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Cape Girardaeu, Cape Girardeau Co., MO21 |
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| Notes for Ruby Carl ROBERTS |
Ruby had some college experience in Florence, AL (not a 4 year degree), where she trained as a milliner. When her millinery employer moved, she also moved to Missouri, where she met her husband, Eldredge Bryan, Sr. After EB, Sr. died, she supplemented her income from his life insurance policy as a seamstress at Amiberder's (sp?)30. Died of pneumonia en route home to FL from her daughter's home23 26.
The following mini-bio28 was provided by daughter of E.B. Crenshaw, Sr., who wishes to remain anonymous:
I don't remember Mother ever spanking us. When Bonnie misbehaved and Hesco started to spank her, Mother would have none of it. Bonnie would always run straight to Mother . I never remember hearing Mother losing her temper or yelling at us. I can.t remember Mother every going to the movies when I was older. Hesco asked her several times to go with us but she always refused. One time he even picked her up and was going to carry her to the car but she put up such a fuss, he put her down. Bonnie says she remembers picking guavas off the tree in the back yard with her and watching her make jelly. Bonnie stayed with her for a couple of months in 1957 and went to Norwood for the last three weeks of the school year. She went with Mother to church and to vacation Bible school. (the ship Hesco was aboard was in Key West and I went down for a month to be with him. Mother graduated from Florence State Normal School. It was a two year school for teachers. She taught first grade for one year but didn't like teaching. She went to St. Louis and fashioned hats. Bill Roberts said when she came back home for a visit she would bring a trunk full of hats. I somehow have the idea she lived at the WMCA in St.Louis. When I was small, she made all my dresses by hand. She did embroidery, crochet, tatting and made quilts. She cut out letters or words from magazines and newspapers and used flour and water mix to paste them on cardboard to make cards for me to read. She read stories to me, Among them were fairytales some of which I dreamed or had nightmares about. Mother had a lot of patience. I only heard her complain a couple of times and then she was very meek about it. Mother was five feet three and a half inches tall. She had clear blue eyes and reddish brown hair. She had very small but wide feet. I think she wore size five and a half shoes. |
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