HUSSEY MANUSCRIPT H U S S E Y  M A N U S C R I P T


Arlee Claud Gowen, son of Claud Franklin Gowen  and Ora Ethel Cox Gowen, was born, Friday, November 24, 1922 at Lamesa.  He attended McCarty community school and Lamesa public schools, graduating from Lamesa High School in May 1939.  For two years prior to graduation he was employed by the "Lamesa Reporter," weekly newspaper on which he worked as a "printer's devil."

What was life like in the 1920-1930 decade?  The value of money is perhaps the first thing to be noticed.  My first job at the newspaper paid 10¢ an hour.  When I could borrow the family car for a date, gasoline was 17¢ a gallon.  Before electricity came in 1929, we used kerosene lamps, and kerosene cost a penny per gallon more than gasoline.  A quart of oil was 25¢.

A haircut was 25¢.  A telephone cost $2.25 per month for those who could afford them; my Dad said we couldn't.

We produced our own meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit.  Three pounds of rice cost 18¢; a gallon of milk 12¢, and eggs were 22¢ a dozen.  An apple pie at the bakery was 10¢, and two loaves of bread were 10¢.  Brown sugar was 7¢ a pound.

The doctors would make a housecall for $2 and deliver a baby at home for $10.

What memories stand out for a youngster growing up on a farm in the "dirty thirties?"  What poignant recollections of youth remain from over 50 years ago?

"Having my own tin dinner plate when I became old enough 'to come to the table.'  The tiny plate, embossed with numerals and the letters of the alphabet around its circumference, would make the kid a 'man of letters,' according to Cousin Guy Rotan who was the donor of the treasured tinware.

Receiving a bright red coaster wagon for Christmas that would allow you to transport all your dogs and cats in one trip.

Drawing straws with my grandmother to see who had to go outside on a cold, snowy day to winnow the chaff out of the popcorn before we made popcorn balls.

Watching a sandstorm that looked like a wall 3,000 feet high roll onto the farmstead out of Lynn County during the dustbowl days.

Sitting on top of a packed icecream freezer while Dad turned the crank and contemplating the ecstasy of that ambrosia crossing the palate as my rump slowly turned numb with cold.

Shelling peas in a washing machine wringer and watching the legumes emerge like machinegun bullets, when the family undertook a mass-production canning effort to supply food co-op during the depression.

Slipping our feet into the flouroscope in the shoe department at Collins Department Store when trying on new brogans.  You could see in the x-ray image where the toes were pinched, and with it probably came enough radiation to see your feet glow in the dark.

Firing up ready-rolled Chesterfields pilfered from Uncle Elmer's pack by Cousin Dorman.  When he caught us, he put us in the cab of his pickup, rolled up the windows and gave us the whole pack to smoke non-stop.

Selecting the brightest, shiniest, red 'lumberyard' from the stock of spinning tops at Boothe's store and seeing that oak leviathan splintering tops of lesser pedigree from the 'keepers' ring' on the schoolyard.

Chopping cotton in the summertime on the Sellers farm at 20 cents an acre for the first money I ever earned.  The most disagreeable parts of the job were (1) the gnats that swarmed into the shade of my straw hat and (2) the water bucket was always at the other end of the field.

Building the 'world's largest nigger-shooter,' a catapault-sized device capable of hurling a half-pound stone 300 yards and endangering the lives of everyone who came within range.

Substituting at right end and catching the touchdown that won the intramural championship.

Riding away from Montgomery-Wards on the first all-aluminum bicycle ever seen in a town of 4,000 envious people.  It wasn't long before the aluminum fenders, the light, the bell and the 'longhorn' handlebars were stripped down and stashed in the "car shed."

Meeting the special train from Slaton that brought the townspeople and their devious Tigers to play our Golden Tornadoes.  The minute our win was posted on the scoreboard, fistfights broke out and continued in a running battle all the way from the stadium to the depot.

Riding the go-devil cultivator behind two obstreperous little mules who delighted in walking on the rows of young cotton rather than on top of the soilbed the minute you began to daydream.

Climbing the city water tower at night with a bucket of paint on a dare and having Firechief Standifer turn on the ear-splitting city siren immediately below us.

Eating 'spotted dog' pudding in the kitchen of the widow Jones as a reward for taking the milk over to Judge Robinson's.

Stumbling onto a bootlegger's drop, stashed under a culvert and running all the way home with the box of six gallons of home brew proudly clutched between us, only to have Dad send us back to return it where we found it.

Pulling bolls for 'a dollar a hundred' and thinking that there must be a better way.

Helping Dad dig a cellar under the house, using a one-horse scoop pulled by 'ole Bill.'  Dad would 'fresno' the dirt out of the excavation while I kept the horse going forward to dump and backing up to refill.

Sleeping out under the grape arbor in the summertime and watching the stars peep through the Concord vines and invariably getting purple stains on the pillowcase to Mother's chagrin.

Sitting atop a runaway horse and holding on for dear life to the hames that were pumping like pistons on a racing locomotive.  That skittish stallion shied at a tincan in the row while I was riding him to 'scratch' cotton.  The scratchers were cedar posts with headless 16-penny spikes driven into them that were dragged along the row, breaking the crust to help sprouting cotton plants emerge.  I could have bailed out any time in the soft plowed ground, but those cedar posts were flailing the air behind me like machetes.  The trace ropes pulling the posts broke when he jumped a 10-foot ditch onto the county roadbed, but then the surface was too hard and he was running too fast.  He covered the half mile to the house in record time, and approaching the horselot gate, planted his front feet in a dead stop and watched me sail over his head and over the old toprail.

Showing Cousin Dorman in his visit to the college how to "requisition" golfballs at the driving range at 2:00 a.m, only to have the floodlights suddenly come on and being forced to flee through the campus steam tunnels.

Rounding the Ad Building circle in the slickest, reddest Ford roadster that 3,500 envious Tech students had ever seen.

Receiving the president's gavel to add to my Los Camaradas fraternity pin in my senior year and seeing it wind up on the sweater of the 'prettist girl in Tech.'

Spending the year of 1941 in organizing a treasure-hunting expedition to Cocos Island and in securing permission from the government of Costa Rica to embark, only to have it all go up in the flames of Pearl Harbor on December 7.

Being catapaulted from the flight deck in a Curtis Helldiver and suddenly realizing that my youth was over."

On July 4, 1990, Arlee Claud Gowen wrote a letter to reminesce with Bob Crawley, a grade school classmate who later graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy:

"Dear Bob,

When I began to recall the events that you and I shared, starting almost 60 years ago, it took some mental gymnastics to reach that far back--probably to the second grade in Miss Birdie Brock's room.

I remember the favorite time for the two of us in those days was recess.  Besides tag football and softball, we added "One-and-over," "Keepers marbles," "Apple core, Baltimore" and a demolition derby we played with spinning tops in a circle.  At Mr. Booth's store I bought a giant red "Lumberyard top" which was the nemesis of every spinner on the schoolyard--until Casey Costin showed up with an even bigger one.  He got a direct hit on my "Lumberyard" and split it right down the middle.

I remember looking out the window of Mrs. R. A. Stuart's classroom and watching sandstorms roll onto our school playgrounds.  Sometimes when they came out of the north they looked like a wall, thousands of feet high, that was on the verge of falling over on us.

I remember you were a "city kid" and I was a "country kid."  J. D. Braswell and I had farther to walk going home after school, but occasionally we found discarded polo balls when we crossed the Lamesa Polo Field, and that and other good fortunes made going home quite an adventure.  Once we found a bootlegger's stash under a culvert.  We ran all the way home carrying a box of six gallons of homebrew between us--only to have my dad turn us around and send us back to the culvert with the stash.

I remember meeting the special train from Slaton that brought the townspeople and their devious Tigers to play our Golden Tornadoes.  The minute George Gable and Stanley Wilkes scored the last-minute winning touchdown, fistfights broke out and continued in a running battle all the way from the football field to the depot.

I remember working for weeks on kites for the kite-flying contest held every spring at Lamesa Airfield, a grassy pasture near A. C. Woodward's house on the Stanton highway.  The members of Troop 22 and Troop 23 went head-to-head in the several events.  My specialty was the Battle Kite event.  My fighter kite was built with a sharp spar on top for skewering other kites.  It had razor blades on all sides for slashing the opponents.  I broke up fruit jars and snuff bottles, ground them up into powdered glass and glued the lethal powder onto the kite string for the purpose of cutting opponents' kitestrings.  Generally, when the time came for launching kites, my entry, like a heavy-laden bomber, had so much armament, it couldn't take off.

I remember riding away from Montgomery-Wards on the first all-aluminum bicycle ever seen in the town of 4,000 envious people.  It wasn't long before the aluminum fenders, the light, the bell and the "longhorn" handlebars were stripped down and stashed.  Before long, there were two more aluminum bikes in Lamesa.  Johnny Wheeler and Cowger Andrews bought identical bikes and also stripped them down into racing bikes.

I remember riding the go-devil cultivator behind two obstreperous little mules who delighted in walking on the rows of young cotton rather than on top of the soilbed the minute you began to daydream.

I remember climbing the city water tower at night with a bucket of paint on a dare and having Firechief Luther Standifer turn on the ear-splitting city siren immediately below us.

I remember the Scout hikes we made down to Mullins Ranch and the trails we followed there in search of arrowheads and Indian relics.  Once Joe Spikes and Leslie Pratt made the mistake of having both troops in a joint camp-out.  On the first night we played "Capture the Flag."  The troops were pitted against each other in pitch-black darkness.  Tobey Tweat and I, being members of the Bat Patrol, could see in the dark, and we almost got back with your flag.

I remember sleeping out under the grape arbor in the summertime and watching the stars peep through the Concord vines and invariably getting purple stains on the pillowcase to my mother's chagrin.

I remember sitting atop a runaway horse and holding on for dear life to the hames that were pumping like pistons on a racing locomotive.  That skittish stallion shied at a tincan in the row while I was riding him to "scratch" cotton.  The scratchers were cedar posts with headless 16-penny spikes driven into them that were dragged along the row, breaking the crust to help sprouting cotton plants emerge.  I could have bailed out any time in the soft plowed ground, but those cedar posts were flailing the air behind me like machetes.  The trace ropes pulling the posts broke when he jumped a 10-foot ditch onto the county road, but then the surface was too hard and he was running too fast.  He covered the half mile to the house in record time, and approaching the horselot gate, planted his front feet in a dead stop and watched me sail over his head, easily clearing the old toprail.

I remember escorting Ruth Tinkler to her Ko Shari dances while in college at Tech and getting to cut-in on the Eiland sisters.  Those were glorious days!

I remember spending the year of 1941 in organizing a treasure-hunting expedition to Cocos Island and in securing permission from the government of Costa Rica to embark, only to have it all go up in the flames of Pearl Harbor on December 7.

I remember how exciting it was when I first realized that pretty girls would notice a new Ensign in Dress Whites and Gold Bars.  And I remember the frightful experience of being catapaulted from the flight deck in a Curtis Helldiver and suddenly realizing that my youth was over.

Looking back over six decades, I remember that we have had our share of disappointments and shortcomings, but I also recall that we have been blessed far beyond the dreams of two depression-age kids from Lamesa.

On this occasion, when we recall the good days and the pleasant times that we spent together, here is a wish that you will continue to enjoy the happiness that we shared, so long ago.

          Sincerely,
          Arlee Gowen

In September 1939 he enrolled in Texas Technological College at Lubbock.  During his undergraduate days he was employed as a printer at Wood Printing Company and Texas Tech Press.  Later he was a sportswriter on the "Lubbock Avalanche-Journal."  He was graduated in June 1943 with a BA degree in journalism.

On October 27, 1942 he volunteered into the U. S. Naval Reserve as an aviation cadet and, prior to reporting for active duty, was employed on the flightline by Breedlove Aerial Service, flight training contractor for U.S. Army Air Corps.  His naval training began at University of Texas where his physical training officer was "the meanest man that ever walked the face of the earth," Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, who was later one of the winningest coaches in college football at Texas A&M University and University of Alabama.  After additional training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and the University of Notre Dame he was commissioned an ensign at South Bend, Indiana.  Additional duty assignments took him to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Newport, Rhode Island and Newport News, Virginia.

He was assigned to the USS Randolph (CV-15) as its construction was being completed.  As a "plank owner" on the new aircraft carrier he was aboard on its shake-down cruise to Trinidad.  Following refitting and renovation the USS Randolph joined the Fifth Fleet operating in the Pacific theatre, arriving on station there via the Panama Canal, San Francisco and Hawaii.

The USS Randolph joined the fleet in the island anchorage of Ulithi atoll and participated in the war against Japan until its conclusion, taking part in the Battles of Bonin Islands, Iwo Jima, Io Shima, Okinawa and the Philippines and air strikes on Tokyo, Kyushu, Minami Daita Jima and the Nansei Shoto, operating with the Fifth Fleet, the Third Fleet, Task Force 58 and Task Force 38.

His ship participated in the first naval air strikes on Tokyo on July 10, 1945.  On July 14-15 the armada attacked Northern Honshu and Hokkaido.    On July 17-18 the Task Force struck at the Tokyo Plains.  On July 24, 25 and 28 the U.S.S. Randolph participated in attacks on targets in the Inland Sea.  On July 30 Central Honshu felt the wrath of the Grumann Wildcat fighters and the Curtis Helldiver divebombers from the fleet..

On August 9, the air attacks returned to Central Honshu, on August 10 to Northern Honshu.  On August 28, the U.S.S. Randolph was ordered to procede to Tokyo Bay to take part in the initial occupation of Japan.  The ship's company was to provide a shore party to march through the streets of Tokyo.  Close order drills took plane onthe flight deck to prepare the sailors to make a good appearance before the Japanese people.  Boot camp and our early training seemed seemed to be ancient history to the rusty sailors.  At the last minute we received a reprieve.

Suddenly, orders came for the ship to withdraw and to procede to Pearl Harbor on it way home.  The vessel was to be outfitted to take part in the Magic Carpet operation.  The aircraft carrier was take 5,000 Italian prisoners of war to Italy and to bring back that many army nurses.

When the surrender ceremony took place in Tokyo Bay on September 2. 1945 the ship was homeward bound.  The U.s.s. Randolph  returned to Baltimore, Maryland October 27, 1945 for a Navy Day victory celebration.

He was awarded four battle stars and six campaign ribbons for service in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Mediterranean theaters.  He was cited for "conspicuous gallantry" by Adm. Mark Mitscher in an attack by enemy aircraft at Ulithi when his ship was hit and severely damaged by Kamikazi aircraft.
 
Later the USS Randolph made shuttle trips to Naples, Italy to deliver Italian war prisoners and to return to the United States groups of U.S. Army nurses.

In December 1945 Lt.(jg) Arlee Claud Gowen received a transfer to Naval Air Transport Service and was stationed successively in Norfolk, Virginia; Patuxent River, Maryland; Olathe, Kansas and Amarillo, Texas.

On February 16, 1946 he was married to May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner, daughter of Joseph Drew Bonner and Alice Belle Hestand Bonner in Crane, Texas by Eddie E. Myers, minister of the gospel, according to Ector County, Texas Marriage Book 5, page 246.  She was born Friday, September 11, 1925 at Breckenridge, Texas.  May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner Gowen had graduated from Texas Technological College in June 1945 and was a teacher in Phillips, Texas High School at the time of their marriage.  After a honeymoon in New Mexico the couple lived at Pantex, Texas near Amarillo Army Air Base where he was stationed. He was separated from naval service June 6, 1946 at Galveston, Texas, and they moved immediately to Lubbock where they had met in college.

In 1946 Arlee Claud Gowen assisted in the organizing and founding of "South- western Crop and Stock," a farm magazine.  He was named editor of the publication which printed its first edition in January 1947.  May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner Gowen was a teacher at Hutchinson Junior High School in Lubbock at that time.  In 1955 he became a deacon and a bible school teacher at Broadway Church of Christ.

In August 1956 he assisted in the organization of High Plains Credit Corporation and was named executive vice-president of organization while continuing in the publishing business.  In 1959 he established a wholesale electronic supply which became known as Electros, Inc.  In 1961 he purchased a farm in Bailey County, Texas.  In April 1965 the couple applied for a distributorship with Amway Corporation and in November of that year became direct distributors with that organization.

He had become interested in family history research in 1941 and continued to pursue that interest for many years.  In September 1986 he entered a manuscript, "The Widder Dyches" in the Texas Sesquicentennial competition.  It was adjudged first place winner and was displayed in the Hall of State at the State Fair of Texas alongside the original Texas Declaration of Independence.  In March 1987 he was named to the board of directors of the South Plains Genealogical Society.  In 1987 "The Widder Dyches" received first place in Texas State Genealogical Society competition.  In 1988 an account of his fifth-generation grandfather, "Matthew Morgan McCall, M. D, Alikchi Chukma of the Choctaws" again took the TSGS award.

In 1985, 40 years after the liberation of the Philippines, they made made a trip there and visited the area around Manila Bay, Cavite Naval Base, Bataan and the Island of Corregidor.

Having sold their publishing, finance and electronics interests the couple in 1988 lived in Lubbock where they continued to operate their Amway distributorship from their home at 5708 Gary Avenue.

Two daughters were born to Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Gowen (B1/7.2):

 Bonnie Lee Gowen  born December 16, 1951
 Connie Louise Gowen         born July 3, 1954

Bonnie Lee Gowen, daughter of Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Gowen, was born December 16, 1951 in Lubbock, according to Texas BVS File 207127.  Her first home was at 3107 30th Street in Lubbock, her second was at 3413 20th street, and in 1970 her family removed to 5708 Gary Avenue.

After attending Lubbock Christian School and Lubbock public schools she was graduated from Lubbock High School in 1970.  Following two years at Texas Tech University she transferred to North Texas State University at Denton, Texas where she was graduated with a BS degree in May 1975.  Following graduate work there in chemistry and computer science she was married June 16, 1979 to David Michael Hill, son of David Hill and Betty Hill of Plano, Texas.

David Michael Hill, a graduate of North Texas State University and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Viet Nam, was employed in the university's computer complex where they met.  In June 1979 she was employed by Mostek Corporation, Carrollton, Texas, as a computer engineer, and two years later she was employed by Phillips Coal Division, Phillips Petroleum Company, Richardson, Texas as a systems analyst.

In November 1984 they made their home at Lewisville, Texas where he was employed as a satellite communications engineer with Bell of Canada in nearby Richardson.  At that time she was employed by Cray Research Corporation, a supercomputer manufacturer as a systems analyst.  In April 1985 she was employed by Convex Corporation, a computer manufacturer in Richardson.  In May 1985 they purchased a home at 2405 Golden Oaks, Garland, Texas.  They continued to live there in 1993.

Connie Louise Gowen, daughter of Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner Gowen , was born July 3, 1954 in Lubbock, according to BVS File No. 118566.  She attended Lubbock Christian School and Lubbock public schools and was graduated from Monterey High School in 1973.  During her undergraduate days she worked for the City of Lubbock in its Parks & Recreation Department, for Globe Department Store and as a waitress for International House of Pancakes, Ramada Inn and Big Texan Steak House.  She was graduated from Texas Tech University with a BS degree in 1976 and from University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas in June 1979 with an M.D. degree.

In July 1979 she began a surgery residency at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.  In July 1981 she began a period of residency at Veterans Administration Hospital, Johnson City, Tennessee.

She was married there June 25, 1983 to Darryl William Hiers, son of Dr. Donald Grover Hiers and Gypsy Lee Whitten Hiers.  In July 1983 she began the practice of plastic surgery in Chattanooga, Tennessee at Erlanger Hospital in association with the University of Tennessee.  He was graduated there from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. degree May 6, 1985.

In July 1985 she established a plastic surgery practice at Jonesboro, Arkansas, and they purchased a home there at 601 Arrowhead Drive, within 100 yards of the original homestead of James Gowen who settled there before 1870!

In 1986 she was appointed to "Outstanding Young Women of America."  In January 1987 she was inducted into "Who's Who of American Women."  Later that year she was entered into "World's Who's Who of Women." and was named an associate fellow in the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.  On November 20, 1987 she was appointed to American Board of Plastic Surgery.

A newspaper article read:

"Dr. Connie Louise Hiers and William Raymond "Bill" Fritz will be married June 29 at 2:00 p.m. in the Holidome of the Holiday Inn in Jonesboro, Arkansas.  The bride-elect is the daughter of Arlee and May Belle "Bonnie" Gowen of Lubbock.  She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Claud Franklin Gowen and of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Drew Bonner, all of Lubbock.

The bridegroom-elect is the son of Mrs. Mary Ann Fritz and Dr. B. D. Fritz, both of Jonesboro.  He is the grandson of Mrs. Velva Mae Powers of Jonesboro and of the late Mr. and Mrs. William G. Fritz of Senath, Missouri.

Dr. Hiers graduated Cum Laude in 1976 from Texas Tech University and received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas at Houston.  She received her general surgery training at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and at East Tennessee University in Johnson City, Tennessee and her plastic surgery training at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  She is a member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Craighead Medical Society, Arkansas Medical Society, American Medical Association and American Society of Outpatient Surgeons.  She is a plastic surgeon practicing in Jonesboro.

Mr. Fritz graduated from Arkansas State University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia in 1986.  He was employed by the United States Marshals Service from 1986 to 1990.  He is employed as a financial consultant with Merrill-Lynch in Jonesboro.

Friends and family members are invited to the wedding and to the reception which will follow in the Jonesboro Holidome."

Willie Elmer Cox (C2/10.2), son of James Madison Cox (C3/4.10) and Amanda Lucinda "Cindy" McCall Cox (M3/1.1), was born September 30, 1896 at Leander, Texas.  He appeared as a three-year-old in the 1900 census of Williamson County, living in his father's household.  His family removed to Albany, Texas in 1906 and to Young County in 1908, to Round Timbers, Texas in 1909 and to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911.  His father elected to move to Weed, New Mexico in 1915.  He registered his cattle brand "JC" with the State of New Mexico May 23, 1917.

When his father was killed by gunshot there the following year at sawmill the 20-year-old Willie Elmer Cox (C2/10.2) rode onto the scene with his pistol ready to avenge his father's death.  He raced his pony around and around the sawmill trying to get a shot at his father's adversary without providing a stationary target himself. Calmer heads finally prevailed upon him to leave justice to the law.

Willie Elmer Cox (C2/10.2) and his mother returned to Texas in 1920, locating on a farm in Stonewall County, and was married at Swenson, Texas January 16, 1921 to Effie Elmo Ramsey (R2/1.1) who was born March 25, 1903 in Stonewall County, Texas.  In 1924 he began farming in the Klondike community of Dawson County and in 1930 bought the community grocery store there.  He died of peritonitis following an appendectomy February 16, 1936, at age 39, and was buried in Lamesa Cemetery.

In 1939 Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox (R2/1.1) and her son lived in Seagraves, Texas.  Later she returned to Lamesa, Texas.  She died April 18, 1956 and was buried beside her husband.

One son was born to Willie Elmer Cox (C2/10.2) and Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox (R2/1.1).

        Dorman Elmer Cox        (C1/2.1)        born June 11, 1924

Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1), son of Willie Elmer Cox (C2/10.2) and Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox (R2/1.1), was born June 11, 1924 in Dawson County.  He was inducted November 13, 1942 at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in the U.S. Army Corps and received his basic training at Shepherd Field, Wichita Falls, Texas.  He was married January 24, 1943 in Waresboro, Georgia to Meddie Rilla Chauncey (C1/1.1), who was born in Waycross, Georgia January 24, 1923.  She was one of 13 children of William Sylvester Chauncey (C2/1.1) and Emma Riberton Chauncey (R2/1.1).  Shortly afterward he was stationed in India and served in the C.B.I. theatre during World War II.  He was discharged from the Air Corps November 2, 1945 at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia.

Following a short residency in Georgia he returned to Lamesa where he was employed in carpentry.  After a brief period the family returned to Waycross, Georgia where they were living October 25, 1946.  After a short employment on a chicken farm in Callahan, Florida he brought his family back to Lamesa where he was employed as a carpenter.  In 1955 they lived briefly in Odessa, Texas and then moved to Lubbock, Texas where he was employed as a Dr. Pepper route salesman.
  Later he was employed in the printing department of "Southwestern Crop  Stock," a farm magazine organized by his cousin Arlee Claud Gowen (G1/6.2).  Later he was employed as a "glassblower" and lathe operator in the cathode ray tube plant of Electros, Inc, also organized by his cousin in Lubbock.

Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.1) contracted cancer about 1956, and the family removed to Jacksonville, Florida in 1959 so she could be near her family.  She died there March 16, 1960 and was buried in the Chauncey family cemetery in Telmore, Georgia.  The family returned to Lubbock and resumed his association with Electros, Inc.

Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) was remarried September 7, 1962 to Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey (G1/1.1).  Shortly afterward she was graduated from Lubbock School of Vocational Nurses.  In 1966 the removed to Ft. Worth, Texas where he was employed as a printer for Manney Co.  She was a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital.  Later she was director of nurses at Fireside Nursing Home.

Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox (G1/1.1) died October 30, 1975 of a heart condition. He was remarried January 8, 1976 to "her best friend," Mildred Louise Nickens Becker (N1/1.1), a nurse who was employed with her and a mother of four.  She was born November 30, 1923 in St. Louis, Missouri.

In September 1983 he continued to live in Ft. Worth where he was employed as a superintendent for a construction company.  Later he was a partner in CR Construction Co.  He was incapacitated for a time in a construction accident in December 1984 in which his right leg was fractured in six places.

Children born to Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.1) include:

        Kenneth Dorman Cox      (C-1/1.1)       born September 3, 1944
        Linda Dardanella Cox    (C-1/1.2)       born October 25, 1946
        Gary Allen Cox          (C-1/1.3)       born February 9, 1951
        Stephen Elmer Cox       (C-1/1.4)       born January 28, 1956

No children were born to Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox (G1/1.1), but they adopted a daughter and assumed foster parenthood of another:

        Doyla Letta Cox         (C-1/1.5)       born October 21, 1967
        Theresa Ann Lairmore    (L-1/1.1)       born December 1, 1969

Kenneth Dorman Cox (C-1/1.1), son of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.1), was born September 3, 1944 in Waycross, Georgia.  He attended school in Lamesa, Odessa and Lubbock and was graduated there in 1963 from Monterey High School.  Following graduation he was employed by Hemphill-Wells Company and Electros, Inc.  In August 1963 he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps and received a medical discharge from the corps in December 1963.  Later he was a student at University of Florida.

He was married August 15, 1970 to Mary Virginia Allencia (A-1/1.1).  They were divorced in 1972 in Houston, Texas.  He was remarried November 20, 1972 to Chloe Lou Schumacher (S-1/1.1) in Ft. Worth.  They were divorced shortly afterward.  He was remarried April 28, 1984 to Peggy Ann Threat, a mother of three.  In 1985 he, a construction supervisor, lived in Ft. Worth.

Children born to Kenneth Dorman Cox (C-1/1.1) and Mary Virginia Allencia Cox (A-1/1.1) include:

        Rilla Theresa Cox       (C-2/1.1)       born March 22, 1972

No children were born to Kenneth Dorman Cox (C-1/1.1), Chloe Lou Schumacher (S-1/1.1) and Peggy Ann Threat Cox.

Linda Dardanella Cox (C-1/1.2), daughter of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.1), was born October 25, 1946 in Waycross.  She was graduated from Monterey High School in 1965.  Following graduation she was enrolled in Lubbock School of Vocational Nurses where she was elected president of her class and was graduated with honors.  She took her state board examinations in May 1967 and was employed by John Peter Smith Hospital.  In an 18-year tenure there she has risen to supervisory capacity.

She was married February 14, 1977 to Jeffery Lynn Becker (B-1/1.4), son of her step-mother, Mildred Louise Nickens Becker Cox (N1/1.1) and William Becker (B1/1.1). No children had been born to them in February 1985.

Gary Allen Cox (C-1/1.3), son of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.10), was born February 9, 1951 in Lamesa.  He attended public school in Lubbock and Ft. Worth and enrolled in the latter city in Tarrant County Junior College.

He was married September 20, 1971 in Ft. Worth to Donna Lee "Jingles" Peters (P-1/1.1).  In 1972 they lived in Beckley, West Virginia.  They were divorced in 1974 in Oklahoma.  In 1978 he was remarried to Rita Darlene Gilpin (G-1/1.1), daughter of William Franklin Gilpin (G1/1.1) and Lela Irene Lampp Gilpin (L1/1.1) of Ft. Worth. In February 1985 he was supervisor of construction and maintenance at John Peter Smith Hospital and lived at River Oaks, Texas.

Children born to Gary Allen Cox (C-1/1.3) and Donna Lee "Jingles" Peters Cox (P-1/1.1) include:

        Larry Allen Cox         (C-2/3.1)       born March 22, 1972

Children born to Gary Allen Cox (C-1/1.3) and Rita Darlene Gilpin Cox (G-1/1.1) include:

        Misty Amber Cox         (C-2/3.2)       born January 21, 1980
        Stephen William Cox     (C-2/3.3)       born July 24, 1982

Stephen Elmer Cox (C-1/1.4), son of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox (C1/1.1), was born January 28, 1956 in Lubbock.  He attended public school in Lubbock and Ft. Worth.  He enlisted in the U.S. Navy April 17, 1975 and received his basic training in Orlando, Florida.  Later he attended a naval electronics school in Chicago, Illinois.  He was discharged September 17, 1976.

He was married November 24, 1978 to Karen Dawn Stanfill (S-1/1.1) in Ft. Worth.  They were divorced in 1980.  He was married June 9, 1984 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Rhonda Karen Richard Chasteen (R-1/1.1), daughter of Norman Richard (R1/1.1) and Sondra Sher Richard (S1/1.1).

In 1985 he, the owner of Creative Wood Crafts, continued to live in Ft. Worth.  No children were born to Stephen Elmer Cox (C-1/1.4), Karen Dawn Stanfill Cox (S-1/1.1) and Rhonda Karen Richard Chasteen Cox (R-1/1.1).

Doyla Letta Cox (C-1/1.5), adopted daughter of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox (G1/1.1), was born October 21, 1967 in Ft. Worth.  In 1985 she continued in the home of her parents.  She was involved in an automobile accident June 16, 1985 and July 10 continued in a coma.

Theresa Ann Lairmore (L-1/1.1), foster daughter of Dorman Elmer Cox (C1/2.1) and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox (G1/1.1), was born December 1, 1969 in California.  In 1970 she came into their home.

She died February 15, 1985 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her temple.  She had a history of epileptic seizures and had recently been gripped by the debilitating malady.  Her organs were donated to transplant patients, and she was buried in Azleland Memorial Park.

Dan Malone, staff writer for "Ft. Worth Star-Telegram," wrote an article around the suicide note which she left for her family:

"The two-page note that Theresa Ann Lairmore-Cox left her family on Valentine's Day was full of love.  But when her father reads it now, it brings tears to his eyes and a tremor to his voice.

Theresa, a 15-year-old freshman at Boswell High School, wrote her farewell Thursday morning, moments before squeezing the trigger of the pistol she had placed to her head.  She died Friday at John Peter Smith Hospital.

Theresa's father, Dorman E. Cox, says he does not know why his daughter killed herself.  Her note did not explain it, although she expressed concerns about her epilepsy and anxiety about her health, he said.

"She had been having epileptic seizures, but hadn't been bothered for some time. Here this last week she had two.  She had a real strong one on Monday, which seemed to bother her a lot, then she had another one on Tuesday," Cox said Saturday evening, "She was worried about going bck and having these seizures."

On Thursday morning Cox woke Theresa up for school, then drove his wife Mildred to work.  When he returned about 30 minutes later, at about 8 a.m, he found Theresa's note, and a moment later, her lifeless body in her bed.  He also found his .22-caliber revolver in her bed with one discharged shell.  What he didn't find was a wound or blood.

She was taken to JPS, where doctors found a small wound in her temple, Cox said.  The teen-ager was kept on life-support systems until Friday, Cox said.  Cox said Theresa had never attempted to take he life before and gave no indication that she was upset before her death.

"On Wednesday night she talked to (her sister) Doyla Letta and one of my sons, Gary. They were over here talking, laughing, cutting up as usual," he said.  "One of her girlfriends had been down for a little bit, and they been out for a while.  I think they walked down to the store."

On the back of Theresa's photograph, printed at right, she had written message to her brother and sister-in-law, "To Gary and Darlene Cox  kids," she wrote, "Look now cause this will be the last time you'll see me in a picture.  Love ya, Theresa."

Cox said he believed that his daughter's words reflected her dissatisfction with how the picture turned out, rather than a warning of her troubled mind.  He said she accepted life on its own terms, "She didn't expect much out of life--she was pretty content with what she had and got."

Cox is not Theresa's father, though he is the only father figure she ever knew.  Her father died of cancer when she was an infant.  After her father's death Theresa was left in her grandfather's care until arrangements were made to place her in Cox's custody.  Cox, a relative of Theresa's through a previous marriage, became her legal guardian.

Cox asked that the note that Theresa left not be published, but he offers a general description.  She left word of her love for her family and a plea to understand what she did--if not why, "It was just her way of saying goodbye and God bless you."

Theresa will be buried at Azleland Memorial Park on Monday--the day that she was supposed to see her doctor about the latest round of seizures."

James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3), son of James Madison Cox (C3/4.10) and Amanda Lucinda "Cinda" McCall Cox (M3/1.1), was born August 12, 1898 in Williamson County.  In 1901 his family lived in Menard, Texas and in the same year moved to Nolan County, Texas, returned to Williamson County in 1905, moved to Albany, Texas in 1906, farmed in Young County, Texas in 1908, moved to Round Timbers, Texas in 1909 and to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911.

In 1915, while living in Throckmorton County, Texas, his father was influenced to move to Weed, New Mexico to homestead land there.

James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) was married September 1, 1919 at Cloudcroft, New Mexico to Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan (D1/2.2), his third cousin, once-removed, who was born in January 1901.  They were not aware of their relationship until his sister, Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4) began to research the family history about 1950. Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan (D1/2.2) was the daughter of Braxton "Brack" Drennan (D2/1.2) and Mary Ann Britt Drennan (B2/1.1).

In 1920 James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2) lived in Breckenridge, Texas.  In 1923 they lived in Ajo, California, and in 1924 in Compton, California.  He wrote his mother at that time that he was earning $1 an hour as a cement finisher.  In 1925 they returned to Texas.  He was operating a service station in the Klondike community of Dawson County across the intersection from the grocery later owned by his brother.  He was shot and killed there February 6, 1929 by W. E. Duke.

A newspaper story regarding the shooting appeared in the February 7 edition of "The Lubbock Journal:"

LAMESA, Feb. 7--J. A. Cox, filling station operator of the Klondyke community, fifteen miles southwest of here, was shot and instantly killed late last night.

W. E. Duke, pastor of the Midway Baptist Church, near Lamesa, surrendered to officers shortly after the shooting.

Both Cox and Duke are from prominent Dawson County families.  In addition to his ministry, the Rev. Duke is owner and operator of a store at Klondyke, where he and his family live.  The shooting occurred in front of the Duke store.  The Rev. Mr. Duke has been pastor there for the past five years.

The Rev. Mr. Duke would make no statement this morning concerning the tragedy following a conference with Judge J. E. Garland.  County Attorney A. W. Gibson announced that an examining trial would be held today.  No cause for the shooting could be advanced today by Sheriff Joe L. Ray or Duputy A. M. Bennett of Dawson County.

Mr. Cox is survived by his widow, four children, one brother and other relatives. The body is being held in a local undertaking establishment awaiting arrival of relatives.

He was buried in Lamesa Cemetery.

Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2) was remarried about 1932 to Calvin Shipley (S2/1.1) and continued to live in Lamesa where they operated a taxi service. Later they removed to Seminole, Texas and continued to operate a taxi service.  She died there in 1982.

Children born to James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2) include:

        James Carlton "Pete" Cox        (C1/3.1)        born July 18, 1920
        Desmond Ray Cox                 (C1/3.2)        born September 1, 1921
        Margaret DeMelba Cox            (C1/3.3)        born July 31, 1923
        James Alvia Cox, Jr.            (C1/3.4)        born December 1, 1925

Children born to Calvin Shipley (S2/1.1) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley (D1/2.2) include:

        Billie Kasteen Shipley          (S1/1.1)        born June 2, 1933
        Jerry Mack Shipley              (S1/1.2)        born October 10, 1934
        Gary Paul Shipley               (S1/1.3)        born October 12, 1941

James Carlton "Pete" Cox (C1/3.1), son of James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2), was born July 18, 1920 at Breckenridge, Texas.  During World War II he served as a hospital corpsman stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas near El Paso.  He was married there about 1941 to Dorothy Faye Hitchcock (H1/1.1).

Following military service he became a doctor of Chiropractic and developed his practice in El Paso, Texas.  In November 1984 he continued there.

Children born to James Carlton "Pete" Cox (C1/3.1) and Dorothy Faye Hitchcock Cox (H1/1.1) include:

        James Carlton Cox, Jr.  (C-1/1.1)       born September 1, 1942
        Phillip Curtis Cox      (C-1/1.2)       born February 25, 1944

Desmond Ray Cox (C1/3.2), son of James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2), was born September 1, 1921.  Following U.S. Army service during World War II he was married to Agnes Kay Way Kidd (W1/1.1), a widow with two daughters.  They resided in Ft. Worth, Texas where he was employed as a metalsmith. No children were born to Desmond Ray Cox (C1/3.2) and Agnes Kay Way Kidd Cox (W1/1.1).

Margaret DeMelba Cox (C1/3.3), daughter of James Alvia Cox (C2/10.3) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2), was born July 31, 1923 in Ajo, California. Her family returned to Dawson County, Texas shortly afterwards.  She was married about 1941 to Elton Lee Gossett (G1/1.1).

Children born Elton Lee Gossett (G1/1.1) and Margaret DeMelba Cox Gossett (C1/3.3) include:

        Margaret Lee Gossett    (G-1/1.1)       born December 14, 1943
        Ronnie Keith Gossett    (G-1/1.2)       born December 17, 1946
        Elton Lee Gossett, Jr.  (G-1/1.3)       born February 26, 1953
        Samuel David Gossett    (G-1/1.4)       born June 22, 1956

James Alvia Cox, Jr. (C1/3.4), son of James Alvia Cox (C2/10.4) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox (D1/2.2), was born in Dawson County December 1, 1925.  He was married about 1946 to Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter (C1/1.1).

He became an oil products distributor in Bridgeport, Texas.  In 1983 they lived in Decatur, Texas.

Children born to James Alvia Cox, Jr. (C1/3.4) and Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter Cox (C1/1.1), include:

        Alvia Cox               (C-1/4.1)       born about 1948
        Patsy Jean Cox          (C-1/4.2)       born about 1950
        Cary Cox                (C-1/4.3)       born about 1953

Alvia Cox (C-1/4.1), son of James Alvia Cox, Jr. (C1/3.4) and Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter Cox (C1/1.1), was born about 1948.

Patsy Jean Cox (C-1/4.2), daughter of James Alvia Cox, Jr. (C1/3.4) and Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter Cox (C1/1.1), was born about 1950.  She was married about 1969, husband's name Craig.

Cary Cox (C-1/4.3), son of James Alvia Cox, Jr. (C1/3.4) and Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter Cox (C1/1.1), was born about 1953.

Billie Kasteen Shipley (S1/1.1), daughter of Calvin Shipley (S2/1.1) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley (D1/2.2), was born June 2, 1933 at Lamesa.  She was married about 1952 to Thomas Ray (R1/1.1).  Later she was remarried to Glenn Sullivan (S1/1.1).  Her third marriage was to Olen Locker (L1/1.1).

Children born to Thomas Ray (R1/1.1) and Billie Kasteen Shipley Ray (S1/1.1) include:

        Mickey Ray              (R-1/1.1)       born about 1953
        Bill Ray                (R-1/1.2)       born about 1955
        Gary Don Ray            (R-1/1.3)       born aobut 1958

Jerry Mack Shipley (S1/1.2), son of Calvin Shipley (S2/1.1) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley (D1/2.1), was born October 10, 1934 in Lamesa.  He was married about 1955 to Anita Joyce Kaker (K1/1.1).

Children born to them include:

        Mike Shipley            (S-1/2.1)       born about 1957
        Debbie Shipley          (S-1/2.2)       born about 1959
        Brenda Shipley          (S-1/2.3)       born about 1962

Gary Paul Shipley (S1/1.3), son of Calvin Shipley (S2/1.1) and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley (C1/2.1), was born October 12, 1938 in Lamesa.  He was married about 1959 to Glenda Burnett (B1/1.1)

Children born to them include:

        Shelly Shipley          (S-1/3.1)       born about 1961
        Sherry Shipley          (S-1/3.2)       born about 1964

Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox (C2/10.4), daughter of James Madison Cox (C3/4.10) and Amanda Lucinda "Cindy" McCall Cox (M3/1.1), was born December 24, 1900 in Williamson County. Her family removed to Nolan County in 1901, back to Williamson County in 1905, to Albany, Texas in 1906, to Young County in 1908, to Round Timbers in 1909, to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911, to Throckmorton County in 1912 and to Weed, New Mexico in 1915. She was married there in Cloudcroft, New Mexico August 20, 1919 to Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/2.1).  He was a brother to Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan (D1/2.2) and a son of Thomas Braxton Drennan (D2/1.2) and Mary Ann Britt Drennan (B2/1.1), born August 19, 1899.

They were third cousins, once-removed, but were not aware of the relationship until Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4) began to research the family history about 1958.

In 1920 Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/2.1) moved his family to Stonewall County, Texas where he operated a farm.  In the fall of 1925 they moved to Dawson County, Texas where he continued farming.  In 1955 they moved to Lubbock, Texas where he was employed by JOT, Inc, owned by his nephew Stanley Olgee "Jot" Gowen (C1/6.1).

Later they lived in Denton, Texas where his son-in-law Charles Edwin "Doc" Davis (D-1/1.1) operated a Chevrolet dealership.  Following this period they lived in Ft. Worth, Texas and Winnsboro, Texas where they operated a stock farm with their son Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan (D-1/1.1).  In 1977 they retired and returned to Aspermont, Texas purchasing a home from Ella Rash Parker (R-1/1.1) who was later to become their daughter-in-law.  In November 1984 Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4) lived in Gibson Memorial Home there.

Children born to Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/2.1) and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4) include:

        Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan   (D-1/1.1)   born June 20, 1920
        Joyce Arlene Drennan          (D-1/1.2)   born January 4, 1922
        Ora Aladine "Deanie" Drennan  (D-1/1.3)   born December 13, 1923
        Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4)   born January 2, 1926

Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan (D-1/1.1), son of Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/2.1) and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4), was born June 20, 1920 at Weed, New Mexico.  He was married December 24, 1943 at Lamesa, Texas to Bernadine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor (T-1.1.1), daughter of Henry Ten Cate (T1/1.1) and Helena Jantina Scaap Ten Cate (S1/1.1).  She was a widow with one child, Patricia Ann Taylor (T-2/1.1). Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan (D-1/1.1) and Bernadine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor Drennan (T-1/1.1) were divorced about 1946, and he moved to Ft. Worth, Texas to affiliate with the fire department.  Bernadine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor Drennan (T-1/1.1) died in Los Angeles in 1970.

He retired from the department in 1977 as a captain.  He maintained his home on his farm at Winnsboro, Texas with his parents until 1979 when he removed to Aspermont, Texas.  He was remarried there July 17, 1979 to Mrs. Ella Rash Parker (R-1/1.1).

Children born to Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan (D-1/1.1) and Bernardine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor Drennan (T-1/1.1) include:

        Patricia Ann Taylor Drennan     (D-2/1.1)       born September 7, 1941
        Teri Rae Drennan                (D-2/1.2)       born December 22, 1944

Patricia Ann Taylor Drennan (D-1/1.1), daughter of Jean Ten Cate Taylor (T-1/1.1), was born September 7, 1941 in Los Angeles and was adopted bbration.  He was awarded four battle stars and six campaign ribbons for service in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Mediterrane.

Teri Rae Drennan (D-1/1.2), daughter of Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan (D-1/1.1) and Jean Ten Cate Taylor Drennan (T-1/1.1), was born in Lamesa December 22, 1944.  She was married about 1964 to Carl Buckley Mahaney (M-2/1.1).  In 1970 they lived at Denton, Texas where they owned a farm and a shoe store.  Later they were divorced. After receiving a Ph.D in education she began teaching.  In 1983 she was teaching in Anchorage, Alaska.

Joyce Arlene Drennan (D-1/1.2), daughter of Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/1.2) and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4), was born January 4, 1922 in Stonewall County, Texas.  Later her parents moved to Dawson County, Texas where she grew up and was graduated from high school in 1939.  She was married in 1945 in Lamesa to Carl Hugh Weaks (W-1/1.1).  Later the couple was divorced, and she was remarried in Lamesa June 17, 1955 to Audie Lee Richey (R-1/1.1), son of Hurley Lee Richey (R1/1.1) and Alice Bradford Richey (B1/1.1).

In 1970 they lived on a farm near Winnsboro, Texas, and she was employed by General Telephone Company in Sulphur Springs, Texas.  In 1983 they removed to Aspermont, Texas.

One daughter was born to Carl Hugh Weaks (W-1/1.1) and Joyce Arlene Drennan Weaks (D-1/1.2):

        Carla Joyce Weaks       (W-2/1.1)       born March 11, 1946

Carla Joyce Weaks (W-2/1.1), daughter of Carl Hugh Weaks (W-1/1.1) and Joyce Arlene Drennan Weaks (D-1/1.2), was born March 11, 1946 in Lamesa.  She was married January 27, 1967 to Stanley Stafford (S-2/1.1) in Lubbock, Texas.  In 1970 they lived in Houston, Texas.  In 1983 they lived in Sulphur Springs, Texas where he was employed by Dewitt Trucking Company, and she was a nurse.

Children born to them include:

        Tonya Michelle Stafford  (S-3/1.1)      born September 30, 1968
  Tonya Michelle Stafford (S-3/1.1), daughter of Stanley Stafford (S-2/1.1) and Carla Joyce Weaks Stafford (W-2/1.1), was born in Lubbock September 30, 1968.

Ora Aladine "Deanie" Drennan (D-1/1.3), daughter of Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/1.1) and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4), was born December 13, 1923 in Stonewall County.  Her parents removed to Dawson County about 1925 where she attended school and was graduated from high school.  Following graduation she was employed by General Telephone Company there and in a short time became chief operator.

She was married about 1946 to George Norman Bourlan (B-1/1.1) in Lamesa.  Later the couple was divorced, and she was remarried December 11, 1949 to Charles Edwin "Doc" Davis (D-1/1.1) who was employed by an automobile dealership there.  Later the couple removed to Lubbock where they lived in November 1984.

Two children were adopted by Charles Edwin "Doc" Davis (D-1/1.1) and Ora Alidene "Deanie" Drennan Bourlan Davis (D-1/1.3):

        Charles David Davis     (D-2/1.1)       born June 14, 1963
        Tommie Ross Davis       (D-2/1.2)       born May 21, 1966

Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4), son of Thomas Calvin Drennan (D1/1.1) and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4), was born January 2, 1926 in Dawson County. Following graduation from high school there he was married about 1946 to Netha Arlene Denson (D-1/1.1).  Later the couple was divorced, and he was remarried to Mrs. Charlotte Fogerson who was born December 28, 1927 in Canyon, Texas.  In 1984 they lived in Hobbs, New Mexico where they owned Drennan's Heating  Plumbing Company.

Children born to Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) and Netha Arlene Denson Drennan (D-1/1.1) include:

        Netha Diane Drennan     (D-2/4.1)       born July 3, 1947
        Teresa Nanette Drennan  (D-2/4.2)       born July 3, 1948

Children born to Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) and Charlotte Fogerson Drennan include:

        Brett Fogerson Drennan  (D-2/4.3)       born May 16, 1951
        Kathleen Ann Drennan    (D-2/4.4)       born June 7, 1959

Netha Diane Drennan (D-2/4.1), daughter of Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) and Netha Arlene Denson Drennan (D-1/1.1), was born July 3, 1947 in Lamesa.  She was married about 1967 to Willard Ware (W-2/1.1) at Sundown, Texas.

Teresa Nanette Drennan (D-2/4.2), daughter of Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) and Netha Arlene Denson Drennan (D-1/1.1), was born July 3, 1948 at Lamesa.  She was married about 1966 to Larry Phillips (P-2/1.1) in Odessa, Texas.

Children born to them include:

        Cary Todd Phillips      (P-3/1.1)       born December 22, 1967

Brett Fogerson Drennan (D-2/4.3), son of Charlotte Fogerson Drennan, was born May 16, 1951.  He was adopted by Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) after their marriage.

Kathleen Ann Drennan (D-2/4.4), daughter of Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan (D-1/1.4) and Charlotte Fogerson Drennan, was born June 7, 1959 in Hobbs, New Mexico.

Hulda Margaretta Cox (C3/4.11), daughter of James Christopher Cox (C4/2.4) and Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle Cox (V4/1.6), was born May 28, 1872.  She was recorded as an eight-year-old in the 1880 census of her father's household in Lampasas County, Texas.

According to Williamson County Marriage Book 7, page 393 she was married September 10, 1891 to Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) who was born February 12, 1868.  In 1908 they lived in Georgetown, Texas.  Later they lived at Paint Rock, Texas.  He died February 19, 1920, and she moved to Eden, Texas.   When she was interviewed by Arlee Claud Gowen (G1/6.2) in 1960, at age 89, she had been horseback riding.  She died at Eden May 19, 1966 at age 93.

Children born to them include:

        Betty M. Piper Howell       (H2/1.1)       born December 14, 1892
        James Will Howell           (H2/1.2)       born December 14, 1894
        Spencer Fine Howell, Jr.    (H2/1.3)       born May 7, 1896
        Annie Laurie "Rhoda" Howell (H2/1.4)       born August 27, 1898
        Hallie F. Howell            (H2/1.5)       born March 29, 1901
        Kelsie Howell               (H2/1.6)       born May 20, 1903
        George R. Howell            (H2/1.7)       born October 27, 1905

Betty M. Piper Howell (H2/1.1), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born December 14, 1892 in Georgetown, Texas. She died January 18, 1964.

James Will Howell (H2/1.2), son of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born December 14, 1894 in Georgetown.  He died June 23, 1967 of cancer.

Spencer Fine Howell, Jr. (H2/1.3), son of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born May 7, 1896.  He was married about 1920 to Margie Lavern Williams (W2/1.1), and they lived 30 years at Florence, Texas.  In 1975 they continued there.  In 1984 they lived in Stonehaven Retirement Home in Georgetown.  Both died there in 1986.

Children born to them include:

        Geraldine Howell        (H1/3.1)        born September 18, 1929
        Natalie Howell          (H1/3.2)        born March 7, 1933

Geraldine Howell (H1/3.1), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell, Jr. (H2/1.3) and Margie Lavern Williams Howell (W2/1.1), was born September 18, 1929.  She was married September 18, 1948 to William L. Boothe (B1/1.1).  In 1986 they lived in the Mohamet community in Burnet County.

Children born to them include:

        William Ronnie Boothe   (B-1/1.1)       born December 22, 1949

Natalie Howell (H1/3.2), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell, Jr. (H2/1.3) and Margie Lavern Williams Howell (W2/1.1), was born in Williamson County March 7, 1933.  She was married about 1953 to Hubert E. Boales (B1/1.1).  In 1955 they lived in Bertram, Texas and in 1956 and 1958 in Jasper, Texas.  In 1975 they lived in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  She died January 20, 1980.

Children born to them include:

        Valerie Elaine Boales   (B-1/1.1)       born March 15, 1955
        Douglas Edwin Boales    (B-1/1.2)       born October 28, 1956
        Bruce Eric Boales       (B-1/1.3)       born July 3, 1958

Annie Laurie "Rhoda" Howell (H2/1.4), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born August 27, 1898 in Williamson County, Texas.  In 1975 she lived in Eden, Texas.  She died January 20, 1980.

Hallie F. Howell (H2/1.5), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born March 29, 1901 in Williamson County.  Of this individual nothing more is known.

Kelsie Howell (H2/1.5), daughter of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born May 20, 1903 in Williamson County.  She was married about 1922, husband's name Fort.  In 1985 she lived in Eden in retirement and died there in 1986.

George R. Howell (H2/1.5), son of Spencer Fine Howell (H3/1.1) and Hulda Margaretta Cox Howell (C3/4.11), was born October 17, 1905.  He died April 3, 1958.