 1916 - 2003
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| Born |
30 Aug 1916 |
Black Jack, Meade County, KY  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
8 Mar 2003 |
Lexington, KY |
| _CRE |
15 Feb 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Ruby Miller was born in the Blackjack community of Meade County onAugust 30, 1916. She received her formal education in the publicschools of Meade County and graduated from Meade County High school in1933. She attended Bryan Stratton Business College inLouisville, KYand served as secretary and bookkeepper for the Meade County RECC forabout eight years.
By the time Don Miller Lamar was born, Ruby and Carl were living inLexington, KY. Their first home was at Shawneetown on the Universityof Kentucky. In December, 1955 they moved to their newly built homeat 357 Glendover Road in Lexington, KY. Ruby lived in this houseuntil her death in March of 2003. She lived the last two years of herlife with her daughter, Carla and her husband, Steve. She still ownedthe house on Glendover. Don's two boys lived in the house whileattending the University of Kentucky.
After her death, her granddaughter, Cameron Carroll Ray lived in thehouse on Glendover until the house was sold in 2005.
Ruby's father called her Tade. When she was a small baby, he calledher ladybug after a comic strip in the newspaper. The comic calledthe bug a ladybug. Farm folk commonly called it a 'tader bug'. Hencethe name 'Tade'.
"When your daddy and I got married, at the opening assembly at thehigh school where he taught, his basketball team made him ride therail around the gym floor. This is when they'd get a two by four andmake someone straddle it while being carried. Daddy told me he justgrinned and beared it!" This was done I guess whenever anyone gotmarried or initiated into something.
One Halloween, a bunch of my cohorts, they're all dead now, swiped RoyNeafus' cow and put it in the high school over the entire weekend. Ithad splattered all up and down the hall. He'd really had asplattering good time.
When I was just a little kid in the elementary school, we had outdoortoilets: one for girls and one for boys. The next day afterHalloween, you could tell the bathroom services had been discontinuedbecause the outhouse had been turned over.
About the funniest sight, when I was just a little baby thing, youngelementary, very impressionable age, going up the schoolhouse steps Isaw a four wheel buggy that they'd swiped from the blacksmith shop atthe top of the hill and put it on the roof of theschoolhouse.
We lived on a farm that was on the old highway 60 towards Hardinsburg.Us kids used to take an inner tube and make a chain like rubber bandsand tie a white flag in the middle of it so it would hang in themiddle of the road. The end of the chain we had a paper whiteinflated flour sack. We'd stretch it across the road and hide behindthe honeysuckles along the fence. When the traffic would come, forfear that it was a wire stretched across the road, they would stop.Because of the white flat. When they gotstopped, we would turn looseof the white bag and it would go gloop, gloopety gloop across theirwindshield. Then we'd give them the razzberry on the old brasstrumpet and run for the sinkhole. Then they'd go on.
When I was young in the early elementary, most every Halloween night,you'd hear the fifty gallon oil barrels or drums rambling down thestreet toward the river. (Town Hilll) This was an annual thing.They were taken from the Ford Garage. This went alongwith thetypical soaping of windows.
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| Person ID |
I21829 |
Moon Anderson Family History & Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
15 Feb 2015 |
| Father |
James Riley Miller, b. 30 Jan 1893, d. 1958, Hardin, Breckinridge, Kentucky, USA |
| Mother |
Nora Pearl Dowell, b. 1896, d. 19 Jun 1980, Fayette, Kentucky |
| Married |
14 Mar 1914 |
| Family ID |
F4971 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Dr. Carl Fletcher Lamar, Phd., b. 7 Oct 1914, Hawesville, Hancock, Kentucky, USA , d. 11 Oct 1990, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA |
| Married |
10 Nov 1939 |
Parsonage Brandenburg Methodist Church, |
| Children |
| | 1. Don Miller Lamar, b. 19 Jan 1951, Jefferson, Kentucky , d. 21 Apr 1997 |
| | 2. Denis Carl Lamar, b. 1953, Lexington, KY , d. 1954, Brandenburg, KY |
| | 3. Carla Jane Lamar |
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| Last Modified |
3 Dec 2017 |
| Family ID |
F5818 |
Group Sheet |
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