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Ruby Lee Morgan

Female 1916 - 2001  (85 years)


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  • Name Ruby Lee Morgan  [1
    Birth 20 Apr 1916  Roganville, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 22 Nov 2001  Nacogdoches County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Ruby's hobbies included Handwork.

      RUBY L MURDY 20 Apr 1916 22 Nov 2001 (V) 75965 (PE) 75961 (Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, TX) 460-01-3256 Texas
    • (Research):Mary Susan Walden Moore emailed, on August 7, 2008, that when her mother, Ruby Lee Morgan "graduated from Kirbyville High School, she was a brain, but there was no money for college in those dark days of 1934. So her Mother (Minnie) suggested that she write to her Uncle Roy, the President of Paris Junior College, and ask for assistance. He wrote back and said that she could attend PJC, but she would have to work on campus. She could live with him and his family if she would help her aunt do housework, and help with the children. Those jobs would pay her tuition, and her room and board. He also made it clear in the letter that even though he was her uncle, he would not help her with her homework...she would have to do it on her own. Also, she would have to come up with transportation to get to Paris. She found out that a one way ticket to Paris was 100 dollars. She went around to all of the businessmen in Kirbyville and stated her case, and asked for a loan. When she had nearly given up hope, she courageously went to one of the more prominent professional men in town and stated her case with great passion, I am sure, because my Mom wanted to go to school so badly. He said, "Girly, I have loaned money to other girls in this town, and they have never paid me back, because they always get married and forget that they owe me money." She promised that she would not be like those other girls...and he loaned her the money. She said that train ride was so sad for her, because she had never been away from home before, and only had a oneway ticket. Uncle Roy was true to his word, and he never helped her, even though he was also her French teacher. She made Phi Theta Kappa while she was at PJC. Her brother Julian, who was later killed in WWII, dug stumps for a dollar a day, and sent her some of his wages. After she graduated in 1936, she moved to Houston, because there was no more money for further studies. She lived with her Aunt Emily McLemore Wilkinson, and she met my Dad, Lewis Walden, at church. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, "but first I have to pay back the man in Kirbyville who loaned me 100 dollars to go to college."
      And she did. She raised 3 kids, and went back to college in her forties, and earned her B.Ed. in Education when she was 49. Mom passed away in 2001."
    Person ID I9048  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Robert Theodore Morgan,   b. Nov 1893, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1960 (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Minnie Dorothy McLemore,   b. 16 Jun 1897, Erin, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Nov 1984, Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 14 Apr 1915  Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Family ID F1323  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lewis Mckinney Walden, Sr.,   b. 24 Jan 1915   d. Jul 1975, Houston, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1939 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
     3. Living
    Family ID F4193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

    Family 2 William D. Murdy,   b. 7 Aug 1915   d. 10 Aug 2000, Nacogdoches County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1980  Galveston County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5
    Family ID F4194  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 20 Apr 1916 - Roganville, Jasper County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 18 Oct 1980 - Galveston County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Nov 2001 - Nacogdoches County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S163] Kittell, Nan McCoy--Samuel McFarland McLemore and Descendants, Living Family History (Unpublished typescript ca. 1984, updated periodically).

    2. [S334] Rootsweb, Texas Death Records, 1964 thru 1998.

    3. [S218] Miller, Yolanda Pepper, Family Researcher (Ypmiller@stx.rr.com).

    4. [S447] Versie Truett, Vivian Cogbill, Jim Folsom JASPER COUNTY TEXAS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1849-1949.

    5. [S1352] Ancestry.com - Texas Marriage Collections, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011 [database online].