Sarah Elizabeth Byrd was born 29 Dec 1870 in Brown County, Texas
and died 7 April 1970 in Tucson,Pima County,
Arizona. She is buried at Cross Cut Cemetery,
Brown County, Texas. She married J.W. Foster
on 05 Jul 1885 in Brown County, Texas. She
married William Russell Strange, the son
of William Asbury Strange and Mary Priscilla
Baker, circa 1892 in Brown County, Texas.
He was born circa 1868 in Arkansas and died in Texas.
He is buried in Broken Arrow, Wagoner County,
Oklahoma. See her grave marker.
Sarah Elizabeth Byrd is a sister of
David
V. "Dave" Byrd and Oliver
Wallis
who married Phoebe Ida Aynes and Armilda Aynes the daughter of John Aynes and Sarah Jane
Russell Honeycutt. Her brother Jesse
Blackstone
Byrd, Jr. son William Earnest Byrd married Maudie DeBusk the daughter of William Lane DeBusk and
Martha Laura Keller. George Homer Keller and Mary Mercie Keller, siblings of Martha Laura Keller, married Nancy Ann "Nan"
Helms and Fielden Jasper Helms, children
of Susan DeBusk and James Patton Helms.
Children of Sarah Elizabeth Byrd and
J.W.
Foster
1 -- Jennie E. Foster born Circa 1893
2 -- Shirley V. Foster born Circa 1897
Children of Sarah Elizabeth Byrd and
William
Russell Strange
1 -- Leonard Leroy Strange born 20 Feb 1892 in
Crofton, Wise County, Texas
and died 1892 in Crofton, Wise County, Texas.
2 -- Jennie Ethel Strange born 28 Jan
1894
in Nacona, Montague County, Texas and died in Texas. She married
Golden
Jensen
3 -- Shirley Virgil Strange born in
2 March 1897
in Clyville, Brown County,Texas and died 22 May 1966 in Texas. He married
a Clara Dee Bibb born 1900 in Golden, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. He
also married Rose Ella Pratt. She was born 22 Feb 1903 and died 30 Oct
1999. He and Rose Ella Pratt are both buried at
Buried
in Fort
Bliss National Cemetery , El Paso, El
Paso,
Texas.
4 -- George Glenn Strange born 16 Aug 1899 in Weed, Otero County, New
Mexico and died 20 Sep 1973 in Burbank,
Los
Angeles County, California. He is
buried
in Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills,
Los Angeles
County, California. He married Flora
Eola
Hooper, daughter of Charles Hooper
and Ruth
Evans, on 29 Apr 1920 in Hastings,
Cotton
County, Oklahoma. She was born 12
Sep 1904
in Hastings, Cotton County, Oklahoma
and
died 06 Sep 1990 in Duncan, Oklahoma.
She
is buried in Resthaven Cemetery,
Duncan,
Stephens County, Oklahoma. He married a second time around 1930 and
divorced in 1932 to Otrela Spradling.
. He
married a third time in 1936 at
Glendale,
Los Angeles County, California to
Minnie
Thompson who he remained with until
his death
in 1973. He and a cousin Curtis McPeters went to Hollywood
and became actors. They were both
members
of a Western band called the Arizonia
Wranglers.
George Glen Stange played a bad
man in many
B Westerns. He was the bartender
on the James
Arness series Gunsmoke.
5 -- David Lawrence Strange born
10 Nov 1902
in Brown County, Texas and died
13 Nov 1957
in Brown County, Texas. He married Dorothy Thompson and his brother,
George Glenn Strange married her sister Minnie
Thompson. Lawrence and Dorothy were divorced
in the 1940's. He is buried in Cross Cut Cemetery, Brown
County, Texas. See his grave marker.
6 -- Alpha Main Strange born 15 Jun 1905
in
Brown County, Texas. She married Calvin Keeney. |
