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SCHMALE, Adele

SCHMALE, Adele[1]

Female 1878 - 1954  (75 years)    Has no ancestors but 18 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name SCHMALE, Adele 
    Birth 2 Nov 1878  Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Female 
    Burial Jul 1954  Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Adele Schmale Ruby (1878-1954) - Find a Grave Memorial
    Adele Schmale Ruby (1878-1954) - Find a Grave Memorial
    Death 4 Jul 1954  Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I5479  Dutton Ancestry
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2017 

    Family 1 RUBY, Carl Benjamin
              b. 1 Jul 1877, Polk City, Polk County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 Nov 1910, Perkins County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)  [1
    Marriage 1 Sep 1902  Clayton, Saint Louis County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage She : 23 years and 10 months - He : 25 years and 2 months. 
    Children 
    Married: 1x1. RUBY, Christian August Frederick "Fred"
              b. 17 Jun 1903, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 20 Dec 1995, Aloha, Washington County, Oregon, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +2. RUBY, Anna Lena Adele
              b. 1 Jun 1904, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Jan 1975, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 1x3. RUBY, Carl Paul
              b. 28 May 1905, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 21 Mar 1991, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 1x4. RUBY, Paul Benjamin
              b. 02 Nov 1906, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 15 Jul 2001, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 1x5. RUBY, Sgt Franklin Anton "Frank"
              b. 29 Oct 1907, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 07 Jul 1980, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 1x6. RUBY, Sgt William Walter "Bill"
              b. 09 Mar 1909, Glidden, Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 18 Jun 1983, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F1818  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2017 

    Family 2 RUBY, Richard Frederick "Fred"
              b. 22 Jan 1884, Elk Horn, Shelby County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 10 May 1955, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [2
    Children 
    Married: 1x1. RUBY, Sgt Christopher Benjamin "Chris"
              b. 09 Aug 1913, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 23 Aug 1969 (Age 56 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     2. RUBY, Adele
              b. 27 Nov 1915, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 27 Nov 1915, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     3. RUBY, Richard Daniel
              b. 15 Dec 1917, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 10 Aug 1973, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     4. RUBY, Rose Florence
              b. 25 Jan 1918, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 26 Feb 1935, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 17 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     5. RUBY, Sgt Ruth Marie
              b. 16 Mar 1919, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Dec 1999, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     6. RUBY, Emma Florence "Em"
              b. 19 Sep 1920, Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 05 Nov 2014, Belmont, Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     7. RUBY, May Christine
              b. 20 Jul 1922, Newell, Butte County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 08 Jun 2005, Lemmon, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F4249  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2017 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 2 Nov 1878 - Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Sep 1902 - Clayton, Saint Louis County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Jul 1954 - Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 4 Jul 1954 - Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend Address Cemetery Farm Town Parish City County/Shire State/Province Country Region Not Set

  • Photos
    Adele Schmale
    Adele Schmale Ruby
    Fred & Adele Ruby's Family

    Headstones
    Adele Ruby
    Adele Ruby
    1878-1954

  • Notes 
    • Adele (born Schmale) Ruby (1878-1954) was a full-blooded German who came to America at the age of fourteen in 1892. She arrived with her parents, August and Carolyn Schmale, her brothers, August, Will and Paul, and her sister Lena. The Schmale family arrived in New Orleans, traveled up the Mississippi River to Springfield, Missouri, where Adele met Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby.

      Adele married Ben, and the couple had 6 children together: Anna, Fred, Carl, Paul, Bill, and Frank.

      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 Richard Frederick "Fred" and Carl Benjamin "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 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.

      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.

      *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. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S84] Ancestry.com.

    2. [S50] Findagrave.com.

    3. [S50] Findagrave.com.
      Maintained by: Michael Eugene Shaner
      Originally Created by: Ellen Bishop
      Record added: Sep 03, 2008
      Find A Grave Memorial# 29549994



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