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Updated Jan 25, 2016
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The Family of:
Della Neal White Known Children: 3 |
Stephen & Della (1945) |
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(Photo Provide by: Ruby [Lawrence] Robinson, daughter)
Riverside Cemetery
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Sidney
Baron Lawrence b. 23 Dec 1907 Bowie Co TX d. 15 Feb 1989 San Luis Obispo Co CA bu: Paso Robles Dist. Cem Paso Robles SLO Co CA, Plot: 188-B-7 married: Unkn date Ida Louise Gray (Fathers last name on death Cert -'Gray') (Dau of Surname father 'Gray mom Spencer') b. 23 Jun 1911 d. 4 Oct 1995 Paso Robles SLO CA bu: Paso Robles Dist. Cem Paso Robles SLO Co CA, Plot: 188-B-7 No Known Children: |
Norman Dale Lawrence b. 3 Sep 1911 Bowie Co TX d. 2 Oct 1966 Byers Clay Co TX bu: Riverside Cem. Byers Clay Co TX married: Oct 1934 Wichita Co TX Mary Emma Parker (Dau of John M & Annie H [Tunnell] Parker) b. 7 Dec 1912 TX d. 5 Mar 1995 TX bu: Riverside Cem. Byers Clay Co TX Known
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Ruby Inez
Lawrence b. 1 Oct 1917 Maud Bowie Co TX (Living) married: 26 Sep 1937 Wichita Co TX Obed Elvin "Robbie" Roberson b. 19 Jan 1912 TX d. 17 Jun 2002 Paso Robles SLO CA bu: Paso Robles District Cemetery San Luis Obispo Co CA - Plot: 188 B 4 Known Children: 3 |
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Name: Sidney Baron Lawrence
Date of Birth: Dec 23 1907
Occupation: Civil Service, Retired |
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Elvin & Ruby Roberson with Daughters
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Photo provided by: Jeanette White 1958 - Della & Steve |
Photo provided by: Jeanette White 2004 - Ruby Lawrence & Stan White |
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Stephen Burnett Lawrence - WWII Draft Card
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The Family Story of Della N White (Newt & other children of Thomas & Marthia White mentioned) Composed and Written by Daughter: Rudy Inez [Lawrence] Roberson - Apr 2004) I, Rudy Inez Lawrence Roberson, was born October 1, 1917 at Maud, Texas... well, It was out in a small house near Grandma and Grandpa White. I had two brothers, Sidney Baron and Norman Dale. When Dale was 2 years old he had polio leaving him with a limp in his right leg. He never let it slow him down except running; he pulled his weight in all farm work. He died in a tractor accident October 2, 1966. He and Mary Emma ran a grocery store in Byers the last 20 years of his life. My older brother Baron came to California to work at Vallejo, CA in the munitions department during the War [WWII]. When that closed he was transferred to the Edwards Air Base. He had met Louise while working at Vallejo. They were married and after he retired they moved here to Paso Robles. Elvin and I were married September 26, 1937. He was a farmer, renting land. When the government gave subsides for not planting, the farm owners took control of their own land, so the renters were out of a way to make a living. We came to California, as a large group from our area, to work in the canneries. When 2nd World War came Elvin went to Vallejo to work in the shipyard. It was a long commute but no housing was available so in his "spare" time, he took a quick welding course and was hired to work in the Oakland Moore Shipyard. After the war he went back to the machine shop where he had worked after the cannery. After a few more job changes we retired to Paso Robles in 1984. My first memory was when our family and Newt White's family moved from Maud to Charlie, TX - 20 miles from Wichita Falls and almost in the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas. My Dad and Uncle Newt had gone to the area because one of Dad's cousins from Alabama had a farm there and they thought work would be more plentiful. Then sent money for the families to come on the train so this was about 1919-1920. Eugene and I were the same age, so we played together. Mary Lee was a baby, Juanita was a sickly tot so my mother took care of Mary Lee and nicknamed her "Bunch" and called her that as long as she lived. We all lived in a three-room house together on a farm rented as soon as possible. The men sold the crop and we moved to town to wait for another farm to come up for rent. The men hauled coal from the railroad 10 miles from Charlie to dealers in the small towns (What a dirty job!!). My Dad got another farm and we had two whole rooms to ourselves. Uncle Newt stayed in town and worked locally. Ben and Thomas were born during these times, I think. One Sunday the men hitched up our team to the wagon and we were going to visit Uncle Newt and Aunt Fanny. About halfway there we met their wagon coming to visit us. "You come back with us" -- "No, you go with us". What a bunch of disappointed kids when each man turned around and went home. Over the years we spent a lot of time together. Once Aunt Fanny played a trick on us -- she painted a face on a pillowcase, put it over a broom and came out where we were playing. We looked up to see this "ghost" coming toward us! Neighbor kids were there and we all stood scared but Juanita wasn't standing there, she was 1/2 block away before someone caught her... Uncle Jay moved to Brownsfield, TX. He was doing well and sent for Uncle Newt and family. It was a sad day for me when they moved away. Uncle Jay was killed in 1931 and Uncle Newt and family moved back to Maud, so I never was able to be close to them again. When World War II began - More of Texas family and friends came to California to work in the shipyard, etc. Uncle Newt and Aunt Fanny & the rest of the children, Mary Lee and Gene was already here, came out but Ben and Eldridge went into the Service. Uncle Newt and Aunt Fanny saved their money and went back to Maud to her Foster home place. They lived there until Uncle Newt got killed, after that she divided the place and moved to Maud. Mary Lee lived near her and took care of her. |
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TOP Remembrances (June 2011) (Those mentioned in the Letter: Jennie Tapp (dau of Charles & Mary [White] Tapp, dau of Elias White), Lewis Harris (brother of Martha [Harris] White, wife of Thomas M White, and Newt White's children, and others) Composed and Written by: Rudy Inez [Lawrence] Roberson - Jun 2011) Was
Jenny Tapp related to the White Family? I remember the adults
talking about her and the various ones borrowing
Uncle Rex brought Grandma
White [Marthia (Harris) White wife of Thomas] and Aunt Dona [Dana?] to visit
us in our 3 room house.
Growing up my brother
were 10 & 7 years older, so I was mixed in with Gene, Nita and Mary Lee, and
there was always a baby for
Sad day when that family
moved to Brownfield [TX], but I did spend a month with Uncle Jay's family
[in Brownfield TX], the summer
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White Family Reunion July 5, 1997 Charlie
Clay County TX Families of Thomas Monroe & Marthia White and Descendants
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White Family
Reunion June 26, 1982
Bowie Co Texas Relatives of Thomas Monroe & Marthia White and Descendants
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left is Mrs Lizzie Mae [White]
Fischer (1907-1997) (dau of Marion Augustus (Gus) & Maggie [Martin] White) On
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Mrs Emma Olivia Lee [White] Phillips (1903-2003) |
Other White Family Members at same reunion ...I see a couple of descendants of Newt J White  |
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Entire Family, Children and Spouses were all named in a book, "The History of Maud United Methodist Church 1874-1974, Written by Joe V Clouse, Pastor and P. E. Cooley.
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1900
Bibb Co AL Centerville Census
1930
Clay County Census Precinct #2
1940
Clay County TX Census Precinct #1 Sheet no. 13A
1940 Bowie Co Census
TOP BYERS, TEXAS. Byers is at the intersection of State Highway 79 and Farm Road 171, two miles south of the conjunction of the Red and Wichita rivers, fourteen miles north of Henrietta, and twenty miles northeast of Wichita Falls in northern Clay County. It was founded by two brothers, Anthony Walter and George Washington Byers, who were partners in a general store in Sherman and acquired over 30,000 acres of land in Clay County. There are several versions of how they acquired the land. One is that Mr. Acers, a large landowner in the area, bought barbed wireqv on credit with his land as collateral, and when he was unable to pay off his debt the land was forfeited to the Byers brothers. The other story is that the Byerses traded their mercantile business in Sherman for the land in Clay County. The real establishment of Byers occurred in 1904, when the Wichita Falls and Oklahoma Railway was completed from Wichita Falls to Byers. The brothers donated $15,000 of the $27,924 raised for the completion of the line. They subdivided their ranch, laid out town lots, and established the Tree Ranch. Because the railroad went three miles west of Benvanue, many of the residents moved their homes and businesses to Byers to have access to the railroad, which was completed through the community in June of 1904. Town lots went on sale on June 10. That year Byers received a post office with A. Harris, the owner of the first store in town, as postmaster. In 1905 Edgar P. Haney established the community's first newspaper, the Byers Searchlight, to promote the community, its school, and the "Searchlight Town Band." By 1906 Byers was a sizable town. Its school had 115 pupils and two teachers, and the town had its first cotton gin. In 1914 the community had a population of 600, the First National Bank, a weekly newspaper named the Byers Herald, several cotton gins, cattle breeders and livestock dealers, and cotton buyers. In addition, a variety of stores included furniture dealers, jewelers, grocery and dry goods establishments, and a blacksmith. The population of Byers remained steady throughout the 1920s, but by the 1930s it began to drop. The town was incorporated by 1940. It had a population of 427 and thirty businesses shortly before World War II.qv In 1943 the Wichita Falls and Oklahoma Railway was abandoned. By the 1980s twelve businesses remained in Byers. In 1980 and 1990 the population was 510. Byers was one of the five school districts in Clay County; in 1990 its school had 136 students. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Katherine Christian Douthitt, ed., Romance and Dim Trails (Dallas: Tardy, 1938). Kathleen E. and Clifton R. St. Clair, eds., Little Towns of Texas (Jacksonville, Texas: Jayroe Graphic Arts, 1982). William Charles Taylor, A History of Clay County (Austin: Jenkins, 1972). Lisa C. Maxwell |
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