|
|
|
|
Eustace Windham >
Samuel B. Windham >
John Darby Windham >
Hilary
Windham > Hilery Windham |
Children:
| |
1. Warnie
Winfield WINDHAM (b. Apr 30, 1920, Oplin,
CallTX; d. Sep 23, 1999. )
m. Mildred ALLEN
Children:
-
Morna Anne WINDHAM (b. July 25, 1941,
CallTX;
online birth record).
|
| |
2. Monterey
WINDHAM "Montie"
(b. Jun 17, 1922; d. Jun 19, 1996, TaylTX;
Find-A-Grave 31009407)
m. Patricia Ophelia ASHLEY "Grammy"
(b. May 2, 1924; d. Feb 1, 2007, TX;
Find-A-Grave 58003685) on Nov 15, 1941
Children:
-
Patsy Jean WINDHAM (b. Sep 12, 1942 in
, CallTX;
online birth record)
m.
? TUSSEY
-
Barbara Jane WINDHAM
m.
George GLADDEN and lives in Abilene, TaCTX
-
Diana Janette WINDHAM "Jan"
m. Calvin HILLEN and lives in Wichita Falls,
WichTX
-
Monterey WINDHAM Jr. "Sonny"
m. Leneta RUSSELL
|
| |
3. Stanley Wayne WINDHAM (b. Aug 8, 1925,Tecumseh,
CallTX; d. Apr 6, 1993, Norwalk,
LoAnCA)
m.
Doris Faye ADAMS 1
(b. Apr 16, 1928, Dickens, DickTX) on Oct 10, 1953, Las Vegas,
ClarNV)
Children:
- William Robert WINDHAM 1
(b. Jun 29, 1955, San Pedro, LoAnCA)
- Vivian Anne WINDHAM 1
(b. Sep 16, 1956, San Pedro, LoAnCA)
m. Monte Karl BRADSHAW
- Stanley Wayne WINDHAM, Jr. 1
(b. Mar 17, 1958, San Pedro, LoAnCA)
| Notes: |
-
Doris' parents were William ADAMS and Ona PETTIGREW.
|
|
| |
4. Infant Son WINDHAM (b. Jan 22, 1927; d. Jan 23, 1927)
|
2nd Marriage
Hilery WINDHAM
(See Above) |
|
|
Married:
Apr 15, 1928 |
|
| Notes: |
-
Hilery and Minnie Windham are
both buried at
Tecumseh Cemetery,
CallTX.
-
Ellen is buried at
Oplin Cemetery,
CallTX. -
Hilery married Minnie Belle Preston and they had four (?) children before her death in 1927 at the age of 23. She is believed to have died of dropsy. On her gravestone, it reads: "She was too good, too gentle and fair, to dwell in this cold world of care."
-
Hilery was a blacksmith and welder in Oplin,
CallTX for most of his later years. The blacksmith shop still stands today in old downtown Oplin,
Texas. My mother and I visited his shop a few times. I
remember he had a gruffed voice and could not hear very well.
This however did not hinder him from being a top-notch blacksmith.
He made us a fireplace grate with my cattle brand (bar J or -J)
on the face plate.
He learned his welding while working at the shipyards. There are two stories passed onto me from my father,
E. Earl Durham and uncle
C. T. Straley. The first
story tells of how Hilery deployed a very dangerous technique to
fix a leak in metal gasoline tanks (on cars, trucks, tractors, etc.), and they
claim to have seen him do it. He would weld the tank, with it still
attached directly onto the vehicle,
but only after completely filling it with gasoline. Hilery
told them if the tank was full, there would be no fumes to ignite.
This somehow kept the tank from exploding, even when subjected to intense heat of the welding arc!
The second story relates to Hilery's days working at shipyards. One
day on the job, his foreman needed a long, warped beam of solid iron straightened out.
No one there could figure out how to easily accomplish such a feat.
They sought Hilery's opinion on the matter. He instructed two teams with blow torches to heat the length of the iron beam. He then
took a single drop of ice water and dabbed it on the center of the beam.
To their amazement, the iron beam instantly straightened! Believe it or not!
-
County/State
Abbreviations:
CallTX - Callahan County, TX
ClarNV - Clark County, NV
DickTX - Dickens, TX
LoAnCA - Los Angeles County, CA
TaylTX - Taylor County, TX
WichTX - Wichita County, TX
-
Page Sources:
-
Descendants of James Pettigrew, Jr.,
Generation 6 on Family Tree Maker Online.
|
|
Names Added to Name Index: YES
|
