Ruby Eudora Anderson ^{14,15,26,633,634}

  General Notes:

California Death Index.

BEATTY RUBY EUDORA
Birth Date: 04/05/1895
Mother Maiden: WINCH
Father last: ANDERSON
Sex: F
Birth Place: NORTH DAKOTA
Death Place: SANTA CLARA
Death Date: 10/24/1989
SSN: 551-10-7919
age: 94 yrs

  Research Notes:

Ruby moved from Saskatchewan to Oregon in the spring of 1927. (Silverton, Oregon)
They took the bus from Portland to Silverton. 15 miles from Salem, OR.
Dad went to work for the Silver Falls Lumber Co.
In the spring of 1928 the mill shut down and never opened again. There were 500 men out of work. The family moved then to California, they found work thinning fruit North of Sacramento. The lived in a small tent and then moved to Sunnyvale, Ca where they worked in a fruit cannery and also in a cannery in San Jose. The eventully moved to Wood Lake, Ca until 1931 where Roy worked in an orange grove year round until they left in December of 1930..

Roy and Ruby moved from California to an 80 acre farm in Oklahoma in 1930, 27 miles from Antlers, Oklahoma.. between Ft. Smith Arkansas and Antlers. They grew mostly corn.. They had a well but no running water or electricity. Dad and Ruby seperated about 1933. Dad (Roy Hamilton) went to Canada where he worked for his brother Bert.. He took the kids to Canada about 1934. Thomas worked in a saw Mill in Sask. on a small island abt. 15 miles from Sturgis, Sask and 20 miles North of Sturgis. There were no farms there except maybe one.
((interview with Thomas Roy Hamilton, Dec 26, 2003)

  Noted events in her life were:

• Immigration, 1926, from Canada. ⁶³⁶

• Residence, 1930, Lemon Cove, Tulare Co, Calif. ⁶³⁶

Ruby married Roy Thomas Hamilton, son of Thomas Hamilton and Unknown, on 29 Jul 1913 in Buchanan, Saskatchewan.⁶³⁶ (Roy Thomas Hamilton was born on 2 May 1888 in Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada,⁶³⁶ died on 29 Apr 1965 in California and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Gardens, Grass Valley, Calif..)

Ruby next married Fred Beatty, son of Beatty and Gelinas. (Fred Beatty was born on 31 Jul 1889 in Michigan ⁶³⁵ and died on 11 Sep 1985 in Santa Clara, CA ⁶³⁵.)