Obituary from the Bowling Green Times, 
Bowling Green, MO
(from SHSM - No date for newspaper issue):

Mrs. Mehaly Ruby, mother of J. T. Glascock, died suddenly in St. Louis Sunday morning at about ten o'clock, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Artie Lemoine, of heart failure. Mrs. Ruby had risen, taken a bath and arranged her hair as usual. This was about 7 o'clock. Complaining of not feeling well, she was given a stimulent [sic], and drank some coffee. After breakfast she sat in her chair, and, still complaining of feeling very badly, was helped to her bed, and a physician was called. The attendants wee [sic] absent from her bedside just for a moment and upon returning, discovered that she had passed to her reward. Deceased was in her 83rd year. For sixty years she had lived the life of a noble Christian woman, being connected with the Methodist church. --Vandalia Mail.

Obituary from the St. Louis Dispatch, 
November 7, 1905:

RUBEY - On Sunday, Nov. 5, 1905, at 10:30 a.m., Mrs. Mahala Rubey, mother of Joseph T. Glascock of Vandalia, Mo., and Mrs. A.G. Lemoine of St. Louis.
     Funeral Tuesday, 9 a.m. at residence 9:30 North Garrison avenue.

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