Genealogy Traces

Sunday's Obituary - Nell Tudor

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:39:00 +0000

Nellie Mae Gailey Tudor

About 1919, Age 16

Brock, Parker County, Texas

Born December 5, 1903 - Died 1973

Rites Scheduled For Mrs. Tudor

Mrs. Nell Tudor, 68, a former Lubbock resident, died Thrusday in Des Moines, Iowa, where she had been living since 1970.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Sanders Memorial Chapel here with the Rev. W. F. Furguson, a retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be in the City of Lubbock Cemetery.

Mrs. Tudor moved here in 1948 from Fort Worth and lived here until moving to Des Moines.

She is survived by a son, Wesley F. Hodges of Livermore, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Bobbie Nell Taylor, of Des Moines, Iowa; a brother, Doc Gailey, of Mineral Wells; a sister, Mrs. Grace Cornelius of Grapevine; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Villas Tudor, J. A. Phillips, J. D. Cornelius, Roy Taylor, Reggie Stone and Othal Tudor.

My grandmother, Edna Gailey, had this news clipping of the notice of Aunt Nell's death in her scrapbook which I have inherited. Even though grandma didn't identify the newspaper, I feel it is obvious that it came out of a Lubbock, Texas newspaper. As you can see, someone (probably grandma or Doc) marked through the year 1948 and wrote in the year 1938 for the year she moved to Lubbock from Fort Worth.

They were correct in putting the year 1938, as I found Nell in the 1940 Lubbock, Texas Census. There are a few items of interest to me in the census which I will have to research further. For one, I didn't realize Uncle R. H. had been married before and his two older children lived with them in Lubbock. I only knew about Wesley and his two younger sisters who were born later. Wesley's last name was Hodges. I see that in the 1940 census they listed it as Tudor. When he was older he went by his birth father's name Hodges. I wrote about this family here when posting about my grandfather, Doc Gailey's, sisters, Grace and Nell.

United States Census, 1940
Nell Tudor in household of R H Tudor
Lubbock, Justice Precinct 1, Lubbock, Texas, United States

Name:	Nell Tudor
Titles & Terms:
Event:	Census
Event Year:	1940
Event Place:	Lubbock, Justice Precinct 1, Lubbock, Texas, United States
Gender:	Female
Age:	36
Marital Status:	Married
Race (Original):
Race (Standardized):	White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized):	Wife
Birthplace:	Texas
Estimated Birth Year:	1904
Residence in 1935:	Same Place
Enumeration District Number:	152-6B
Family Number:	368
Sheet Number and Letter:	15A
Line Number:	17
NARA Publication Number:	T627
NARA Roll Number:	4096
Digital Folder Number:	005457446
Image Number:	00569
	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	R H Tudor	M	58	Texas
Wife	Nell Tudor	F	36	Texas
Daughter	Mary Nita Tudor	F	21	Texas
Son	Woody Tudor	M	18	Texas
Son	Wesley Tudor	M	16	Texas

SOURCES:
Tudor, Mrs. Nell, Death Notice 1973 News Clipping found in family scrapbook belonging to Judith Richards Shubert.

"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K49B-PKH : accessed 01 Apr 2013), Nell Tudor in household of R H Tudor, Lubbock, Justice Precinct 1, Lubbock, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 152-6B, sheet 15A, family 368, NARA digital publication T627, roll 4096.

Sunday's Obituary ~ Era Puckett Notice of Death

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:30:00 +0000

Era Puckett never married. She was the daughter of Travis Austin Puckett and Nancy Catherine Mayo. Having been born in Texas 24 June 1902, she traveled with her family to Blanchard, Oklahoma where she grew up. She was my mother, Vernelle Gailey Richards Rowbury's, first cousin once removed.

Era Puckett

24 June 1902 - 14 September 1971

What's Up Genealogy? Google+ Hangout on Air

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:44:00 +0000

Just spent a very nice, productive portion of an hour with Caroline Pointer and her panel at What's Up Genealogy? Google+ Hangout on Air.

Enjoyed the 20-minute show where they went over the news from Rootstech and shared gen-tech research tips. One of the highlights of the Hangout was getting to meet and hear from the one and the only Marian Pierre-Louis who was their guest. Marian told us about her BlogTalkRadio show, Fieldstone Common, and has totally intrigued me! I will definitely tune in.

Caroline Pointer and her panel get together for a Hangout with news from the genealogy world at 8:00 P.M. Central every Friday night. Put it on your calendar.

Caroline M. Pointer can be found at 4YourFamilyStory , on the new YouTube One channel and Google + .
She was joined on the panel tonight by Tessa Keough who works with Legacy Virtual Users' Group and the Guild of One Name Studies; Linda McCauley, who writes Documenting the Details, is the Technology Chair of the Kentucky Genealogy Society and is involved with Legacy Virtual Users Group; and Marian Pierre-Louis, the host of Fieldstone Common which airs live every Thursday at 1:00 P.M. EST.

I'm looking forward to learning more from all of these ladies.

O. B. & Ellar Rainey Homsley Family

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:17:00 +0000

Obediah Black Homsley and Ella Rainey Homsley

with daughters

Willie, Lessie, and Callie

My grandmother is Willie Homsley, the little girl on the left standing beside her father, O. B. Homsley. This photo must have been taken between 1900 and 1910. They had a younger son, Robert Adrian, age 5 in the 1910 census. On that same census Willie was age 15; I think she looks about 6 or 7 in this picture. In 1900 all 3 of the girls appeared, ages 3, 5, and 10. In 1910 you can see the oldest daughter, Lessie, age 21, living next door to her parents and siblings in Parker County, which is west of Delta County. She is married by that time to Silas Ables, age 27, with their daughter, Jimmie M. Ables. She was nearly a year old. Callie Catherin was named for her grandmother, O. B.'s mother, Callie Catherin Martin Homesley, who married William H. Homesley, both born in Harden Co., Tennessee.

1910 in Parker County, Texas

Obediah Black & Mary Ellar Rainey Homsley Family

Son-in-law Robert Ables, daughters Lessie Homsley Ables

Callie Catherin and Willie Laura Homsley

and son, Robert Adrian Homsley

1910 Parker County, Texas U. S. Census

Homsley Family is in Dwelling 176 and Family 182

Ables Family is in Dwelling 177 and Family 183

1900 Delta County, Texas U. S. Census

Homsley Family is in Dwelling 168 and Family 168 on pages 76 A and B

I have always been interested in the migration of my Richards family from Shelby County in East Texas to Parker County in North Central Texas. How and why did they go there? I see now that my Homsley great-grandparents also migrated from North East Texas to North Central Texas. Grandma Willie got married at age 18 in 1912 to John Robert Richards who was born in Timpson, Shelby County in East Texas and came to Parker County with his parents and other members of his Richards and Sapp families.

SOURCES
Photographs:
Homsley Family with Daughters, Original belonging to Jean Richards and in her family album, digital format used here by Judith Richards Shubert.

Homsley Family in 1910, digital format used here by Cathy Chancellor Richards and sent to Judith Richards Shubert.

Census Images:
Census Images, digital format from Ancestry.com; accessed by Judith Richards Shubert May 2004.

Wet Diamonds

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:29:00 +0000

A tear glistens,

A diamond on her cheek . . .

Sadness or joy?

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 19, 2013

Learning About the Haiku

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:17:00 +0000

Today I decided, after the fact, to learn a little more about the Haiku. After reading Robert D. Wilson's Defining Haiku at Simply Haiku, I feel I understand it a bit better; although, for me it is not easy. According to their homepage, Simply Haiku, from its inception, has been an English language Japanese short form poetry journal.

Leaves disappear there, (5)

Underneath the wire chain fence.    (7)
Large, brown brittle mulch for buds.    (7)

Leaves hide, (2)
Neath wire chain fencing . . .   (5)
For buds. (2)

The first rendering has too many words and too many syllables for a proper English Haiku. The second leaves more room for the reader's interpretation.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 15, 2013

Light of Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:27:00 +0000

- Haiku and Acrostic

Heavy my thoughts,

Leading down darkened byways . . .

Now light of heart.

Light of heart

Is the tone of the day, they say.

Grey clouds that hovered early

Have scattered off in play.

Take my heart’s pain away!

Ofttimes the worry

Forces my eyes to brim.

Heavy heart still beating

Even with the pain.

Around the turn of evening

Rush good thoughts again.

Taking me to abode of the light of heart.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 13, 2013

Rest In Peace ~ J. D. Richards

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:49:00 +0000

J. D. Richards

Born December 28, 1924 in Whitt, Parker County, Texas

Died January 11, 2013 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas

Nine years younger than his oldest sibling, Iwanda, and fifteen years older than the youngest, Richard Edwin, J. D. was one of eleven children born to my grandparents, John Robert Richards and Willie Laura Homsley.

I remember when I was younger (much younger), I would hear or see a plane overhead and cry out, “there’s Uncle J. D.!” I had no idea whether or not he was a pilot, a navigator, or infantry, but in my childish mind he was flying directly overhead in his sharp uniform.

He told me later that he had been wounded along with others while in the Pacific. I will research his military service and place it here for you soon.

J. D. suffered from Alzheimer's disease and his children and all of his nieces and nephews missed his quick wit and family stories. His daughter, Cathy, told us that he “got his angel wings” about 8:15 P.M. on Friday evening, January 11, 2013. He was the last of his brothers and sisters to go home for his heavenly reward. We will all miss you, Uncle J. D.

Please feel free to leave your memories and comments here on this post to be shared with his family.

SOURCES:
PHOTOGRAPH
Richards, J. D., original belonged to Johnny and Betty Richards, digital format by Judith Richards Shubert.

Read: Remembering Richards Men on Memorial Day

Haiku - Small Stone

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:11:00 +0000

Leaves disappear there

Underneath the wire chain fence

Large, brown brittle mulch for buds.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 11, 2013

Old Memories

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:04:00 +0000

Tears slide down her pale wrinkled cheeks

Tears that seem hot like tender embers.

The memories overwhelm her as her trembling fingers

Touch the crimson, indigo, lemon and emerald of the fabrics.

Folding and refolding the scraps of her life.

Breaking, cracking, shattering the veil of time that began an eon ago.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 8, 2013

Hot and Cold

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:56:00 +0000

Cold white tile greets my shivering body

Stepping over the discarded towel

In the Lilliputian square bath.

The whirring red hot heat of the ceiling fixture

Smooths the chill bumps from my skin.

As I finish with my bath, and warm myself

Under the flare of the burning element

I feel comforted, clean, and free of muscle aches.

The switch is flipped, and the silence and absence

Of heat immediately permeates my senses.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 6, 2013

Saint Francis

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:46:00 +0000

Acrostic: Saint Francis

Serene country setting
Aside the still lake,
Inspiring beauty.
Narcissus nodding in
Tranquility.
Fawn and doe
Run side by side
Around the water’s edge.
Now the morning
Crocus lift their yellow bonnets
Inside the yards of
Saint Francis Village.

Mindful Writing Challenge

January 4, 2013

Boxes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:17:00 +0000

Acrostic: Boxes

BOXES

Bug-proof them before you tape.

Oddities from the past dropped inside.

Xtra linens fill the heavy cardboard one.

Expensive china plates carefully wrapped before

Sending the lot of them on their way.

Day One, Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Mindful Writing Challenge

Ed & Tommie Puckett Riedel

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:44:00 +0000

Ed & Lorado Missouri "Tommie" Puckett Riedel

Sister of Edna Puckett Gailey

SOURCES

Photograph:

Riedel, Ed and Tommie, digital format, original in Edna Puckett Gailey's scrapbook, owned by Judith Richards Shubert.

Digital Scrapbook Graphics:

Raspberry Road Designs, "Hemingway", <http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/> accessed 1 January 2013.

Judy and Bat ~ a Couple of 1962 MWHS Grads and Fort Wolters PX Employees

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:31:00 +0000

FORT WOLTERS

U.S. Army and Air Force

Exchange Service Employees

1962 - 1966

Dorothy Culwell Cox Calhoun, Office Manager

Jeff Jeffries, Store Manager, and Delores Foley

Elfreida Blocker Hinshaw and Florence Grimes

Judith "Judy" Richards

Wayne Blocker, and Winford "Bat" Masterson

Elfreida Blocker Hinshaw in Front of Fort Wolters PX

Following graduation from Mineral Wells High School, Winford "Bat" Masterson and Judith "Judy" Richards, both of the Class of 1962, took a job with the U.S. Army and Air Force Exchange Service at nearby Fort Wolters. In 1962, Mineral Wells, Texas and Fort Wolters was the destination of thousands of helicopter pilot trainees and other military personnel who in time would find themselves embroiled in the Vietnam war.

We were a close-knit bunch at the PX and we enjoyed getting to know one another as we learned a new job. The older employees took the younger ones under their wings and made us feel that this, our first job, was a very important one. They taught us a great work ethic that I carry with me even today, and I'm sure Winford and Wayne do, as well.

SP4 Winford Masterson, U.S. Army

Winford worked for the Exchange Service at Fort Wolters for four years until he was drafted into the U.S. Army July 26, 1966. After he completed Basic Training in Fort Polk, Louisiana, he was assigned to the 5th Administration Co., Special Services section of the 5th Infantry Division, Mech. at Fort Carson, Colorado. After having two sets of orders canceled over a period of two years, one to Samara Ethiopia and another to Schofield Barracks on Hawaii, he was discharged from the Army in July of 1968. By December of 1968, the 5th Infantry Division was in Vietnam.

Winford returned to Mineral Wells and took a job with True Value Hardware Store, which at that time was owned by Hollis and Mary Ashford, parents of another classmate, Linda Van Etten. Winford stayed with that store for over thirty-six years and retired in December 2004.

Mr. Jeffries, the Fort Wolters Base Exchange store manager in 1964, died suddenly of a heart attack two days after Winford came home for Christmas from Fort Carson in December of 1966. Everyone called him Jeff. Winford believes he was only 33 years old when he died.

Elfreida and Wayne Blocker were sister and brother. Elfreida worked in the PX office and Wayne worked in the shipping and receiving department. Elfreida later married and lived in the Mineral Wells area. She died during the fall of 2011. Wayne is now married to the former Charlsie Sparks and they own and operate Blocker's Bargain Barn and Beauty Salon on South Oak in Mineral Wells. Elfreida, Wayne and Charlsie are all graduates of Mineral Wells High School.

Dorothy Foley died of cancer not long after Winford got out of the service in 1968, and Florence Grimes passed away in a nursing home in Mineral Wells later in her life. Dorothy Calhoun died after a massive stroke in 1991. She had retired from the Base Exchange and was happily remarried to William Paul "Bill" Trump. He died in 1993.

At the time these pictures were taken in 1964, Judy was engaged to be married to a soldier she had met on a "blind-date" arranged by friends at the PX, Kay and David Hotson. David was in her fiance's unit on the base and he thought his friend needed to get away from his desk! Judy and Robert Allen "Bob" Shubert got married April 4, 1964 at the Eastside Church of Christ in Mineral Wells. Her uncle, Raymond R. Stone, married them, and her grandfather, James Dolphus "Doc" Gailey, gave her hand in marriage.

PFC Robert A. Shubert, U.S. Army, 1962

Shubert was a SP5 with the 303rd ASA BN when he and Judy left to make their home in Tennessee, and he returned to finish school at Tennessee Tech University. They have been married 48 years and have three children and six grandchildren. Fort Wolters played a huge part in their lives; indeed, in all of the lives of those pictured above!

On the occasion of our 50th graduation anniversary, Winford waxes nostalgic, "The years have passed quickly. It hardly seems possible that it has been fifty years and we have all grown old; but life has been good, and the Lord has blessed."

Sources:

Photographs:

Black and white photos privately owned by Judith Richards Shubert and held by her. Digital format. Digital copies in this collection given to Boyce Ditto Library with her permission and permission of only known living persons in photographs. March 15, 2012

Masterson, Winford, Privately owned by Winford Masterson, Digital format used with permission. Judith Richards Shubert March 15, 2012

Shubert, Robert, Privately owned by Robert Shubert, Digital format used with permission. Judith Richards Shubert March 15, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 27, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Hardscrabble Fields

Someone has left a rake leaning upon the porch corner against the dirty chipped paint.

The ground appears scraped bare of all living things;

Shabbiness surrounds the house.

Is it empty?

Or are there children huddled inside trying to stay warm?

The end of January approaches and the men and boys are working hard;

But work is hard to find, and the fields of 1947 were just as hardscrabble as they are in 2012.

January 27, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 26, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:01:00 +0000

Sundown at Possum Kingdom

Rose petticoat furled

Same moon and north star shining

Indigo apron

January 26, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 25, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:11:00 +0000

Rainy Images

Silver trails of rain

Rushing down midnight sidewalks

Streetlights make images

January 25, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 24, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:58:00 +0000

Chalk Sunflower

Sidewalk chalk flowers

Powder blows yellow and green

Remnants of child’s play

January 24, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 23, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:06:00 +0000

Picky Cardinals

Red pyracantha berries

On tall leggy bushes

Hang in grape-like clusters

End of January cardinals

Picked and picked and screeched

Now they’re nearly gone

January 23, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 22, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:39:00 +0000

Abnormal Temperature

I’ve been sick the last few days with one of those winter colds that isn’t too terribly bad, but bad enough to stop you from feeling like doing anything very constructive, like housework, or baking, or sewing, or even reading very long. I read stones half of the morning and didn’t move from my chair, but I kept dropping off to sleep. I notice that my face feels very warm, but when I take my temperature the thermometer reads below normal. Is that normal? Do you think I may be abnormal? Do you think something may be terribly wrong? Probably just a hypochondriac speaking, you say? Yes, I imagine that’s it. But I am sick with a cold. And I’m going back to bed now. Toodles.

January 22, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 21, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:50:00 +0000

A Day at the Laundromat

Curly haired Anna gave her mother a quarter when asked.

Another, said her mother, and then another.

Can you press the round green button?

Standing on tip-toes, stretching her little arm, her tiny finger made contact.

The striped, purple, yellow, pink and green of her shirts and socks flew

Around and around as the girl stood in wonder and cocked her head

First one way, and then another.

A whirling bumpy noise then snagged her attention.

Quizzical look upon her face, Anna looked up at her mother,

Then in the most grown-up of voices, she declared, “This machine is very jumpy.”

January 21, 2012

I participate in A River of Stones

January River of Small Stones - Jan 20, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Skeleton Swing

It is warm today giving me time to sit and bask in the sun.

Gentle breeze lifted my hair;

A dried seed pod from the tree above floated down

To join the many other brown twelve-inch long pods littering the ground.

The skeleton of a backyard swing sat forlorn

Above the stepping stones I brought on the plane from Carolina.

No children now skipped upon the stones nor leapt into the once swinging chair;

Broken, it stood bare and alone, the frame waiting for a new occupant.

January 20, 2012

January River of Small Stones - Jan 19, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:25:00 +0000

Blue Moon

Fuzzy blue thread right

Smooth white threads left and middle

Needle moves up, down

Blade cuts excess fabric strip

Cow jumps over moon emerges

January 19, 2012

I participate in A River of Stones

January River of Small Stones - Jan 17, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Haiku: Curling Wind

Wind is warm today

Clouds are hanging low and gray

The grass twists and curls

January 17, 2012