Ancestors of David James COUCH

Notes


8. James David COUCH

left home at 18 and went to Golden, MO where his oldest sister, M. Alice Muncy was living
1900 boarded in Shell Knob; was a merchant
lived at Golden, Viola, then Shell Knob
had a feed store in Eureka Springs, AR when Grandpa (Louis) was 4 or 5
Grandpa Louis mentioned James D. talking about wolves, longhorns and a hurricane in Plano, TX
homestead patent in Barry co, MO 23 Mar 1901 - section 32, W 1/2 of NW 1/4 and W 1/2 of SW 1/4 T 22N R 25W (160 acres)
90 yr, 9 mo, 1 da
property: Section 35, SW 1/2 of NW 1/2, NW 1/4 of SW 1/4, T 22N, R 25W, Barry Co.


4. Nellie Arreva COUCH

crib death


10. John Calvin ANDOE

WWI draft registration: short, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair

lived near Golden or Viola until 1903-1904, then to Collinsville, OK. That was oil country and the water was bad.  Robert almost died. Lou, with three small children, rode the train back to Golden and stayed with Hensons where Grandpa Henson doctored him.  J. C. drove the wagon back, taking 14 days.  Moved to one of J. C.s uncle's farms, finally bought a farm near Golden.  Moved to Reed Springs Sept 1919.
Ran a boarding house and two feed barns (where people put their teams when they came to town) in Reed Springs; ran a boarding house in Ruth twp, Stone co, MO in 1920
Closed boarding house the day Etta married
1925 to Sand Springs where Etta lived, bought a grocery store, burned down, bought a meat market in Spavinow, OK 2 years, back to Sand Springs 3 years grocery store at 1st and Cleveland 3 yrs, then near Red Fork (now in Tulsa city limits), had a tourist camp and grocery store.

had a grocery store-gas station in West Tulsa, OK in 1930s
Tulsa City Directories 1930, 1931 grocer; 1932, 1933 filling station and tourist camp in Opportunity Heights
1940 tourist camp proprietor, Opportunity Heights
lived in Tulsa for 17 years
death certificate states that he was a service station operator


11. Lou Creasy HENSON

her mother died when she was six; lived with her oldest sister, Rebecca (Beckie) Henson Johnson and later with sister Jane Salyer?
lived in Nowata, OK in 1930 (father's obituary)


5. Robert Collins ANDOE

wife left him and was pregnant; didn't see his daughter until she hired a detective and found him when she was 19.  (newspaper article -Mary Couch Koeppen)
Lived in Sapulpa, OK 1985 (Etta's obit)


5. Etta Jane ANDOE

lived in Sandsprings, Jay and Tahlequah, OK; also in Boise, Nezperce and Shoshone, ID


5. Otis Calvin ANDOE

reared and educated at Tulsa, OK
moved to Milner in 1938
1935 in Tulsa, OK
1940 two doors down from Louis and Bessie Couch
WWII draft registration: 6' 1", 170, blue eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion, scar on right wrist
farmed and ranched at Wendell, Carey, Muldoon, Jordan Valley, and Murphy
moved to Jerome in 1967


12. Charles Henry FARNWORTH

1870 listed with mother on p. 66B
patented 160 acres in Sanpete co, UT 9 April 1892
moved to Chilly, ID in the Lost River area of Idaho in 1899


13. Hannah Ellen "Maude" WHEELOCK

named the townsite of Chilly in the Lost River Valley of Idaho near the base of Mount Borah.
a Maude Farnworth was granted 81 acres of patented land in Custer county, ID in 1917
The grandkids called her "Little Grandma".


6. Charles Henry FARNWORTH Jr.

WWI draft card: Blackfoot, ID; medium height and build, blue eyes, light hair
lived in Orem
injured in a car accident Jan. 1 in Provo, died the next day in Provo
high school teacher


6. Ivan Allen FARNWORTH

railroad pension


14. Walter Stanley CANDLAND

farmer
was granted 162 acres in Blaine county, ID in 1911
1939-lived at 416 SE Main St., Idaho Falls, ID


7. Walter Roland CANDLAND

adopted Hershel Cleon from Cyrus and Eva Farnworth
WWI draft card-He states his birth is 21 Mar 1892, headstone says 1893; medium height and build, gray eyes, brown hair


7. James Earl CANDLAND

was a plumber
died of leukemia