Ruby Lenore Smith (1916–2003) • FamilySearch

Ruby Lenore Smith

11 June 1916–8 March 2003 (Age 86)
Bigbend, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States

The Life of Ruby Lenore

When Ruby Lenore Smith was born on 11 June 1916, in Bigbend, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States, her father, Seymour Francis Smith, was 26 and her mother, Anna Burrows, was 21. She married Earl Starling Holbert SR in May 1934, in Grantsville, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Sheridan Magisterial District, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 8 March 2003, in Panama City, Bay, Florida, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

Spouse and Children

Parents and Siblings

Earl Starling Holbert SR

1907–1980

Ruby Lenore Smith

1916–2003

Marriage: May 1934

Benjamin Francis Holbert

1942–2003

Earl Starling Jr. Holbert

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Spouse and Children

Earl Starling Holbert SR

Male1907–1980Male

Ruby Lenore Smith

Female1916–2003Female

MARRIAGE
May 1934
Grantsville, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States

children

(2)

Benjamin Francis Holbert

Male1942–2003Male

Earl Starling Jr. Holbert

Male–Male

Parents and Siblings

Seymour Francis Smith

Male1890–1957Male

Anna Burrows

Female1895–1951Female

siblings

(17)

Isaac T. Watemon Smith

Male1912–1928Male

Ruby Lenore Smith

Female1916–2003Female

Ruid Mildred Smith

Female1917–1917Female

Ruby Smith

Female1917–Female

Mildred Rea Smith

Female1918–1919Female

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World Events (8)

1917

Age 1

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

1917 · Joining the First World War

Age 1

Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.

1941

Age 25

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Smith

Ruby

Lenore

English: occupational name for a worker in metal, from Middle English smith (Old English smið, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Metalworking was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents were perhaps the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is the most frequent of all American surnames; it has also absorbed, by assimilation and translation, cognates and equivalents from many other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 ).

Possible Related Names

Blacksmith

Gowan

Nesmith

Smithe

Smithson

Smyth

Smythe

Sources (3)

Ruth Smith in household of Seymour Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
Ruby L Holbert in household of Earl S Holbert, "United States Census, 1940"
Ruby Lenora Smith in entry for Earl Starling Jr. Holbert and Lenna Faye Cox, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"

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