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Ruth Lyles

1910-1995 · Louisiana
Born 1910, Cameron, Milam County, Texas
Died 1995
Father: Wesley Broadwell Lyles
Mother: Julia Hinton
Children include Virginia

Ruth Lyles was born on 8 October 1910 at Cameron, in Milam County, Texas. She was a daughter of Wesley Broadwell Lyles and Julia Hinton, both from the Wesley Chapel community southwest of Ruston, in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Her father was farming at Cameron that year, and she was the third of her mother's children. By 1934 her parents were back in the Wesley Chapel community. The 1950 census gives Louisiana as her birthplace. Her brothers were Paul Harris Lyles and Lesley Wesley Lyles, and her sister was Maurine Elizabeth Lyles, later Haughton.

She married Bradford Allen "Jerry" Cryer and raised a large family with him, first in Milam County, Texas, and later at San Angelo. In April 1950 she was 39, keeping house at number 413 for her husband and seven children, the youngest a baby born the previous October.

Her children were Evelyn, Barbara Ann, Virginia Lou, Thomas Wesley, Mary Jane, Gary Allen, Dennis and Steven. Jerry died in 1973. Ruth died in Bell County on 21 May 1995, aged 84, and is buried beside him at Friendship Cemetery near Davilla.

Sources

1950 United States census, Texas, Tom Green County, San Angelo, enumeration district 226-3, sheet 6, lines 21 to 30; National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov.
Find a Grave memorial 13423134, stone photograph.
Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, delayed certificate of birth no. 123, Ruth Lyles, Milam County, filed 15 May 1943 under H. B. 614 (1939); Milam County delayed birth certificates 1875 to 1943, FamilySearch film 007614719.
Obituary of Virginia Lou Keele, 2018 ("Jerry and Ruth (Lyles) Cryer"); 1950 United States census, San Angelo, ED 226-3, sheet 6; Find a Grave memorial 13423137, with family links to memorials 90351183 and 35736522; Texas delayed certificate of birth for Ruth Lyles, Milam County, filed 15 May 1943 (FamilySearch film 007614719)
Texas Department of Health, certificate of death, Bell County, state file no. 89957, 1973; FamilySearch, Texas Deaths 1890-1977, image ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GY14-WKYJ.

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