George Q. Menefee was born about 1880 in TX. He married Willo McCord Graham about 1906.
Manager of a lumber yard on the 1910 census of Baird, Callahan Co., TX
Foreman on highway construction on the 1920 census of Flatonia, Fayette Co., TX
Willo McCord Graham [Parents] was born on 1 Aug 1884 in TX. She died on 12 Jul 1963. She was buried in Austin Memorial Cem., Austin, Travis Co., TX. She married George Q. Menefee about 1906.
Other marriages:McNeal, William Wallace
Listed on the 1910 census of Baird, Callahan Co., TX
Listed on the 1920 census of Flatonia, Fayette Co., TX
Appears on 1930 census of Austin, Travis Co., TX -- Willo is listed as head of household, but married: occupation - key punch operator for highway department Children living at home; husband is not.
Obit Austin American Saturday, July 13, 1963:
Mrs. W. W. McNeal, Sr., 78, of 2012 Kenwood died at her home Friday evening.
She was a member of the University Methodist Church and been a resident of
Austin for the past 43 years.
Survivors include one son, John A. Menefee of McCamey, one daughter, Mrs. B.
V. Howell Sr., Austin; two brothers Thomas Graham of Del Rio and John Graham
of Junction; one sister Mrs. George Whitehead of Del Rio and five
grandchildren, B. V. (Champ) Howell Jr. and Graham Howell, both of Austin, Marjorie
Menefee, Lannie Menefee and Jackson Menefee all of McCamey.
The body is at Hyltin-Manor Funeral Home pending completion of funeral
arrangements. (You already know she was buried in Austin Memorial Park cemetery.)
They had the following children:
M i John Ambrose Menefee was born on 5 Feb 1908. He died on 23 Jan 1985. F ii Marjorie Menefee was born in 1912. She died on 24 May 2003.
Bennett Vaughan Howell Sr. was born on 18 Mar 1910. He died on 5 May 1986 in Temple, Bell Co., TX. He was buried in Austin Memorial Cem., Austin, Travis Co., TX. He married Marjorie Menefee.
Marjorie Menefee [Parents] was born in 1912 in TX. She died on 24 May 2003. She was buried in Austin Memorial Cem., Austin, Travis Co., TX. She married Bennett Vaughan Howell Sr..
Listed as "Margaret", age 7, living with parents on 1920 census of Flatonia, Fayette Co., TX
Listed as a niece living in Temple, TX at time of aunt Jennie Jo Graham Whitehead's deathLast residence prior to death was Round Rock, Travis Co., TX
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Graham Howell was born on 21 Oct 1938. M ii Bennett Vaughan Howell Jr. was born on 4 Jan 1942.
Ray Edwin Pressley was born on 23 Sep 1896. He died on 19 Jul 1975 in Travis Co., TX. He was buried in Post Mountain Cemetery, Burnet, TX. He married Lois Dauchy about 1925.
Lois Dauchy [Parents] was born on 10 Feb 1902 in TX. She died on 28 Nov 1984 in Burnet Co., TX. She was buried in Post Mountain Cemetery, Burnet, TX. She married Ray Edwin Pressley about 1925.
Listed as a niece living in Burnet, TX when her aunt Jennie Jo Graham Whitehead died
They had the following children:
M i Ray Edwin Pressley Jr. was born on 30 Jan 1926 in Navarro Co., TX. He died on 18 Oct 1986 in Burnet Co., TX.
Benjamin Franklin Graham [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 14 Aug 1880 in Parker Station, Parker Co., Texas. He died on 24 Jul 1950 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was buried in Duncan City Cem., Duncan, OK. He married Jewel.
Birthday on 1900 census is Nov 1881.Birthday on WWI draft card is Aug 14, 1880; on his delayed birth certificate the date is 14 November, 1880
Living with his brother Homer in Parks, Stephens Co., OK 1920 as a single man.
Jewel.Jewel married Benjamin Franklin Graham.
They had the following children:
U i no children Graham.
Joseph Bertram Graham [Parents] [scrapbook] "Joe" was born on 1 May 1886 in Terrell, Kaufman Co., Texas. He died on 3 Dec 1971 in Duncan, Oklahoma. He was buried on 7 Dec 1971 in Duncan City Cemetery. He married Clara Jackson in Duncan, OK. The marriage ended in divorce. Joseph was employed as farmer.
Other marriages:Phillips, Eula
Listed on 1900 census of Avoca, Pottawatomie Co., OK Birth day is May 1887.
Listed on 1920 census of Hope Township, part of Doyle, Stephens Co., OK
Listed on 1930 census of Rock Creek, Stephens Co., OK with 2nd wife /childrenOBIT dated 3 Dec 1971, Duncan, OK
J.B. Graham Dead at 85
Joseph B. Graham, 85, of 205 Cedar, retired Stephens County farmer, died in a Duncan nursing home early today. Graham was born May 1, 1886, in Texas and moved to the Rock Creek area of Stephens County while a child.He farmed in the Duncan, Marlow and Rush Springs areas.
Survivors are two sons, Earnest of the home at 205 Cedar and Barney of Enid; two daughters, Mrs. Mable kBrown of Hobbs, N.M. and Mrs. Melba Henson of Midland, Tex.: a brother Homer of Oregon; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in Duncan Cemetery with the Rev. John Fultz, pastor of Bible Missionary Church, officiating. Arrangements are under direction of Brooks Funeral Home.
Clara Jackson was born on 18 May 1910 in Jack Co. TX. She died on 23 Apr 1992 in Midland, TX. She married Joseph Bertram Graham in Duncan, OK. The marriage ended in divorce.
Other marriages:Jackson, Mr.
Slaughter, Mr.
They had the following children:
F i Mable Graham was born on 4 Feb 1927. M ii Earnest Graham was born on 9 Nov 1928. M iii Barney Lee Graham was born on 6 Feb 1931. F iv Melba Joyce Graham was born on 9 Sep 1938.
Mr. Jackson.Mr. married Clara Jackson. The marriage ended in divorce.
Clara Jackson was born on 18 May 1910 in Jack Co. TX. She died on 23 Apr 1992 in Midland, TX. She married Mr. Jackson. The marriage ended in divorce.
Other marriages:Graham, Joseph Bertram
Slaughter, Mr.
Mr. Slaughter.Mr. married Clara Jackson.
Clara Jackson was born on 18 May 1910 in Jack Co. TX. She died on 23 Apr 1992 in Midland, TX. She married Mr. Slaughter.
Other marriages:Graham, Joseph Bertram
Jackson, Mr.
Louis A. Chasteen was born on 4 Feb 1909 in OK. He died in Apr 1975 in Duncan, Stephens Co., OK. He was buried in Rock Creek Cem., outside Duncan, OK. He married Mattie Faye Graham about 1928.
Mattie Faye Graham [Parents] was born about 1911 in OK. She was buried in Rock Creek Cem., Duncan, OK. She married Louis A. Chasteen about 1928.
Living next door to her father on the 1930 census of Rock Creek, Stephens Co., OK
Elias Ruffner was born about 1807 in VA. He died in 1857 in TX. He married Nancy Phillips.
Nancy Phillips was born about 1810 in VA. She died after 1880. She married Elias Ruffner.
Other marriages:Gillespie, Reuben G.
Living with first husband and children on the 1850 census at Bird Township, Jackson Co., AR, p. 98.
Living with her son Angus on the 1870 and 1880 census at Marion, Lawrence Co., AR
They had the following children:
M i Lewis Ruffner was born about 1829. M ii Angus Ruffner was born on 17 Dec 1831. He died on 4 Jul 1913. M iii Henry Ruffner was born about 1835 in Indiana. M iv Silas Ruffner was born in 1836 in New Madrid Co., MO.
Silas Ruffner, of Walnut Ridge, is one of the oldest citizens of Lawrence County. He was born in New Madrid County, Mo., in 1836, and is the same age as that of his adopted State–Arkansas. His father was Elias Ruffner, of what is now Kanawha County, W. Va., who was a farmer by occupation. The elder Ruffner moved from Virginia to Indiana, and afterward to Illinois, Wisconsin, Arkansas and Texas. He came to Arkansas in 1844, and located at Crowley's Ridge, in Poinsett County, and in 1857 removed to Texas, where he contracted pneumonia, and died the same year, aged sixty years. He was married to Miss Nancy Phillips, of Virginia, and had five children, four of them living in Lawrence County and one in Prairie County. The mother is still living in the former county, at the age of seventy-eight years, and has full possession of all her faculties. Silas Ruffner was reared as a farmer, and had been in that business until within the past three years. He has had but a limited education, but is a man of strong will and a determination that overcomes all obstacles. He has resided the greater portion of his life in Lawrence County, having come here in the year 1850, and can recount a score of reminiscences of the early days of this State. He first lived in Poinsett and Jackson Counties, and remembers when Jacksonport, in the latter county, was merely a canebrake. He can also remember when the Jackson port and Pocahontas country road was opened, which covered a distance of sixty-two miles, and had but one house upon it, which was called the “Stranger's Home,� as that was the only place of accomodation on the entire road. In 1886 Mr. Ruffner established himself in the merchandising business at Walnut Ridge, and has had very fair success. He is a member of Walnut Ridge Lodge No. 19731, Knights of Honor, and also a member of the town council. In 1862 he enlisted in Capt. Henry's company, and served three and one-half years through the war. He was discharged June 5, 1865, and held the rank of second lieutenant at the time of his release. He has been married four times, two of his wives having been sisters, and all four of them cousins. He has had eleven children altogether, and seven of them are still living: Savannah (the wife of John E. Johnson, of Walnut Ridge), Joseph and Nancy Owen (who reside in this county), Williger (the wife of Edgar 'Neal, of the Stranger's Home), Julia (the wife of Davis Ruffner, of this county), Henry, George and John. He has married for the fifth time, his present wife having been Rachel Upchurch. Mr. Ruffner is in splendid health, and has never taken a cupful of medicine in the whole course of his existence, nor touched a drink of whisky. In politics, he is a DemocratF v Sarah Ruffner was born about 1839 in AR. M vi Joseph Ruffner was born in Sep 1842. F vii Nancy J. Ruffner was born about 1851 in AR.
Living with her mother/step-father on the 1860 census of Marion, Lawrence Co., AR
Carl Waller [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 1 on 27 Oct 1880 in Staples, Guadalupe Co. TX. He died 2 on 17 Jul 1963 in Austin, Travis Co., TX. The cause of death was thrombosis of left internal carotid artery with hemorrhagic cerebral infarction. He was buried in Prairie Lea, Caldwell Co., TX. He married Eloise Miranda Johnson on 23 Oct 1902. Carl was employed as store merchant; farmer.
Living in Fentrice, Caldwell Co. TX in 1918 for WW I draft registration
TX Death Certificate #47545:
Usual address: PO Box 19, Fentress, Caldwell Co., TX
Died at Brackenridge Hospital, Austin, TX
Occupation: retired herchant and farmer :widower
Parents: Edward Pettus Waller, Ophelia Graham
Informant: Mrs. Mildred White
Burial: Mason Cemetery, Fentress.
Eloise Miranda Johnson was born on 30 Sep 1884 in Caldwell Co. TX. She died on 29 Dec 1938 in Caldwell Co. TX. She was buried on 30 Sep 1938 in Prairie Lea Cem., Caldwell Co., TX. She married Carl Waller on 23 Oct 1902.
They had the following children:
F i Ophelia Waller was born about 1905. F ii Mildred Waller was born on 19 Aug 1906. M iii Carl Johnson Waller was born on 29 Jan 1909 in Kingsbury, TX. He died in Apr 1987 in Fentress, Caldwell Co., TX. F iv Louise Waller was born on 29 Feb 1912 in Fentress, Caldwell Co., TX. F v Calada Waller was born on 18 Oct 1916. She died on 30 May 1986.