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Ruby Lee Smith

	Parents
	Alexander Washington Smith Jr. 12/25/1884 - 11/1/1926	Mattie Eula Howard 6/11/1894 - 9/15/1971

About Ruby Lee Smith

Ruby Lee Smith
2/4/1919 - 1/21/2017

Ruby Lee Smith was born on February 4, 1919 in Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia and died on January 21, 2017 in Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia. She lived to be 98 years old.

Children:
Shirley Drinkwater (1936)
Patricia Ann Drinkwater (1942)
Montez Drinkwater (1945)
Willie Dean Drinkwater (1951-1991)

Census	1/29/1920	Millford, Militia District 957 GA (Baker County)	about 11 months old
dwelling#261, household#262 - Elick (Alex) W. Smith (age33), Mattie Smith (28), Phil W. Smith (7), Lula Smith (6 3mo.) Girtrud Smith (3 3mo.) Ruby L. Smith (10 mo.). They rent their house. All born in GA. Elick is a farmer. Elick & Mattie can read & write.
Census	4/4/1930	Dickey town GA (Calhoun County)	11 yrs old
dwelling# 22 hoesehold#23 -Mattie Smith (age 35), Phil Smith (17), Gertrude Smith (13), Ruby Smith (11), Lee Smith (9), Odell Smith (9), Amil M. Smith (5), Jessie Ruth Smith (3), (niece) Virginia Turner (15) & (nephew) James Turner (14). They rent their home, Mattie is a widow, All were born GA. Mattie is a farmer, Phill is a farm laborer. Gertrude, Lee & Ruby attend school and Gertrude, Ruby, Virginia & James can read & write.
Census	4/9/1940	Militia District 1123, Morgan GA (Calhoun County)	21 yrs old
page 5 -#45 - W.L. Drinkwater (age 28), Ruby (21), Shirley (4). All were born in GA
Newspaper	1/21/2017	Morgan GA (Calhoun County)	98 yrs old
Ruby Smith Drinkwater, 97, of Morgan, GA, passed away January 21, 2017 at Morningside Assisted Living in Columbus, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 11:00 am at New Light Free Will Baptist Church, Morgan, GA. Rev. Watson McKemie, Rev. Mike McAfee and Rev. Joe Murkerson will officiate. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Born February 4, 1919, to Alexander Washington Smith, Jr. and Mattie Eula Howard Smith in the Patmos Community, in Baker County Georgia. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Willie Lehman Drinkwater, son, Willie Dean Drinkwater, daughter, Shirley Kelly, grandson, Charles Edward Cosby, sister, Lula Virginia Smith, brother, Phil Smith and sister, Lila Gertrude Jackson. Survivors include her daughters Patricia Myhand (Glenn) of Columbus, GA, and Montez Hammack (Shep) of Dunwoody, GA, four sisters Lee Turner of Shellman, GA, Odell Turner of Shellman, GA, Annie Maude Paul of Edison, GA, and Jessie Ruth "Dot" Milner of Dickey, GA, five grandchildren Nancy Grajewski, Linda Robitscher, Christina Payne, Terrance Paul Kelly, and Kenneth Elliott Cosby, and nine great-grandchildren, Nicholas Cosby, Isabell Cosby, Matthew Grajewski, Christina Grajewski, Walker Robitscher, Emily Payne, Morgan Payne, Ethan Kelly, Ashley Kelly and six nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the church's social hall. Mrs. Drinkwater was a long time faithful member of New Light Free Will Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to New Light Free Will Baptist Church, c/o Joyce Bryant, 500 Hamilton Ave., Cuthbert, GA, 39846 or Gentiva Hospice, 100 Brookstone Centre Pkwy., Columbus, GA, 31904. Mathews Funeral Home Albany, GA

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Age	Date	Event
1	1920	Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed.
5	1924	Peach County is formed.

Age	Date	Event
4	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
4	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
5	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
7	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
8	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
9	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
17	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
19	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
27	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
28	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
32	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
33	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
38	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
41	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
43	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
46	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
52	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
55	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
56	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
60	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
62	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
67	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
70	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
71	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
75	1994	The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
78	1997	First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.
79	1998	Construction begins on the International Space Station.
81	2000	Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.
85	2004	March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water.
91	2010	CERN scientist trap anti-matter for the first time.

Age	Date	Event
19	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
20	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
22	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
31	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
36	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
41	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
44	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
50	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
51	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
58	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
65	1984	NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.
73	1992	NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
81	2000	April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete.
81	2000	June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event.
81	2000	November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore.
81	2000	December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure.
81	2000	The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri.
82	2001	NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers.
82	2001	April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.
83	2002	February 8, 2002 - Amid tight security due to terrorism concerns, the Winter Olympic Games are opened by President George W. Bush in Salt Lake City, Utah. They would continue without major incident until the closing ceremony on February 24.
84	2003	December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. General fear of terrorism begins to subside.
84	2003	February 1, 2003 - A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed.
84	2003	April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict.
85	2004	February 3, 2004 - The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction (which justified the war on Iraq) was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began.
86	2005	United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline.
86	2005	August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. (Picture Below: Damage across the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.)
86	2005	July 26, 2005 - In the first Space Shuttle flight since the tragedy of 2003, Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely on August 9.
92	2011	March 15, 2011 - Largest recorded earthquake hits Japan and everyone watches the horrifying scenes as survivors post videos taken with their cell phones on YouTube.

Age	Date	Event
8	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
10	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
11	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
13	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
14	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
15	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
15	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
16	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
20	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
24	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
25	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
26	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
35	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
43	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
47	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
48	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
52	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
53	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
54	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
58	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
62	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
68	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
68	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
70	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
74	1993	Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
75	1994	O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
78	1997	A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.
80	1999	United States budget goes into surplus.
82	2001	George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
85	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC.
85	2004	November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College.
85	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC.
87	2006	December 1, 2006 - United States manufacturing capacity and esteem wanes, signalled by the sale of the last shares of his General Motors stock by U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
89	2008	A major financial crisis and recession begins in earnest.
89	2008	October 3, 2008 - The United States Congress passes legislation, signed by President Bush, for a $700 billion bailout, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, giving the Treasury Department authority to assist distressed Wall Street and banking businesses of the United States due to the housing, banking, and subprime mortgage crises caused by excessive greed and speculation among Wall Street firms. This economic distress, coupled with oil prices above $140 per barrel during the summer, deepened the world economic crises that had been brewing all year. The bailout was supported by current President George W. Bush and both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.
90	2009	October 31, 2009 - The economic recession continues to deepen as jobless claims climb above 10.0%, reaching 10.2% with October's monthly figures. This occurs despite efforts by the Obama administration to ramp up massive government spending pushed by the $780 billion economic stimulus package passed earlier in the year.
90	2009	Health care reforms initiated by the new US President, Obama, gives birth to the 'Tea Party' movement.
98	2017	Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States.

Age	Date	Event
1	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
19	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
20	1939	Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
26	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
70	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
71	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
73	1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
74	1993	South Africa accepts racial equality.
77	1996	Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection
80	1999	Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained.
81	2000	Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010.
81	2000	China begins to emerge as an economic giant.
82	2001	April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days
82	2001	October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul.
82	2001	September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden.
82	2001	September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate.
83	2002	November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face serious consequences.
83	2002	November 21, 2002 - NATO invites additional members of the former Soviet bloc to join its membership. Seven nations are included in the invitation; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
83	2002	May 21, 2002 - The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
84	2003	March 19, 2003 - The War in Iraq begins with the bombing of Baghdad after additional measures and mandates from the United Nations and the United States coalition fail to gain concessions or the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The U.S. coalition, upon failure to extract authority from the U.N. for action due to the veto power of France, begin land operations one day later with participation from U.S., British, Australian, and Polish troops.
87	2006	February 22, 2006 - In a continuing shift of the retail industry to new platforms, the one billionth song is downloaded from the internet music store, Apple iTunes. This shift comes at the expense of many brick and mortar chains, including Tower Records. The trend of purchasing items via the internet, instead of local stores, continues to grow.
88	2007	January 10, 2007 - President George W. Bush announces a troop surge of 21,500 for the war in Iraq to stem the violence at the request of new commander General Petreus. This controversial policy begins to show positive signs once fully implemented during the summer months, with a reduction in violent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Progress on the political front within the Iraqi national government, however, does not keep pace with positive developments on the military front.
88	2007	The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate.
89	2008	November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln, wins a landslide margin in the Electoral College, 365 to 173 in the election for the 44th President of the USA over John McCain, making him the first African-American president in the history of the United States of America.
91	2010	April 20, 2010 - A British Petroleum deep water oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, killing eleven workers, and devastating the envirnoment. It also severely damaged the fishing and tourism industries of gulf states.
92	2011	March 15, 2011 - The largest recorded earthquake hits Japan followed by a huge tsunami. Three nucular power plants are danaged and remain in critical status for the next six weeks. Manufacturing plants in Japan can no longer produce and impacts the world economy.

Marriages

Willie Drinkwater
Born on April 13, 1911 and died on May 18, 1987

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The Children of Ruby Lee Smith

Shirley Drinkwater
Born in Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia on January 4, 1936 and died in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia on February 10, 2014. She was 78 years old.

She married Luther Elliott Cosby (1934 -2001).They had two children: Kenneth Elliott Cosby and Charles Edward Cosby.

She later married Lawrence Paul Kelly....

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