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1 NAME Ron Wortham aka "The Genesis of Wortham  CD-ROM Genealogy Project"  (Discontinued due to health problems).
1 ADDR Route 1 Box 1-A
2 CONT DELIVERIES: 117 North Main Street
2 CONT Sadler, TX 76264-9701
1 PHON (903) 564-5401
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1 NAME Omar Euin /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Bell Helicopter/Textron
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 APR 1920
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
3 PAGE MALE
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE From family records.  "Euin" was an honorarium of a neighbor of the family.
2 CONT Nickname was "Socks" as a child.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 543.
1 NOTE                              Pappa Omar's Lye Soap
1 NOTE     Amongst all the old-time remedies and folklore that Pappa Omar handed
2 CONT     down to his children and grandchildren, was a devotion to the use of
2 CONT     lye soap.  He used it for everything - including laundry of severely
2 CONT     soiled and greasy work clothes, to the removal of grease and oil from
2 CONT     driveway surfaces.  He often touted its use as a disinfectant.  Here is
2 CONT     a recipe.  Originally, the lye was distilled from ashes by boiling them
2 CONT     in water and pouring off the water to be boiled again.  The idea was to
2 CONT     leave the gritty ashes behind.  However, some could be included as a
2 CONT     pumice to add a scrubbing and polishing quality to the soap.  This
2 CONT     mixture is extremely caustic.  The use of gloves or a handy bowl of
2 CONT     vinegar was necessary to neutralize the effects, if spilled on skin.
1 NOTE                        Old-Time Lye Soap Small Quanity:
1 NOTE     Dissolve two tablespoons lye in eight tablespoons water in a crock bowl
2 CONT     (do not use aluminum or metal container).  Add one cup of strained
2 CONT     grease to lye and water and stir gently until the grease is completely
2 CONT     blended into it and the mixture becomes thick and all traces of grease
2 CONT     disappear.  Let soap stand in container overnight, then cut into bars
2 CONT     and it's ready for use.
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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1 FAMC @F49@
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1 NAME Ronald Duaine /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Radio/Private Disc-Jockey
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1942
2 PLAC Harris hospital - Fort Worth, Texas
3 PAGE MALE
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Polytechnic Methodist Church - Ft. Worth
1 BURI
2 PLAC SS# 461-64-1554
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE                                   22-Jun-1994
1 NOTE     Dear Cousins:
1 NOTE     I am  sending you this recap of "Highlights of the 1994 Tulsa Reunion"
2 CONT     on audio cassette, I do hope you enjoy it.
1 NOTE     I think it would be a SHREWD move to plan a reunion based on one
2 CONT     generation further back... In Paris, Texas.. sometime in 1997?  1999?
2 CONT     There is a tremendous amount of incomplete Wortham research there.
2 CONT     Thomas Duke Wortham (William/Thamar Duke lines) for instance, has the
2 CONT     OLDEST grave in the Old City Cemetary. That might give you some clues.
2 CONT     There are at least 50 other Wortham graves there and a lot of our
2 CONT     history as well.  There was a BENJAMIN F. WORTHAM born in about 1850
2 CONT     who was given credit for being the sheriff there.  I believe that our
2 CONT     Benjamin Heath was really the only sherrif. Obviously, those Paris
2 CONT     genealogy folks need our help as well as we need theirs.  The Wortham
2 CONT     Carnival Shows had their origination near there as well.
1 NOTE     At the present time my WORTHAM surname mailing list numbers close to
2 CONT     1,000 households and is growing.  I don't believe we would have any
2 CONT     problem finding adequate facilities for a gathering, or people enough
2 CONT     to make it happen.  I love Tulsa! - but I keep getting this intuitive
2 CONT     tug from over Paris way. Something's there.  It may be just bits and
2 CONT     pieces of us.  In any case, it would be a fun place to visit.. just a
2 CONT     thought.
1 NOTE     The Tulsa reunion for me was a milestone.  I am greatly indebted to my
2 CONT     uncle Orville for the picture of Mary Jane Burroughs, to Shirley
2 CONT     Armstrong for her companionship and consultation about my ancestors
2 CONT     and to Tom for a copy of Bill Wortham's notes. It was astounding to me
2 CONT     to learn of my great-grandfather Alexander Strahan and his life in the
2 CONT     Verde Valley of Arizona. I had learned just last year about Benjamin
2 CONT     Nathaniel having been there, but Shirley enlightened me about the
2 CONT     Strahan side of my ancestry as well.
1 NOTE     Why this is so profound to me is printed below in Chapter 24 of my
2 CONT     autobiography, which I have been working on in bits and pieces for some
2 CONT     years. I have just updated it with the information Shirley provided me
2 CONT     at the reunion, and some juicy tidbits about our calendar, from Ed
2 CONT     Shaw.  The rest has been written for some years.  I don't want to bore
2 CONT     you with pretentiousness but I felt it was best to re-write and edit
2 CONT     out the "rough" spots of my experiences (street fights, love affairs,
2 CONT     stays in jail) in this chapter.  It was like an 1880's lifestyle.
1 NOTE     First though, I want to share this short article with you - quoting
2 CONT     from the Antimatter section of Omni magazine in the July 1994 issue;
1 NOTE                                  ANCESTRAL PSI
1 NOTE                While researching a group of German families who
2 CONT               emigrated to New york in 1710, San Diego based
2 CONT               genealogist Henry A. Jones, Jr. made a startling
2 CONT               discovery.  "I had no reason to think I was related
2 CONT               to any of those 874 families," he recounts.
2 CONT               "totally at random, I picked one name, Deitrich
2 CONT               Schneider, for my researcher in Germany to track
2 CONT               down." Jones was shocked to learn he is a direct
2 CONT               descendant of Schneider.
1 NOTE               That was just the beginning of what Jones calls his
2 CONT               trips into the "Twilight Zone" of genealogy.
2 CONT               Frequent bizarre concidences and feelings of deja'
2 CONT               vu have convinced him that psychic phenomena
2 CONT               frequently help people trace family trees.  in
2 CONT               fact, after hearing colleagues mention similar
2 CONT               tales, Jones contacted 300 genealogists, asking if
2 CONT               they had experienced intuitive nudging while
2 CONT               researching their family trees, ultimately using
2 CONT               the material for his new book, Psychic Roots:
2 CONT               Serendipity and Intuition in Genealogy
2 CONT               (Genealogical Publishing Company).
1 NOTE               For example, an Ontario man kept dreaming of a portrait
2 CONT               of his grandfather - a painting no one believed had ever
2 CONT               existed.  Then, while sightseeing in an English castle,
2 CONT               he was amazed to find the portrait of his dreams..
1 NOTE               Another genealogist, searching in a library in vain
2 CONT               for references to an eighteenth-century relative,
2 CONT               was startled when a book fell from a shelf onto her
2 CONT               head.  Idly leafing through the tome, she quickly
2 CONT               spotted Revolutionary War records documenting her
2 CONT               ancestor's life.
1 NOTE               But Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich
2 CONT               who has studied seemingly meaningful coincidences,
2 CONT               says that statistically these spooky genealogical
2 CONT               tales aren't evidence of a contact with the other
2 CONT               side but rather "completely in the realm of chance"
2 CONT               --Sherry Baker
1 NOTE                          Absolutely. Sure. You Betcha.
2 CONT                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE                                    Read on.
1 NOTE                      [TIME FRAME: July through November, 1969]
1 NOTE                                   Chapter 24
2 CONT                       Brand New Pure, Recycled De Ja Vu'
1 NOTE       I guess Bonnie had read my mind in our brief conversation about
2 CONT     Jerome, Arizona.  I had made it clear to her that I intended to go
2 CONT     there some day.  She had rented her own place in Jerome and made it
2 CONT     into a home. A sabbatical to Jerome had been almost insisted on by one
2 CONT     of the more mystical young friends of our hippie "family" about a year
2 CONT     or so before.  He spoke to me of Jerome and Sedona as though it were
2 CONT     to be my Mecca.  I supposed then that he knew something I didn't.
2 CONT     Twenty five years later, I am certain that he did.
1 NOTE       I need to mention Bonnie's last name here, although I have avoided
2 CONT     names in most of this story.  She claimed to have been an adopted
2 CONT     child. Her last name was Slagle.
1 NOTE       There was an incredibly spooky feeling about the place and not just
2 CONT     because it was a ghost town.  The feeling of having been there before
2 CONT     was almost like coming home - or perhaps like having never left. I
2 CONT     discovered later, perhaps it was a part of the collective memory that
2 CONT     most of us presume to carry around with us from earlier generations.
1 NOTE       I knew little or nothing of my family history at the time.  I
2 CONT     discovered through family genealogy many years later, that in the
2 CONT     nearby town of Cottonwood, my great-grandfather Benjamin Nathaniel had
2 CONT     lived and my grandfather Claud had been born. I was re-tracing the
2 CONT     footsteps of my ancestry.  I was instinctively delving my roots.
1 NOTE       Deja Vu' - my taste of eternity, just about consumed me during the
2 CONT     times that my black friend Ed and I would take our meals at a farm
2 CONT     along the Verde river.  We would enjoy fresh vegetables such as corn
2 CONT     on the cob or melons, right in the field.  It was raw, delicious and
2 CONT     very satisfying. The Deja Vu' was unexplainable at the time but I came
2 CONT     to learn later that BOTH sides of my family tree were represented in
2 CONT     the local history.  My great-great grandfather Alexander Strahan had
2 CONT     owned a large stretch of land next to the Verde river where I was
2 CONT     feasting and exploring.  He and I were probably fed from the same farm.
1 NOTE       I never knew these things until some 25 years later, but I was
2 CONT     happily exploring the ground where TWO of my great-granfathers had
2 CONT     lived and worked.  The gulch house and most of the buildings in
2 CONT     historic Jerome Arizona were quite probably visited by them in their
2 CONT     own times, more than 100 years before. The Strahan sons were into
2 CONT     mining, it is told.  The Phelps-Dodge mine was indeed, the driving
2 CONT     force of the local economy until its closure in the 1950's.  It is
2 CONT     quite likely that my ancestors on both sides of the family, worked
2 CONT     there.
1 NOTE       Deja Vu'?  Did I mention Deja Vu'?  My great-grandfather Alexander
2 CONT     Strahan had in fact, donated the land for a local cemetary and a local
2 CONT     school in Cottonwood where my grandfather Claud Wortham was born. The
2 CONT     name of Alexander Strahan's wife?  (look again at the second
2 CONT     paragraph).
1 NOTE                          His wife was Melinda Slagle.
1 NOTE                     DONATIONS TO THE FAMILY OF RON WORTHAM
1 NOTE     Since there was not time to publish this on CD, it is not practical to
2 CONT     charge for this collection. "The Genesis of Wortham" represents several
2 CONT     years of serious daily WORK in it's assemblage.  If you would like to
2 CONT     make a donation to my family, please do so with my blessings.
1 NOTE     Please make your check to:
1 NOTE     Debby or Dustin Wortham
2 CONT     Route 1 Box 1-A
2 CONT     Sadler, TX
2 CONT     76264-9701
1 NOTE     Thank you.          Ron Wortham
1 NOTE "The Wortham Connection", Page 543, 544, 682.
1 ADDR Ron and Debby Wortham
2 CONT Route 1 Box 1-A
2 CONT 117 North Main Street
2 CONT Sadler, TX
2 CONT 76264
1 PHON (903) 564-5401  Before 9PM CST, please.
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F3@
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah Eileen /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Public School Librarian
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1949
2 PLAC Harris hospital - Fort Worth, Texas
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Englewood Methodist Church - Ft. Worth
1 NOTE Deborah goes by "Debby" and her middle name Eileen is mis-spelled in one
2 CONT publication referencing the John Shirley families of South Carolina.
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Summer Rose /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1984
2 PLAC Northeast Community - Hurst, Texas
1 BAPM
2 DATE  0 AUG 1989
2 PLAC Cornerstone Of Faith - Fort Worth, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1996
2 PLAC Decatur - Wise county, Texas
1 BURI
2 DATE 21 DEC 1996
2 PLAC Sadler cemetery - Grayson county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE     There is a place where you can always have fun. It is a place where
2 CONT     most people get lost.  You can argue with it and debate.  It is a
2 CONT     place where you keep secrets and feelings.  This place is also a
2 CONT     thing.  It can get you in trouble and can tell the truth.  Everyone
2 CONT     has one.  Some are weak and some strong.  It is a place to cry when
2 CONT     you don't want to use your eyes.  No matter where you go or how far you
2 CONT     get in life, ths special thing will always be there.  If you do not
2 CONT     keep care of this thing you could die.  Before you can love this thing
2 CONT     and understand it you must love yourself and know yourself.  This thing
2 CONT     gets you through life. Most people have discovered this thing, but
2 CONT     many have not.  Your whole life depends on this, so be prepared
2 CONT     because sometimes even your greatest ability will backfire This special
2 CONT     thing is your heart.  Emotionally and internally, this special thing
2 CONT     gets you through life.
1 NOTE      Summer Rose Wortham           August 14, 1984
2 CONT                                  December 17, 1996              Age 12
1 NOTE NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: Summer's tomstone contains four generations of genealogy.
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Dustin Bartell /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1986
2 PLAC Northeast Community - Hurst, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE "The Wortham Connection", Page 544.
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Ronald Micah /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 OCT 1990
2 PLAC Harris Methodist - HEB Bedord, Texas
1 BAPM
2 DATE 11 NOV 1990
2 PLAC Baptized at home by his father.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 NOV 1990
2 PLAC At home 117 North Main Sadler, Texas
1 BURI
2 DATE 14 NOV 1990
2 PLAC Sadler - Grayson county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Infant death at 23 days, due to genetic birth defects.
2 CONT Micah's tombstone reads;    "A Time So Brief - A Life So Full"
2 CONT Micah was a trisomy 18 baby with numerous anomolies, some fatal.  However, his
2 CONT brief life united several families, churches and communities.  He was buried
2 CONT at the feet of his great-grandmother Audrey Mc Neil, whose home he died in.
1 NOTE                                 MICAH'S LITANY
2 CONT                            A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
2 CONT                               (by Debby Wortham)
1 NOTE              MICAH:  Dear Father, For my 23 days upon your glorious earth
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For creating me so wonderfully
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For perfecting your power through my physical weakness
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For the incredible love and tenderness given me by all
2 CONT                      my care givers, especially Mee-Maw Inez
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For using my broken body to break the hearts of so
2 CONT                      many people, so to draw them closer to you
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For constantly uplifting my mommy, my daddy, my
2 CONT                      sister, my brother and all close to me by your
2 CONT                      children's prayers and loving support
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For using me as your ambassador to promote the cause
2 CONT                      of Christ and unite a multitude of believers in close
2 CONT                      fellowship
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  For allowing me to complete my ministry and return to
2 CONT                      your presence among all the hosts of heaven
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  We give thanks, O Lord.
1 NOTE              MICAH:  May my life point to the babe in the manger and bring
2 CONT                      glory and honor to the King of Kings and Prince of
2 CONT                      Peace this Christmas Season.
1 NOTE     BODY OF CHRIST:  Amen.
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Carol Yvonne /Ethier/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? DEC 1945
2 PLAC Probably Dallas - Dallas county, Texas
1 NOTE Divorced in 1968.
1 FAMS @F2@
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Alice Nancy /Teague/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Educational Aide
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1924
2 PLAC Kingston, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Claud  /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Oklahoma Dept. Highways
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 MAR 1884
2 PLAC Cottonwood - Yavapai county, Arizona
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 APR 1958
2 PLAC Quinton - Pittsburgh county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 24 APR 1958
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Claud is the correct spelling, there was no middle name.  He often used the
2 CONT nickname of "C.W. Wortham" or "Claud W. Wortham".
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 537.
1 FAMS @F48@
1 FAMS @F49@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME Flora Ester /Cox/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1888
2 PLAC Kennedy (Indian Territory) Oklahoma
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1911
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 26 OCT 1911
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F48@
1 FAMC @F174@
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Owen Ezra /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Army
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 SEP 1915
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 MAY 1996
2 PLAC San Antonio - Bexar county, Texas
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 MAY 1996
2 PLAC Fort Sam Houston - Bexar county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE "The Wortham Connection" erroneously has Owen listed as deceased in 1919.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 537.
1 FAMS @F148@
1 FAMS @F79@
1 FAMS @F219@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Otis William /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JAN 1926
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE TIMELINE: 1925 - 1929  President in office is Calvin Coolidge.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 537.
1 FAMS @F149@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Orville Donnie /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1923
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE One of our more thorough and consistant genealogists of this line.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Pages 539, 540.
2 CONT TIMELINE: 1921 - 1923  President in office is Warren G. Harding
1 ADDR Orville Donnie Wortham
2 CONT 1911 Dicey Road
2 CONT Weatherford, TX
2 CONT 76086
1 PHON (940) 594-2922
1 FAMS @F80@
1 FAMS @F101@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Onial Claud /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 AUG 1930
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE TIMELINE: 1933 - The Gold Standard is abolished.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 541.
1 ADDR Onial and Doris Wortham
2 CONT 1610 Somerset Way
2 CONT Van Buren, AR
2 CONT 72956
1 PHON (   )    -
1 FAMS @F81@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Ina Evelyn /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 OCT 1918
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BAPM
2 DATE CA 1929
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 ADDR Ina Wortham Norman
2 CONT 800 Warwick
2 CONT Bedford, TX
2 CONT 72956
1 PHON (817) 283-3564
1 FAMS @F45@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Lillian Francille /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 NOV 1932
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F66@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Lowe L. /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Teacher - Ft. Worth ISD
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1923
2 PLAC Bentonville - Benton county, Arkansas
1 NOTE   According to Lowe the initial "L." has no signifigance regarding any middle
2 CONT name.  It is simply an initial.
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Inez  /Hester/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Housewife
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 AUG 1922
2 PLAC Holly Creek, Oklahoma
1 NOTE Audrey had wanted to name Inez "Augustine".  Her aunt Ethel wanted Audrey to
2 CONT name her "Eileen".  James Herbert said no, that he didn't want her to have a
2 CONT long name, therefore Inez has no middle name either.  Audrey and Inez used to
2 CONT tell a funny story about Inez' birth;  When she was born, she had a long, full
2 CONT head of very dark hair.  The doctor's wife who served as nurse and midwife was
2 CONT so impressed, she combed it over Inez' face.  When Audrey saw her baby for the
2 CONT first time, she thought her head was on backwards.  It made her very angry!
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F46@
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Patricia Ann /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Bank Officer
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1955
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca Jean /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Housewife
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 OCT 1958
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Lou /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Diaconal Minister (Meth)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1959
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Richard Michael /Morris/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU CEO - Youth Enrichment
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 SEP 1956
1 FAMS @F6@
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob Michael /Morris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  3 JUL 1980
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME Michelle Nicole /Morris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 APR 1984
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Bennie L. /McMinn/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Baptist Ministry
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 NOV 1955
2 PLAC Mineral Wells - Paolo Pinto county, TX
1 FAMS @F7@
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Michael  /McMinn/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1974
1 FAMC @F7@
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME John G. /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Merchant, Rancher, R.E.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1846
2 PLAC Copiah County, Mississippi
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 AUG 1930
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 FAMS @F8@
0 @I28@ INDI
1 NAME Martha Capers /Shirley/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 AUG 1846
2 PLAC Correll County, Mississippi
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 JAN 1926
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 FAMS @F8@
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME John William /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1870
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1963
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Blackwell - Nolan County, Texas
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Minnie M. /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 FEB 1872
2 PLAC Johnson County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 NOV 1961
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Mary E. /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 MAY 1874
2 PLAC Johnson County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  1 SEP 1944
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F16@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Mathis /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 FEB 1876
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUL 1940
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rose Hill cemetery - Fort Worth, Texas
1 FAMS @F19@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME Shirley Newton /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Doctor/Physician
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 APR 1878
2 PLAC Parker County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? NOV 1936
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F33@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Oscar Newton /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  3 MAR 1880
2 PLAC Parker County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1897
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Addie L. /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 NOV 1884
2 PLAC Parker County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1967
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Newton /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Retired - Mobil Oil Co.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1897
2 PLAC Bethesda, N. of Garner, Texas
1 FAMS @F9@
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Sallie  /Jackson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1898
1 FAMS @F9@
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Bessie  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JUL 1926
2 PLAC Blackwell - Nolan County, Texas
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME James W. /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Wholesale Pharmaceuticals
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1933
2 PLAC Roscoe, Texas
1 FAMS @F11@
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Jennings W. /Carter/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1922
1 FAMS @F10@
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Jonna  /Carter/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 MAR 1948
2 PLAC Hobbs, New Mexico
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME Reta  /Lawrence/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUL 1931
2 PLAC Waxahachie - Ellis county, Texas
1 FAMS @F11@
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME Cynthia  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 APR 1961
2 PLAC Abilene - Taylor county, Texas
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME Lori  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1963
2 PLAC Abilene - Taylor county, Texas
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I45@ INDI
1 NAME Horace W. /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1920
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1969
2 PLAC Yuma - Yuma county, Arizona
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I46@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAR 1904
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I47@ INDI
1 NAME Frank K. /Benson/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer, rancher
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1860
2 PLAC Missouri
1 DEAT
2 DATE  2 NOV 1936
2 PLAC Perrin - Jack county, Texas
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I48@ INDI
1 NAME Ottie Mae /Benson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 AUG 1902
2 PLAC Whitt, Texas
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I49@ INDI
1 NAME William Vernon /Cummins/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Federal Reserve Bank
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1900
2 PLAC Milam - Gibson county, Tennessee
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 JUN 1961
2 PLAC Irving - Dallas county, Texas
1 FAMS @F14@
0 @I50@ INDI
1 NAME Phillip Frank /Cummins/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1936
2 PLAC Dallas - Dallas county, Texas
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I51@ INDI
1 NAME Amber Jane /Harris/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1940
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I52@ INDI
1 NAME Lillian Jane /Cummins/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1958
2 PLAC Wilmington, California
1 FAMC @F15@
0 @I53@ INDI
1 NAME Cynthia Ann /Cummins/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 SEP 1961
2 PLAC Wilmington, California
1 FAMC @F15@
0 @I54@ INDI
1 NAME Melanie Jane /Cummins/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  3 JUN 1963
1 FAMC @F15@
0 @I55@ INDI
1 NAME George W. /Doss/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Doctor, Pastor, Rancher
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1861
2 PLAC Atlanta - Fulton county, Georgia
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? JAN 1935
2 PLAC San Benito, Texas
1 FAMS @F16@
0 @I56@ INDI
1 NAME Inez  /Doss/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JUL 1905
2 PLAC Greer County, Oklahoma
1 DEAT
2 DATE  6 JUN 1906
2 PLAC Greer County, Oklahoma
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I57@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Christel /Doss/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUN 1915
2 PLAC Sayer, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F17@
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME Chester A. /Gibbs/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAR 1916
2 PLAC Roscoe, Texas
1 FAMS @F17@
0 @I59@ INDI
1 NAME Carolyn Francis /Gibbs/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAY 1940
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F18@
1 FAMC @F17@
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME Bryan David /Gibbs/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 NOV 1948
2 PLAC Oakland, California
1 FAMC @F17@
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Lee /Collier/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1939
1 FAMS @F18@
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Lee /Collier/
1 TITL III
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 JAN 1963
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME Agnes Gertrude /Mauzey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1887
2 PLAC Alma, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1959
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rose Hill cemetery - Fort Worth, Texas
1 FAMS @F19@
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I64@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Ned /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Navy 1941-45
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 DEC 1905
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F20@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I65@ INDI
1 NAME John G. /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUL 1907
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 DEC 1973
2 PLAC Moore Memorial Garden, Arlington, Texas
1 FAMS @F21@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I66@ INDI
1 NAME Shirley Crow /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Coast Guard 1944-45
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1909
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 FAMS @F24@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I67@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Louise /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU School Librarian/Educator
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1912
2 PLAC Blackwell - Nolan County, Texas
1 FAMS @F27@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME Grace Blanche /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1914
2 PLAC Hollis - Harmon county, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F28@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Flora Virginia /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUL 1921
2 PLAC Erick, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F30@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I70@ INDI
1 NAME Arabell  /Lee/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  9 SEP 1909
2 PLAC Palo Pinto - Palo Pinto county, Texas
1 FAMS @F20@
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Charla Lee /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 APR 1944
2 PLAC Corpus Christi, Texas
1 FAMS @F40@
1 FAMS @F41@
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I72@ INDI
1 NAME Vivian Irene (Twins)/Banks/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Sales
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 SEP 1913
2 PLAC Maypearl, Texas
1 FAMS @F21@
1 FAMC @F1520@
0 @I73@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Ann /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1942
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F22@
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I74@ INDI
1 NAME Betty Carolyn /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Occupational Therapist
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 DEC 1945
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F23@
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I75@ INDI
1 NAME Jerry Frank /Berger/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  8 JUN 1940
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F22@
0 @I76@ INDI
1 NAME Amy Renee /Berger/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  2 JUN 1964
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I77@ INDI
1 NAME Julie Ann /Berger/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUN 1962
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I78@ INDI
1 NAME Willis M. /Yandell/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Navy 1964-71
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1943
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMS @F23@
0 @I79@ INDI
1 NAME Georgia Beth /Yandell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 DEC 1964
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F1519@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I80@ INDI
1 NAME Odessa Pauline /Bradshaw/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1919
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMS @F24@
0 @I81@ INDI
1 NAME Shirlene  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 APR 1938
2 PLAC Muenster, Texas
1 FAMS @F25@
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I82@ INDI
1 NAME James Mathis /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1941
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMS @F26@
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I83@ INDI
1 NAME Gary Lin /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JAN 1950
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I84@ INDI
1 NAME William  /Knight/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 DEC 1933
2 PLAC Garner, Texas
1 FAMS @F25@
0 @I85@ INDI
1 NAME William Mathis /Knight/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1959
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I86@ INDI
1 NAME Roland Scott /Knight/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 MAR 1962
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I87@ INDI
1 NAME Joe Blake /Knight/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 JAN 1965
2 PLAC Saltillo, Texas
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I88@ INDI
1 NAME Bonnie  /Byers/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1944
1 FAMS @F26@
0 @I89@ INDI
1 NAME Cathy  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1961
1 NOTE   Cathy is Bonnie Byers' child by a former marriage.  Uncertain as to legal
2 CONT adoption.
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I90@ INDI
1 NAME J. Newt /Thompson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1841
1 FAMS @F1442@
0 @I91@ INDI
1 NAME Cynthia Lou /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  4 MAR 1964
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I92@ INDI
1 NAME Christene  /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 MAR 1965
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I93@ INDI
1 NAME Harry Bartell /Enochs/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Army 1941-45
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JAN 1913
2 PLAC Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1 FAMS @F27@
0 @I94@ INDI
1 NAME Durrell A. /Dallas/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 MAR 1903
2 PLAC Shannon, Mississippi
1 FAMS @F28@
0 @I95@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Gertrude /Dallas/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1939
2 PLAC Osceola, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F29@
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I96@ INDI
1 NAME Durrell A. /Dallas/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Army 1964-67
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JUN 1941
2 PLAC Osceola, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F42@
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I97@ INDI
1 NAME James Kenneth /Edmondson/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1938
1 FAMS @F29@
0 @I98@ INDI
1 NAME James Kenneth /Edmonson/
1 TITL III
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 JUL 1963
2 PLAC West Memphis, Arkansas
1 FAMC @F29@
0 @I99@ INDI
1 NAME Gregory Dallas /Edmondson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1965
2 PLAC West Memphis, Arkansas
1 FAMC @F29@
0 @I100@ INDI
1 NAME Donald William /Long/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Navy 1942-46
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 OCT 1921
2 PLAC Pipestone, Minnesota
1 DEAT
2 DATE  3 APR 1991
2 PLAC Pipestone, Minnesota
1 FAMS @F30@
0 @I101@ INDI
1 NAME Roderick Ashley /Long/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU National Guard 1969
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAR 1949
2 PLAC Pipestone, Minnesota
1 FAMS @F43@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I102@ INDI
1 NAME Shauna Vee /Long/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU U.S Navy 1973
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 FEB 1950
2 PLAC Pipestone, Minnesota
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I103@ INDI
1 NAME Sheila Louise /Long/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUL 1955
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I104@ INDI
1 NAME Wilma Fern /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1927
2 PLAC Erick, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F31@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I105@ INDI
1 NAME Alva B. /Mahaney/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 FEB 1926
2 PLAC Alvarado, Texas
1 FAMS @F31@
0 @I106@ INDI
1 NAME Beverly Kay /Mahaney/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1952
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I107@ INDI
1 NAME Brandle Lee /Mahaney/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  3 SEP 1960
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME Gladys Lucille /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 JUN 1930
2 PLAC Booneville, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F32@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME David Louis /Hill/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Bell Helicopter, Textron
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1927
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F32@
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME Karmen Gayle (Twin)/Hill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1951
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 NOTE Karmen and Karen are twins.
1 FAMS @F65@
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME Karen Lynne (Twin)/Hill/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1951
1 NOTE   Karmen and Karen are twins.
1 FAMS @F38@
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I112@ INDI
1 NAME David Wayne /Hill/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1953
1 FAMS @F44@
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I113@ INDI
1 NAME May  /Eidson/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Treasurer - Nolan County
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1883
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 APR 1969
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F33@
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME William Osler /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Mayor - Coleman, Texas
1 BIRT
2 DATE  2 JUN 1905
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 APR 1965
2 PLAC San Angelo, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I115@ INDI
1 NAME Shirley May /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUN 1908
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F34@
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I116@ INDI
1 NAME James (Jimmie) Fletcher/Leach/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Postal Worker
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1914
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? JAN 1943
2 PLAC Corsica, Italy - WWII plane crash
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 FAMS @F35@
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I117@ INDI
1 NAME Elton D. /Johnson/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Geologist - Standard Oil
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1904
1 FAMS @F34@
0 @I118@ INDI
1 NAME Dorris  /Webster/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1918
2 PLAC Sweetwater, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  6 JAN 1952
1 FAMS @F35@
0 @I119@ INDI
1 NAME Millard  /Leach/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1935
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I120@ INDI
1 NAME Judy Lynn /Dacus/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1956
1 FAMS @F44@
0 @I121@ INDI
1 NAME William Cole /George/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer, Deputy Sheriff
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1881
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1941
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 FAMS @F37@
0 @I122@ INDI
1 NAME Grace  /George/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1904
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 APR 1907
1 FAMC @F37@
0 @I123@ INDI
1 NAME Jewell  /George/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUN 1910
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 FAMC @F37@
0 @I124@ INDI
1 NAME John Philip /Walker/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU U.S. Navy/Postal Service
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 APR 1951
2 PLAC Bellefontain, Ohio
1 FAMS @F38@
0 @I125@ INDI
1 NAME Colleen Faye /Walker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1971
2 PLAC Charleston, North Carolina
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I126@ INDI
1 NAME Ashley Beth /Walker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1973
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I127@ INDI
1 NAME John Philip /Walker/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1975
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I128@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Clay /Mauzey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1850
2 PLAC Indiana
1 DEAT
2 DATE  8 NOV 1917
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 NOTE MAUZEY is pronounced in the French vernacular "Mo-zay".
2 CONT Said to have been born on November 1st, but the year is indefinate.
1 FAMS @F39@
0 @I129@ INDI
1 NAME Amanda Elizabeth /Crow/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1855
2 PLAC Mississippi
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1934
2 PLAC Decker - Nolan county, Texas
1 FAMS @F39@
0 @I130@ INDI
1 NAME Jennie  /Mauzey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1876
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I131@ INDI
1 NAME Maggie  /Mauzey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1876
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I132@ INDI
1 NAME Theo  /Mauzey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1877
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I133@ INDI
1 NAME W. Comstock /Mauzey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1879
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I134@ INDI
1 NAME Albert S. /Mauzey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1880
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I135@ INDI
1 NAME Ida  /Mauzey/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1881
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I136@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse H. /Mauzey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1882
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I137@ INDI
1 NAME Merritt T. /Mauzey/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1883
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I138@ INDI
1 NAME John  /Fixel/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1940
1 FAMS @F40@
0 @I139@ INDI
1 NAME Sheila Diane /Fixel/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1967
2 PLAC Oklahoma City - Oklahoma co. Oklahoma
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I140@ INDI
1 NAME Julie Lynn /Fixel/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  8 OCT 1969
2 PLAC Oklahoma City - Oklahoma co. Oklahoma
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME George H. /Brown/
1 TITL Jr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 APR 1946
2 PLAC Dayton, Ohio
1 FAMS @F41@
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME Michel Dewayne /Brown/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1970
2 PLAC Oklahoma City - Oklahoma co. Oklahoma
1 FAMC @F41@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME John Frank /Berger/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  1 APR 1969
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME Allison Lee /Berger/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  3 MAR 1972
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME John Thomas /Yandell/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  6 JUN 1968
2 PLAC Idaho Falls - Bonneville county, Idaho
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy Louise /Mills/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 APR 1943
2 PLAC West Hartford, Connecticut
1 FAMS @F42@
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME Kelley Woodward /Dallas/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JAN 1970
2 PLAC Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1 FAMC @F42@
0 @I148@ INDI
1 NAME Courtney Mills /Dallas/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  9 JUL 1971
2 PLAC Wilmington, North Carolina
1 FAMC @F42@
0 @I149@ INDI
1 NAME Dora Dee /Leach/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1919
2 PLAC Bentonville - Benton county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1922
2 PLAC Erick, Oklahoma
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I150@ INDI
1 NAME Donna Mae /Tabbert/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 SEP 1950
2 PLAC Jamestown, North Dakota
1 FAMS @F43@
0 @I151@ INDI
1 NAME Jackie De Lois/Norman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUN 1941
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F152@
1 FAMS @F280@
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME John Anderson /Norman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1910
2 PLAC Coaldale, Arkansas
1 NOTE     Alexander Heath's wife, Emma Dale Glenn Slater, was previously married
2 CONT     to Hugh Slater. They had three children; Annie, William and Clifford
2 CONT     (Bud) Slater.  Hugh died about 1895.  Annie and Clifford (Bud) were the
2 CONT     living step-children of Alexander Heath, living children of Emma when
2 CONT     they married.  William had died previous to their marriage. Orville D.
2 CONT     Wortham was personally acquainted with Annie and Bud, when he was a
2 CONT     young boy.
1 NOTE     Alexander Heath Wortham gained possession of a cancer treatment for
2 CONT     skin cancer and used it for treating of patients in Pittsburg and
2 CONT     Haskell Counties, as well as other surrounding counties.  This practice
2 CONT     was at least during the 1930's and 1940's, and treatment has been
2 CONT     witnessed by several people, including Orville D. Wortham, Lillian
2 CONT     Lorene Mullens Wortham, John Anderson Norman, and Claud Wortham.  John
2 CONT     (Jack) Norman witnessed a cancer removed from the leg of a black man;
2 CONT     Orville Wortham witnessed Alexander Heath remove a cancer from the leg
2 CONT     of a black woman.  Alexander Heath and Emma were visiting with the
2 CONT     Claud Wortham family at Kinta, Oklahoma, seven miles from his home in
2 CONT     Quinton, when one of his patients drove up, and Alexander Heath went to
2 CONT     the car to treat the black woman's leg.  He took a knife and lifted the
2 CONT     black scab of the cancer, which had been previously treated with the
2 CONT     formula by him.  This was witnessed by Orville D. Wortham.
1 NOTE     Lillian Wortham gave copies of the formula, written in her
2 CONT     handwriting, to some of the family, which she obtained from Alexander
2 CONT     Heath before his death.  At least two copies in her handwriting are
2 CONT     known to exist---John A. Norman and Orville D. Wortham.  Other copies
2 CONT     have been made, and one was given to his granddaughter, Shirley
2 CONT     Armstrong, and one to Burnice Carter Williams, his daughter, duplicated
2 CONT     from the orignal in possession of Orville D. Wortham.
1 NOTE     The cancer remedy formula follows: Galangel, Blood Root, Sulphated
2 CONT     Zinc.  Mix equal parts with enough water to make a paste.  Apply on
2 CONT     gauze for about 12 hours.  Remove gauze and apply new gauze with pure
2 CONT     vaseline until cancer comes out, being careful not to get infected. Can
2 CONT     be washed with peroxide.
1 NOTE     Lillian Wortham stated that she never knew of Alexander Heath's
2 CONT     treatment to fail to remove skin cancers.  He did receive payment for
2 CONT     his treatment, which today would be illegal and unethical, him not
2 CONT     being a licensed physician.
1 NOTE                              =Orville D. Wortham=
1 NOTE     (Following is the old Wortham family remedy for skin cancer re-typed
2 CONT     from Lillian's paper version and entered as computer data 18-Mar-1994)
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE     I am Jack Norman, spouse of Ina Wortham Norman.
1 NOTE     We lived in Kinta Oklahoma in 1937 very near Ina's parents, Claude &
2 CONT     Lillian Mullens Wortham.  Claudes' father Benjamin Nathaniel & wife
2 CONT     Acenith Wortham lived closely also as this is a very small community.
1 NOTE     During this era there was no medical knowledge of a cure for skin
2 CONT     cancer.  Claudes brother Alexander Heath Wortham had this recipe for
2 CONT     removal of skin cancer.  Lillian got this recipe from Alexander Heath
2 CONT     Wortham and gave it to me in a little "Black & White Ointment" can.  In
2 CONT     Lillian's own writing we will share it with our readers.  I've kept
2 CONT     this about 54 years.
1 NOTE     I observed the cancer which uncle Heath removed from a large area of a
2 CONT     negro man's leg he had treated with this recipe and Ina recalls her
2 CONT     grandmother Acenith [Angeline Strahan] Wortham with a patch on her
2 CONT     cheek and a skin cancer removed from her face.
1 NOTE     In Lillian's own handwriting, are copies of her original which [we]
2 CONT     want to share with all of you.
1 NOTE     Jack & Ina Norman
2 CONT     March 15, 1994
1 NOTE     [NOTE: The handwritten document remains in Jack and Ina's posession
2 CONT     and has been photocopied on the version mailed to me. I am sure it will
2 CONT     be available at family reunions and eventually, through family
2 CONT     archives.] The text is emulated below, from a small scratch pad page.
1 NOTE      +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      |  Cancer Remedy                  |                                 |
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      |  Golangel                       |     1915                        |
2 CONT      |  Blood Root                     |   I saw Emma Wortham            |
2 CONT      |  Sulphated Zinc                 |   had a scar on her temple      |
2 CONT      |  Mix equal parts with           |   and learned she had           |
2 CONT      |  enough water to make           |   a cancer there and it         |
2 CONT      |  a paste.                       |   was removed with this         |
2 CONT      |  Apply on gauze for             |   remedy.                       |
2 CONT      |  about 12 hrs, remove           |   So her husband Heath          |
2 CONT      |  gauze and apply new            |   took care of the recipe and   |
2 CONT      |  gauze with Vasaline            |   removed cancer for            |
2 CONT      |  until cancer comes             |   several people once in        |
2 CONT      |  out, being careful not         |   a while.  Never knew          |
2 CONT      |  to get infected.               |   of it to fail.                |
2 CONT      |  Can be washed with             |            Lillian Wortham      |
2 CONT      |  peroxide.                      |                                 |
2 CONT      |  [unreadable text for one line] |  March 17, 1983                 |
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
1 NOTE                     From Compton's electronic encyclopedia:
1 NOTE     BLOODROOT.  One of the loveliest but most fragile of spring flowers is
2 CONT     the bloodroot. In April and May it pushes its delicate white blossom
2 CONT     upward, wrapped in silver-green leaves, in open woodlands from Canada
2 CONT     to Florida and west to Nebraska and Arkansas The first warm sunshine
2 CONT     opens the flower. It has yellow stamens and from 8 to 12 white petals;
2 CONT     but rain or wind soon blows the petals away. The plant is named for the
2 CONT     red juice which oozes from broken stems and roots. In older days it was
2 CONT     taken on a lump of sugar to cure coughs and colds. The dried roots
2 CONT     (called sanguinaria) contain an alkaloid (sanguinarin) which has
2 CONT     medicinal value as a etic, purge, and stimulant. The two-inch
2 CONT     (five-centimeter) blossoms grow on plants about eight inches (20
2 CONT     centimeters) high. The bloodroot is a perennial of the poppy family.
2 CONT     Its scientific name is Sanguinaria canadensis. (end Compton's)
1 NOTE     NOTE: Bloodroot is mentioned often in "Back to Eden" the famous book
2 CONT     of herbal remedies by Jethro Kloss.
1 NOTE     GALANGEL is another plant, the flowers of which are used in remedies
2 CONT     of all kinds.  In its powdered form, it is the same dark red color of
2 CONT     powdered bloodroot and has its own pungent smell. It is NOT mentioned
2 CONT     in "Back to Eden" or any other publication I have been able to research
2 CONT     in contemporary times (1994). I have tried several electronic
2 CONT     enclyclopedias on the subject.  An old copy of Webster's dictionary
2 CONT     mentioned it only in the context that it was often confused with other
2 CONT     plants and herbs.  As shown above it is sometimes spelled and
2 CONT     pronounced GOLANGEL.
1 NOTE     The third ingredient, the chemical Sulpated Zinc is a white powder
2 CONT     available commercially and labeled "Poison" in no uncertain terms.
1 NOTE     Family stories tell of large cancers being removed one woman's face
2 CONT     and a small one being removed from Acenith "Acie" Strahans once. It is
2 CONT     also said to work on horses.  Heath reportedly wanted the recipe kept
2 CONT     secret, hoping to perhaps, attain a patent for it.  His nephew Omar
2 CONT     said Heath often charged up to $15.00 for the treatment, a
2 CONT     considerable sum of money in those days.  As Lillian's notes show, it
2 CONT     was never known to fail. Heath often combined the ingredients with
2 CONT     Vaseline petroleum jelly, creating a salve.
1 NOTE     It would seem that this might be an early externally applied version
2 CONT     of the principals of chemotherapy.  Perhaps something in the mixture
2 CONT     has a purgative or even fatal effect on the parasitic flesh of cancer,
2 CONT     causing it to separate and die while the surrounding healthy tissue
2 CONT     survives.  Whatever, the reports of the cancerous flesh "falling away"
2 CONT     from the surrounding healthy tissue deserve notice.
1 NOTE     Please understand that this is being shared as a piece of family
2 CONT     history and is not intended as medical advice of any kind. It should be
2 CONT     said here that use of such a recipe or anything similar from any other
2 CONT     source of information requires some applied common sense; DO NOT
2 CONT     attempt this without the direct advice, counseling and prescription
2 CONT     quality ingredients, supplied by a professional physician.
1 NOTE                           --------------/------------
1 NOTE     Personal Rememberances:
1 NOTE     I recall as a child, walking the half-mile or so from the old Quentin
2 CONT     house across a small stream near the old smelter, to where Alexander
2 CONT     lived.  The stream was often frozen over and it was a real challenge to
2 CONT     walk across the ice without breaking through and getting soaked.  Of
2 CONT     course there was the bridge, but that required no courage.
1 NOTE     I used to go there whenever we visited, to read an encyclopedia called
2 CONT     "The Book Of Wonder" which was full of marvelous stories of things
2 CONT     relating to chemistry, physics and sociology.  It was written in such a
2 CONT     way as to be endlessly fascinating.  My father Omar, eventually bought
2 CONT     the entire set from "Heath" for thirty dollars.  It was exchanged for a
2 CONT     much newer (and very boring) set of encyclopedias years later.
1 NOTE     Heath and Emma were nice folk, always hospitable and a necessarily, a
2 CONT     little tolerant of me.  Some folks could be doing chores intead of
2 CONT     getting lost in books like that, you know.
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 FAMS @F45@
1 FAMC @F738@
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME Jan  /Mahaney/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1956
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I154@ INDI
1 NAME Tina  /Mahaney/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  7 APR 1967
2 PLAC Cleburne - Johnson county, Texas
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME Barbara Zean /Norman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 FEB 1939
2 PLAC Stigler - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE ZEAN with a "Z" is correct.
1 FAMS @F150@
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Iris La Rue/Norman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUN 1945
2 PLAC Grand Prairie - Dallas county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F154@
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I157@ INDI
1 NAME David Byron /Norman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  4 FEB 1951
2 PLAC Dallas - Dallas county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F199@
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I158@ INDI
1 NAME James Herbert /Hester/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer, carpenter
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1898
2 PLAC Foreman, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  1 AUG 1969
2 PLAC Sadler - Grayson county, Texas
1 FAMS @F46@
1 FAMC @F1517@
0 @I159@ INDI
1 NAME Audrey Johnnie /McNeal/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Telephone Operator
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1900
2 PLAC Leesberg, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  2 JAN 1990
2 PLAC Sadler - Grayson county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sadler - Grayson county, Texas
1 FAMS @F46@
1 FAMC @F2399@
0 @I160@ INDI
1 NAME Lillian Lorene /Mullens/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  6 OCT 1891
2 PLAC Mountain View - Stone county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  6 JAN 1990
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 BURI
2 DATE  8 JAN 1990
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 NOTE Both Lillian and Claud had spouses who died before they married.  Lillian wore
2 CONT both wedding rings (almost identical wide-band plain gold), until her death.
1 NOTE                        EULOGY FOR LILLIAN LORENE WORTHAM
2 CONT                               By Orville Wortham
2 CONT                                January 8th, 1990
1 NOTE     Lillian Lorene Mullens Wortham, was born to George Monroe Mullens and
2 CONT     Arizona Clementine Wallace Mullens on October 6, 1891, in a small
2 CONT     community called "Bickles Cove", just outside of the town of Mountain
2 CONT     View, Arkansas. At the time she was about two years of age, she moved
2 CONT     with her parents to Indian Territory (Now Oklahoma). They lived there
2 CONT     until the year of 1895, and at the age of four, they moved to Sevier
2 CONT     County, the southwest part of Arkansas, bordering the now Oklahoma
2 CONT     State Line.
1 NOTE     Her father was a farmer, but used other talents he possessed to
2 CONT     supplement their income to support the family.
1 NOTE     Lillian started to school in 1897, at the age of six. In those days,
2 CONT     and in that part of the country, school houses were one-room
2 CONT     buildings, and all grades and ages were taught by one teacher.
1 NOTE     She recalls in her journal, excerpts from which I will now quote, some
2 CONT     of the personal experiences she remembered when she was a little girl.
2 CONT     She tells of spending the night with her girl friend; "And when the
2 CONT     friend's mother went to milk, I and my friend pulled a small twig from
2 CONT     a tree for which to make a tooth brush. We dipped the brushes into my
2 CONT     friend's mother's snuff can, and proceeded to clean our teeth with
2 CONT     them. My friend was accustomed to the practice, but it made me very ill
2 CONT     at my stomach. As the mother returned to the room, I was in the bed,
2 CONT     and my friend had hidden the brushes in the ashes of the fireplace.  We
2 CONT     did not fool her though, She knew why I was ill, and found the brushes
2 CONT     in the ashes. That snuff was enough for me.
1 NOTE     Another experience I had while a very young child was when I was
2 CONT     helping my mother make lye soap in a big, black kettle in the back
2 CONT     yard. I had been warned by her to stay away from the kettle, because of
2 CONT     the danger, but I wanted to be of service, and stirred the soap while
2 CONT     my mother was not present. Mother could readily tell that I has stirred
2 CONT     the soap, and had disobeyed her. I had always been taught not to lie,
2 CONT     but I denied disobeying her anyway, and then I got scared and hid under
2 CONT     the porch. Mom sent my older sister, Nancy, after me, and when she
2 CONT     pulled me out from under the porch, I promptly got one spanking for
2 CONT     lying, and another for stirring the soap. Momma didn't spank hard
2 CONT     though.
1 NOTE     I and my family moved back to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) in 1899,
2 CONT     after having sold our farm in Arkansas. We loaded up all of our
2 CONT     possessions in a covered wagon for the trip, and settled in a small
2 CONT     town called Owel. It was there that I saw people dance for the first
2 CONT     time, and heard my first talking machine--or record player.  The record
2 CONT     I heard was Momma Loves Her Little Black Baby Boy.
1 NOTE     We took a vacation to Arkansas to see relatives in 1900, and upon our
2 CONT     return Poppa was ready to move on to greener pastures. We left Indian
2 CONT     Territory and headed for South Texas, and settled temporarily near the
2 CONT     town of Mathis. Poppa didn't like snakes, prickly pears, hot weather,
2 CONT     etc., and soon was ready to load up the covered wagon again, and head
2 CONT     north for Matagorda County, Texas Most of the daylight hours were spent
2 CONT     in traveling, except on Saturday, on which day we stopped to wash
2 CONT     clothing and do other necessities. We didn't travel at all on Sundays;
2 CONT     trying to keep the Sabbath Day Holy. We spent the day resting and
2 CONT     listening to Poppa teach us about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Momma did
2 CONT     her cooking on a camp fire, and we had a tent in which to sleep.
1 NOTE     While living in the Hawley community in Matagorda County, I resumed my
2 CONT     schooling.  I received a special prize for making the "most head marks"
2 CONT     in spelling. I also received one for perfect attendance, and I was the
2 CONT     only person receiving that honor. My favorite subjects were arithmetic,
2 CONT     spelling, and geography.
1 NOTE     In 1907, I became a member of the Methodist church, as the result of
2 CONT     attending Camp meetings in the Hawley community.
1 NOTE     I was seventeen years of age, but rarely ever had a date. Poppa was
2 CONT     very particular about whom I dated. Few of the boys pleased him. I
2 CONT     remember one time I was to have a date, and my mother gave approval
2 CONT     without consulting with Poppa. I went to the porch and my young suitor
2 CONT     left in a big hurry with his horse and buggy when I told him that I
2 CONT     could not go. Poppa came running from the house, thinking that I bad
2 CONT     disobeyed him and went anyway, but he found me sitting on the edge of
2 CONT     the porch with the other children, laughing at his concern.
1 NOTE     Shortly afterward, I began dating a man a few years older than I, and
2 CONT     he seemed to meet with my parents approval. After about a year, I
2 CONT     married Cordon Moore on December 24, 1909.  Sadly, our marriage was to
2 CONT     last for only a short while, because Gordon died on January 21, 1911.
1 NOTE     After completing all the grades in Junior High School, I started to
2 CONT     business school in Victoria, Texas. I took the usual courses that a
2 CONT     secretary should take, and got my first job with a real estate company
2 CONT     in Louise, Texas. After working several months, I could take it no
2 CONT     longer. I had always been an out-doors, so I quit the job as a
2 CONT     secretary, and went to work helping bale hay.
1 NOTE     I worked at various jobs, making my own way. In 1912, my date took me
2 CONT     to see my first airplane. Had to pay to see it. I took my first car
2 CONT     ride in a car built by Martin Christenses, of El Campo, Texas.
1 NOTE     My parents had stayed in one place about as long as they could stand
2 CONT     it, so in 1912 they packed the covered wagon again and headed back to
2 CONT     Oklahoma. In 1914, I went along with my sister and her husband to
2 CONT     Oklahoma in July, via train, to visit my parents.  I had been informed
2 CONT     by my brother that there was a widower living near them, and he wagered
2 CONT     that I would marry him, if I went to Oklahoma.
1 NOTE     I first met this man, as he was on his cultivator, going to work in the
2 CONT     fields. The family lost no time in pointing him out to me. His name was
2 CONT     Claud Wortham.  He began courting me and soon thereafter we married on
2 CONT     December 26, l9l4. I had a ready-made family, as he had two very young
2 CONT     daughters - Eunice and Ora Dee by his deceased wife. I became very busy
2 CONT     at once helping to make crops, gardening, milking, sewing clothing for
2 CONT     my new children, and general caring for my family in other ways,
1 NOTE     I began having my own family soon after our marriage. Our first child
2 CONT     was born prematurely, and I was told he would not live. He weighed only
2 CONT     three pounds and maybe a few ounces. I gave him all my love, and took
2 CONT     good care of him, carrying him around on a pillow, and nursed him to
2 CONT     good health and a normal weight.
1 NOTE     During our first few years of marriage, we moved around quite a lot,
2 CONT     trying to make a living at farming, as our family increased regularly.
2 CONT     All of our moves were in the vicinity of Kinta, Oklahoma, such as
2 CONT     Edmond Chapel, Lona, etc. In the meantime, my parents moved back to
2 CONT     Texas, this time to stay.
1 NOTE     In March of 1919, our second little son, 2 year old Auldon, followed
2 CONT     his dad to his shop, where he had a forge for sharpening plows and
2 CONT     other blacksmith work for the farm. He climbed upon the forge, which
2 CONT     was made of cast iron, and pulled it over onto his stomach, causing
2 CONT     internal injuries, from which he died on March 22, 1919, and was buried
2 CONT     in San Bois Cemetery.
1 NOTE     We bought our first car - a Model T. Ford in 1921. We took our first
2 CONT     trip in it to visit my uncle John Wallace in Oklahoma, and then later
2 CONT     that year, in December, to visit my parents in Texas, and spend
2 CONT     Christmas with them. There were very few hard-surfaced roads at that
2 CONT     time, and it was quite an ordeal getting from place to place in a
2 CONT     Model-T Ford. I couldn't enjoy my stay for dreading the trip back.
1 NOTE     It was in August 1926, that we became city dwellers. We moved downtown
2 CONT     Kinta, Oklahoma, across the street from the public schools. Claud
2 CONT     became an employee of the State of Oklahoma, a job he was to hold for
2 CONT     approximately 2 years. We soon found that the house was too small for
2 CONT     our large family, and we found a large, two-story house for sale on 80
2 CONT     acres of 1and at the edge of town, which we bought. It kept all of us
2 CONT     busy farming, raising cattle, gardening and other related jobs.
1 NOTE     On December 21, 1932, our beautiful little daughter, Wilma Lee died,
2 CONT     and was buried in San Bois Cemetery. She was five years old. She had an
2 CONT     undiagnosed condition, and in spite of all the treatment the doctor
2 CONT     gave her, he could not make her well.  It was a very sad occasion for
2 CONT     me and all the family.
1 NOTE     During World War II, four of my five sons served in the Army and Navy.
2 CONT     The fifth one joined the army shortly after World War II ended, being
2 CONT     too young to serve during the war, I was so grateful to my Heavenly
2 CONT     Father that he watched over them, and brought them all back to me.
1 NOTE     By 1947, Claud's health began declining, and after much pain, we were
2 CONT     forced to sell the farm, Claud to resign his job, and move to a nearby
2 CONT     town of Quinton. Through an exploratory operation performed in Dallas,
2 CONT     Texas, his doctors announced that he had cancer, and had only six
2 CONT     months to live. The Doctor did not inform Claud of his diagnosis, or
2 CONT     prognosis, and neither the family. We did not accept the prognosis, and
2 CONT     kept living as normal life as we possibly could. We traveled from place
2 CONT     to place, visiting with the children and grandchildren, and on
2 CONT     sight-seeing vacations. Claud was in quite a lot of pain most of the
2 CONT     time, but he had a zest for life, and didn't give up easily. I tried to
2 CONT     make him as comfortable as possible, and although uncomfortable, he did
2 CONT     enjoy living.
1 NOTE     On April 22, 1958, about seven years after I was told that Claud would
2 CONT     live only about 6 months, I called all of the children home, except
2 CONT     Owen, who was in France in the Service. Claud embraced each one, told
2 CONT     them good-bye and passed on into his reward in heaven. He was a
2 CONT     fighter, a fine respectable man, a good father, and held in the highest
2 CONT     esteem by his friends and neighbors. He loved his family, and tried to
2 CONT     teach them by example that honesty, truthfulness and all other virtues
2 CONT     are necessary for a good and fruitful life. He was laid to rest in the
2 CONT     San Bois Cemetery on April 24, 1958.
1 NOTE     I spent the next few months visiting back and forth with my children. I
2 CONT     missed Claud so much, and felt so alone most of the time, in spite of
2 CONT     all the children, friends and others did for me to fill the void.
1 NOTE     I decided to accept the proposal of my daughter, Francille, and
2 CONT     son-in-law Larry, to build a house on a lot next door to their home in
2 CONT     Duncan, and the process began of selling my home in Quinton, building
2 CONT     my new home, and on April 30, 1959, I moved into my new house.
1 NOTE     I continued traveling back and forth, visiting with all of the
2 CONT     children, and kept busy most of the time, gardening, sewing, traveling
2 CONT     and oil painting.
1 NOTE     I and Claud and the family had been regular church goers since we were
2 CONT     married. Claud had joined the Methodist Church soon after we moved to
2 CONT     Kinta, and we rarely missed a Sunday attending after that. I had been
2 CONT     taught by righteous parents, who loved their Heavenly Father, and I
2 CONT     tried to instill that love into my children. I was not inclined or
2 CONT     pre-disposed to do evil in any way.
1 NOTE     I went to Texas to visit with the children, and while there I was
2 CONT     introduced to the Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S.
2 CONT     They asked me If I would like to know more about their church. I agreed
2 CONT     that I did. I had little knowledge of the beliefs, but what I had heard
2 CONT     sounded good and reasonable to me, I crammed as much study and
2 CONT     instructions in to one week as I could, because I was to leave for
2 CONT     South Texas for the Christmas Holidays. I returned to Grand Prairie on
2 CONT     January 12, 1960, and received my testimony of the truthfulness of the
2 CONT     church through study and prayer, and was baptized on January 30, 1960
2 CONT     at Fort Worth, Texas. The Holy Spirit testified to me often that the
2 CONT     Lord was pleased with my actions, and I had only to listen to his
2 CONT     promptings, and be guided accordingly, and I would live a happy and
2 CONT     successful life."
1 NOTE         -------------===============[]======================-----------
1 NOTE     Sister Wortham, and I call her Sister Wortham because although she is
2 CONT     my mortal mother, we are in actuality brothers and sisters, literally
2 CONT     of our Heavenly Father. We are all children of our Heavenly Father, and
2 CONT     children of our Heavenly Father are all brothers and sisters. So, as I
2 CONT     was about to say, Sister Wortham was a sincere, dedicated church
2 CONT     member, and loves her Heavenly Father very much. She held a number of
2 CONT     positions in her Ward in Duncan, Oklahoma, and was always a faithful,
2 CONT     dependable worker. She at one time or another served as Pianist, Sunday
2 CONT     School Teacher, Visiting Teacher, Ist Counselor in the Relief Society,
2 CONT     and a Spiritual Living Teacher in the Relief Society. She was honored
2 CONT     by her Ward as being the oldest Visiting Teacher, going with her
2 CONT     companion regularly each month, unless ill or out of town, until she
2 CONT     was 95 years of age. That assignment was to visit three or four member
2 CONT     families each month to administer to their temporal and spiritual
2 CONT     needs, as well as teach.
1 NOTE     She was a very unselfish person, and gave freely of whatever she had to
2 CONT     help support her church and her community. Although she had a meager
2 CONT     income by most standards, she always paid her tithes and offering to
2 CONT     her church, and each year made additional donations to three or four
2 CONT     organizations, such as the Salvation Army, Boys' Town, and others. She
2 CONT     always was blessed for her generosity, and never wanted for anything
2 CONT     for the lack of money.
1 NOTE     She was also caring and giving to her children. As they grew up,
2 CONT     married, and had children, a room was made ready in her home at any
2 CONT     time it was needed for the birth of one of her grandchildren, and
2 CONT     during their stay, she nutured and cared for them until the new mother
2 CONT     was able to do for herself and the newborn. She often sewed for the
2 CONT     little grandchildren, making clothing for them that they might not have
2 CONT     had otherwise. She did this along with all of her other duties in
2 CONT     caring for a large house and family. In addition, he often cared for
2 CONT     those children while the parents worked.
1 NOTE     Sister Wortham was a counselor and adviser. Young mothers would go to
2 CONT     her for advice as to what to do about certain problems they were having
2 CONT     with their children.She not only would advise the mother, but would
2 CONT     often talk to the child involved concerning the problem. Many times she
2 CONT     was able to rectify a bad situation through her counsel and advice. She
2 CONT     never failed to advise her own children, even though grown, when she
2 CONT     felt that they were not on the right course.
1 NOTE     Sister Wortham was a person of good humor. Only recently, on her 98th
2 CONT     birthday celebration, I took her a new pair of glasses that we had
2 CONT     made for her by the optician, and as I put them onto her eyes, I asked
2 CONT     her if she could see better with them. She replied, "Oh yes, you are a
2 CONT     lot better looking than I thought you were".
1 NOTE     Sister Wortham was a women of talent. Shortly after her husband Claud
2 CONT     died, well up in age herself, she began a new hobby. She taught herself
2 CONT     to oil paint and painted dozens of pictures, most of which she gave
2 CONT     away to those who desired them. Others would bring a Print of a Picture
2 CONT     they would like her to paint, and she always obliged. On rare
2 CONT     occasions, she would sell one of her pictures, and use the money to buy
2 CONT     oil color supplies so that she could continue painting. She also was
2 CONT     very good at sewing, cooking, crocheting, gardening, and tating. She
2 CONT     learned to play the piano primarily from mail-order lessons.
1 NOTE     God promises us, "Honor your father and your mother that your days may
2 CONT     be long upon the earth". Sister Wortham honored her parents, always.
2 CONT     She loved them and respected them, and after her father died, she kept
2 CONT     her mother in her home, even during the time of Claud's ill health, she
2 CONT     kept her mother in her home months at a time, caring for her and
2 CONT     nurturing her in the things she needed.
1 NOTE     Due to her advanced age, and declining health, Sister Wortham was
2 CONT     forced to give up her home in Duncan, Oklahoma, and moved into a local
2 CONT     nursing home in March, 1989. She made the best that she could of the
2 CONT     situation, but was never happy with the circumstances under which she
2 CONT     lived. She was well loved by her children, and many friends in and out
2 CONT     of her church, and during the nine months before her death, she had
2 CONT     received over 500 visits in the home. It was those visits that made it
2 CONT     bearable for her as long as she lived.
1 NOTE     Sister Wortham died on January 6, 1990, at approximately 10:45 A.M.,
2 CONT     while in the nursing home, at the age of 98 years and 3 months. She was
2 CONT     a member of the Watauga Ward of the Church of jesus Christ of Later-Day
2 CONT     Saints. She is survived by the following five sons: Owen Wortham of
2 CONT     Marble Falls, Texas; Omar Wortham, Fort Worth, Texas; Orville Wortham,
2 CONT     Weatherford, Texas; Otis Wortham, Springfield, Ohio; Onial Wortham,
2 CONT     Midlothian, Texas. She leaves behind two daughters, Ina Norman,
2 CONT     Bedford, Texas; and Francille Clement, Duncan, Oklahoma; also two
2 CONT     living step-daughters, Ora Dee Ramsey, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Eunice Adams,
2 CONT     Hobart, Oklahoma. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren 13 step
2 CONT     Grand Children, 44 Great Grandchildren, 45 Step Great Grandchildren; 6
2 CONT     Great Great Grandchildren, and 45 step Great Great Grandchildren. She
2 CONT     has three sisters who survive her; Addie Ray, Knoxville, Tenn,;Ella
2 CONT     Hensley, Fordtran, Texrs, and Ethel Legg, Caldwell, Texas, and many
2 CONT     other relatives and a host of friends.
1 NOTE     I will miss her greatly, but I am not concerned about where she is. I
2 CONT     know where she is, and I can be with her again by following the example
2 CONT     she set for me.
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 FAMS @F176@
1 FAMS @F49@
1 FAMC @F175@
0 @I161@ INDI
1 NAME Jefferson  /Johnson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  8 FEB 1840
2 PLAC Indiana
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 AUG 1923
2 PLAC Lincoln - Washington County, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F50@
1 FAMS @F54@
0 @I162@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Jane /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1848
2 PLAC Brighton - Tipton County, Tennessee
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1877
2 PLAC Cincinatti - Washington county, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F50@
1 FAMC @F74@
0 @I163@ INDI
1 NAME William Wortham /Johnson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1865
2 PLAC Paris - Lamar county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1935
1 FAMS @F52@
1 FAMC @F50@
0 @I164@ INDI
1 NAME Drucilla  /Johnson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1870
2 PLAC Washington county, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F53@
1 FAMC @F50@
0 @I165@ INDI
1 NAME James Thomas /Johnson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1876
2 PLAC Cincinatti - Washington county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1947
2 PLAC Washington county, Arkansas
1 FAMS @F51@
1 FAMC @F50@
0 @I166@ INDI
1 NAME Lellie Dee /Collins/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1880
1 FAMS @F51@
0 @I167@ INDI
1 NAME Efra  /Moore/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1870
2 PLAC Prairie Grove - Washington co. Arkansas
1 FAMS @F52@
0 @I168@ INDI
1 NAME James  /Jones/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1866
1 FAMS @F53@
0 @I169@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret  /_____/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1847
1 DEAT
2 DATE CA 1923
1 FAMS @F54@
0 @I170@ INDI
1 NAME Jefferson II /Johnson/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1880
1 FAMC @F54@
0 @I171@ INDI
1 NAME Bea  /Johnson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1882
1 FAMC @F54@
0 @I172@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin_Nathaniel "The Judge"/Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Justice of Peace/Mailman
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 OCT 1850
2 PLAC Near Brighton - Tipton County, Tennessee
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1940
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 NOTE     Text of letters written by Benjamin N. Wortham to his brother, Thomas
2 CONT     Creed Wortham, copies of which are in the files of Orville D. Wortham,
2 CONT     grandson of Benjamin N.  The letters are un-edited, but paragraphed.
1 NOTE      Kinta, Okla
2 CONT      Oct. 17, 1910
1 NOTE      T.C.W. & Family;
1 NOTE     Deare Bro. and all.  It has been so long since I have written that I
2 CONT     am almost ashamed to write.  But you will please pardin me this leaves
2 CONT     all well hope are. We are so busey trying to gether our crops that we
2 CONT     have hardly time for any thing els have not geathered all of my corn
2 CONT     yet about half done picking cotton have out 4 Bales.  Cotton is a good
2 CONT     price about 14 to 4.50 pr hundred wish you were all out here to help us
2 CONT     there is lots of work here of all kinds, carpenter work 2.50 per day
2 CONT     common labor from 1.50 to 2.00 dol day
1 NOTE     I am running the cotton ware house again this year..doing very well
2 CONT     for me also am Justice of Peace have been for for a year get a little
2 CONT     out of it.  All of the Boys are doing very well Considering.  Claud has
2 CONT     the hardest time his wife is Still Sick. Took her to Dr. F. Smith last
2 CONT     Spring had an operation, but she Still is not able to her work.  Allie
2 CONT     & Family were out here in Sumer Horton Sold out in Texas, but went back
2 CONT     and Bought he is doing well had about five Thousan Dol. in money.
1 NOTE     Well Tom you all Pick up and come down and we will kill a Turkey and
2 CONT     Pig nex Sunday is my Birth Day will be Sixty I cant get off or I would
2 CONT     come up there I have to be here Every Day I (mean at Kinta) I go home
2 CONT     Every night have a hand helping me if you will come I will pay your R R
2 CONT     fair this time as I cant get off to Come up there Let me here from you
2 CONT     With much Love to all I close. Your Bro B. N. Wortham
1 NOTE      Kinta Okla
2 CONT      March 29th 1911
1 NOTE      Tom Lizzie Cread Ola & Babes
1 NOTE     Here I come with Love Greetings.  Hope you have recovered from all your
2 CONT     ailments and are happy.  We are not very well Lovie has been Sick and
2 CONT     Jewell Sick this morning colds is there troubles.  Acie has the Grunts
2 CONT     and unless we can get a remedy soon I feare it will Become cronic and
2 CONT     there is but one cure when in that Stage.  Travil and
2 CONT     that-----------------------you see.
1 NOTE     As to my Self I am just now convelisant from a very Severe attact of
2 CONT     Pill taken yesterday to remove a Pain from my Side and I'm telling it
2 CONT     moved around in another Place that made me feel like I had Swoled a
2 CONT     Package of Tax.  So for as know the rest are well.  We are farming our
2 CONT     corn is coming Up Earl is harrowing it got our cotton-----cleared ready
2 CONT     to plant have 35 acres of corn l0 oats 23 cotton.  We have fine Season
2 CONT     So far.
1 NOTE     Well Tom I sit up last night with old Mr. Edmon the man whose place I
2 CONT     lived on When you was out here he's very low has been Confined to his
2 CONT     room & bed for 14 months has Payralsis.  Claud's wife is not able to do
2 CONT     her house work yet.  Now I close with prayer that you all may flu for
2 CONT     reffuge in Him Who hath Said Look Unto Me and be ye Saved All ye Ends
2 CONT     Earth for I am God and there is none Els.  We are indulging in the Hope
2 CONT     that you will come to see us ere long.  Write Soon, Much Love, B. N.
2 CONT     Wortham.
1 NOTE     Summary of article appearing in the Muskogee Phoenix News, Muskogee,
2 CONT     Oklahoma, dated April 25, 1938, regarding celebration of 60th wedding
2 CONT     anniversary of Benjamin Nathaniel Wortham and Acenith (Acie) Strahan
2 CONT     Wortham, which occured on 21 April:
1 NOTE     "Kinta., April 25--Mr. and Mrs B. N. Wortham celebrated their 60th
2 CONT     wedding anniversary here last week. Married at Cincinnati, Ark., on
2 CONT     April 21, 1878, and there are 73 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren
2 CONT     and 10 children of the couple. Most returned for the celebration.
2 CONT     Couple outlived one son, 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
2 CONT     Mr. Wortham was Justice of Peace from statehood until 1930, when ill
2 CONT     health caused him to retire. Mr. Wortham was born in Tipton County,
2 CONT     Tennessee on 23 October 1850. Mrs. Wortham was born Jan 12, 1857, in
2 CONT     Fannin county, Texas.  Parents of both moved to Washington County,
2 CONT     Arkansas. They married there in 1878.  They moved to Arizona in
2 CONT     February 1884, and then to Stephenson county, Texas in 1887.  In 1889
2 CONT     they moved to Wise county and from there to Oklahoma in 1902.  They
2 CONT     have lived in Kinta since.  Mr. Wortham played in the band which won
2 CONT     first prize at the first decoration service commemorating the dead of
2 CONT     the southern army forces at Fayetteville, Ark., while he lived in
2 CONT     Washington County.  The band also played at the first State Fair held
2 CONT     in Muskogee, Oklahoma."
1 NOTE                             -----------/----------
1 NOTE     Benjamin Nathaniel Wortham was blind, caused from cataracts, from
2 CONT     about the age of 65, until his death.  He was taken to Fort Smith,
2 CONT     Ark., for an operation to remove the cataracts about 1933, but only had
2 CONT     partial vision for a short period of time until becoming totally blind
2 CONT     again.
1 NOTE     Benjamin Nathaniel Wortham was first postmaster in Summers, Ark.,
2 CONT     serving from June 1882 to October 1882.
1 NOTE     SOURCE: "Goodspeed Biographical & Historical Records of N. W. Arkansas,
2 CONT     page 322".
1 NOTE                              =Orville D. Wortham=
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 NOTE On their 60th anniversary in 1938 there was a gathering of the family for a
2 CONT celebration.  By then they had outlived 1 son and had fifteen grandchildren,
2 CONT and two great-grandchildren.  Benjamin was blind in his latter years.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 530.  From the records of Orville Wortham
1 FAMS @F55@
1 FAMC @F74@
0 @I173@ INDI
1 NAME Acenith "Acie" Angeline/Strahan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JAN 1857
2 PLAC Honeygrove - Fannin county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 MAR 1940
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 29 MAR 1940
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE After the marriage they moved to Arizona (Cottonwood/Clarkdale/Jerome) in
2 CONT February of 1884.  They moved to Stephenson County, Texas in 1887, Wise County
2 CONT (Decatur?) in 1889 and from there to Oklahoma.  Kinta was their final home.
2 CONT Nickname "Acie" provided by grandaughter Freda Gill. -=Ron Wortham=-
2 CONT TIMELINE: 1889 - First jukebox plays for a nickle in San Fransisco.
1 FAMS @F55@
1 FAMC @F173@
0 @I174@ INDI
1 NAME Alexander Heath /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 FEB 1879
2 PLAC Washington county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  4 APR 1959
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Alexander Heath claimed to have inherited a cure for skin cancer.
1 NOTE     Alexander Heath's wife, Emma Dale Glenn Slater, was previously married
2 CONT     to Hugh Slater. They had three children; Annie, William and Clifford
2 CONT     (Bud) Slater.  Hugh died about 1895.  Annie and Clifford (Bud) were the
2 CONT     living step-children of Alexander Heath, living children of Emma when
2 CONT     they married.  William had died previous to their marriage. Orville D.
2 CONT     Wortham was personally acquainted with Annie and Bud, when he was a
2 CONT     young boy.
1 NOTE     Alexander Heath Wortham gained possession of a cancer treatment for
2 CONT     skin cancer and used it for treating of patients in Pittsburg and
2 CONT     Haskell Counties, as well as other surrounding counties.  This practice
2 CONT     was at least during the 1930's and 1940's, and treatment has been
2 CONT     witnessed by several people, including Orville D. Wortham, Lillian
2 CONT     Lorene Mullens Wortham, John Anderson Norman, and Claud Wortham.  John
2 CONT     (Jack) Norman witnessed a cancer removed from the leg of a black man;
2 CONT     Orville Wortham witnessed Alexander Heath remove a cancer from the leg
2 CONT     of a black woman.  Alexander Heath and Emma were visiting with the
2 CONT     Claud Wortham family at Kinta, Oklahoma, seven miles from his home in
2 CONT     Quinton, when one of his patients drove up, and Alexander Heath went to
2 CONT     the car to treat the black woman's leg.  He took a knife and lifted the
2 CONT     black scab of the cancer, which had been previously treated with the
2 CONT     formula by him.  This was witnessed by Orville D. Wortham.
1 NOTE     Lillian Wortham gave copies of the formula, written in her
2 CONT     handwriting, to some of the family, which she obtained from Alexander
2 CONT     Heath before his death.  At least two copies in her handwriting are
2 CONT     known to exist---John A. Norman and Orville D. Wortham.  Other copies
2 CONT     have been made, and one was given to his granddaughter, Shirley
2 CONT     Armstrong, and one to Burnice Carter Williams, his daughter, duplicated
2 CONT     from the orignal in possession of Orville D. Wortham.
1 NOTE     The cancer remedy formula follows: Galangel, Blood Root, Sulphated
2 CONT     Zinc.  Mix equal parts with enough water to make a paste.  Apply on
2 CONT     gauze for about 12 hours.  Remove gauze and apply new gauze with pure
2 CONT     vaseline until cancer comes out, being careful not to get infected. Can
2 CONT     be washed with peroxide.
1 NOTE     Lillian Wortham stated that she never knew of Alexander Heath's
2 CONT     treatment to fail to remove skin cancers.  He did receive payment for
2 CONT     his treatment, which today would be illegal and unethical, him not
2 CONT     being a licensed physician.
1 NOTE                              =Orville D. Wortham=
1 NOTE     (Following is the old Wortham family remedy for skin cancer re-typed
2 CONT     from Lillian's paper version and entered as computer data 18-Mar-1994)
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE     I am Jack Norman, spouse of Ina Wortham Norman.
1 NOTE     We lived in Kinta Oklahoma in 1937 very near Ina's parents, Claude &
2 CONT     Lillian Mullens Wortham.  Claudes' father Benjamin Nathaniel & wife
2 CONT     Acenith Wortham lived closely also as this is a very small community.
1 NOTE     During this era there was no medical knowledge of a cure for skin
2 CONT     cancer.  Claudes brother Alexander Heath Wortham had this recipe for
2 CONT     removal of skin cancer.  Lillian got this recipe from Alexander Heath
2 CONT     Wortham and gave it to me in a little "Black & White Ointment" can.  In
2 CONT     Lillian's own writing we will share it with our readers.  I've kept
2 CONT     this about 54 years.
1 NOTE     I observed the cancer which uncle Heath removed from a large area of a
2 CONT     negro man's leg he had treated with this recipe and Ina recalls her
2 CONT     grandmother Acenith [Angeline Strahan] Wortham with a patch on her
2 CONT     cheek and a skin cancer removed from her face.
1 NOTE     In Lillian's own handwriting, are copies of her original which [we]
2 CONT     want to share with all of you.
1 NOTE     Jack & Ina Norman
2 CONT     March 15, 1994
1 NOTE     [NOTE: The handwritten document remains in Jack and Ina's posession
2 CONT     and has been photocopied on the version mailed to me. I am sure it will
2 CONT     be available at family reunions and eventually, through family
2 CONT     archives.] The text is emulated below, from a small scratch pad page.
1 NOTE      +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      |  Cancer Remedy                  |                                 |
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      |  Golangel                       |     1915                        |
2 CONT      |  Blood Root                     |   I saw Emma Wortham            |
2 CONT      |  Sulphated Zinc                 |   had a scar on her temple      |
2 CONT      |  Mix equal parts with           |   and learned she had           |
2 CONT      |  enough water to make           |   a cancer there and it         |
2 CONT      |  a paste.                       |   was removed with this         |
2 CONT      |  Apply on gauze for             |   remedy.                       |
2 CONT      |  about 12 hrs, remove           |   So her husband Heath          |
2 CONT      |  gauze and apply new            |   took care of the recipe and   |
2 CONT      |  gauze with Vasaline            |   removed cancer for            |
2 CONT      |  until cancer comes             |   several people once in        |
2 CONT      |  out, being careful not         |   a while.  Never knew          |
2 CONT      |  to get infected.               |   of it to fail.                |
2 CONT      |  Can be washed with             |            Lillian Wortham      |
2 CONT      |  peroxide.                      |                                 |
2 CONT      |  [unreadable text for one line] |  March 17, 1983                 |
2 CONT      |                                 |                                 |
2 CONT      +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
1 NOTE                     From Compton's electronic encyclopedia:
1 NOTE     BLOODROOT.  One of the loveliest but most fragile of spring flowers is
2 CONT     the bloodroot. In April and May it pushes its delicate white blossom
2 CONT     upward, wrapped in silver-green leaves, in open woodlands from Canada
2 CONT     to Florida and west to Nebraska and Arkansas The first warm sunshine
2 CONT     opens the flower. It has yellow stamens and from 8 to 12 white petals;
2 CONT     but rain or wind soon blows the petals away. The plant is named for the
2 CONT     red juice which oozes from broken stems and roots. In older days it was
2 CONT     taken on a lump of sugar to cure coughs and colds. The dried roots
2 CONT     (called sanguinaria) contain an alkaloid (sanguinarin) which has
2 CONT     medicinal value as a etic, purge, and stimulant. The two-inch
2 CONT     (five-centimeter) blossoms grow on plants about eight inches (20
2 CONT     centimeters) high. The bloodroot is a perennial of the poppy family.
2 CONT     Its scientific name is Sanguinaria canadensis. (end Compton's)
1 NOTE     NOTE: Bloodroot is mentioned often in "Back to Eden" the famous book
2 CONT     of herbal remedies by Jethro Kloss.
1 NOTE     GALANGEL is another plant, the flowers of which are used in remedies
2 CONT     of all kinds.  In its powdered form, it is the same dark red color of
2 CONT     powdered bloodroot and has its own pungent smell. It is NOT mentioned
2 CONT     in "Back to Eden" or any other publication I have been able to research
2 CONT     in contemporary times (1994). I have tried several electronic
2 CONT     enclyclopedias on the subject.  An old copy of Webster's dictionary
2 CONT     mentioned it only in the context that it was often confused with other
2 CONT     plants and herbs.  As shown above it is sometimes spelled and
2 CONT     pronounced GOLANGEL.
1 NOTE     The third ingredient, the chemical Sulpated Zinc is a white powder
2 CONT     available commercially and labeled "Poison" in no uncertain terms.
1 NOTE     Family stories tell of large cancers being removed one woman's face
2 CONT     and a small one being removed from Acenith "Acie" Strahans once. It is
2 CONT     also said to work on horses.  Heath reportedly wanted the recipe kept
2 CONT     secret, hoping to perhaps, attain a patent for it.  His nephew Omar
2 CONT     said Heath often charged up to $15.00 for the treatment, a
2 CONT     considerable sum of money in those days.  As Lillian's notes show, it
2 CONT     was never known to fail. Heath often combined the ingredients with
2 CONT     Vaseline petroleum jelly, creating a salve.
1 NOTE     It would seem that this might be an early externally applied version
2 CONT     of the principals of chemotherapy.  Perhaps something in the mixture
2 CONT     has a purgative or even fatal effect on the parasitic flesh of cancer,
2 CONT     causing it to separate and die while the surrounding healthy tissue
2 CONT     survives.  Whatever, the reports of the cancerous flesh "falling away"
2 CONT     from the surrounding healthy tissue deserve notice.
1 NOTE     Please understand that this is being shared as a piece of family
2 CONT     history and is not intended as medical advice of any kind. It should be
2 CONT     said here that use of such a recipe or anything similar from any other
2 CONT     source of information requires some applied common sense; DO NOT
2 CONT     attempt this without the direct advice, counseling and prescription
2 CONT     quality ingredients, supplied by a professional physician.
1 NOTE                           --------------/------------
1 NOTE     Personal Rememberances:
1 NOTE     I recall as a child, walking the half-mile or so from the old Quentin
2 CONT     house across a small stream near the old smelter, to where Alexander
2 CONT     lived.  The stream was often frozen over and it was a real challenge to
2 CONT     walk across the ice without breaking through and getting soaked.  Of
2 CONT     course there was the bridge, but that required no courage.
1 NOTE     I used to go there whenever we visited, to read an encyclopedia called
2 CONT     "The Book Of Wonder" which was full of marvelous stories of things
2 CONT     relating to chemistry, physics and sociology.  It was written in such a
2 CONT     way as to be endlessly fascinating.  My father Omar, eventually bought
2 CONT     the entire set from "Heath" for thirty dollars.  It was exchanged for a
2 CONT     much newer (and very boring) set of encyclopedias years later.
1 NOTE     Heath and Emma were nice folk, always hospitable and a necessarily, a
2 CONT     little tolerant of me.  Some folks could be doing chores intead of
2 CONT     getting lost in books like that, you know.
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 NOTE "The Wortham Connection", Page 531.
1 FAMS @F56@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I175@ INDI
1 NAME James Horton /King/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JAN 1877
2 PLAC Medina - Gibson couinty, Tennessee
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1977
2 PLAC Alvord - Wise county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Alvord - Wise county, Texas
1 FAMS @F57@
1 FAMC @F248@
0 @I176@ INDI
1 NAME Mattie M. (Lee)/Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAY 1882
2 PLAC Fayetteville - Washington co. Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 APR 1946
2 PLAC Hemet - Riverside county, California
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Family records are in posession of Carl Edward McKinley
1 FAMS @F58@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I177@ INDI
1 NAME Melinda "Lennie" /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  2 FEB 1886
2 PLAC Cottonwood - Yavapai county, Arizona
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1973
2 PLAC Stigler - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE There were 10 children by this marriage, 5 boys and 5 girls.
1 FAMS @F59@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I178@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Lizzy /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 FEB 1888
2 PLAC Auduban community - Wise County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  6 DEC 1967
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE  7 DEC 1967
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE There were eight children from this marriage.  Five boys and three girls.
2 CONT Four of these eight children were born on the 24th day of the month.  Two were
2 CONT born on the 24th of April, three years apart. -=Ron Wortham=-
1 FAMS @F60@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I179@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel Harman /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  8 JUL 1890
2 PLAC New Harp - Montague County, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  8 OCT 1891
2 PLAC New Harp - Montague County, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Infant death.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 530.
2 CONT Most of the data in this family has been provided by Orville Donnie Wortham.
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I180@ INDI
1 NAME Major Earl /Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAY 1892
2 PLAC Forestburg - Montague county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1949
2 PLAC McAlester - Pittsburgh county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 MAR 1949
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE "The Wortham Connection", Page 545.
2 CONT TIMELINE: 1889 - 1893  President in office is Benjamin Harrison.
1 FAMS @F61@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I181@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Lovie /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1895
2 PLAC Alvord - Wise county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 JAN 1989
2 PLAC Broken Arrow - Tulsa county, Oklahoma
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 NOTE Family records in posession of Orville Donnie Wortham.
1 FAMS @F62@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I182@ INDI
1 NAME Jewell Annie /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 JUN 1897
2 PLAC Forestburg - Montague county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1979
2 PLAC Tulsa - Tulsa county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 13 FEB 1979
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F63@
1 FAMS @F64@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I183@ INDI
1 NAME Emma Dale /Glenn/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 MAY 1877
2 PLAC Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  1 JUL 1969
2 PLAC Quinton - Pittsburgh county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE  4 JUL 1969
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 FAMS @F132@
1 FAMS @F56@
0 @I184@ INDI
1 NAME Allie Mae /Wortham/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 AUG 1880
2 PLAC Faidsel - Washington County, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 APR 1970
2 PLAC Alvord - Wise county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Alvord - Wise county, Texas
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F57@
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I185@ INDI
1 NAME Frank Romey /McKinley/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Highway Const./Farmer
1 BIRT
2 DATE  4 APR 1881
2 PLAC Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  3 DEC 1960
2 PLAC Holdenville - Hughes county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 15 DEC 1960
2 PLAC Hemet - Riverside county, California
1 FAMS @F58@
1 FAMC @F249@
0 @I186@ INDI
1 NAME Clarence Roy "Lonnie"/McKinley/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1883
2 PLAC Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 AUG 1962
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE  2 SEP 1962
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 NOTE Daughter Freda provided the nicknames "Lonnie" and "Lennie" -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE     NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: I lived within one quarter of a mile of Melinda
2 CONT     Wortham McKinley and was a frequent visitor at their home during my
2 CONT     growing-up years.  During that period of time, I never heard my aunt
2 CONT     and uncle-in-law addressed by any other name than "Lin" and "Clarence",
2 CONT     our "Aunt Lin" and "Uncle Clarence", by their nephews and neices.
2 CONT     Perhaps the nicknames of "Lonnie" and "Linnie" were used earlier in
2 CONT     their lives.
2 CONT                                =Orville Wortham=
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 FAMS @F59@
1 FAMC @F249@
0 @I187@ INDI
1 NAME Corneilius Jackson (Jack)/Reasnor/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 JAN 1885
2 PLAC Palo Pinto - Palo Pinto county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1941
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 MAY 1941
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 REFN *DAR*ANCESTOR*
1 FAMS @F60@
1 FAMC @F200@
0 @I188@ INDI
1 NAME Henryetta "Etta" /Sharp/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  6 APR 1896
2 PLAC Blane - Saline county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  2 MAY 1990
2 PLAC Fort Smith - Sebastian county, Arkansas
1 BURI
2 DATE  5 MAY 1990
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 FAMS @F61@
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I189@ INDI
1 NAME Earnest Anthony /Ward/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer/Rancher
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JAN 1892
2 PLAC Barlin - Sebastian county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JUL 1968
2 PLAC Kinta - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 16 JUL 1968
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 FAMS @F62@
0 @I190@ INDI
1 NAME Sam  /Stigall/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1892
1 FAMS @F63@
0 @I191@ INDI
1 NAME Olen Edgar /Roberts/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  8 JUN 1895
2 PLAC Hartford - Sebastian county, Arkansas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 MAR 1981
2 PLAC Quinton - Pittsburgh county, Oklahoma
1 BURI
2 DATE 12 MAR 1981
2 PLAC San Bois, Kinta - Haskell county, OK
1 NOTE There were eight children by this marriage, 5 boys and three girls.
2 CONT Records are in posession of Orville Donnie Wortham.
1 FAMS @F64@
0 @I192@ INDI
1 NAME Dale  /Grimes/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Auto mechanic
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUL 1947
2 PLAC Alton, IL
1 FAMS @F65@
0 @I193@ INDI
1 NAME Corey Dale /Grimes/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 OCT 1986
2 PLAC Temple, Texas
1 FAMC @F65@
0 @I194@ INDI
1 NAME Haley  /Grimes/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1988
2 PLAC Temple, Texas
1 FAMC @F65@
0 @I195@ INDI
1 NAME Larry C. /Clement/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Haliburton Oil
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1928
2 PLAC Stigler - Haskell county, Oklahoma
1 FAMS @F66@
0 @I196@ INDI
1 NAME Harium Boone /Teague/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Grave digger/gardener
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 FEB 1900
2 PLAC Madill - Marshall county Oklahoma
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1969
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 BURI
2 DATE  2 JAN 1969
2 PLAC Parkdale cemetery - Arlington, Texas
1 NOTE Boone reportedly was on the crew that buried Lee Harvey Oswald at Rose Hill
2 CONT cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas in November of 1963.  Reports from his daughter
2 CONT Nancy, said that he was visibly very shaken about the ordeal and said "I never
2 CONT buried a man so fast in all my life".  For a considerable time, the subject
2 CONT was treated as taboo in the family and not spoken of. HARIUM may be HIRAM.
1 FAMS @F67@
1 FAMC @F374@
0 @I197@ INDI
1 NAME Lula Bessie /Young/
1 SEX F
1 OCCU Housewife
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 JAN 1906
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 NOV 1985
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Arlington Memorial cemetery
1 NOTE The pictures are from a wedding picture made in about 1922.
1 FAMS @F67@
1 FAMC @F316@
0 @I198@ INDI
1 NAME Wayne  /Teague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  2 MAR 1926
1 FAMS @F1297@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I199@ INDI
1 NAME Haskell  /Teague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  1 JAN 1929
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1992
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F1296@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I200@ INDI
1 NAME Vernon Ray (Sr.)/Teague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  4 APR 1930
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  8 APR 1996
2 PLAC Weatherford - Parker county, Texas
1 FAMS @F379@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I201@ INDI
1 NAME Bessie Lucille /Teague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  5 AUG 1934
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 AUG 1987
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 NOTE NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: There was a previous marriage with the father of Georgia.
1 FAMS @F68@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I202@ INDI
1 NAME Pauline (Polly) /Teague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 FEB 1937
1 NOTE NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: There was a previous marriage to the father of Patricia.
1 FAMS @F69@
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I203@ INDI
1 NAME Carol Ansel /Brown/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  9 NOV 1928
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1968
1 FAMS @F68@
0 @I204@ INDI
1 NAME Georgia Nann /Brown/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  4 DEC 1949
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F376@
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I205@ INDI
1 NAME Randy Carol /Brown/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 DEC 1965
1 NOTE Randy was an adopted child.
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I206@ INDI
1 NAME Albert (Jr.) /Tetterton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1933
2 PLAC Norfolk, Virginia
1 FAMS @F69@
0 @I207@ INDI
1 NAME Patricia Kay /Tetterton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 MAY 1952
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F384@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I208@ INDI
1 NAME Connie  /Tetterton/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1961
2 PLAC Fort Worth - Tarrant county, Texas
1 FAMS @F385@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I209@ INDI
1 NAME Liza Bell /Barker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1861
2 PLAC Brazil - Gibson county, Tennessee
1 FAMC @F1256@
0 @I210@ INDI
1 NAME Saphrona Caroline /Barker/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1856
2 PLAC Brazil - Gibson county, Tennessee
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Brazil - Gibson county, Tennessee
1 NOTE Was listed as Catherine in the 1860 census.
2 CONT From the notes of Fairy B. Edwards (TX).
1 FAMC @F1256@
0 @I211@ INDI
1 NAME Charles L. /Barker/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1864
1 FAMC @F1256@
0 @I212@ INDI
1 NAME Clarence A. (Sr.)/Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Carnival operator
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 OCT 1882
2 PLAC Paris - Lamar county, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 SEP 1922
2 PLAC Cincinnatti, Ohio
1 BURI
2 PLAC Springfield cemetery - Danville Illinois
1 NOTE Clarence A. Wortham at his death in 1922 owned all the rides at the midway of
2 CONT the Texas State Fair in Dallas.  He also owned numerous other carnivals all
2 CONT over the country.  He was known as "The Little Giant" in that industry.
2 CONT See Clarence, son of Notley #2722 in "The Wortham Connection" Page 355.
2 CONT "The Wortham Connection", Page 510.
1 NOTE                        The Legend of "THE LITTLE GIANT"
2 CONT                        The Obituary of Clarence Wortham
1 NOTE     Clarence A. Wortham was born in Paris, Texas on October 14, 1882.  As
2 CONT     young boys do everywhere in this country, young Wortham sold newspapers
2 CONT     in his home town.  He was owner of a cigar stand in his middle teens,
2 CONT     and had worked at several things including a short period as a hotel
2 CONT     bellhop before he was eighteen.  A job he took and stayed with for some
2 CONT     time was as manager of the baseball team at Danville, Illinois.  He
2 CONT     liked Danville, made many friends there and always thereafter
2 CONT     considered it his home.
1 NOTE     While Gaskill, the Feraros. Dan Robinson, Brundage, Bill Rice and the
2 CONT     other carnival owners and promoters were rampaging across country with
2 CONT     that new collective amusement toy of theirs, young Wortham was managing
2 CONT     baseball teams, theatres and amusement parks in or around Danville.  He
2 CONT     had met a nice young lady, and on June 29, 1904, he married Miss Belle
2 CONT     Snapp.
1 NOTE     Sometime in 1907 or 1908 he met C.W. Parker's son-in-law, Tom W. Allen.
2 CONT     After considerable planning they built and operated the Wortham & Allen
2 CONT     Shows, a two-car carnival.  Literate Barney S. Gerety, a native of
2 CONT     Danville, had been a fifth grade drop-out, Wortham's secretary and "man
2 CONT     Friday" for some time in Danville.  Twenty-two year old Gerety was the
2 CONT     new carnival's secretary when it opened in 1910.
1 NOTE     The Wortham and Allen Shows was a success and had grown from two to
2 CONT     twenty-eight cars when they dissolved partnership in fall of 1913. C.A.
2 CONT     went into Danville and built the new C.A. Wortham Shows for the 1914
2 CONT     season.  From then on, he never had less than one big railroad show
2 CONT     under his personal ownership.  One season, as is stated in the
2 CONT     narrative he had five midways of his own on tour.  He never had enough
2 CONT     midways to play all of the fair and celebration dates that were offered
2 CONT     him Dates that other shows schemed and would plead for were his for the
2 CONT     asking.  Many of those dates were played for years without formal
2 CONT     written contracts.  A verbal agreement and a hand shake was all that
2 CONT     was required from the master carnival showman.
1 NOTE     By Labor Day, 1922, he owned outright two huge carnivals and had
2 CONT     financial interest in five others.  In addition he owned interests in
2 CONT     numerous riding devices on fairgrounds and in amusement parks.  He
2 CONT     owned all the rides at the Dallas Fair Park, and had a a ten year
2 CONT     exclusive contract for their operations there.  J.C. Simpson was in
2 CONT     Dallas as manager of this operation.  In both 1921 and 1922 his
2 CONT     Clarence A. Wortham's World's Greatest Shows was playing the Canadian
2 CONT     National Exhibition in Toronto while his Clarence A. Wortham's World's
2 CONT     Best Shows under the management of Fred Beckman was playing the
2 CONT     high-grossing Minnesota State Fair at St. Paul.  The latter show also
2 CONT     held the contracts for the Western Canada Class A Circuit of Fairs.
2 CONT     Never before, or since, had one man held and controlled as many
2 CONT     high-class profitable fair dates as Clarence Wortham did in 1922.
1 NOTE     When the number one show pulled into Cincinnati for a date the third
2 CONT     week in September, the Little Giant wasn't feeling as well as he
2 CONT     should, and he didn't leave the private car.  After a few days he
2 CONT     entered Deaconess Hospital for a checkup and rest.  He got worse, and
2 CONT     the show train left for Knoxville without the boss man.  Bob Lohmar's
2 CONT     telegram reached the train as it went through Lexington, Kentucky.
2 CONT     Wortham was dead.  His overworked and abused stomach had given out.  He
2 CONT     died at 11:25 A.M. on September 24th.  Lohmar sent telegrams across the
2 CONT     nation that the carnival king was dead.  He and Mrs. Wortham
2 CONT     accompanied the body to Danville for burial.
1 NOTE     Wortham was buried in the Springfield Cemetery in Danville with one of
2 CONT     the most impressive services ever witnessed there.  His twelve and
2 CONT     fifteen year old sons were brought from a Chicago military school by a
2 CONT     member of Showmen's League.  The Showmen's League Chaplain conducted
2 CONT     the service assisted by a local minister.  The eight pallbearers had
2 CONT     been friends of C.A. before he entered the carnival business.  The
2 CONT     seventy-two honorary pallbearers were the top men from the outdoor
2 CONT     amusement world.
1 NOTE     All seven shows that Wortham owned an interest in closed for the
2 CONT     afternoon and held memorial services on the grounds.  Most all other
2 CONT     midways across the country ceased activities for a few moments of
2 CONT     silence.  Perhaps the most impressive service of all was held on the
2 CONT     Abilene, Texas Fairgrounds where Clarence A's brother's John T. Wortham
2 CONT     Shows were playing.
1 NOTE     The wooden grandstand of the Taylor County Fair was packed with some
2 CONT     five thousand people waiting for the afternoon show to start, when a
2 CONT     small man, later identified as a local minister, rose among them and
2 CONT     asked that all rise and heads be bowed for a moment of silence.  As
2 CONT     they stood in silence the grandstand announcer led them in the Lord's
2 CONT     Prayer and then gave a brief eulogy for the departed showman.  As he
2 CONT     closed, the grandstand band started playing "Nearer My God to Thee."
2 CONT     This refrain was echoed from the back end of the long, black
2 CONT     crepe-draped midway, as Mr. Johnson picked it up on the water show
2 CONT     una-fon.  Not a person was visible on the long mourning midway, when
2 CONT     the music started down at the water show.  As the first strains of the
2 CONT     sacred number played on that raucous instrument answered the band at
2 CONT     the grandstand, carnival troopers began to appear from their tightly
2 CONT     closed tents and gaming joints, from their living wagons and sleeping
2 CONT     tents and from back of the cook house.  All of them dressed in the
2 CONT     Sunday best, they filed slowly down the midway toward the sound of
2 CONT     music.  The water show arena was quietly filled by mourning carnies who
2 CONT     then held a memorial service for the brother of their own boss man.
1 NOTE     The "Little Giant" was gone, but he left behind him hundreds of
2 CONT     "Wortham-trained" carnival people who would be the mainstays of most
2 CONT     midways for over a decade.
1 NOTE                -----------end of obituary article--------------
1 NOTE     RESEARCHERS NOTE: Clarence's son Maxwell offers the information that
2 CONT     he actually died on a train while on his way to New York to Purchase
2 CONT     Ringling Brothers' Circus.  Perhaps "taken ill" is more correct.
1 NOTE     There is a specific description of a brother of Clarence, a JOHN T.
2 CONT     WORTHAM (who would have been born ca 1881) in the paragraph regarding
2 CONT     Abilene, Texas.  I have not been able to locate and/or identify him.
2 CONT     The obituary was xeroxed from page 36 of a book which was quite likely;
2 CONT     "Theatre in a Tent" (c)1972 by Bowling Green, University Popular Press,
2 CONT     Bowling Green, Ohio. This article was noted in "The Wortham
2 CONT     Connection." This page was found in a section of family group sheets.
1 NOTE                  ---------------------/----------------------
1 NOTE                            FROM: "Backward Glances"
2 CONT                            Tuesday February 18, 1930
2 CONT                                 by A.W. Neville
2 CONT                                 The Paris News
1 NOTE     Among some other Paris boys who went out into the world and made a name
2 CONT     and some money for himself was CLARENCE WORTHAM, known when he was a
2 CONT     boy in Paris as "CHINA" though why, nobody seems to know.
1 NOTE     Clarence was born here, grew up here, and after he left, got into the
2 CONT     carnival business and at his death some years ago left an estate of a
2 CONT     quarter million dollars or more, all earned by his ability to amuse the
2 CONT     public.
1 NOTE     When a boy Clarence used to sell newspapers on the streets and from
2 CONT     time to time worked at odd jobs.  He was always a hustler, ready to
2 CONT     make friends, always with a laugh or a bright reply to wise cracks made
2 CONT     to him - one of the self made, self reliant boys that we see once in so
2 CONT     often.  While yet in his teens he left Paris and traveled over a
2 CONT     considerable part of the country, picking up information of all sorts
2 CONT     including a knowledge of human nature, that stood him in good stead
2 CONT     when he decided what his life work would be.
1 NOTE     I recall that on one of his periodic returns here he opened the first
2 CONT     pressing parlor or "Panatorium" as they called them then.  At that time
2 CONT     Paris had no such service.  Clarence organized a club, the members of
2 CONT     which had their shoes shined once a day and their clothes pressed at
2 CONT     needed intervals, for a stated sum per month.  The idea was new here
2 CONT     and caught on quickly, so much so that soon there were several others
2 CONT     operated along similar lines.  Clarence had sold his before the
2 CONT     business began to be divided.
1 NOTE     Some time later he came back and opened a roller skating rink that
2 CONT     flouished for some time and was disposed of at a profit.  he always
2 CONT     seemed to have something that other people wanted and his trades were
2 CONT     generally profitable, though always made on a square and honest pride.
1 NOTE     After leaving Paris he went into a summer amusement park in illinois,
2 CONT     married there and then gradually worked into the carnival business very
2 CONT     small at first, but his show gradually growing as time went on.  For
2 CONT     several years before his death he wintered his show in San Antonio and
2 CONT     used to open the season there in April at the fiesta week, and San
2 CONT     Jacinto day celebrations. While in San Antonio he picked up some real
2 CONT     estate that later became valuable and add to his fortune.
1 NOTE     Dying suddenly after an operation in a hospital, he was buried in
2 CONT     Danville Illinois, the home of his wife before marriage.  Uncle Joe
2 CONT     Cannon, former speaker of the house in Congress is buried there also,
2 CONT     and I am told that of strangers from out of town who visit the Danville
2 CONT     cemeterey, more inquire to see the grave of Clarence Wortham than that
2 CONT     of the statesman.
1 NOTE                  ---------------------/----------------------
1 NOTE     The legend of "The Little Giant" touched me personally in 1965 when I
2 CONT     worked for WRR Radio (located in Dallas' Fair Park near the Midway) and
2 CONT     on a part-time basis as a barker/promoter for the Swiss Skyride. I was
2 CONT     questioned intently by one of the carnies there; the owner of the Swiss
2 CONT     Skyride, as to my ancestry. Particularly, was I related to Clarence
2 CONT     Wortham.  The questioning was so intense and hopeful, that it startled
2 CONT     me.
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
1 NOTE         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= END OF DOCUMENT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1 FAMS @F71@
1 FAMC @F1367@
0 @I213@ INDI
1 NAME Belle  /Snapp/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE CA 1885
1 FAMS @F71@
0 @I214@ INDI
1 NAME Alfred H. (Heath?)/Wortham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE  ? ___ 1791
2 PLAC Granville/Butte/Warren/Orange/Vance - NC
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 JAN 1846
2 PLAC Gibson county, Tennessee
1 NOTE                          RECONSTRUCTING ALFRED WORTHAM
1 NOTE     Vivian Roller's fascination with Alfred Wortham has a contagious
2 CONT     nature. It is unknown if she was provided with some of the old papers
2 CONT     owned by William Harvill Wortham, which were more focused on deeds and
2 CONT     other court documents relevant to William Wortham and Sheriff James
2 CONT     Wortham.
1 NOTE     As it happens, we have clues from a June 21st, 1928 Bedford Times
2 CONT     newspaper article listing some of the purchases from Deery &
2 CONT     Strickler's, sold to Alfred Wortham on November 27, 1824.
1 NOTE     The article was intended to simply give a glance at how life may have
2 CONT     been in the Bedford county of 1824.  It does that.  With that as a
2 CONT     background, it also gives a silhouette of the life of Alfred Wortham.
1 NOTE                     One oz. camphor............    25 cents
2 CONT                     2 1/4 pounds of sugar......    50 cents
2 CONT                     One oz. cinnamon bark......    25 cents
2 CONT                     1 paper [of sewing] pins...    25 cents
2 CONT                     3 yrds. flannell @ 50 cents  1.50 cents
2 CONT                     1/2 yard black silk @ 1.00     50 cents
2 CONT                     1 yd. cambric............. 62 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1 Razor...................        $1.00
2 CONT                     1 Bandanah handkerchief...        $1.50
2 CONT                     1 double bolt padlock.....     75 cents
2 CONT                     1/4 pound of tea @ $2.50 . 62 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1 razor strop............. 37 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1/2 pint whiskey.......... 12 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     2 lb. coffee @ 50 cents...       $1.00
2 CONT                     1/2 lb copperas @ 25 cents 12 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1/2 lb spice @ 95 cents... 37 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1 lb nails................     25 cents
2 CONT                     1/2 pint brandy........... 12 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     wool hat..................        $1.25
2 CONT                     1 pr. shoes...............        $2.00
2 CONT                     1 oz. Indigo.............. 31 1/4 cents
2 CONT                     2 ozs. madder............. 12 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1/2 pint brandy........... 12 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     2 lb. coffee @ 50 cents...        $1.00
2 CONT                     1 oz. Annato..............     25 cents
2 CONT                     1 wool hat................        $1.50
2 CONT                     2 lb. coffee @ 50 cents...        $1.00
2 CONT                     2 1/4 pounds of sugar......    50 cents
2 CONT                     Premium on silver.......... 6 1/4 cents
2 CONT                     1 long comb................37 1/2 cents
2 CONT                     1 stran beads..............    50 cents
2 CONT                     1 bunch beads..............37 1/4 cents
2 CONT                     1 yd. book muslin..........       $1.50
2 CONT                     Suspenders.................    50 cents
2 CONT                     1/4 spice..................    50 cents
2 CONT                     1 lb. coffee...............    50 cents
2 CONT                     2 1/4 pounds of sugar......    50 cents
1 NOTE                  Received payment in full from Alfred Wortham
2 CONT                      Deery & Strickler, November 27, 1824
1 NOTE                                  Total: 22.99+
1 NOTE                           -------------/------------
1 NOTE     Alfred is likely to have been buying provisions for several families,
2 CONT     working from separate lists.  Notice coffee was purchased four times -
2 CONT     three at 2 pounds, and one at 1 pound.  From this we can guess at three
2 CONT     families and perhaps one small family or couple, or perhaps someone
2 CONT     living single or a slave family, who would only use 1 pound at a time.
2 CONT     Sugar was purchased three times.
1 NOTE     Tea was only purchased once and in this case at least, it was very
2 CONT     expensive. It is possible that in 1824 transportation of many items was
2 CONT     costly.  Conversely, money at this time in history had considerably
2 CONT     higher buying power than it does in modern times.  This may have been a
2 CONT     very special blend of tea, perhaps of gourmet or ceremonial quality,
2 CONT     intended to be served only at formal occasions such as a baby shower.
1 NOTE     "Received payment in full" at the bottom of the receipt, may have
2 CONT     acknowledged in addition to or instead of cash, a form of barter such
2 CONT     as crops, tobacco, work or trade.  Unfortunately we can't tell from the
2 CONT     list, who got what delivered to them.
1 NOTE     Genealogist Fairy Edwards (member, DAR from Texas) is a former nurse.
2 CONT     She did some research on some of the more unusual items on the list
2 CONT     which includes Copperas (probably copper sulphate). Used medicinally,
2 CONT     it was sometimes mixed with molasses and used as a blood builder.  It
2 CONT     was easy to overdose on though, and could cause serious liver problems.
2 CONT     Sky blue in color, it could also be used as a fabric dye.  After it
2 CONT     combined with other chemicals, it normally took on a greenish hue.
2 CONT     According to Ed Shaw, it was a favorite in larger quantities, on tree
2 CONT     stumps, since it caused them to decompose at a rapid rate.
1 NOTE     Madder is a plant grown in Europe and Asia, used for making dyes. It
2 CONT     has several colorful reactions with certain chemicals that cause color
2 CONT     changes ranging from pink, red, yellow, purple, brown and others.
1 NOTE     Annato (or Anotto), is an exotic tropical plant (Bixa Orellana) that
2 CONT     when pulpified into a powder yields a reddish color that was also used
2 CONT     as a dye.  We have already seen Indigo listed, a popular color of blue.
2 CONT     Indeed, indigo is said to have been the color of preference for the
2 CONT     first "blue jeans".
1 NOTE     Also on the list are the fabrics; flannel, cambric, book muslin (used
2 CONT     as a lining) and a small quantity of black silk. The purchase of black
2 CONT     silk leads one to think that perhaps it may have been intended as a
2 CONT     head covering or prayer shawl.  However, it may also have been used as
2 CONT     a widow's veil or in some other funeral adornment.  It may simply have
2 CONT     been a scarf or hat decoration.
1 NOTE     It is tempting to draw the conclusion when you add in the paper of
2 CONT     pins, that the family or families were involved in the textile business
2 CONT     in some way.  But the quantities of the items are not more than just
2 CONT     enough to treat a few garments at a time.  However, as genealogist Ed
2 CONT     Shaw pointed out, there were several families on nearby farms that were
2 CONT     involved sooner and later, in textile work.  In fact, he said, about a
2 CONT     fourth of the adjacent lines of WILSON family kin and the related
2 CONT     Worthams were weavers by trade. It could be that in this shopping list,
2 CONT     we are witness to a small cottage industry, in its research and
2 CONT     development stage.  More likely, preparations were underway for the new
2 CONT     baby.
1 NOTE     It may be that some items were intended for use as pharmaceuticals of
2 CONT     some kind. Alexander Heath Wortham, great grandson of Alfred, had a
2 CONT     concoction that he said was handed down to him for the treatment of
2 CONT     skin cancer. It included two rare, very reddish powdered herbs;
2 CONT     Bloodroot and Golangel and a chemical, zinc sulphate.  Check his file
2 CONT     for details of the ingredients and their application.
1 NOTE     There are razors and a razor strop in the list which hints that Alfred
2 CONT     may have been a clean shaven man or one with a trimmed beard.  He
2 CONT     bought a strong padlock that day and a pound of nails as well, so there
2 CONT     was some basic construction going on, and something of value to be
2 CONT     locked up.  The double padlock might have protected some of these items
2 CONT     from thieves, or prying children who might be poisoned by them.
1 NOTE     The "Premium on silver" listing is interesting in that it may have been
2 CONT     an installment paid on a service of table silver, paid out in a layaway
2 CONT     plan of sorts.  Then too, it could have been an investment, or some
2 CONT     sort of tax.  The silver "premium" (silver oxide in this case) may
2 CONT     have been a chemical in powder form as a tin smith, dentist or
2 CONT     pharmacist would use.  Tintype photography using silver-related
2 CONT     compounds, was being developed at about this time, as well.
1 NOTE     One observation that needs to be mentioned here, is that according to
2 CONT     "family tradition" that is, hear-say stories that are shared from
2 CONT     generation to generation, (or from genealogist to genealogist), says
2 CONT     that Alfred was usually a big help to his brothers and other family
2 CONT     members. This often involved loans, outright gifts and other forms of
2 CONT     support and help.  It is very likely that he was a Mason, according to
2 CONT     Vivian Roller.
1 NOTE     Alfred's family structure at the time of these purchases in 1824 (if
2 CONT     all data is correct), has him married to his first wife Ruth Harris who
2 CONT     is about to give birth to Mary E. "Dolly" Wortham in two weeks. She
2 CONT     already has a young daughter Ellen "Polly", who is about nine or ten
2 CONT     years old at this time.  Incidentally, the nicknames may be reversed.
2 CONT     Slaves are not mentioned, but are quite likely present.
1 NOTE     Interestingly, there are three children shown as part of this family in
2 CONT     this time frame, who are not named. They could be members of another
2 CONT     visiting Wortham family. According to the 1820 census, one is a boy
2 CONT     about 10 years old. There is a daughter, about 7 and a boy about 4.
1 NOTE     It is tempting to suggest carefully, without misleading anyone who
2 CONT     might be researching these files, that these may be the children of
2 CONT     Charles Wortham and Sally Grayard of Warren county, North Carolina.
2 CONT     Please see the Bastard Bonds of 1814 in Sally's file.  Two of the 1822
2 CONT     bonds were filed on successive days, in 1822.
1 NOTE     So here we are on a Saturday shopping trip, just two days after
2 CONT     Thanksgiving in 1824 with a very pregnant wife and at least two and
2 CONT     possibly five children in the house.
1 NOTE     Our thanks to William Harvill Wortham for this keyhole into history.
1 NOTE                                 -=Ron Wortham=-
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1 NOTE                           ALFRED - OR WERE THERE TWO?
2 CONT         Another Genealogical Wild Goose Chase - for entertainment o