Selected Families and Individuals


Richard A. Branton was born on 30 Dec 1855 in AR. He died on 7 Nov 1944. He was buried in Sugar Creek Cem., Choctaw Co., OK. He married Izetta Alexander.

Izetta Alexander [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 29 Jan 1864 in Ohio. She died on 26 Aug 1935 in Kent, OK. She was buried in Sugar Creek Cem., Choctaw Co., OK. She married Richard A. Branton.

Other marriages:
Bailey, Richard Hale

Listed as a 5 y/o with her parents/siblings in Ludlow, Ohio (PO Newport), Washington Co., Ohio on 1870 census
Listed as Mrs. L.E. Bailey, widow, age 45, on 1910 census of Titus Co., TX with children Ben, Floyd, Clara & Thelma - living next door to married daughter Rosa Young. Mrs. Bailey listed as mother of 8, 5 living.
Living with 2nd husband, daughter Thelma and her grandchildren by daughter Rosa in Jeter, Choctaw Co., OK
Living with 2nd husband, next door to daughter Clara on the 1930 census of Jeter, Choctaw Co., OK

I checked the August 25-30 issues of the Hugo Daily News and did not find either an obit or a death notice for Izetta Branton.


Floyd Alexander Bailey [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 23 Mar 1893 in Gainesville, Cooke Co., TX. He died on 8 Aug 1952. He was buried on 10 Aug 1952 in Lewis Cem., outside Stratford, OK. He married Bondaleigh Ann Farnham on 9 Aug 1914 in OK.

Funeral home records state he was born in Newport, OK. Daughter's Bible records (Mozelle Wood) states he was born in Gainesville, TX
WWI draft registration gives birth year as 1893, Gainesville, TX

Bondaleigh Ann Farnham [Parents] [scrapbook] "Bonnie" was born on 9 Dec 1894 in Collins, Covington Co., MS. She died on 26 May 1954. She was buried in Lewis Cem., outside Stratford, OK. She married Floyd Alexander Bailey on 9 Aug 1914 in OK.

Other marriages:
Pruitt, Paul

They had the following children:

  F i Marie Inez Bailey was born on 2 Jul 1915. She died on 23 Dec 2000.
  F ii Rogenia Thelma Bailey was born about 1917. She died on 6 Nov 2007.
  F iii Sibyl Bailey was born about 1919.
  M iv Joe Richard Bailey was born on 4 May 1922. He died on 13 Aug 1996.
  F v Mozelle Bondalee Bailey was born about 1924.
  M vi Floy Gene Bailey was born on 12 Jul 1926 in OK. He died on 8 Feb 1996 in Ada, Pototoc Co., OK.
  F vii Fayrene Bailey was born on 12 Jul 1926.
  F viii Avis Narvel Bailey was born about 1929.
  M ix Finis Allen (Tony) Bailey.
  F x Violet Nell Bailey.
  M xi Jerry D. Bailey was born on 6 Sep 1931. He died on 28 Mar 1997.

Willard P. Stowers was born on 27 Apr 1916. He died on 29 Mar 2000 in Ceres, Stanislaus, CA. He married Sibyl Bailey.

Sibyl Bailey [Parents] was born about 1919 in OK. She married Willard P. Stowers.


Joe Richard Bailey [Parents] was born on 4 May 1922. He died on 13 Aug 1996 in Duncan, Stephens Co., OK. He married Geraldine.

Geraldine.Geraldine married Joe Richard Bailey.


Roscoe Jones.Roscoe married Fayrene Bailey on 19 Sep 1944 in Stratford, Garvin Co., OK. The marriage ended in divorce.

Fayrene Bailey [Parents] was born on 12 Jul 1926 in OK. She married Roscoe Jones on 19 Sep 1944 in Stratford, Garvin Co., OK. The marriage ended in divorce.


Joseph Farnham.Joseph married Mary Dees.

Mary Dees.Mary married Joseph Farnham.

They had the following children:

  F i Bondaleigh Ann Farnham was born on 9 Dec 1894. She died on 26 May 1954.

Jimmy Mac Cosby.Jimmy married Avis Narvel Bailey.

Avis Narvel Bailey [Parents] "Dimples" was born about 1929 in OK. She married Jimmy Mac Cosby.


Claude B. Drake was born on 25 Feb 1916. He died on 3 Apr 2001 in Shawnee, OK. He married Marie Inez Bailey on 12 Dec 1941 in Stratford, OK.

Marie Inez Bailey [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 2 Jul 1915 in Hugo, OK. She died on 23 Dec 2000 in Shawnee, OK. She was buried in McGee Cem., Shawnee, OK. She married Claude B. Drake on 12 Dec 1941 in Stratford, OK.

Other marriages:
Pruitt, Paul

OBIT:
Marie Inez Drake died Saturday at a local hospital at the age of 85.
She was born on July 2, 1915, in Hugo, the daughter of Floyd Alexander and Bondaleigh (Farnahm) Bailey.
She attended school east of Pauls Valley and was a homemaker.
In 1936, she married Paul Pruitt. After his death, she married Claude Drake on Dec. 12, 1941, in Stratford.
Drake moved from Oklahoma City to Shawnee 14 years ago.
Preceding her in death were her first husband, her parents, three brothers, Joe Bailey, Gene Bailey and Jerry Bailey, and one grandson, Luke Drake.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; three daughters, Loritta Stanley of Okmulgee; Hazel Pruitt of Muskogee; and Joyce Willis and husband Paul of Shawnee; one son, Royce Drake of Madill, Okla.; 12 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; seven siblings, Rogenia Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Sybil Stowers of California; Mozelle Wood of Stratford; Fayrene Jones of Ada; Avis Cosby of Oklahoma City; Violet Tabors of Eufala; and Finis Bailey of Moore.
Services will be 1 p.m. today at Gaskill-Owens Funeral Chapel with Daniel Shaughnessy officiating. A private family burial will be held at McGee Cemetery

They had the following children:

  F i Joyce Drake.
  M ii Royce Drake.

Bannon Brown.Bannon married Rogenia Thelma Bailey in 1951.

Rogenia Thelma Bailey [Parents] was born about 1917 in OK. She died on 6 Nov 2007 in Scottsdale, OK. She was buried on 10 Nov 2007. She married Bannon Brown in 1951.

They had the following children:

  F i Karen Brown.

Wallace Wood.Wallace married Mozelle Bondalee Bailey on 20 Aug 1943 in Ada, Pototoc Co., OK.

Mozelle Bondalee Bailey [Parents] was born about 1924 in OK. She married Wallace Wood on 20 Aug 1943 in Ada, Pototoc Co., OK.

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