Ruby Lee Gartman

Ruby Lee Gartman

Female 1906 - 1978  (72 years)
Person ID: I8572  "Baxter"  |  Last Modified: 8 Oct 2022


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  • Name Ruby Lee Gartman 
    Gender Female 
    Birth 15 Aug 1906  Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 9 Dec 1978  Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
  • Parents

    Family ID: F2802 -:|:-  Group Sheet  -:|:-  Family Chart  
    Father Miles Tunney Gartman (ID:I4678)
              b. 29 Jan 1877, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 21 May 1931, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Viola Boothe (ID:I8570)
              b. 23 Apr 1887, Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 19 May 1972, Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 18 Mar 1903 
  • Other Personal Events

    Siblings 6 brothers and 2 sisters 
  • Event Map

    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Aug 1906 - Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 Dec 1978 - Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Source Citations

    1. [FIND-A-GRAVE] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62073851/ruby-lee-chancellor.
      Ruby Lee Gartman was the oldest daughter of Miles Tunney Gartman and Viola Boothe Gartman. She was one of nine children.
      She married John T Frost in 1943. I believe he was a pilot in the military and died in a plane crash in 1962. She did not have any children. She later married Allen Thurman Chancellor.

      She told the story once that when she was a teenager, her and a group of other girls went to a carnival and went to see a fortune teller, "just for fun". I think she said the lady read her palm. Anyway, the fortune teller told her that she would be married twice. Ruby stated that she did not believe in divorce and the woman replied that she wouldn't divorce but that it would be "an act of God". She then told her that she would not have any kids of her own but would marry a man with three kids.
      Aunt Ruby did not take any of it seriously but sure enough everything came to pass just as the fortune teller had foretold. She did marry twice, the first husband died, and the second had three kids.Ruby also never had any kids of her own.

      She lived in a house on Alabama Street, almost my whole life until shortly before her death, when she had moved in with her brother Joe at their old "homeplace" on Odom Road where they all were born.
      She died of a heart attack in her sleep.

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