When Ruby Pearl Kinard was born on 22 December 1911, in Caledonia, Union, Arkansas, United States, her father, Joseph Henry Kinard, was 40 and her mother, Beulah Exer Telford, was 26. She married Steven Peter McLeod on 12 October 1933, in El Dorado, Union, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in El Dorado, Union, Arkansas, United States in 1935 and Garner Township, Union, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 28 October 1984, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Caledonia Cemetery, Caledonia, Union, Arkansas, United States.