When Ruby was four, her mother died of complications from a miscarriage after she was knocked off a moving streetcar in 1911 by a drunkard.Callahan 2012, p. 6. Two weeks after the funeral, her father joined a work crew digging the Panama Canal and was never seen again by his family.Madsen 1994, p. 9.
when ruby was four her mother died of complications from a miscarriage after she was knocked off a moving streetcar in 1911 by a drunkardcallahan 2012 p 6 two weeks after the funeral her father joined a work crew digging the panama canal and was never seen again by his familymadsen 1994 p 9