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I am posting this query to different forums in an effort to determine how/when/why Ruby Ethel Darby (b.9-7-1895 Woods Co., OK) made her way to Memphis, TN. My best estimation is between 1913 - 1915. She was a white blues singer/vaudeville performer in the 1910s, 1920s, and early 1930s. She died in 1936.
Her mother died in 1901 in OK, and she was sent to live with relatives in KS where she is found on the 1910 census.
The next record found for her is in 1915 where she is credited with co-authoring the song "Joe Turner Blues" with W. C. Handy, and the song is published in Memphis, TN by Pace & Handy Music Co.
Family stories say she first went to Memphis where she learned to sing the blues and where met W. C. Handy and learned much from him.
At some point, she left Memphis and wound up in Dallas, TX as a vaudeville performer and white blues singer. In the 1910s and 1920s she became well known in the sw US.
I have researched all her family, when/where they were born/died. None of the family (except for Ruby) were ever in TN:
My questions are these since I've never researched in TN:
Where would I find the newspaper respository for Memphis TN circa 1913 - 1915 (I'm assuming Ruby left KS when she trned 18).
Are the newspapers on line anywhere?
Was she ever known for having played in the theaters in Memphis during 1913 - 1917?
Any other information about Ruby Darby being in Memphis would be greatly appreciated.
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