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Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby

Birth	:	1 Jul 1877 Polk County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	3 Nov 1910 Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA
Burial	:	Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate	:	45.2125015, -102.9067001
Description	:	Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877 - 1910) met a family of Germans, the Schmale family, after they had arrived in New Orleans, traveled up the Mississippi River to Springfield, Missouri, where Adele Schmale caught Ben's admiring eye. Adele married Ben, and the couple had 6 children together: Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill. In early 1910, the Ruby Family (the Patriarch Christian Ruby and Matriarch Julianna Ruby), traveled from Wisconsin to South Dakoka by train. They brought their daughter Rose, two sons Fred and Ben, and Ben's wife Adele with their six small children, the oldest was only seven years old.... Read More	Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877 - 1910) met a family of Germans, the Schmale family, after they had arrived in New Orleans, traveled up the Mississippi River to Springfield, Missouri, where Adele Schmale caught Ben's admiring eye. Adele married Ben, and the couple had 6 children together: Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill. In early 1910, the Ruby Family (the Patriarch Christian Ruby and Matriarch Julianna Ruby), traveled from Wisconsin to South Dakoka by train. They brought their daughter Rose, two sons Fred and Ben, and Ben's wife Adele with their six small children, the oldest was only seven years old. When the train arrived in Lemmon, South Dakota, it was a hundred-mile trip by horse and wagon to Perkins County where they planned to homestead. The Ruby Family Elders didn't stay long enough to build a house and prove their claim. They moved to Washington State where their daughter May lived. Their daughter Rose filed her claim, but she didn't build either; rather, she married and moved to California with her husband. The two sons, brothers Ben and Fred, stayed on their homesteads and set to work building a one-room sod house for Ben and Adele and the six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill. Later that year in 1910, Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later Adele married Ben's brother Fred. The couple gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in the sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave. Fred and Adele raised all 12 children together on the Ruby Family homestead. *Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children

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Where is Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby's memorial?
Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby's memorial is located at: Ruby Cemetery, Perkins County, USA.
When did Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby death?
Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby death on 3 Nov 1910 in Zeona, Perkins County, South Dakota, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Carl Benjamin “Ben” Ruby's memorial?
Latitude: 45.2125015
Longitude: -102.9067001

Family Members:

Parent

Julianna Biery Ruby

(1858 - 1936)

Spouse

Adele Schmale Ruby

(1878 - 1954)

Siblings

Richard Frederick “Fred” Ruby

(1884 - 1955)

Children

Carl Paul Ruby

(1905 - 1991)

(unknow - unknow)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Ruby Cemetery
Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2125015, -102.9067001

2. Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
Zeona, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1937800, -102.9178200

3. Date Cemetery
Bison, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.3111000, -102.6311035

4. Mudd Butte Cemetery
Mud Butte, Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 44.9941100, -102.8607000

5. Ben Ash Cemetery
Maurine, Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 45.0221000, -102.7307900

6. Hoover Cemetery
Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1094900, -103.2791110

7. Plum Draw Cemetery
Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 44.9216995, -102.9578018

8. Prairie City Cemetery
Prairie City, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.5307190, -102.8171290

9. Sorenson Family Cemetery
Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 44.8766560, -102.9135050

10. Slim Buttes Cemetery
Reva, Harding County, USA
Coordinate: 45.5452030, -103.0336800

11. Slim Buttes Battlefield Monument
Reva, Harding County, USA
Coordinate: 45.5434110, -103.1247460

12. Saint Anthony Cemetery
Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1838989, -103.4263992

13. Henry Bingaman Cemetery
Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.5886002, -102.9499969

14. Opal Community Cemetery
Opal, Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 44.8922910, -102.5329490

15. Wakeman Cemetery
Redig, Harding County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2714005, -103.5014038

16. South Grand River Cemetery
Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.6321983, -102.9997025

17. Backes Cemetery
Opal, Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 44.8999240, -102.4921240

18. Scion Cemetery
Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.6680984, -102.9068985

19. Bison Cemetery
Bison, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.5452995, -102.4563980

20. Fairpoint Cemetery
Fairpoint, Meade County, USA
Coordinate: 44.7486000, -102.7855988

21. Chance Cemetery
Chance, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.4142530, -102.2728120

22. Saint Eulalia Cemetery
Harding County, USA
Coordinate: 45.7178001, -103.0635986

23. Fredlund Cemetery
Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.7188988, -102.6585999

24. Holland Center Cemetery
Lodgepole, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate: 45.7347000, -102.7246400