When Ruby Nell Salisbury was born on 8 May 1886, in Houston, Tennessee, United States, her father, Barton Vial Salisbury, was 37 and her mother, Martha Christina Rauscher, was 29. She married Morris Cooper Miller on 18 September 1919. She lived in Civil District 1, Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 19 August 1938, in Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Erin, Houston, Tennessee, United States.
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
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