Ruby Dawson Houston

Ruby Dawson Houston

• Father: Benjamin Franklin Houston b. 11 September 1852, d. 26 May 1932
• Mother: Mary Ann Elliott b. 9 December 1853, d. 25 January 1898

• Ruby Dawson Houston was born on 3 October 1886 in Tennessee.
• Benjamin Franklin Houston appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at 651 West 6th Avenue. Other members of the household included Ruby Dawson Houston. Remainder of household has yet to be recorded.
• She married Herold James Weiler, son of Johann Ludwig Weiler and Ellen Callahan, on 30 December 1908 in Navarro County, Texas.
• Herold James Weiler and Ruby Dawson Houston appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at 211 North [????] Street next door to his father.. Other members of the household included John Eugene Weiler.
• Herold James Weiler and Ruby Dawson Houston appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at 647 West Collin. Other members of the household included John Eugene Weiler, Eleanor Marie Weiler and Herold James Weiler Jr.
• Herold James Weiler and Ruby Dawson Houston appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, at 1810 Filmore Street. Other members of the household included John Eugene Weiler, Eleanor Marie Weiler and Herold James Weiler Jr. Enumerator for the area was Mrs. Ruby Weiler.
• The following appeared on 26 June 1943 in the Corsicana Daily Sun: Major and Mrs. John E. Weiler, and children, John, Jr. and Louis[e], were spend-the-night guests in the home of their aunt, Mrs. W. D. Fountain, on Thursday en route from Austin where they visited in the home of Major Weiler's parents, Col. and Mrs. Harold Weiler, of Ft. Knox, Ky. where Major Weiler has been stationed as executive officer of the 87th Armored Field Artillery Battalion since April.
       Prior to his Kentucky assignment, Major Weiler had spent 15 months with the armed forces in Panama.
       Lieut Harold J. Weiler of the U.S.N. Air Service, and until recently a fighter pilot on an aircraft carried in the African theater of war, is now on duty in Ordnance Procurement headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Weiler has joined her husband in the capital city.
       Major John E. Weiler and Lieut. Harold J. Weiler, Jr. are native Corsicanans, and are both the sons of Col. and Mrs. Harold J. Weiler of Austin.
• Ruby Dawson Houston became a widow at the 18 November 1945 death of her husband Herold James Weiler.
• In her later years, Ruby Weiler lived in Austin, where her grandchildren visited her.
• The SSDI lists Austin, Travis County, Texas, as the last residence of record of Ruby Dawson Houston.
• Ruby Dawson Houston died on 26 October 1982 at age 96 in Travis County, Texas.
• She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 6 Nov 2012

• Charts: Descendants of WEILER Balthasar & Anna Walter