Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
Spouses
Notes for Jim HUNTER
Roy Hunter writes that he doesn’t know anything about his father. His father left him and his mother when Roy was 18 months old. His mother was sick with Typhoid Fever, he doesn’t know ehre they were living but Uncle Charley (Charles Hugh Mayberry Stone) came and got them in some kind of a wagon and took them home with him. Uncle Charley and Aunt Maggie took care of them and nursed Ruth back to health. Later Ruth married Tom Krieder and Tom was the only father Roy ever knew.--HSW Nov 12, 1980.
Note by HNS notes for Jim HUNTER
Family Group page information from family records and Jim Hunter, West Plains, Missouri. Page dated September 21, 1980.
Roy Hunter and his sone Robert was here on Monday. Roy had a picture of a funeral of a child. He said it was a sister of his, older than him. The picture was so bad, it could not be copied. There was a small casket being carried by 4 girls, dressed in white, Ruth, Jim Hunter and his father were among the people in the picture. Roy does not know where the picture was taken but presumes it was at Ramona, where he was born. He doesn’t know where Jim Hunter’s father lived, but had heard that he walked 20 miles to see him when he was born.
Among other things Roy could remember his mother telling him was:
* When Ruth was about 18 years old, she was hit by a train, while driving her horse and buggy near the house they lived in, in Leroy. Her back was hurt very bad.
* Roy said his mother cooked for the 101 Ranch at one time and William Stone (Helen Stone Woodruff’s father) would come and get Roy for a day or so at a time.
* Roy said they lived in Tonkawaq for some time in one of Uncle Jim’s houses. Ruth cooked for the threshing machine and later cooked out at the school in Tonkawa, that was at that time Military. He proved his age for Social Security by his school record at Tonkawa.
* Roy’s mother told him that my father, William, would leave home every now and then and when he returned he would always bring his mother (Ruth) some kind of a dish. Said Grandma would wake up and come down stairs and a dish would be on the table and she would say, “Well I see Bill is back home.” -- Helen Woodruff -- January 24, 1981.
Roy Hunter and his sone Robert was here on Monday. Roy had a picture of a funeral of a child. He said it was a sister of his, older than him. The picture was so bad, it could not be copied. There was a small casket being carried by 4 girls, dressed in white, Ruth, Jim Hunter and his father were among the people in the picture. Roy does not know where the picture was taken but presumes it was at Ramona, where he was born. He doesn’t know where Jim Hunter’s father lived, but had heard that he walked 20 miles to see him when he was born.
Among other things Roy could remember his mother telling him was:
* When Ruth was about 18 years old, she was hit by a train, while driving her horse and buggy near the house they lived in, in Leroy. Her back was hurt very bad.
* Roy said his mother cooked for the 101 Ranch at one time and William Stone (Helen Stone Woodruff’s father) would come and get Roy for a day or so at a time.
* Roy said they lived in Tonkawaq for some time in one of Uncle Jim’s houses. Ruth cooked for the threshing machine and later cooked out at the school in Tonkawa, that was at that time Military. He proved his age for Social Security by his school record at Tonkawa.
* Roy’s mother told him that my father, William, would leave home every now and then and when he returned he would always bring his mother (Ruth) some kind of a dish. Said Grandma would wake up and come down stairs and a dish would be on the table and she would say, “Well I see Bill is back home.” -- Helen Woodruff -- January 24, 1981.