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Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sidney + Alma Lakey. Alma was born on 3 Jun 1927 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 23 Aug 2005 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sabine County Reporter
August 17, 2005

Alma Lakey Field

Alma Field, 78, of Brookeland died Tuesday, August 23, 2005, at a Jasper hospital. Born June 3, 1927, Mrs. Field was a longtime resident of Sabine County. She was a homemaker and member of Brookeland Missionary Baptist Church. Survivors: her daughter, Lydia OUTLAW and husband Trant, of Orlando, Florida, and Mary STEPHENS and husband Junior of Jasper, brothers, Vernon LAKEY and wife Marilyn of Pasedena and Thomas LAKEY and wife Annie of Vidor, and grandchildren Colin McLEMORE, Cara STEPHENS, and Cody STEPHENS. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bro. Sidney FIELD. Funeral services were held Thursday at Brookeland Missionary Baptist Church. Interment followed at Brookeland Cemetery. Arrangements were under the Forest Oak Funeral Home in Jasper.

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Lee and his wife lived on the old McLemore farm at Erin, Texas.

When Lee was on his death bed in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Beaumont, his son Robert Lee went to see him. When Lee asked who he was, Robert Lee replied, "I'm your son, Robert Lee." Lee shook his head, "No your not. You're one of those Morgan boys." Whereupon Robert Lee asked, "Which one do you think I am?" to which Lee replied, "You're Julian." (Submitted by Minnie McLemore Morgan).

Lee married Mary Othalia "Mackie" Powell on 3 Feb 1924. Mary (daughter of Robert Wesley Powell and Minnie "Maybell" Adams) was born on 25 May 1905 in Texas; died on 3 Mar 1994 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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OTHALIA McLEMORE, CLEAN FREAK

During World War II, Minnie McLemore Morgan and Beulah McLemore Dougharty were over at Lee and Othalia's making cookies to send to the boys overseas. Minnie and Beulah were shelling pecans out on the back porch. Beulah asked Othalia how long a broom lasted her. Othalia, stirring the cookies in the kitchen, replied "Mine always last me a year." To which Beulah, looking at the floor, remarked, "Othalia, if you'd clean out these cracks that broom wouldn't last a week." (Submitted by Othalia McLemore on 7/14/81)

Although her given name is Mary Othalia, granddaughter Deann noted she uses only her middle name. Her family members also affectionately called her Mackie.

Deann also writes that "Othalia named her first child and when her Mama got there she changed his name and said, 'His name is Robert Lee.' Then when my Daddy was born Mackie named him 'Willy Gerald' (or something like that) and her Mama got there and said, 'No, his name is Billy Deryle' (Deryle rhymes with girl...'Dirl' and not 'Darryl'). When her third child was born, Mackie just waited until her Mama got there so she could name him."

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He appears to be the son of George and Mary STRICKLAND of Williamson County, Texas. At the time of the 1900 census, they are shown as the parents of five children, the eldest being their son, Kerney A. STRICKLAND, born in July 1892. George STRICKLAND was born in Texas in July 1870, with his father born in S. Carolina and his mother born in Mississippi. Mary was born in Texas in August, 1873, with both her parents being Texans.

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Name: Kerney Albert Strickland
Gender: Male
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Birth Date: 30 Jul 1892
Birthplace: Florence, Williamson, Texas
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Father's Name: George Albert Strickland
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Mother's Name: Mary Louisa Griggs
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C73103-2
System Origin: Texas-ODM
Source Film Number: 1578184
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Collection: Texas, Births and Christenings, 1840-1981

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Nebraska, Arthur County, Thune Precinct
Enumerated April 3, 1930
ED 3-8 SD 4 Sheet 1B
19-19
Strickland, Kerney Head M W 37 M 32 Tx Tx Tx Labor Ranching
Strickland, Blanch Wf F W 25 m 21 NE NE NE
Strickland, Clarene Dtr F W 4 S NE Tx NE
Strickland, Aliene Dtr F W 2 S NE Tx NE

Kerney married Minnie Blanche Chapman about 1925. Minnie was born on 10 May 1904 in Litchfield, Sherman County, Nebraska; died in Aug 1970 in Stone County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]