Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: Henry Drexell Coday
Death Date: 06 Jul 1969
Death Place: Jasper, Jasper, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 74 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1894
Birthplace: Louisiana
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Marcille Coday
Father's Name: Charles S. Coday
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Lila Mosley
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Process Engineer Oil Co.
Place of Residence: Sabine County, Texas
Cemetery: Spring Hill Cemetery
Burial Place: Sabine County, Texas
Burial Date: 06 Jul 1969
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2137519
Digital Film Number: 4029614
Image Number: 3269
Reference Number: cn 50463
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Research):

Census Listings:

1930 Census
Louisiana, De Soto Parish, Police Jury Ward 3
Enumerated April 2, 1930
SD 16-9 SD 1 Sheet 1A Stamped 105
1-1
Coday, Henry D Head M W 35 m 21 La La La Farmer
Coday, Patience P Wf F W 31 M 16 La La La
Coday, Florine F Dtr F W 13 S La La La
Coday, Maurice L Dtr F W 10 S La La La
Coday, Mildred G Dtr F W 8 S La La La
Coday, Jannie L Dtr F W 4 8/12 S Tx La La
Coday, Billie J Dtr F W 1 3/12 S La La La

1940 Census
Texas, Jefferson County, JP 6
Enumerated April 25, 1940
SD 2 ED 123-117 Sheet 14A
E H on Campus Street
20
Coday, Heny Drexel Hd M W 45 m La DeSoto Bus Operator Tredian Co
Coday, Patience Wf F W 41 M La DeSoto
Coday, Jannie Lee Dtr F W 14 S Tx DeSoto
Coday, Billie Jean Dtr F W 11 S La DeSoto
Coday, Sue Aileen Dtr F W 9 La DeSoto
Coday, Howard Drexel Son M W 6 S La DeSoto

Henry married Marcille Willie Gooch before 1943. Marcille (daughter of Robert Lawrence Gooch and Ida Youngblood) was born on 8 Jan 1921 in Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas; died on 8 Feb 2009 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried on 11 Feb 2009 in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
February 11, 2009, Page 11

Marcille Gooch Moore

Marcille Gooch Moore was born the oldest child of Lawrence and Ida Youngblood Gooch Jan. 8, 1921, at Sabinetown. On Feb. 8, 2009, in San Augustine, she succumbed to complications of Alzheimer's disease and receiving her promise of eternal life, joined in heavenly paradise her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and all her loved ones who have gone on before.

Marcille is survived by her husband, Madison Moore, of Port Arthur; sons and daughters-in-law, Roger and Jeannie Coday of Lake Jackson and Frank and Virginia Coday of Hemphill; brothers, R. F. Gooch and wife Dorothy and J. E. Gooch and wife Nina of Hemphill; and sister, Pauline Neal of Nacogdoches. Also surviving are step-daughters Johnnie Lee O'Dell and Billie Jean Legg of Silsbee, Patricia Donnelly and Sondra Thompson of Port Arthur, Willie Mae Harvey of Newton, Louis Adkison of Hemphill, and step-son, Richard Moore of Woodville. Other survivors include nieces, nephews, grandsons, granddaughters, and grandchildren all of whom are a living legacy of her marriage to three wonderful, loving husbands.

Marcille was predeceased by husbands, H.D. Coday, Sr. and Delton Jones, her parents, siblings C. P. Gooch, Edelle Jackson and step-children Florene Casciola, Maurice Salles, Mildred Merritt, Aliene Belaire, and H. D. (Sonny) Coday, Jr.

Upon graduation from Hemphill High School in 1938, Marcille moved to Houston where she employed as a telephone operator by Southwestern Bell. She met and married Drexel Coday, a widower with seven children. From that union, Roger and Frank were born.

After the death of her first husband in 1969, Marcille married Delton Jones. They shared their final years of employment with Temple Lumber Company as they both moved toward retirement. After Delton passed away, Marcille met and married Madison Moore. Their lives together were filled with activities, surrounding family, church, travel, the Hemphill Senior Citizens Center, Eastern Star, and Madison's Masonic activities.

Marcille was a strong woman. Her life epitomized the strength and where-with-all exhibited by pioneer women of her first husband's age (he was born in 1894.) Although she was a sensative, loving woman, she could and did work like a man. In 1954 at LaBelle, while helping Drexel and the hands work cattle in spring roundup, she was cornered in a corral and knocked flat by an enraged 900 pound Brahman bull. The "working hands" were amazed when two hours later, although banged and bruised, she had picked herself up, gone back to work, and under shade trees near the corral, served a hot noon-time meal to the cowboys.

A visitation was held from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10 at Starr Fuenral Home, Hemphill.

Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Aaron Pardue, First Baptist Church of Hemphill assisted by Rev. Jim Salles of West End Baptist Church of Beaumont at 1 p.m. Wednesday, (today), Feb. 11 at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Hemphill Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be J.E. Gooch, Robert G. Neal, Sr., Tommy Neal, Dean McGee, Josh Thompson, John Edwin "Butch" O'Dell, and Ted O'Dell.

Services are under the direction of Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill.

(Transscribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, February 2009)

Notes:

Sabine County Reporter
August 10, 2005

"On the Bright Side: "I Remember" Part 2"
By Mary Howell

He taught school in Rosevine and served as County School Tax Assessor. Drayton had an uncanny sense of humor and loved to pull pranks on his friends. One time he even master-minded the building and landing of a UFO and even put a letter written in a foreign language in his contraption. He situated it so that his croquet-playing friends would find it. News of Hemphill's UFO spread like wildfire throughout East Texas.

Drayton married Virginia "Virgie" Louise Collier on 10 Dec 1928. Virginia (daughter of Nathan Plympton Collier and Lula Blanche Chambers) was born on 18 Jul 1908 in Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana; died on 8 Feb 1986 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Speights Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charter Member of James F. Gomer Chapter of the Daughters of the Repubic of Texas (White and Toole)

Notes:

At the time of the 1920 Sabine County Census, his family was living with his widowed mother. In her annotated transcription of the Harper's Chapel Cemetery, Kay Parker McCary indicates that he had a Military Marker inscribed "Cook US Army WW I."

(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County
633/635
Gooch, Roxie J Head F W 53 WD TX MS MS Farmer
Gooch, Robert L. Son M W 23 M TX TX TX
Gooch, Ida Dau-in-law F W 19 M TX AL TX
Gooch, Walter L. Son M W 21 S TX TX TX

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Justice Precinct 1
Enumerated April 28, 1930
ED 202-3 SD 19 Sheet 17B
84-84
Gooch, Robt. L. Head M W 34 M 22 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Gooch, Ida Wf F W 28 M 16 Tx Ala Tx
Gooch, Marcille W Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Gooch, C. P. Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Gooch, Edell Dtr F W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Gooch, Pauline L Dtr F W 4 7/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Gooch, R. F. Son M W 3 2/12 S Tx Tx Tx

Robert married Ida Youngblood about 1917 in Texas. Ida (daughter of Vanderhorst "Van" Bonneau Youngblood and Frances Jane Gomer) was born on 29 Mar 1902 in Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas; died on 30 Nov 1997 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Harpers Chapel Cemetery, Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
December 3, 1997, Page 10


Ida Gooch

Ida Gooch, 95, of Rt. 4, Hemphill, died at 9:57 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, 1997, at Hemphill Care Center.

She was born March 29, 1902, in Sabinetown as a daughter of the late Jane (Gomer) and Van B. Youngblood and had been a lifelong resident of Sabine County. A homemaker, Mrs. Gooch was a member of the First Baptist Church and its Martha Sunday School Class.

Survivors: five children, Marcelle Moore, Pauline Neal, R. F. Gooch, and J. E. Gooch, all of Hemphill, and Edelle Jackson of Beaumont; 12 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren, and eight great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, R. L. Gooch and a son, C. P. Gooch.

Funeral services were held at 2 pm. Tuesday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro. Bobby C. Dagnel, Bro. Clarence Howell, and Bro. Bob Arthur officiating. Interment followed at Harper Chapel Cemetery in Sabine County.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)

Notes:

(Research):Census Information:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Justice Precinct No. 1
Enumerated April 28 and 29 by Hugh M. Ireland
ED 202-3 SD 19th Sheet 20A Stamped 42
62-65
Speights. Tom G. Hd M W 45 M20 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Speights, Arlis Wife F W 45 M 20 Tx Tx Tx
Speights, Elton Son M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx
Speights, Anna Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Speights, Rudolph Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Speights, John H Son M W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Speights, Sallie L Dtr F W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Speights, Gloria Dtr F W 1 S Tx Tx Tx

Thomas married Arley Emmaline Bennett on 12 Jul 1905. Arley (daughter of Jesse Archibald "Archie" Bennett and Anna Eliza Huffman) was born on 16 Mar 1885 in Texas; died on 3 Oct 1964 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Speights Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

An actual copy of her Texas Death Record can be viewed online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. She is shown as the daugbhter of J. A. Bennett and Anna Huffman, and is listed as widowed, and a housewife and mother. The informant was D. B. Speights, presumably her eldest son. Her first name is shown as Arley, though some other sources show her as Arlis.

(Medical):See attached sources.

Notes:

At the time of the 1930 census, he was a roomer in a large hotel/boarding home in Zwolle, Louisiana. He was shown as age 47, married 25 years, and was working as a barber. His other family members were not with him at this residence.

Name: Nathan Plympton Collier
Death Date: 02 Jun 1960
Death Place: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 77 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 06 Jun 1882
Birthplace: Milam, Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: William T. Collier
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Louisa West
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Barber
Place of Residence: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Cemetery: Greenwood Cemetery
Burial Place: Marshall, Texas
Burial Date: 03 Jun 1960
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2116477
Digital Film Number: 4166555
Image Number: 1775
Reference Number: FN66526
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Harrison County, JP 3, Marshall City
Enumerated 13 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 54 Sheet 11A
East Ave
403-225-249
Collier, N. P. Head M W 36 M Tx Ga Tx Barber Own Shop
Collier, Blanche Wf F W 30 M Tx Tx Tx
Collier, Virgie Dtr F W 11 S La Tx Tx
Collier, Nina Dtr F W 9 S La Tx Tx
Collier, Theo Son M W 6 S Tx Tx Tx

Nathan married Lula Blanche Chambers on 2 Jun 1907 in Sabine County, Texas. Lula (daughter of Nathaniel Berrian Chambers and Margaret "Mittie" Louisa Bennett) was born on 8 Feb 1889 in Isla, Sabine County, Texas; died on 24 Dec 1962 in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A copy of her actual Texas Death Certificate can be viewed online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. She is listed as a daughter of Nathan Chambers and Margaret Louise Bennett. The informant was Theo Collier, a son. She was a housewife, and resident of rural Marshall, Route #4, Fern Lake Cutoff, at the time of her death.

Name: Lula Blanche Collier
Death Date: 24 Dec 1962
Death Place: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 73 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 08 Feb 1889
Birthplace: Isla, Sabine Co, Tex
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Nathan Chambers
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Margaret Louise Bennett
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Cemetery: Greenwood
Burial Place: Marshall, Texas
Burial Date: 26 Dec 1962
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2117173
Digital Film Number: 4028527
Image Number: 1200
Reference Number: cn 80362
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Medical):See attached sources.