27 Nov 1915, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   3. RUBY, Richard Daniel           b. 15 Dec 1917, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 10 Aug 1973, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA (Age 55 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   4. RUBY, Rose Florence           b. 25 Jan 1918, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 26 Feb 1935, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA (Age 17 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   5. RUBY, Sgt Ruth Marie           b. 16 Mar 1919, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 13 Dec 1999, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   6. RUBY, Emma Florence "Em"           b. 19 Sep 1920, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA           d. 05 Nov 2014, Belmont, Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA (Age 94 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   7. RUBY, May Christine           b. 20 Jul 1922, Newell, Butte County, South Dakota, USA           d. 08 Jun 2005, Lemmon, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA (Age 82 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F4249	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Other Spouse	RUBY, Carl Benjamin           b. 1 Jul 1877, Polk City, Polk County, Iowa, USA           d. 3 Nov 1910, Perkins County, Iowa, USA  (Age 33 years) m. 1 Sep 1902, Clayton, Saint Louis County, Missouri, USA
  Stepchildren	6 stepchildren
  1. RUBY, Christian August Frederick "Fred"           b. 17 Jun 1903, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA           d. 20 Dec 1995, Aloha, Washington County, Oregon, USA  (Age 92 years) + 2. RUBY, Anna Lena Adele           b. 1 Jun 1904, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA           d. 13 Jan 1975, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 70 years) 3. RUBY, Carl Paul           b. 28 May 1905, Wisconsin, USA           d. 21 Mar 1991, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 85 years) 4. RUBY, Paul Benjamin           b. 02 Nov 1906, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA           d. 15 Jul 2001, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 94 years) 5. RUBY, Sgt Franklin Anton "Frank"           b. 29 Oct 1907, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA           d. 07 Jul 1980, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA  (Age 72 years) 6. RUBY, Sgt William Walter "Bill"           b. 09 Mar 1909, Glidden, Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA           d. 18 Jun 1983, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F1818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2017

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 22 Jan 1884 - Elk Horn, Shelby County, Iowa, USA Burial - May 1955 - Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Death - 10 May 1955 - Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Richard Frederick "Fred" Ruby met a family of Germans, the Schmale family, after they had arrived in New Orleans, traveled up the Mississippi River to Springfield, Missouri, where Adele Schmale met Fred's older brother, Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877 - 1910). Adele married Ben, and the couple had 6 children together: Anna, Fred, Carl, Paul, Bill, and Frank. Earlier in 1910, the Ruby Family (the Patriarch Christian Ruby and Matriarch Julianna Ruby), traveled from Wisconsin to South Dakoka by train. They brought their daughter Rose, two sons Fred and Ben, and Ben's wife Adele with their six small children, the oldest was only seven years old. When the train arrived in Lemmon, South Dakota, it was a hundred-mile trip by horse and wagon to Perkins County where they planned to homestead. The Ruby Family patriarchs didn't stay long enough to build a house and prove their claim. They moved to Washington State where their daughter May lived. Their daughter Rose filed her claim, but she didn't build either; rather, she married and moved to California with her husband. The two brothers, Ben and Fred, stayed on their homesteads and set to work building a one-room sod house for Ben and Adele and the six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill. Later that year in 1910, Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later Adele married Ben's brother Fred. The couple gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in the sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave. Fred and Adele raised all 12 children together on the Ruby Family homestead. *Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S50] Findagrave.com. [S50] Findagrave.com. Maintained by: Michael Eugene Shaner Originally Created by: Ellen Bishop Record added: Sep 03, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 29550086 [S404] Michael Eugene Shaner.