Ruby Josephine Eubanks ^{3 4 5 6}

   Another name for Ruby was Jo Eubanks.

   FamilySearch ID: L61T-HN9.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Military: WWII Entered in GA; Y1 USNR.

2. Census in 1930 in Rome, Floyd, GA. ⁷ The 1930 census recorded owning a $1750 home at 72 Porter Street: Thos. J. Eubanks, building contractor, 57, living with wife Edna J., 48; son Ira, carpenter, 19; son Asa, 15; and daughter Josephine, 8. Everyone and their parents were born in Georgia except Thos'. mother in Alabama.

3. Census in 1940 in Rome, Floyd, GA. ⁸ The 1940 census recorded renting at 417 Harper Avenue: Thor. J. Eubauks [sic, as indexed due to poor handwriting which is Thos. J. Eubanks], widowed, building carpenter, 67, living with daughter R. Josephine, secretary to insurance agency man, 18. They were born in Georgia and lived in the same place in 1935.

4. Newspaper: The Courier: Marriage of Claire LeRoy Beecher and Josephine Eubanks, 21 Dec 1947, Waterloo, Black Hawk, IA. ¹ Dinsdale -- The home of Mrs. Mark Blanford Eubanks, Rome, Ga., was the scene Thanksgiving afternoon of the marriage of Miss Josephine Eubanks, only daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Edna Stinson Eubanks, and Claire LeRoy Beecher, Atlanta, formerly of Dinsdale. The groom is the second son of the Merrill E. Beechers, Dinsdale. Rev. Era P. Eubanks, uncle of the bridge, read the ceremony. Miss Vivian Humphrey, Atlanta, was maid of honor. Mrs. Eubanks gave her niece in marriage. The best man was E. Ray Ritch, Atlanta. Following a holiday visit with the groom's parents at Dinsdale, the couple will be at home at 1971 Cascade road, Atlanta, Ga.

5. Census in 1950 in Des Moines, Polk, IA. ⁹ The 1950 census recorded at 1723 East 32nd Street: Claire L. Beecher, industrial engineer for rubber manufacturer, 27, living with wife Josephine, 28, and daughter Sharon L., 1. Claire was born in Iowa, Josephine in Georgia, and Sharon in Iowa.

6. Newspaper: Atlanta Journal: Mom, Babies in Fire Fail To Improve, 14 Jan 1952, Atlanta, Fulton, GA. ¹⁰ Mom, Babies In Fire Fail To Improve
Mrs. Josephine Beecher who heroically rescued her two children from flames which killed her husband Saturday and destroyed their Briarcliff Rd. home, was listed in critical condition Sunday by Grady Hospital physicians. Her three-year-old daughter, Sharon Lee, who seemed on the road to recovery, was also listed in critical condition. Nine-month-old Thomas Merrill Beecher, who was saved when Mrs. Beecher kicked out a glass door and carried him to safety, aiso was in poor condition. Mrs. Beecher suffered burns over 90 per cent of her body. The Beechers' furnace was out of order and they had been using a laundry heater in the house.

7. Cause of Death: Josephine and her son Thomas died in an Atlanta hospital due to a fire in their home that killed her husband Claire., 15 Jan 1952, Atlanta, Fulton, GA.

8. Newspaper: Rome News-Tribune: Mrs. Beecher, Victim of Fire, Dies in Atlanta, 15 Jan 1952, Rome, Floyd, GA. ³ The heroic story of a young mother rescuing her two young children from their blazing Atlanta home early Saturday, ended today in the death of the mother, a former Roman. The father perished in the flames.

Mrs. Josephine Eubanks Beecher died in an Atlanta hospital at 11:30 a. m. today of the severe burns she received in the fire.The condition of nine-months-old Thomas Merrill Beecher, saved when his mother kicked out a glass door, was described as improved today. The three-year-old daughter, Sharon Lee, was in fair condition and apparently she was on the way to recovery.

Claire Leroy Beecher, a Lockheed Aircraft Company engineer, died in the flames which consumed his surburban Atlanta home, 2116 Briarcliff Road, N. E., early Saturday.

Funeral services for the young couple, who both served in the Navy during World War II and who were wed in 1947, will be held at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday at the chapel of H. M. Patterson and Son Funeral Home in Atlanta. The Rev. Earl Strickland will officiate and interment will be in Trayer, Iowa.

Mrs. Beecher is survived, in addition to the children, by three brothers, Thomas J. Eubanks Jr., Asa and Ira Eubanks, all of Rome. She was preceded in death by her parents several years ago.

In addition to the children, Mrs. Beecher is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Beecher, Trayer, Iowa; two brothers, Wesley and Richard Beecher, both of Trayer.

9. Newspaper: Iowa City Press-Citizen: Girl, 3, Left Alone After Fire, Will Come to Iowa, 26 Jan 1952, Iowa City, Johnson, IA. ¹¹ ATLANTA (AP) -- A three-year-old girl, who still does know that a fire which burned her severely also took the lives of her parents and baby brother, will fly alone today to reach her grandparent' home in Traer, Iowa.

Red-haired, blue-eyed Sharon Lee Beecher will be discharged from a hospital today. She was burned in a fire which destroyed her home and took the lives of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Beecher, and her 10-month-old brother. Thomas Merrill Beecher, January 12.

Members of the Shrine mounted patrol of Atlanta's Yaarab temple learned that Sharon had no relatives here. They made arrangements to send her to her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Beecher, in Traer.

Sharon will leave Atlanta at 5:55 p. m. (CST) today in the care of an airlines stewardess. Shriners and their wives will meet her in Chicago, keep her overnight and put her on a westbound plane Sunday morning.

"She's a shy little thing," said Shriner Fred Cannon. "We didn't want to frighten her more so we gave her a fez to play with all day Friday so she would not be afraid when Shriners come out along the route to help her."

Her father was an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He was burned to death in the fire. The mother kicked a panel of glass from the front door to carry her children to safety. She died two days later and the baby shortly afterwards.

Ruby married Claire Leroy Beecher, son of Merrill Edgar Beecher and Albina Stella Cizek, on 27 Nov 1947 in Rome, Floyd, GA.^{1 2} (Claire Leroy Beecher was born on 19 Feb 1923 in Dinsdale, Tama, IA,^{2 12 13 14} died on 12 Jan 1952 in Atlanta, DeKalb, GA ^{12 14 15} and was buried in Reinbeck: Grant Twp. Cemetery, Tama, IA ^{12 14}.)