Individual Notes
Note for: Kelly Augusta Stephenson, -
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Individual Note: [Kelly History.FTW]
Kelly Augusta Stephenson, daughter of Chester and Minnie Mae (Kelly) Stephenson, married a man named Bates. They were living in Dodge City, Kansas in 1950 when Kelly's brother Welmer Eugene Stephenson passed away, By 1966, they were living in Wagoner <
> when her mother passed away. No other information known.
Individual Notes
Note for: Geraldine Stephenson, - 20 OCT 1986 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Geraldine Stephenson, daughter of Chester and Minnie Mae (Kelly) Stephenson, first married James Kenneth Thornton. There were three children born to that union. They lived in Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma 1950 when Geraldine's brother, Wilmer Eugene Stephenson passed away.
Her second marriage was to Arthur Goodwin.
She is buried in Buzzard Cemetery, Delaware County, Oklahoma. No other information known.
STEPHENSON, GERALDINE
Record Type: CEMETERY
Born: LINK Died: 10-20-1986
Cemetery: BUZZARD
Place of Death: County:DELAWARE State:OK
Miscellaneous: DATABASE LINK-IFF-DAU. OF CHESTER & MINNIE MAE KELLY STEPHENSON-MARRIED #1 JAMES KENNETH THORNTON-3 CHILDREN-MARRIED # 2 ARTHUR GOODWIN-SEE: DEAN THORNTON GOODWIN
Individual Notes
Note for: Bonnie Ruth Stephenson, 4 APR 1928 - 13 JUL 2000 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Bonnie Stephenson, daughter of Chester and Minnie Mae (Kelly) Stephenson, first married a man named Taylor. A subsequent marriage was to a man named Phelps.
Bonnie is shown as a survivor in her brother Welmer Eugene Stephenson's obituary in 1950. She was living in Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma that year.
A third marriage was to a man named Schumacher. She was still living in Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma in 1957 and 1966 when her father and mother passed away those years. Bonnie was cremated. No other information known.
Individual Notes
Note for: Chester Stephenson, - Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Chester Stephenson, Jr., son of Chester and Minnie Mae (Kelly) Stephenson, was nicknamed "Sonny". He was living in Grove, Delaware County, Oklahoma when his brother, Welmer Eugene Stephenson passed away in 1950. By 1966, he was living in Southwest City, McDonald County, Missouri when his mother passed away. No other information known.
Individual Notes
Note for: George Alexander Cox, 16 SEP 1876 - 16 AUG 1953 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
George Alexander Cox, Sr., son of Stephen and Rebecca (Copeland) Cox, attended the Cherokee National Male Seminary in Tahlequah, from which he graduated in 1896. After graduation, he returned to Tahlequah and continued to teach there for the next eleven years.
He first married a woman named Lora Pearl Sunshine. There was one known child, Sunshine, a daughter, born to their union. Sunshine died when she was less than two years-old.
Following the death of his first wife in 1912, George married Johnie Nainah Kelly, daughter of John Duke and Susan Elizabeth (Carrey) Kelly.
He was active in the Cherokee Council (the law making body for the Cherokee Nation), operated a grocery store in Raton, New Mexico, and was a rural mail carrier in Oklahoma. He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1942.
His obituary appeared in August 20, 1953 edition of The Grove Sun. He is buried in Olympus Cemetery, Delaware County, Oklahoma.
Individual Notes
Note for: Arlie May Stephenson, 17 JAN 1922 - 21 DEC 1923 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Arlie May Stephenson, daughter of Chester and Minnie Mae (Kelly) Stephenson, died when she was less than a year old. She is buried in Buzzard Cemetery, Delaware County, Oklahoma. No other information known.
Individual Notes
Note for: James Zumwalt, 10 DEC 1815 - 1868 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Andrew Alonzo Zumwalt, 1 SEP 1817 - 1 NOV 1886 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
married Harriet Lattimore in 1837 and they had children Margaret Ann, James, Sarah, Robert, Clarissa, William, Mary Ellen, Julia and Joseph. He married Elizabeth Hahn in 1877 and they had a son Thomas Zumwalt. Andrew Zumwalt is buried on his land grant which bordered on the east of the Gonzales town tract in the Denton Creek Cemetery, 7 miles NE of State Hwy. 97 outside Gonzales. His gravestone reads: "ANDREW ZUMWALT, A San Jacinto Veteran, born September 1, 1817, died November 1, 1886" The metal Texas historical marker wreath and star, placed by the State of TX in 1936, has been vandalized. Some references suggest that an Adam Zumwalt was at San Jacinto in addition to Andrew Zumwalt, although there is no evidence that either "Black" or "Red" Adam Zumwalt, both of whom were accompanying families on the Runaway Scrape, returned in time to participate in the battle. In the 1850 census of LavacaCo, TX, 32 year old Andrew was listed with wife Harriet 27, Margaret 11, James A. 7, Sarah 4, Robert 2 and Clarissa J. 11 mo. In 1860, the family was in the Gonzales town district of GonzalesCo. Listed were Harriet, James, Sarah, William, Mary, Julia and a W. Christian, farm hand from GA. In the 1870 census of GonzalesCo, Andrew and family (wife Harriet, Mary Ellen, Julia, Joseph T., Mary, Sarah and Sion) are listed in the Belmont District. Mary Jane Boykin, Sarah C. Boykin and Sion Andrew Boykin, listed as orphans, were children of Margaret Ann Zumwalt and David E. Boykin. The children lived with their grandparents after their mother died. David Edward Boykin moved to Montana where he died in 1908. Andrew Zumwalt's granddaughters Margaret (Maggie) Meneley and Sarah Cooper (Lou) visited their father in Montana, Maggie lived out her life in Billings. Sion A. married and had 8 children in San Antonio, TX.
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Harriet Larimore, 1823 - 1874 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Elizabeth Ellen Dempsey, - Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Elizabeth Ellen Dempsey first married Issac Hahn.
Individual Notes
Note for: Thomas Bowen Zumwalt, 9 JAN 1820 - OCT 1896 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Thomas Bowen Zumwalt Sr. and family, along with brother Isaac Zumwalt, remained in the area around Gonzales and Lavaca counties for some time after their father Adam moved to FayetteCounty Thomas Bowen Sr. moved from the DeWitt Colony area of Texas to New Mexico around 1885. He was counted in the 1885 census of LincolnCo, New Mexico, living near Artesia.
In his book Sand in My Craw, stories of citizens of the "Free State of Lavaca," author Judge Paul Boethel relates:
Back in the days of the Reconstruction, a group of Rebel troopers, just home from the War of Rebellion, waylaid and robbed a government transport or wagon train near the county line south of Hope. The train was en route to Alleyton from Brownsville with a cargo of bacon, coffee and sugar---items the families of the troopers were in dire need of. The cargo was confiscated, divided among the men, and the wagon train destroyed by fire. The story, known as the Burnt Camp episode, was so well guarded throughout the lives of the men that many died without their children learning the details. And so it was with the prosecution of the offenders. The robbers were indicted, but no testimony could be secured to substantiate the charges, and the case was never tried. One member of the family of one of the participants, Thomas Zumwalt, learned of it quite by accident. He, as he described it, "got into my mother's hair" one day and she locked him in the cellar of their home. Left to his own resources in the dark confines of the cellar, Zumwalt began to explore and to take stock of its contents. In the corner most remote from the door, he found his father's share of the Burnt Camp loot---sugar in cubes. On his release, he was tempted by the sweets time and again until he became what the modern psychologists term a "problem child." But, as all good things usually do, his good fortune came to an abrupt end. His father, suspicious of his young son's antics, discovered the treachery, and substituted the peach limb for the cellar. Zumwalt's conduct improved remarkably thereafter, and upon his attaining manhood, his father disclosed the details of the story to him.
Thomas Sr. was counted in the 1885 census of LincolnCo, New Mexico, living near Artesia. The families stayed in the Artesia area for a short time and eventually moved to Angus, New Mexico, which is in the mountains near Ruidoso. They are both buried there.
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Elsey Mae Billings, 15 MAY 1822 - 12 JAN 1897 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Isaac Kent Zumwalt, 11 FEB 1822 - 29 DEC 1868 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Isaac Kent Zumwalt and the Mier Expedition. Capt. "Black" Adam’s son, Isaac Kent Zumwalt, took part in both the Somervell Expeditions (Capt. Isaac Mitchell's Company) and the Mier Expedition (Capt. Reese's Company) where he was taken prisoner. After an escape attempt on the way to Perote Prison in Mexico City, Santa Anna ordered that all 176 prisoners be executed. In response to appeal by Mexican officers who detested the order and possibly diplomatic pressure, Santa Anna consented to execution of only every tenth man by draw from a mixture of 17 black and 159 white beans. Officers drew first by possibly rank or age, then enlisted men in alphabetical order. Black beans were said to have been at first placed on top for the draw of the officers, then mixed for the enlisted men. Bigfoot Wallace drew a white bean preceding Henry Whaling and Martin Carroll Wing 16th and 17th to draw black. Family legends say Isaac Zumwalt would have been the next to draw if Wing had drawn white. The episode has been a source of comment in Zumwalt family stories to date whenever there is a complaint by family members bearing the surname of always being last on the alphabetical lists. Isaac Zumwalt was among the Texan prisoners released by the Mexican government on 16 Sep 1844, who arrived in New Orleans on the schooner Creole. He returned to the Gonzales area where he married Verona Jane Love in 1848 and had children Adam Zachary, James L., Martha Jane and Allen L. He died in Gonzales County in Dec 1868. The following is in the Public Debt Papers, State Archives, Austin, TX:
Perote, Mexico Know all men by these presents that Isaac K. Zumwalt was duly enrolled in the company of Capt. Isaac Mitchell on the twentieth day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and forty two and was transferred to Capt. C.K. Reeses Company on the nineteenth day of December in the year aforesaid and has faithfully performed the duties of a soldier and is hereby honorably discharged from the service of the Republic of Texas. Given under our hands this Sixteenth day of September AD one thousand eight hundred and forty four. F.W. Douglass 2nd Lieut. William L. Fisher Col. COM. To Isaac Zumwalt Dr. For services as a member of the Mejar expedition from the 17th October 1844 at $22.50 per month, $540. For horse lost in said Expd. $65; Total $605.
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm
Individual Notes
Note for: Vernona Jane Love, ABT 1830 - ABT 1856 Index
Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]
Vernona (AKA "Nona") was the daughter of Alan Love and his first wife, Martha G. Merriwether
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/badamframe.htm