Born in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Catron Spears
and Alta (Phillips) Spears
Sister of
James Garvil Spears, George W Spears, Howard Catron Spears, Dee Isabelle (Spears) Crow and Raymond Thomas Spears
Wife of
Lowell T Vaught
— married
before 1951 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 86
in Science Hill, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Nov 2019
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Biography
Ruby was born in 1930. She was the daughter of William Spears and Alta Phillips. She passed away in 2016. [1]
Obituary
Ruby May Spears Vaught, 86, of Science Hill, Kentucky passed away Tuesday, March 29, 2016.
She was born in Somerset, Kentucky on January 20, 1930; daughter of the late Catron and Alta Phillips Spears. She worked for Palm Beach for a number of years. She was a homemaker and a member of Nelson Valley Baptist Church. She loved gospel music, gardening, flowers, and spending time with her grandchildren.
She is survived by one son, Jim & (Rhonda) Vaught of Science Hill; two daughters, Sherry & (Tony) Wilburn of Eubank, and Kim Sheehan of Science Hill; six grandchildren, Ben Wilburn & (Whitney), Amy Sheehan-Tannheimer & (Larry), Jamie Vaught Burton & (Jacob), Rachel Wilburn Nettle & (Randy), Aaron Sheehan, and Lindsey Vaught Bowling & (Mason); and five great-grandchildren, Ezra, Emma, and Silas Nettle, Maddie Wilburn, and Hamilton Tannheimer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lowell Vaught; her parents; four brothers, Garvel Spears, George Spears, Howard Spears, and Raymond Spears; and one sister, Dee Crow.
A funeral service will be held at 1 PM Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the chapel of Pulaski Funeral Home with Bro. Grant Hardwick officiating.
Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Pulaski Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruby by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruby:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruby by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruby:
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~6.25%
Gary Burgin
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch EG6936325 [compare], Ancestry member burgie66
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Stacy (Moss) Ferrel :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #962171
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