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The Descendants of Martha Jane Ewing
Martha Jane5 Ewing (James4, Alexander3, John2, Alexander1, RobertA)
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1. Martha Jane Ewing {40} was born 21 Sep 1829 in Wilson County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of James Ewing {31} and Nancy Smith {32}. Martha died 23 Feb 1916 in Godley, Johnson County, Texas, and was buried in Old Bethany Cemetery in Godley, Johnson County, Texas. She married Lycurgus Vestus Kennedy {703} 17 Jan 1849 in Wilson County, Tennessee. He was born 9 Nov 1826 in Tennessee. He was the son of William Barnett Kennedy {329} and Drusilla Hobson {330}. Lycurgus died 21 Apr 1885 in Godley, Johnson County, Texas, and was buried in Old Bethany Cemetery in Godley, Johnson County, Texas.
Known children of Martha are:
2. i. William Gaines Kennedy {704}, born 21 Oct 1849 in Tennessee, died 30 Oct 1933 in Godley, Johnson County, Texas, and was buried in Old Bethany Cemetery in Godley, Johnson County, Texas. Unmarried. He was a Mason.
From History of Johnson County, Texas and Surrounding Areas by Viola Block, 1970, page 136 we find a reference to Old Bethany, . . . "Then there was Gaines Kennedy, who knew where everyone was buried. He made a plot of the cemetery, but since his death the papers have disappeared and Philip Huey does not know who is buried in those graves which have no monuments.”
3. ii. Calista Black Kennedy {705}, born 7 Jan 1852 in Statesville, Wilson
County, Tennessee, died in childhood 11 Sep 1861 in Statesville, Wilson
County, Tennessee. According to the records for Calista's father, this
family was living in Statesville at the time of her death. She probably died
at home and was buried in Statesville. (Nancy Moulton's comment).
+ 4. iii. Mary Emily "Emma" Kennedy {706}, born 29 Feb 1856, died 27 Jan 1944.
+ 5. iv. Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}, born 8 Sep 1862, died 18 Mar 1929.
The following comments were written by Carlton Parks, a descendant of Martha Jane.
The 1850 census (which recorded their name as “Canady”) showed that they already had a one-month old child named Gaines. By the time of the next census in 1860 their family had grown to
include Gaines (11), Calicity (9) and Emily (5). The land they owned at that time in the
Statesville township of Wilson County was worrh $2,380 while their personal property was
valued at @ 2,270, a considerable amount for the times. They even had two hired hands living
with them. At the time of the 1860 census they were living next door to a 57 year old Drucilla
Kennedy along with three of her teenage children and Benjamin (24) Kennedy and his wife Lucy
(19). Her property was valued at only $100. Since Martha was mentioned as an inheritor in her
grandfather’s will, Shadrack Smith, in 1855 and Elizabeth Smith’s will in 1860, perhaps these
legacies
account for a small increase in the value of Vestus and Martha possessions as shown in
this last census.
The Civil War broke out that was to destroy much of Tennessee. Vestus joined the Confederate army. A book on Confederate soldiers from Tennessee listed an L. V. Kennedy as being a private in E. Company, 1st Cavalry, 42nd Infantry. This unit was first mustered into service in September, 1861. Company E was composed of men from Cannon, Wilson, DeKalb, and Rutherford Counties all located just east of Nashville. In the early fall of that year his battalion started moving into Kentucky. On September 26, 1861, they broke up a camp of about one-thousand enemy soldiers at Laurel Bridge, Kentucky. Vestus soon after became ill before his unit became involved in any further major engagements with the Union forces.
According to the National Archives records, L. V. Kennedy joined the Confederate Army on Jun 28, 1861, and was released five months later on October 30, 1861 because of illness. This was the statement on the officially discharge papers completed in Cumberland Ford, Kentucky.
“I certify, that the within named L. V. Kennedy a Sergeant of Captain T. M. Allison’s Company (E) of the State of Tennessee aged 34 years, 5 feet, 8 inches high, Dark completion, Dark eyes, Dark hair, and by profession a Farmer was enlisted by Joe Pickett at Aubourn on the 28 day of June, 1861 to serve 1 year, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of having Brights Disease & Smytoms of Coxalgia.”
Then at the bottom, it was signed by T. M. Allison, the commanding officer. Bright’s disease is a
liver ailment characterized by albumin (a protein) in the urine, while coxalgia is a pain, or disease,
of the hip or hip joint. For his service from his previous payday, he was given $36 for three
months “use & risk” of his horse, $51 for his services, and $6.40 to travel the 320 miles back to
his place of enrollment in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This travel expense was based on 40 cents a
day for sixteen days.
He was recorded as being a private on September 19 and then a month
later he was denoted as being a sergeant. This promotion would tend to indicate that he had been
a good soldier for the brief time he was in the service and that he was not malingering, but that his
illness incapacitated him for military service. Interestingly, his health problems did not prevent
him from riding an estimated 320 miles to return to his home district.
After his discharge and when Grandma Josie was about two years old, according to stories she told her children, her father moved the family to Texas. The 1870 census for Hunt County recorded them as being farmers with White Rock being the Post Office, a small community about sixty miles northeast of Dallas. It listed all members of the family as being born in Tennessee. They did not own real estate and had only $255 worth of personal property. The census showed them being next door to four separate Ewing families headed by Benjamin, Shed [Shadrack], Randy B. [Randall Bransford] and Alex B. [Alexander Bailey] who were brothers to Martha Jane. All of these Ewings, except the youngest, owned the land on which they dwelled and had over $1,000 of personal property. So they appeared to be in much better shape at least financially than Vestus’ family.
The 1880 census found Great-grandpa Vestus Kennedy living in Ellis County. Residing with them is an additional male named William G. Kennedy who was thirty years old, so I presume this is still Gaines mentioned in the 1860 census and the 1870 as Gus. The Kennedy family was living right next door to Great-grandpa W. C. Parks who had eleven people staying with him including our Grandparents James Wood Parks and his wife Josie who was Vestus’ seventeen year old daughter.
Lycurgus Vestus Kennedy’s parents were William B. Kennedy and Drucilla Hobson. William was born in Virginia in 1781 and went to Kentucky with his widowed mother when a youth. William Kennedy was shown being a witness to a land deal in Wilson County as early as August 11, 1809. A few years later in 1815 William B. Kennedy bought 56 acres of land from a woman and then granted it to two other men. In 1816, he sold 50 acres to Jehu McMinn. Three years later he bought 116 acres of land in Wilson County. William’s will, which was recorded in September of 1840, listed his wife Drucilla and ten children as his inheritors. Drucilla was born in 1793 in Tennessee and died in 1853. William and Drucilla along with five of their children are buried in the Old Bone Camp Ground graveyard in Wilson County.
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4. Mary Emily "Emma" Kennedy {706} was born 29 Feb 1856 in Tennessee. She was the daughter of Lycurgus Vestus Kennedy {703} and Martha Jane Ewing {40}. Mary died 27 Jan 1944 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. She married James Burke "Bert" Barkley {708} Jul 1883. He was born 14 Sep 1858 in Milton, Rutherford County, Tennessee. He was the son of Thomas Cowan Barkley {1920} and Nancy Jane Wilson {1921}. James died 29 Nov 1898 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Return to parents
Known children of Mary are:
+ 6. i. Osie Barkley {709}, born 3 Mar 1885, died 30 Nov 1976.
+ 7. ii. Ollie Vestus Barkley {710}, born 2 Mar 1887, died 24 Nov 1957.
8. iii. Florence Maie Barkley {711}, born Jul 1889.
9. iv. Ira Ewing Barkley {712}.
5. Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707} was born 8 Sep 1862 in Wilson County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Lycurgus Vestus Kennedy {703} and Martha Jane Ewing {40}. Josephine died 18 Mar 1929 in Stephens County, Oklahoma, and was buried in Owens Prarie, Stephens County, Oklahoma. She married James Wood Parks {713} 27 May 1880 in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas. He was born 1 Oct 1854 in Williamson County, Tennessee. James died 23 Jul 1933 in Stephens County, Oklahoma, and was buried in Owens Prairie, Stephens County, Oklahoma. Return to parents
Known children of Josephine are:
+ 10. i. William Columbus Parks {714}, born 18 Apr 1881, died 13 Mar 1956.
+ 11. ii. James Wood Parks, Jr {715}, born 10 Sep 1882, died 10 May 1952.
+ 12. iii. Charley Douglas Parks {716}, born 19 Jul 1884, died 2 Sep 1951.
+ 13. iv. Florence May Parks {717}, born 30 Jan 1887, died 18 Jul 1953.
+ 14. v. Joseph Vandan Parks {718}, born 22 Jan 1889, died 25 Jul 1968.
15. vi. Lycurgus Vestus Parks {719}, born 22 Jan 1889 in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, died 4 Jul 1963.
16. vii. Fannie Ree Parks {720}, born 14 Feb 1891 in Arthur, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, died 15 Sep 1915.
+ 17. viii. Gaines Thomas Parks {721}, born 15 Mar 1894, died 9 Mar 1949.
+ 18. ix. Robert Earl Parks {4665}, born 8 Apr 1897, died 6 Jul 1964.
19. x. Lillie Dale Parks {4666}, born 1 Mar 1900 in Arthur, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, died in infancy 15 Mar 1900.
The following was written by Carlton Parks, a grandson of James Wood Parks.
Grandpa James Wood Parks was the oldest son of William Columbus Parks and Elisabeth
“Louisy” Beech. He was born on October 1, 1854, in Tennessee. Louisy named this first child
after her brother who was Richard Wood Beech and in return her brother named his first child
Elisabeth after her. Unfortunately, baby Elisabeth died a year after her birth.
When James Wood was about nine years old, he shot his six-year old brother Charlie in a fight over a cow. The wounded brother ran to his father where he was reported to have said. “Oh, Papa, Wood shot me!” He then fell across his father’s lap and died. The reason for the shooting has been disputed by his sister Sue who told her children that it was purely an unintentional accident.
Wood married Josie Florence Kennedy on May 27, 1880, in Waxahachie, Texas. Josie was born in Tennessee and her family had moved to Texas when she was only two years old. She stood a little less than five feet tall and was “small-boned.” Family gossip has it that she was part Indian although it wasn’t indicated by any of her features or by her known ancestral lineage which has been traced all the way back to Scotland.
Grandpa Wood Parks and Grandma Josie along with their first six children moved
from Texas to Indian Territory about 1891 soon after it had been opened for settlement. They
moved in two covered wagons pulled by teams of oxen onto the former Chickasaw Indian
reservation
and settled on a farm in the Owens Prairie community. Our father, Bob, was born on
April 8, 1897, in a log cabin on what was the A. J. Stanley place by the Baseline road fourteen miles east of Duncan in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
Cousin Beatrice Kennom recalled her mother Sue visited our grandfather, her mother’s brother, in
about 1909 and stayed for a week. At that time Grandpa and the younger members of his family
lived in a house while Charlie and Wood slept in a nearby cellar. Every morning while she was
there, Charlie brought her a toddy to drink.
Eventually, Grandpa and Uncle Charlie together
bought a section of land (one square mile or 640 acres) which they divided between them along
Big Creek that ran through the property.
Grandpa Parks moved his remaining family to his side
of this section of land which has since become known as the family homestead. They lived in a
two-room cabin with a side room built onto it until the new house was build by D. C. Stanley
around 1918 or 20.
This new wood-sided house with its front bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, and back bedroom impressed my older brothers and sisters as a nice well-kept place while they were growing up, especially when compared to the rundown tenant farm housing in which they normally lived. There was no electricity nor indoor plumbing as was the norm in farm housing of that time and place. Just outside the kitchen door was a stone-rimmed well from which they drew their water by rope and bucket. Hanging on the wall in the front room was a large photograph of a confederate soldier with crossed arms holding a ball-and-cap pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. There were no closets in the house. Instead, Grandpa and Grandma kept their clothes folded in a trunk at the foot of the bed. Grandpa also kept pecans on the upper tray of the trunk to give as treats to his grandkids; and in the lower section he stored a jar of moonshine liquor for his morning toddy. During the summer months company always sat on the open front porch to visit. Grandpa sometimes gave the kids Indian head pennies. Cousin Jean swore that she never made it home with any of hers. She thought sure they had fallen through the holes in her pockets and on down through the gaps in the planks on the front porch. When it was first built, the roof was covered with wooden shingles. Wyman was always climbing up on the roof and Grandpa was always shouting at him to get down. The house was once surrounded by roses that Grandpa had planted. A hundred-year old red rose still grows there today and blooms in front of where the old house used to stand before Cousin Murray tore it down.
Grandma and Aunt May along with the other womenfolk always waited till the men had filled their plates before they sat down to eat with them. Meat was served year round in the household. J.V. said he liked coming to Grandpa’s, he was always assured of getting biscuits and some meat - something he didn’t get often at home.
Grandpa Parks was tall and thin. He always wore a full mustache that would tickle the granddaughters when their mothers insisted that they kiss him. He never removed his hat except to eat or sleep. Grandma always called her husband “Mr. Parks”. Most people referred to him as “Wood”. Sometimes he was called “Hog Parks” because of the number of pigs he raised. In fact, Grandpa has been accused of caring more for his pigs than his family - he did build the concrete pens for the hogs before he built the new house.
Grandpa was one of the largest raisers of hogs in all of southern Oklahoma. He was often written
up in the stockman papers for his innovative methods. Grandpa built a concrete shed for his hogs
that ran for about 150 feet. All the cement was mixed by hand. He was always having to yell at
the grandkids who liked to run along the long, low-lying top of the shed; “Saw-by God, get off
there before you break the shingles and cause it to start leaking!” He had so many pigs that he
would dump a whole wagon full of corn into the pens each day. He wanted the hogs to weigh
between 200 to 250 pounds when he sold them. Behind the storm cellar he installed a large
platform scale that could weigh ten to twelve hogs at a time. Every year they would have a “pig-drive”, similar to a cattle drive, down the main road to get the pigs to the railhead in Duncan to
sell them.
He was reportedly the first person in Stephens County to ship out his hogs by rail. He
was such a prominent early citizen that the local township, one of the nine equal-sized, grid-like
subdivisions of the county government was named after him.
When Grandpa did something, he usually did it the right way such as the way he built and maintained the concrete pig pens. He kept a blacksmith shop on his property to make horseshoes, sharpen the plows, and facilitate repairs. He had a nice large barn with a separate room to store grains and an area to stable the four to six horses he kept for pulling the wagons and plows and doing other farm chores. On the bottom land by Big Creek he raised mainly corn to feed his hogs. He had an additional barn east of the house to store this corn.
He also cultivated a productive orchard of fruit trees just below the house. The trees included pears, plums, peaches, and apricots. There were two pear trees beside the house; one always grew a large crop of good-tasting pears while the one next to it produced little pears that tasted terrible. The family used to pick the good huge pears while they were still green and wrap them in newspaper to help ripen them.
Grandma Josie Parks died on March 18, 1929 when she was sixty-six years old. The recorded cause on her death certificate was “congestion of the stomach and gallstones”.
Grandpa James Wood Parks died on July 23, 1933 when he was seventy-eight. Roberta has been positive that Grandpa Parks’ death was due to alcohol poisoning. It was during the time of Prohibition and she heard that a friend had given Grandpa some moonshine liquor. It was a bad batch. Grandpa got sick; and, unfortunately, tried to wait out the illness at the family home instead of going to the hospital immediately. In those days, people often did not go to the hospital unless they thought they were dying. He had such a strong constitution that it was said that he would have lived to be a hundred if it hadn’t been for this mishap.
Roberta has told me that as a teenager she had thought that Grandpa might have had a drinking problem from this story of his death. She was later to learn that this was not true. Grandpa lay sick in bed in the front room for about two months growing weaker over the days until he finally succumbed. J.V. said he, along with most of the grandkids, were always somewhat afraid of Grandpa. During his last days, J.V.’s father insisted that he go in and talk with Grandpa. J.V. reluctantly approached the bed and innocently asked Grandpa, “Why don’t you get up?” J.V. recalled that Grandpa always said, “Saw”, before he said anything. This time Grandpa leaned out of the bed and grabbed J.V. around the waist hugging him, and said hoarsely, “Saw-boy, I’m afraid I’m not going to make it anymore.”
Most of the family including many of the grandkids were around the day when Grandpa died. Roberta remembered the last gasps of Grandpa on his deathbed and the distinctive “death rattle” as he breathed his last breaths. Opel, Aunt May’s daughter-in-law, held a mirror in front of his mouth and nose to make sure that Grandpa was no longer breathing. Someone from the funeral parlor showed up. Aunt May, who had been living with Grandpa since Grandma’s death, insisted that Grandpa not be taken to the funeral home; but that he be prepared for burial in the homestead just as Grandma had been. After the mortician drained the blood from Grandpa into two large jugs, Calvin Robinson carried them outside past the assembled adults and grandkids to bury in the yard. Aunty May washed and cleaned the body and dressed him in his best clothes. The person from the funeral parlor brought in a wooden coffin which he set up crosswise in a corner of the living room. He then placed Grandpa inside and covered the casket with a delicate lace cloth which attracted young cousin Jean’s attention. Jean, who was only seven at the time, thought the lace would make a nice shawl for her to wear.
Grandpa and Grandma Parks were both buried at Owens Prairie Cemetery.
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6. Osie Barkley {709} was born 3 Mar 1885. He was the son of James Burke "Bert" Barkley {708} and Mary Emily "Emma" Kennedy {706}. Osie died 30 Nov 1976. He married Nancy Clinton Smith {1922} 8 Feb 1911 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. She was born 30 Jun 1892 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Nancy died 8 Apr 1972 in Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Return to parents
Known children of Osie are:
+ 20. i. Virginia Mae Barkley {1923}, born 25 Feb 1912.
+ 21. ii. Louis Burke Barkley {1924}, born 16 Mar 1913.
+ 22. iii. Mary Elizabeth Barkley {1925}, born 9 Jan 1915.
+ 23. iv. Nancy Ellen Barkley {1926}, born 12 Nov 1917.
+ 24. v. Ina Cloe Barkley {1927}, born 1 Jan 1919.
+ 25. vi. Mabel Evans Barkley {1928}, born 19 Mar 1922, died 29 Dec 1955.
+ 26. vii. Richard Osie Barkley {1929}
27. viii. James Wilson Barkley {1930}
+ 28. ix. Thomas Cowan Barkley {1931}
7. Ollie Vestus Barkley {710} was born 2 Mar 1887. He was the son of James Burke
"Bert" Barkley {708} and Mary Emily "Emma" Kennedy {706}. Ollie died 24 Nov 1957. He married Lavona Ethel Davis {1977}. She was born 25 Jul 1893 in Hume, Bates County, Missouri. Lavona died 15 Mar 1966 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Return to parents
Known children of Ollie are:
+ 29. i. Mildred Emma Barkley {1978}, born 12 Jun 1912.
30. ii. John James Barkley {1979}, born 7 Jun 1914 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. He married Rita Matthews {1994}.
31. iii. Ted Ollie Barkley {1980}, born 13 Dec 1924 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. He married Charlotte Sullivan {1995}.
10. William Columbus “Lum” Parks {714} was born 18 Apr 1881. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. William died 13 Mar 1956 in Knoxville, Johnson County, Arkansas. He married (1) Minnie Varner {4667}. She was born 19 Nov 1883. Minnie died 1963. Return to parents
Known children of William are:
32. i. Earl Parks {4668}, born 3 Aug 1905, died 1 Aug 1955.
33. ii. James Parks {4669}, born 14 Feb 1907, died 9 Jul 1971.
34. iii. Elbert Parks {4670}, born 14 Sep 1908.
35. iv. Elma Parks {4671}, born 12 Sep 1909.
36. v. John Parks {4672}, born 14 Sep 1912.
37. vi. Will Parks {4673}, born 22 Jan 1915.
38. vii. Andrew Parks {4674}, born about 1918/1919.
William married (2) Nara Nichols {4675}. She was born 6 Jan 1906 in Newton County, Arkansas.
Known children of William are:
39. viii. Ernest Parks {4676}, born 8 Apr 1924.
40. ix. Rozella Parks {4677}, born 1 Aug 1926.
41. x. Beatrice Parks {4678}, born 24 Aug 1935.
42. xi. Glen Parks {4679}, born 18 Sep 1940.
11. James Wood Parks, Jr {715} was born 10 Sep 1882 in Texas. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. James, Jr died 10 May 1952, and was buried in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. He married Vurna Rowe {4680} 4 Jul 1925 in Elmore City, Garvin County, Oklahoma. She was born 26 Sep 1905 in Fort Towson, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Return to parents
Known child of James, Jr is:
43. i. Kathlyn Janet Parks {4681}
12. Charley Douglas Parks {716} was born 19 Jul 1884 in Texas. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. Charley died 2 Sep 1951, and was buried in Velma, Stephens County, Oklahoma. He married (1) Flay Lowley {4682} Apr 1925. She was born 17 Mar 1907. Flay died 7 Jun 1928, and was buried in Owens Prairie, Stephens County, Oklahoma. Return to parents
Known children of Charley are:
44. i. Betty Ruth Parks {4683}, born 23 Dec 1923.
45. ii. J. W. Parks {4684}, born 26 Nov 1925, died in infancy 11 Dec 1925.
46. iii. Mary Lou Parks {4685}, born 12 May 1926, died in infancy 12 May 1926.
Charley married (2) Vena Kirkpatrick {4686}. She was born 6 Feb 1908.
Known children of Charley are:
47. iv. Charley Parks {4687}, born 31 Dec 1933, died in infancy 1 Jan 1934.
48. v. Tex Marion Parks {4688}, born 10 Jul 1935, died 3 Dec 1955.
13. Florence May Parks {717} was born 30 Jan 1887 in Texas. She was the daughter of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. Florence died 18 Jul 1953 in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma. She married George Blackwell {4689}. He was born 1888. Return to parents
Known child of Florence is:
49. i. W. G. Blackwell {4690}, born 7 May 1909, died 17 Sep 1979.
14. Joseph Vandan Parks {718} was born 22 Jan 1889 in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. Joseph died 25 Jul 1968 in Velma, Stephens County, Oklahoma, and was buried in Velma, Oklahoma. He married Gertie Graham {4691} 31 Dec 1916 in Doyle, Oklahoma. She was born 7 Mar 1898. Return to parents
Known children of Joseph are:
51. ii. Hazel Parks {4693}
53. iv. Juanita Jean Parks {4695}
17. Gaines Thomas Parks {721} was born 15 Mar 1894 in Arthur, Indian Territory County, Oklahoma. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. Gaines died 9 Mar 1949, and was buried in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma. He married Fay Roberson {4697} in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. She was born 14 Jan 1901 in Doyle, Indian Territory County, Oklahoma. Fay died 18 Feb 1969, and was buried in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma. Return to parents
Known children of Gaines are:
56. ii. Wynona Parks {4699}
18. Robert Earl Parks {4665} was born 8 Apr 1897 in Arthur, Stephens County, Oklahoma. He was the son of James Wood Parks {713} and Josephine Frances "Josie" Kennedy {707}. Robert died 6 Jul 1964 in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, and was buried in Norco, Riverside County, California. He married Ethel Susie Peddycoart {4700} 20 Dec 1917 in Duncan, Oklahoma. She was born 2 Oct 1900 in Saint Jo, Montague County, Texas. She was the daughter of Barney Redwine Peddycoart {4705} and Mary Florence Mount {4706}. Ethel died 6 Jan 1990 in Laguna Hills, Orange County, California, and was buried in Norco, Riverside County, California. They are both buried in Crest Lawn Cemetery in Norco, California.
Known children of Robert are:
57. i. Wyman Leron Parks {4701}, born 26 Nov 1918 in Arthur, Stephens County, Oklahoma, died 14 Dec 1942 in a POW Camp in the Philippines and he is buried there.
58. ii. Roberta Faye Parks {4702} She married Tomas James Furco {5635}.
59. iii. Delmar Udell Parks {4703} He married LaVerne Lucille Combs {5636}.
60. iv. Darrell Dean Parks {4704} Darrell died 17 May 1994 in Grand Junction, Colorado, and was buried there. He married Katherine Ethel Schmidt {5637}.
61. v. Barney James Delton Parks {4707}He married Dorothy Alice Brown {5638}
62. vi. Mount Verdell Parks {4708} He married Nancy Ethel Louise Ward {5639}.
63. vii. Evelyn Suvilla Parks {4709} She married Richard Gerald Spangler {5640}; they divorced.
64. viii. Blanche Florence Parks {4710}
65. ix. Carlton Lindley Parks {4711} He married Leslie Sayoko Fujino {5641}
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20. Virginia Mae Barkley {1923} was born 25 Feb 1912 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. She was the daughter of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. She married William Henry Harrison {1932} 1 Nov 1935. Return to parents
Known child of Virginia is:
+ 66. i. David Charles Harrison {1933}
21. Louis Burke Barkley {1924} was born 16 Mar 1913 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. He was the son of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. He married Maria Jesus Contererras Campos {1938} 28 Feb 1948. Return to parents
Known child of Louis is:
+ 67. i. Thomas Burke Barkley {1939}
22. Mary Elizabeth Barkley {1925} was born 9 Jan 1915 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. She was the daughter of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. She married Everett Gardner Cook {1943} 4 Jun 1941. He was born 21 Apr 1915 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. Return to parents
Known children of Mary are:
+ 68. i. Nancy Willamine Cook {1944}
+ 69. ii. Martha Barkley Cook {1945}
23. Nancy Ellen Barkley {1926} was born 12 Nov 1917 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. She was the daughter of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. She married Henry Lee Sheffield {1951} 18 Dec 1941. He was born 18 Nov 1914.
Known children of Nancy are:
70. i. Patricia Ellen Sheffield {1952} She married Gerald R. Dubin {1954}.
71. ii. Michael Lee Sheffield {1953}
24. Ina Cloe Barkley {1927} was born 1 Jan 1919 in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. She was the daughter of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. She married Roy Robert Petsch {1955} 7 Dec 1944. He was born 30 Oct 1918 in Mitchell, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. Return to parents
Known children of Ina are:
+ 72. i. Donna Rae Petsch {1956}
73. ii. Vickie Sue Petsch {1957} She married Thomas Douglas Wilson {1961} 6 Mar 1971.
74. iii. Roy Robert Petsch, II {1958}
25. Mabel Evans Barkley {1928} She was the daughter of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. Mabel died 29 Dec 1955. She married Jack Perry {1962} 1944.
Known child of Mabel is:
75. i. Miles Osie Perry {1963}
26. Richard Osie Barkley {1929} He was the son of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. He married (1) Billy Ruth Wilson {1971}; they divorced.
Richard married (2) Mary Virginia unknown {1965}.
Richard had 4 stepchildren:
76. i. Rebecca Virginia Polito {1966}.
77. ii. Nancy Josephine Polito {1967}.
78. iii. Timothy Corwin Polito {1968}.
79. iv. Katherine Louise Decker {1970}.
Mary also married (1) unknown Polito {1964}.
Mary also married (2) unknown Decker {1969}.
28. Thomas Cowan Barkley {1931} He was the son of Osie Barkley {709} and Nancy Clinton Smith {1922}. He married Rebecca Felix {1972}. Return to parents
Known children of Thomas are:
80. i. Thomas Joseph Barkley {1973}
81. ii. Katherine Ann Barkley {1974}
82. iii. Laura Lynn Barkley {1975}
83. iv. Mark Richard Barkley {1976}
29. Mildred Emma Barkley {1978} was born 12 Jun 1912. She was the daughter of Ollie Vestus Barkley {710} and Lavona Ethel Davis {1977}. She married Leslie Dale Small {1981} 8 Apr 1933 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was born 22 Aug 1910 in Duke, Jackson County, Oklahoma. Return to parents
Known children of Mildred are:
+ 84. i. Robert Dale Small {1982}
+ 85. ii. Janice Marie Small {1983}