Michael Ray Buck

Notes:

In 1947, he was a clerk at Rachford Abstract Company, and by 1940, he was Vice President of Neches Title Company. In 1960, he was Manager of Security Title Company in Beaumont.

Raymond married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Larry Crocker writes that : "Texas Death Records indicate that my Grandfather died in Nacogdoches County, Texas while the SSDI records indicate that his last benefit was payed in Houston, Harris County, Texas. He had lived with his son Harold in Houston until he went to live in a nursing home in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. Texas Death Records and his tombstone spell his name Johnnie while SSDI records spell it Johnie which is correct. His Application for his Social Secutity has his name shown as Johnny Willis Crocker, however, he signed the application Johnie Crocker. The application is dated December 7, 1936 and shows his father as John Crocker and mother as Belle Warner. It gives his place of employment as Temple Lumber Company in Pineland Texas and shows that he was born on November 1, 1902 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His death certificate from the State of Texas spells his name as Johnnie, in addition, the death certificate on his father, Mack, was signed by him as the informant and spells his name as Johnnie and that is the way he signed it. Johnie is shown as a boarder living with his father in the 1930 Sabine County, Texas Census and is shown as being age 26 and married at 19. The marital status box is scratched out, as is the age married box, however, you can still read the age married box but not the marital status box. In 1930 he was probably already divorced."

In her annotated transcription of the Martin Cemetery, Kay Parker McCary shows his parents as John M. "Mack" Crocker and Isabelle "Belle" AdeliaWarner.

(Research):

Census Listings:

Johnie was not present, likely already divorced. His wife and four children, however, are listed below.
1930 Newton County, Texas Census
HH 55-55; Page 36B, Sheet 3B; Precinct 2
Name Relation Home Radio Farm Sex age age School R/W Self Father Mother
Clark, Jim A Head R Y M 47 20 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Edna F Wife F 50 23 N Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Fronia E Dau F 26 17 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Alif M Dau F 14 Y Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Edna E Gdau F 7 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Johnie Jr Gson M 6 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Eugene Gson M 4 9/12 N TX TX TX
Crocker, Frances B Gdau F 2 11/12 N TX TX TX

Johnie married Sophronia "Phronia" Elizabeth Clark on 21 Dec 1921 in Sabine County, Texas. Sophronia (daughter of James Anderson Clark and Francis Edna Ener) was born on 21 Mar 1904 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 27 Mar 1975 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J63H-TFP
Name: Phronia Elizabeth Woods
Death Date: 27 Mar 1975
Death Place: Jasper, Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 71 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1904
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: James A. Clark
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Frances Edna Ener
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2243828
Digital Film Number: 4167851
Image Number: 100
Reference Number: 61179
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

Married:
Sabine County, Texas Marriage Records Volume D Page 203

Notes:

Notes for JAMES ANDERSON CLARK

By: Larry Wayne Crocker, Great Grandson

When I was little my great grandfathers house outside of Pineland, Sabine County, Texas did not have running water. There was a dug well outside the back door (off of the kitchen), we used a bucket and rope to get the water out. The well casing was made stones. The outhouse was down by the pond and my great grandfather used old newspapers and magazines as tolit paper, although my mother always brought some from home whenever we went up. The heat during the winter came from a kerosene burning heater in the living room. The front of the house and front porch sat on the ground and the back of the house was about three feet from the ground. His son, Bertis Lee Clark lived just down the highway from him, you could see Uncle Lee's house from my grandfathers yard. I remember that he had sweet gum trees that we would pull the sap off of and chew it like gum. The first thing that he wanted done when we would visit would be for my mother to bake him a peach cobbler. On the front porch was a bucket of water and a dipper along with his straight razer and an old mirror for shaving. I still have the mirror and straight razer in my possession. My great grandfather bought this house and about 11 acres in the fall of 1945 at the age of 62, paying $600.00. Before moving in my great grandfather had the house wired for electricity, this being a first for him. However, there was not enough money for indoor plumbing and would not be until I was in high school in the mid 1960's. The old house was left to my great aunt Alif, great grandpa's youngest daughter and she still owns it today.

In 1936 my great grandfather was a sharecropper and lived in a small house about a half mile north of Yellow Bayou on what is now Texas Farm Road 1414. This place was about 4 miles outside of Burkeville. This is the house that my Cousins Marvin Dean Simmons and Betty Jean Simmons were born. This is where they all lived with my great aunt Alif along with my Aunt Edna Earl Crocker and my father Johnie Crocker, Jr. until the fall of 1940 when the man that owned the property sold it. It was sold to a great uncle of Marvin & Betty's without my great grandfathers knowledge. This forced my great grandfather and his extended family to move about 5 miles away and move by wagon as they had no car or truck. The new place was owned by a man by the name of Ramsey. Both the Ramsey house as well as the old one had no electricity or running water, much less a indoor bath room. At one time during World War II, my grandmother Sophronia along with my aunts, Patsy, Geraldine and Maxine moved into the house with everyone else while my step grandfather Raymond Woods worked in Beaumont in the shipyard. He would ride the bus from Beaumont on Fridays and then return to Beaumont on the bus for work on Monday, a little over a 100 mile trip.

Texas Death Certificate transcription

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Name: James Anderson Clark
Death Date: 24 Feb 1971
Death Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
Gender: Male
Race:
Death Age: 87 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1884
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Andrew Clark
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Alif Erwin
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2223074
Digital Film Number: 4169364
Image Number: 320
Reference Number: 314
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

(Research):
Census Information:

1900 Sabine County, Texas Census;
District 69; Precinct 7
Page 117A; HH 180-180
Name Rel Sex Mon. Year Age M/S/W Yrs #C #CL B F M Occ R W S O/R
Clark, A Head M Jul 1839 60 Wd TX SC KY Fmr Y Y Y O
Anderson J. Son M Apr 1883 17 S TX TX TX FL Y N Y
Lee R. Son M Apr 1885 15 S TX TX TX FL Y N Y

1910 Sabine County, Texas Census
HH 104-106; Page 92A; Precinct 1; Dist. 131; Hemphill & Yellow Pine
Road 7
Name Relation Sex Age #yrsM #Children #Children alive Born Fath Moth Occupation
Clark, James A. Head M 27 7 TX TX TX Farmer
Frances E. wife F 30 7 4 4 TX TX TX
Sophrona E. dau F 6 TX TX TX
Clarence A. son M 3 TX TX TX
James E. son M 1 6/12 TX TX TX

1920 Sabine County, Texas Census
HH 530-530; Precinct 2; Dist. 169; Pineland-Brookeland Hwy
Name Relation Own/Rent Age Born Fath Moth Occupation
Clark, James Head R 36 TX TX TX Farmer
Edna wife 39 TX TX TX
Saphronea dau 15 TX TX TX
Clarence son 14 TX TX TX
Hamp son 13 TX TX TX
Jim Jr son 12 TX TX TX
Lee son 9 TX TX TX
Alif dau 4 3/12 TX TX TX

1930 Newton County, Texas Census
HH 55-55; Page 36B, Sheet 3B; Precinct 2
Name Relation Home Radio Farm Sex age age School R/W Self Father Mother
Clark, Jim A Head R Y M 47 20 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Edna F Wife F 50 23 N Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Fronia E Dau F 26 17 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Alif M Dau F 14 Y Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Edna E Gdau F 7 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Johnie Jr Gson M 6 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Eugene Gson M 4 9/12 N TX TX TX
Crocker, Frances B Gdau F 2 11/12 N TX TX TX

(Transcriptions courtesy of Larry Crocker)

James married Francis Edna Ener on 7 May 1903 in Sabine County, Texas. Francis (daughter of James Cornelius Ener and Mary Elizabeth Travis) was born on 12 May 1879 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 25 Oct 1949 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Woods Cemetery, Newton County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Name: Edna Clark
Death Date: 25 Oct 1949
Death Place: Pineland, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 71 years 5 months 13 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 12 May 1879
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: James Monroe Enor
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Travis
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Pineland, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: Woods Cemetery
Burial Place: Newton Co., Texas
Burial Date: 27 Oct 1949
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2223524
Digital Film Number: 4031960
Image Number: 02217
Reference Number: cn50133
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

Married:
Marriage information from Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900; 1900-1910 and Prior to 1875 by Blanche Toole as well as Sabine County, Texas Marriages 1880-1930 Volume 1 by Julia Iles Freeman and shows JamesAnderson Clark and Edna Ener

Marriage Information: Sabine County, Texas Marriage Records Volume B Page 167

(Courtesy of Larry Crocker)