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Ruby Estelle Eppes

25 Mar 1887 – 9 Jan 1913

Birth	25 Mar 1887
Death	9 Jan 1913
Cemetery	Sterling City Cemetery Sterling City , Sterling County , Texas , USA
Added by	Rob Walker on 18 Jul 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53254552

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1 June 1900 - US Census - Junction, Kimble, Texas Household .....Role .........Sex .....Age Birthplace Birth Date Emma Epps ...Head ........Female 41 ..Texas .......Nov 1859 (widowed) Carrie Finney Daughter ..Female 20 ..Texas .......Mar 1880 Allian Epps ....Daughter ..Female 18 ..Texas .......Apr 1882 Ned Epps .......Son ...........Male ....17 ..Texas .......Aug 1883 Rubie E Epps .Daughter ..Female 13 ..Texas .......Mar 1887 Anna S Porter Mother ......Female 75 ..Vermont ..Apr 1825 (widowed) Ed Finney .......Son-in-law Male ....21 ..Texas .......Feb 1879 2 May 1910 - US Census - Justice Precinct 2, Sterling, Texas Household ..........Role ............Sex ......Age Birthplace John W Schooler Head ...........Male ....49 ..Kentucky Emma Schooler ..Wife ............Female 48 ..Texas Ashe Schooler ....Son ..............Male ....23 ..Texas James Schooler .Son ..............Male ....22 ..Texas William Schooler Son ..............Male ....20 ..Texas Robert Schooler Son ...............Male ....19 ..Texas Lorena Schooler Daughter ......Female 16 ..Texas John Schooler ....Son ...............Male ....14 ..Texas Sam Schooler .....Son ...............Male ....12 ..Texas Mollie Schooler ..Daughter ......Female 10 ..Texas Lee Schooler ......Son ................Male ....9 ....Texas Pertine Schooler Daughter .......Female 7 ....Texas Ruby Eppes ........Stepdaughter Female 23 ..Texas Info based on Epps, Epes Genealogy & History & Related Families, 1974 by Edna Finney Allison Ruby taught school awhile in Concho County. Ruby was quite an unique, wonderful person. She came to visit mother, Carrie, while we were living in Ballinger, Texas. Father, Edgar Finney, was gone a lot of the time doing stone-mason work on buildings. So mother, Carrie, was alone with us children most of the time. Mother wrote Ruby that she was really afraid as there had been a window-peeper. (People did not have blinds as now, but did have thin lace curtains on the windows.) Ruby came to see us -- she always carried when traveling a small six-shooter in a pocket of her full skirt. The first night after she arrived, the window peeper came to the window. Aunt Ruby just raised the window and as he ran she fired at his feet. So there was no more trouble from that source. Ruby said that she could have shot him, but a good scare would do as much good. Ruby then taught school and music as a governess on a ranch in far west Texas. As the lady at the ranch did not keep the other children out of the room as she had been requested to do, when one child was being taught music, Ruby quit teaching there, and saddled up her horse to make her way back to the ranch south of Sterling. This was too long a trip for one day, and there were no roads, not even dirt roads in much of west Texas. She had to stay all night in ranch pasture and had only her saddle blanket for covering. Writer, Edna (Finney) Allison, had the privilege of getting to attend school half of one year with Ruby as teacher at the ranch south of Sterling City. One day Ruby had to drive the buggy to San Angelo for a teachers' meeting. Writer (about 8 years of age), had the pleasure of going with her. She got a room at the hotel that stood by the Oakes Street Bridge at the time. Aunt Ruby had to pull the dresser up to the door to put against the door as the lock was broken. We had the familiar pitcher with wash basin in the the room. Many cowboys were going up and down the stairway. One time while we were visiting at the ranch house, Ruby played the organ for a community dance, with many waltzes, "put-your-little-foot", and square dances. There were many cowboys in west Texas then, but very few women. The cowboys danced with the little girls of eight and ten years old, and then if not enough partners they took another cowboy for a partner. Ruby always set traps like the boys did. She had that little six-shooter to kill cayotes(sic) with. She also killed many rattlesnakes, and sent skins of rattlesnakes, and had a belt and purse made from them. They also collected from each cayote(sic) killed by sending his scalp with ears to the state government. Ruby died as the result of a severe case of the flu.

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