Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Burial: Restland Carbon Cemetery, Carbon, Eastland County, Texas
Find A Grave Memorial # 15611765

The following is a wondeful email I recieved from Suzie:

Charley courted Susie, riding by horseback, to her home, every Sunday afternoon......after they married, Charley farmed.........however, teachers would, sometimes, come to him for help, because he was very good in math..... He liked unusual names, and picked the names for three of his children from books he had read: Sehoya, Gaylon, and Gwendolyn.....Susie told Bonnie, that Gaylon had picked the name "Bonnie Bell"........... Charley, Susie and Sehoy migrated to TX from AL between 1908 - 1909........ they settled in Commanche Co, along with Susie's family..... her parents, Lige and Francis Gray; her brother, Ambus; sister, Bessie, and her other sister, Clemmie, married to Lumus Roberson....... Charley and Susie had heard there were good opportunities in TX and farmed in Commanche Co.....then Eastland Co....until Charley's death in 1933....he had spinal meningitis when he was about 42 years old, and was in ill-health from then on. Charley died 24 Nov 1933, at the young age of 47, when my Mother, Gwen was only 10 years old... Gwen wrote the following about her father, Charley: "One thing my Daddy always said, 'A person's reputation is all they have, in the long run.' He hoped that when he died, people would say he never stole anything, never cheated anyone, and treated his wife and children well...that he taught his children to do whatever it took, to stay on the 'straight and narrow way'. He said that he never had anything to leave us, but a 'good name'. He did have THAT.....Mr. Eldridge, the school teacher at Mangum [Texas] said that he had never heard Daddy say anything against another man or woman....that he was always cheerful, even when he was sick, always asking about others who were sick....he said that Daddy had more courage than anyone he ever had known. Daddy was 47, when he died." In the hard years to follow, after Charley's death, Susie, Bonnie and Gwendola (now, nicknamed Peggy), along with grandmother Gray, batted cotton, shelled peas, pulled boles, etc. to get by......Susie also worked in the WPA sewing room......for awhile, they lived in the TX Panhandle...... Aunt Bonnie recalls her daddy talking about Ethel, "Zonie", Ophelia, Leonidas, and Huey.....that Huey worked for the railroad, somewhere..... before Charley died, Huey and family came to visit in TX, and Bonnie remembers Huey Jr. and a little girl named Polly....... In the year 2000, I found my PRESTRIDGE family thru several family researchers via world wide web.......what a wonderful discovery it was! It was a great gift for my Mom and we hope to learn much more about our Prestridge family and perhaps meet some of you one day! Suzy.......2003

Primary Researchers:

Suzy Martinez - Thank for the old photos above.

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