When Ruby Evelyn Ashcraft was born on 20 January 1907, in Dawson, Navarro, Texas, United States, her father, Rufus Buelson Ashcraft, was 29 and her mother, Rosa Lee Pierson, was 29. She married Wayne Erwin Darwin on 23 March 1942, in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Navarro, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 1, McLennan, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 3 September 1974, at the age of 67, and was buried in Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States.