When Ruby Lee Ashcraft was born on 19 August 1906, in Alabama, United States, her father, Henry Harvey Ashcraft, was 22 and her mother, Anna Cornelia Blanton, was 26. She married Werner Bernard Pohlman on 31 December 1933, in Santa Rosa, Florida, United States. She lived in Bratt, Escambia, Florida, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 47, Escambia, Florida, United States in 1940. She died on 13 March 1982, in Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bratt, Escambia, Florida, United States.