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Family Snapshots

Maudie Ruth Canady Chaney
1911-1999

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Maudie Alice Ruth Canady Studio portrait taken in Jones Prairie, Milam County, Texas. 1911.    Maudie Ruth with her younger sister Annie Lee. Probably taken in Jones Prairie, Texas. c1921.    Maudie Ruth in a school picture. Jones Prairie, Texas. c1921. She is in the 2nd row, 4th from right.    Maudie Ruth in a snapshot taken in Brown County, Texas, when her family visited her mother's parents in 1924. Maudie is upper left. Clockwise from her is Leonard Crook, Laura Emily Canady Crook, Quimby ??, Annie Lee Canady, Carson Damron, ?? Damron, Kineth McKenzie.    Maudie Ruth in a detail from the previous snapshot.

Early pictures of Maudie Ruth Canady
 in Jones Prairie, Milam County, Texas

Her grandfather Thomas Jefferson Canady.     Her grandmother Emily Henrietta Kyser Canady.    Her father William Jefferson Canady in a studio portrait.    Her father Jeff in the backyard of the family home in Jones Prairie, Texas.      Her mother Sallie Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Damron Canady in a studio portrait.    Her mother Lizzie with Laura Emily Canady and Newton Campbell Canady.    Her grandfather James Thomas 'Tom' Damron. 1824.    Her grandmother Laura Providence Saye Damron. 1924.

Maudie Ruth Canady's parents:
William Jefferson "Jeff" Canady & Sallie Elizabeth "Lizzie" Damron Canady (center).
 Paternal grandparents:  Thomas Jefferson Canady & Emily Henrietta Kyser Canady.
Maternal grandparents:  James Thomas "Tom" Damron & Laura Providence Saye Damron.

        Maudie Ruth. Probably taken in the very early 1930s. She appears to still be a nursing student.    Maudie Ruth in 1933. The car in the background belonged to her brother William Ivy Canady.    Maudie Ruth in a portrait from the mid-1930s.    Maudie Ruth in a portrait from the mid-1930s.    Maudie Ruth in a snapshot taken near the Sante Fe Hospital in Temple, Texas, in the mid-1930s.    Maudie Ruth in an Olan Mills studio protrait c1938.

Maudie Ruth Canady in the 1930s.
 She was living in Temple, Bell County, Texas, in nursing training then employed as a Registered Nurse at Scott & White Hospital.
 

The sisters of Maudie Ruth Canady

     Annie Lee Canady. A detail from a 1924 snapshot taken in Brown Co., Texas, at the home of her mother's parents' home.     Annie Lee Canady. Evidently in Temple, Texas, in the mid-1930s.     Annie Lee Canady. One of several pictures taken near Sante Fe Hospital, Temple, Texas, in the mid-1930s.    Annie Lee Canady. Evidently in Temple, Texas, in the mid-1930s.    Annie Lee Canady (right)and a friend (left) in Temple, Texas.  
Annie Lee Canady

  Laura Emily Canady Crook. A detail from a 1924 snapshot taken in Brown Co., Texas, at the home of her mother's parents' home.    Laura Emily Canady Crook and Effie Bell Canady. Jones Prairie, Texas, in the 1920s.    Laura Emily Canady Crook, c1933.    Laura Emily Canady Crook and Maudie Ruth Canady, c1933.
Laura Emily Canady

The brothers of Maudie Ruth Canady

Newton Campbell Canady in a detail of a snapshot. Jones Prairie, Texas. 1920s.    Newton Campbell Canady. Studio photo c1920.    Orval Thomas Canady. Studio photo c1919. Jones Prairie, Texas.    Orval Thomas and William Ivy Canady (front) with two friends. Jones Prairie, Texas.    William Ivy Canady. Studio photo c1920. Jones Prairie, Texas    Lynn Carl Canady with Aetna Love.    Vernon Otho Canady, left, with unidentified friends.
Newton C. Canady,   Orval T. Canady,   William Ivy Canady,   Lynn C. Canady,   Vernon O. Canady 
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"Jones Prairie, TX"
 excerpts from a draft of a speech that Maudie Ruth Canady delivered, c1926-1927 while attending school in Jones Prairie.

Family group sheet of William Jefferson "Jeff" Canady
Collage of snapshots of Maudie's parents & siblings

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Last updated 29 October 2004