More info re Diary of R. E. Ruby, Angelina County, Texas  
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Submitted by: Susan Ayers cotton@lcc.net 30 Dec 2001
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I thought anyone who was interested in the R. E. Ruby diary would 
like to know this information.
 
The R. E. Ruby diary belongs to my mother, Olena Dew Ayers. It is 
in a safe deposit box at a bank in Lufkin TX along with a daguerreotype 
of R. E. Ruby in uniform, a metal powder flask & a maroon waist sash. 
The person who placed the transcription on the web page noted "some
discrepancies" were probably to be found within.  There are many, 
but most notably the year.  No year was mentioned within the text 
of the diary, only months and days.  The diary is written in a ledger, 
which was turned upside-down and written beginning on the back page.
The front of the book is embossed and has a date scratched into the 
leather. We assumed the ledger was the only paper available to R. E. 
Ruby. 
 
The diary & the other items were given to my mother by her grandmother, 
Martha Olena Wilson Brown.  Martha Olena was the daughter of Rosena 
Elizabeth Ruby Wilson, Elijah Lambert Ruby's sister.  Elijah Lambert 
is the person the archivist assumed to be R. E. Ruby.  Martha did not 
know who R. E. Ruby was, only that he was a relative of her mother.  
Elijah Lambert Ruby, along with his parents, Charles Ruby and Margaret 
Guard Ruby is buried in an unmarked grave on their home place near 
Pollok, Angelina County TX.  There is a memorial to the three engraved 
on the west side of James Riley Ruby's marker in Mt. Hope Cemetery at 
Wells, Cherokee County TX.  James Riley is also the son of Charles & 
Margaret Ruby.  Mt. Hope is the resting place of two daughters of Charles 
& Margaret Guard Ruby.  Rosena Elizabeth Ruby Wilson and Margaret Ruby 
Hicks are buried at Mt. Hope.  Margaret Hicks was the first person buried 
in the cemetery. 

 
Susan Ayers
cotton@lcc.net