Ruby Lucille Mitchell

Ruby Lucille Mitchell

• Father: (?) Mitchell
• Mother: Susie Roberta Cotton b. 10 September 1880, d. 11 December 1966

• Ruby Lucille Mitchell was born on 7 October 1900 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
• She was known as Lucille.
• Thomas Armstrong Stover and Susie Roberta Cotton appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ruby Lucille Mitchell. Also in the household were sons Bradie (age 13), John 4) and Lynn (1), not yet recorded.
• She married John Earl Whitfield, son of Thomas Jefferson Whitfield and Emma Elizabeth Cain, circa 1917.
• John Earl Whitfield and Ruby Lucille Mitchell appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Richards, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ruby Mae Whitfield.
• John Earl Whitfield and Ruby Lucille Mitchell appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Richards, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ruby Mae Whitfield and Norma Earle Whitfield.
• She officially witnessed the death of John Earl Whitfield on 14 April 1942 at 1611 West 10th Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
• Ruby Lucille Mitchell became a widow at the 14 April 1942 death of her husband John Earl Whitfield.
• The following appeared on 12 October 1966 in the Hobbs News-Sun: (Hobbs Lea General Hospital) Patients admitted Oct. 10: . . . Ruby Lucille Coursey, Star Rt. A.
• Ruby Lucille Mitchell died in June 1971 at age 70 in Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico.

• Last Edited: 9 Aug 2012