Ruby
(Thurston)
Faith Davis
(1896-1963)
Ruby (Thurston) Faith Davis was born in 1893 in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the daughter of Charles and Emma (Minerd) Thurston.
In 1919, Ruby was living in Southwest, Westmoreland County.
At the age of 19, in 1915, Ruby married Ross W. Faith (1893- ? ). He was the son of Mary A. Faith.
They had at least two children -- Emma Jean Faith and James T. Faith.
When the federal census was taken in 1920, the Faiths made their home on Church Street in Mt. Pleasant. Ross was employed as a salesman in a grocery store.
By 1930, Ross's career was progressing, and they had moved to Dallas, TX, where he was working as district superintendent of a grocery chain. Their home was on Hampton Road. Ross's mother Mary A. Faith lived with them that year. In 1932, the Faiths traveled from Dallas to Mt. Pleasant for the annual Thurston reunion.
Circa 1940, when her sister Margaret Cramer died, Ruby lived in Waxahachie, TX.
She later married John E. Davis. Circa 1952, she made her home in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, at the time of death of her brother James Loren Thurston.
The Davises resided in St. Cloud, FL circa 1963. Ruby died at the age of 67 in St. Cloud on Oct. 21, 1963. Her remains were returned to Mt. Pleasant for burial at the Middle Presbyterian Cemetery in Middle Churches.
Son James T. Faith lived in San Clemente, CA in the early 1960s.
Daughter Emma Jean Faith married R.H. Adams. They made their home in St. Petersburg, FL in 1963.
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