JOHN WASHINGTON ODNEAL
John W.
Mary Alice
Photo's courtsey of Billy Odneal, grandson of John Washington.
    John Washington was born in Moneteau Co., MO Jan. 25, 1842. It is not known if John served in the Civil War or not but all his brothers did except Hugh.
    By 1870 John had moved to TX based on the following information. In the July 3,1870 Texas census J. W. Oatmeal is listed with E. F. Halsell family in Grayson Co., TX, age 27, Merchant, $60 real estate, $1000 personal property, born in MO. It's difficult to tell what relationship the Halsell's are to each other. E. F. is listed as the head with Mary P. age 21 born in MO, John age 74 born in SC, Susan born in MO and then J M Oatmeal is listed as a boarder. I believeJohn age 74 is the father and E. F., Mary and Susan are siblings. Did John go to Texas from MO with them, or did they meet down there?
    In the 1870 census, Mary Alice Bond, John's future wife was living with her father George W. Bond age 53, occupation trader in livestock, real estate value $110,000 and personal property $3,000, born in TN, mother Elizabeth age 44, keeping house, born in NC. There were also 8 other children living in the household. It seems this may have been two families since there was a George W., age 22, born in AR and a George W., age 14, born in TX. Including Mary Alice there were four children born in AR.
    In 1880 Sherman, Grayson Co., TX census #'s 14-5-19-38 a J. W. Odnel age 34, Farmer, born in MO, wife Alice age 28 born in AR keeping house, son George age 8, Bert age 6, Robert age 4 and Ada age 1. All children born in TX.
Also of interest is a J. T. Loving family listed in Sherman on page 3 of the 1880 census, his age 30, wife L. E. age 31, Edmund R, age 9, Jessie R. age 7, W. B. age 6, Sam Houston age 4 and Charles C. age 2. Ada, John's first daughter, married a Loving, name unknown. Hopefully time will give us more information to fill these holes. According to Jack his name was Raymond and worked for the rairoad in Dallas or Fort Worth. It's possible Edmund R. is Edmund Raymond!
    John married Mary Alice Bond, about 1871-72. They had 10 children, all born in the two story house on Odneal St. in Sherman. The house is long gone because in Sherman as in so many cities the first established areas have become the industrial areas of the town. Where the house once stood, now stands a flour mill and other factories. He built his home here and in the back yard drilled two wells from which he supplied the water needs of Sherman. He also built a 300' long chicken house for his leghorn chickens and from it supplied the eggs for the town. Other improvements on this property were: a grocery store, seven houses for Negro workers, a house for a least one son, a large garden of about two acres, beehives, cattle and hogs. According to a grandaughter, Billie Odneal Babb, he owned much of Sherman including an Opera House. Jack remembered going over to his grandmas and having honey and butter on her wonderful homemade biscuits for supper. He also remembered the table that would seat about 20 people comfortably, the food cellar that was large enough and stocked with enough canned food to last a year.
   Jack remembers a story of two Odneal brothers going to Texas as follows;  "two brothers went to Texas, one didn't like it and went on to California." Another story is three brothers went to Texas, John, Thomas and James. Between 1873 and 1878 Thomas dies in Texas. Regardless of the story there are some facts we do know. About 1870 John and James were both in Texas. By 1873 James had returned to Missouri as he married a second time to his deceased wife's sister there. One son of his sons, Vollie, did return to Texas and his descendants have remained there, however most Texas Odneals are from the John Washington line. John Washington Odneal was the brother that stayed and settled in Sherman, Grayson Co., TX. It is not known exactly how much property he owned but he seems to have been quite prominent.
The obituaries of John and Mary from the Sherman Daily Democrat

J. W. ODNEAL

One of Sherman's Pioneers Passed Away This Afternoon








    At 2 o'clock this afternoon (March 24, 1912) Jno. W Odneal died at his home 422 Odneal Street. He had been confined to his room for several months. Stomach trouble was the disease to which death is attributed although his old age had much to do with the case.
    He was 70 years of age and for thirty seven years had made his home in this city. In the early days of Sherman he was a merchant, but in later years he has only been occupied with matters pertaining to his real estate holdings.
    The funeral services will be conducted from the residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock by Elder Geo. F. Bradford. Internment at West Hill Cemetery.
    The deceased is survived by the wife Mrs. J. W. Odneal and by the following children: H. L. Odneal of Dallas; R. C. Odneal of Valley View; Charles L. Odneal of this city; H. T. Odneal of Ft. Stockton; Earl Odneal and Miss Lucile Odneal of Sherman; Mrsa Ada Loving of Dallas and Mrs R. T. Hannah of Yoakum. He is also survived by two brothers and a sister in California, MO. They are Mrs Hannah and Mace and George Odneal.
 
 

Sherman Daily Democrat March 18, 1924
Pioneer Sherman Woman Dies Early Tuesday Morning.








    Mrs. Mary Alice Odneal, widow of the late John W. Odneal, and a resident of Sherman since 1853, died at the family home at 422 East Odneal Street about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning at the age of 72 years.
    Mrs. Odneal, who was known and loved by friends throughout Sherman, was a member of one of the earliest families locating in Sherman and her years of residence here dated back to within a few years of the founding of the city. The daughter of George and Elizabeth Bond, she came with her parents when they removed from Arkansas in 1852 to what is now Sherman. Mr. Bond acquired, and for many years farmed lands on which much of the business part of Sherman is built.
    Mrs. Odneal was married about 1872 to John W. Odneal, a member of another pioneer family of Sherman, owning adjoining property to that of her parents. Mr. Odneal died in Sherman in 1912. Eight children born of the union survive. They are H. L. Odneal, Los Angeles, CA; R. C. Odneal Valley View; Mrs. R. L. Loving, Dallas; Mrs. R. T. Hanna, Sherman; C. L. Odneal, Sherman; H. T. Odneal Fort Stockton; E. L. Odneal, Sherman; Mrs. F. E. Keith, Sherman. She is also survived by one brother, Burl Bond, of California. Two sisters, Mrs. M. J. Carruthers of Sherman and Mrs. J. F. Herndon of Los Angeles, CA have died within the past 15 months.
 
 

GEORGE V. ODNEAL








    George born May 5,1872, married Nellie GUINN before 1896. Gunby, born about 1894. In the 1900 census Nellie was listed as a widow and she and Gunby were living with her father D. C. GUINN. Gunby died July 21, 1899 in Sherman, Texas and is buried at West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, TX.
    Their only child
 
 

GUNBY ODNEAL








    Gunby was born April 1896 and died in 1928. He is buried in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, TX. According to Billie (Wilbur's sdau.) Gumby lived in CA.
 
 


HORACE LaBERTA ODNEAL

Bert
Frances

    Bert was born Nov. 12, 1873. He married Caddo in 1900 and they divorced with no children. He moved to Los Angeles and February 14, 1925 married Frances Jane Thompson. From this marriage two sons were born, Billy (1925) and Jack (1928). Bert and Frances were divorced about 1930. The two boys were raised in an orphanage as Frances was not able to support the family. She moved to Montana and both sons moved to Montana for there retirement. Bert died in Los Angeles in 1947. Frances died in Montana August 14,1992. The two sons being raised apart from the Odneal family knew nothing about their uncles, cousins and other relatives. They attended the 50th reunion with all their children (only Billy had married and had children).
    It seems Bert worked in banks all his life, as an accountant, this was learned from census reports. His sons only knew him by name and a picture they had. When he died they somehow found out about it and went to Los Angeles but by the time they got there he had already been buried. As a career Army officer Billy had attempted to look up Odneals at every post he went to, but he never found any to talk with.
 
 

BILLY LEE ODNEAL

JACK RODGER ODNEAL

ROBERT CECIL ODNEAL








    Robert was born in1877 in Sherman, TX and in 1898 married Cora Virginia MORRISON. Robert had a large wheat farm near Valley View, Texas. Robert and and Cora are buried in Valley View Cemetery, Valley View, TX.
    They had five children:
 
 

FRANK ODNEAL








    Frank was born Dec. 4, 1898 in Valley View, TX and died Dec. 29, 1904 also in Valley View, TX. He is buried in Valley View Cemetery, Valley View, TX.
 
 

CECIL HORACE ODNEAL








    Cecil was born about 1902 in Valley View, TX. He married Erma Jane. He owned a gas station. He died in 1937 and Erma Jane died about 1996. They are both buried in Valley View Cemetery, Valley View, TX.
    They did not have children.
 
 


SYBIL VIRGINIA ODNEAL








    Sybil was born June 28, 1904. She married Lloyd EVES. sybil was a house wife and Lloyd worked at Cox's Department Store. Lloyd died in 1969 and Sybil in 1977 both in Brownwood, TX and they are both buried in Calvery Cemetery, Marlin, TX.
    They had one daughter.
 
 

ROBERT CARL ODNEAL








    Robert was born May 18, 1906 in Valley View, TX. On May 18, 1930 he married Ermon Jo DICKSON, born May 24, 1907 in Bolivar, TX to Louie and Dottie JOHNSON DICKSON. Rober was farmer and enjoyed hunting and fishing when time permitted. Ermon Jo was a homemaker.
    They had two sons:
 
 

NYDIA ODNEAL








    Nydia was born in June 1908. She married Luin KING , born Dec. 16, 1906. Nydia was a homemaker and Lui was in the Oil Business in Big Spring, TX They divorced and Nydia married Raymond DOSS, they had no children.
    Nydia and Luin had one child.
 
 

ADA BOND ODNEAL








    Ada was born in 1879 and married a Mr. LOVING and had at least one son Raymond. Mr. Loving worked for the Railroad in Dallas in some capacity. Acccording to Jack Odneal the son, Raymond, sold caskets in the Dallas area.
 
 

EULA MAE ODNEAL








    According to her obiturary Eula was born Nov. 2, 1883 in Sherman, TX. She married her first cousin Robert Thomas (Bob) Hanna who was an insurance agent for Texas Life Insurance Co.. Bob died Jan. 3, 1942 and Eula died March 15, 1970. They both died in Corpus Christi, TX and are buried at Rose Hill Memorial Park. They belonged to the First Christian Church and Eula belonged to the Golden Age Club.
 
 

Robert's Obituary from Corpus Christi Caller-Times, January 4, 1942








    Robert T. Hanna, 58, of 3636 Bartlett Drive, died at his home early yesterday morning. He was district agent for Texas Life Insurance Co.. Of Waco and had lived in Corpus Christi 10 years. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at David T. Peel Funeral Home by the Rev. Mr. Harrison, with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
    Pallbearers will be J. D. Wren, Marvin Erickson, G. C. Thornton, G. R. Flynn, Dan Taylor, and Joe Nemec. Honorary pallbearers, Dr. John J. Sloan, Dr. Harvey Baldwin, J. C. Blacknall, Joe Dixon, Harry Jones, Dr. W. C. Barnard, John Elliott, and Frank Wolfson.
    Surviving are the wife, one daughter, Mrs. I. R. Craig of Corpus Christi.
 
 

Eula's Obituary from Corpus Christi Caller, Monday, March 16, 1970








    Mrs. Eula M. Hanna, 85, of 3626 Bartlett Drive died at 11:15 a.m. yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness.
    She was born in Sherman and was a resident of Corpus Christi for the last 40 years. She was a member of the First Christian Church and the Golden Age Club.
    Funeral services will be a 2 p.m. today at the Ross Langham Mortuary Chapel with Dr. Oliver W. Harrison, pastor of First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
    Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Irby Craig, of Corpus Christi.
    Their daughter:
 
 

DORTHY HANNA








    Dorothy was born July 15, 1913. She married Irby R. Craig about 1937, they had no children. Dorthy was a secretary for San Antonio Machine and Supply and worked for Corn Products Co. and Texas Employment Commission. Irby worked for San Antonio Machine and Supply. He died June 15, 1977 and she in May 28, 1990 both in Corpus Christi, TX and are both buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Corpus Christi, TX.. Information on Eula, Dorthy and Irby are from their obiturarys. Robert is from his parents information.
 
 

Dorthy's Obituary from Corpus Christi Caller, Wed. May 30, 1990








    Dorothy Hanna Craig, 76, died May 28, 1990 in her residence after a long illness.
    She was born on September 15, 1913 to Robert Thomas and Eula Mae Odneal Hanna in Sherman, Texas (Grayson County).
    She was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Irby R. Craig.
She was educated at Kidd-Key College in Sherman, Texas, the University of Texas in Austin, Del Mar College, and C.C. Business College, both in Corpus Christi. She worked for San Antonio Machines and Supply (SAMS CO.) and retired from Corn Products Co. and Texas Employment Commission on January 1, 1987 as a secretary.
    She had no immediate survivors.
    Graveside services will be held at Rose Hill Cemetery at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 31, 1990 with Rev. Warren Spanutius officiating.
    Cage-Mills Jackson-Langham 1001 Second St.
 
 

JOHN W. ODNEAL








    John name was most likely John Washington after his father. John was born April 12, 1884 and died March 26, 1886. Both in Sherman, Texas. He is buried at West Hill Cemetery, Sherman Texas.
 
 

CHARLES LEE ODNEAL

Charles
Tudie

    Charles Lee was born Feb. 24, 1886 and by 1909 had married Tudie S. Dedrick daughter of Thad Dedrick, in Sherman, Texas. Charley, as he was called, ran the grocery store for his father and was a night watchman at the flour mill. When his father died he inherited the grocery store, the house he lived in and the seven houses the Negro workers lived in. In the 1920 census he is listed as a repairman at the Oil Refinery in Sherman, TX. In 1927 his brother Harry invited him to come to McCamey, Texas and sell Chryslers. So he, his wife and two sons (Charles was now in college) moved to McCamey, Texas. He sold cars for about six months but that work didn't suit him so he went to work for the Humble Oil Co. refinery in McCamey. In 1930 Humble closed the refinery, as it wasn't profitable having to truck the oil out to the coast for shipment, and moved all the employees to east Texas. Charley was moved to Panny in the tri-city area. Later the three cities, Panny, Goose Creek and Old Baytown were incorporated into what is now called Baytown. He continued working for Humble as did two of his sons Jack and Harold. Jack was sometimes his fathers relief off his shift of fueling the ships and Harold became a welder At some time the name was changed to EXXON and is owned by Standard of New Jersey.
    They had three sons:
 
 

CHARLES WASHINGTON ODNEAL








    Charles Washington (1910) Charles married Marie PHILLIPS. Worked for Texas Gulf Oil Co.
    They had two children.
 
 

JACK LaBERTA ODNEAL

Bob, Ollie and Jack

    Jack was born Nov. 14, 1914 in Sherman, TX. Jack married Suzie Ollie Smith in 1939 in Baytown. Jack was a sergeants in the Army during WW II, as an engineer with B-17's in the Army Air Force. Ollie followed him from post to post always finding work to do. After the war they returned to Baytown and Jack went back to work at Exxon. In 1954 they had their only child Robert Errol Odneal (Bob). Jack retired from Exxon in about 1969. Ollie passed away in 1989. In 1991 Jack remarried a widow, Dottie Enderli, and she passed away in 1993.
    Bob acquired an interest in music, espically the trumpet at an early age. When he was in the 8th grade Al Hirt was put in the Methodist Hospital in Houston. Bob learned of this and begged his father to take him over to see. Jack was skepecitcal that they would be allowed to go in and see him. After much persuassion Jack finally agreed. Much to his surprise Al said to come on in and invited Bob to hop up on the bed with him. Needless to say this went a long way in encouragement with Bob. He is currently head of the music dept. at a Junior College, a music teacher and most importantly plays the trumpet professionally. He has played with the Ray Charles Band and Tommy Dorsey Orchestry. He has also played backup to Glenn Campbell, The Fifth Deminison, John Denver, Maynard Ferguson, Shirley Jones, Lizza Minelli, Doc Severisen and Bobby Vinton.
    Bob and some of his friends were also around when John Wayne "The Duke" was making the film Hellfighters. The movie security men were telling them to leave, John Wayne over heard them and told them they could stay. He then asked if they were hungry and said for them to fix something to eat from the table of food.
 
 

HAROLD DEDRICK ODNEAL








    Harold (1918), all born on Odneal St. in Sherman, TX. Harold had no middle name but he took his mother's maiden name of Dedrick as his middle name when entering the Army during WW II. Harold was a sergeants in the Army during WW II, operating bulldozer's in Alaska at wars end.
    In the early 1950's Harold and a man named Slay were welding. At the same time Battery B was being brought back on line after an overhaul. The pipefitters had left a gasket out of a coupling in the 4" line. When the crude hit this opening Slay and Harold were both sprayed with oil, which was ignited by the welders. Slay died as a result of his burns and Harold, although, badly burned from the waist down and requiring hundreds of grafts pulled through and was able to return to work as a welder.
    They had two children.
 
 

HARRY THOMAS ODNEAL

Harry
    Harry was born Feb. 1889 in Sherman, TX. He married Lelia Faulkner about 1909 and they homesteaded two sections of land in West Texas in what is now Upton County. They lived in a tent until they could build a more substantial house. Their hree daughters were all born here, Vivian (1910), Ada (1914) and Margaret, (1918). The town of McCamey was built on this land, with Harry owning several of the businesses in the town. Some of them were the Chrysler dealership and garage, and movie theater. Once while his nephews Jack and Harold were watching a western in this theater a Texas dust storm came up. The dust entered the theater through a large fan used for cooling, since this was before the days of central air. This may have been the first time real effects were used to enhance the feeling of a movie, even though it was not done on purpose, in that you were looking through real dust to see the dust of the movie. Harry was also the Lawman for the town. At this time there was no jail, so Harry would bring troublemakers to the garage, have them put their hands around a large pole, going to the roof in the center of the building, and then put the cuffs on. Next morning or whenever they were to be turned loose he would uncuff them.
    The family moved southwest to Fort Stockton sometime about 1930 where they built a large two story house and Harry continued working as a peaceofficer. He hired an unempolyed artist from California that happened to be passing through to paint wildlife scenes throughout the interior of the house. The murals were quite good. In 1931 Harry became a Texas Ranger and in 1933 he was made Captain of Company B of the Rangers. He was known by his big cowboy hat and a .45 on his hip. It has been said that he was good friends of Govenor Ma Ferguson at that time and that was one reason he was put in that position. After becoming Captain he and the family moved to Fort Worth, Texas. In 1934 while riding in a Patrol Car they went over some RR tracks and he came down on his .45 with his tailbone. Perhaps they were in pursuit of someone as it would seem the car was going very fast. From that time on he was in considerable pain. On April 30, 1934 Harry could take the pain no longer and committed suicide in their bedroom. Leila heard the shot and ran upstairs but when she got there, there was nothing she could do.
According to Jack Odneal's memories
Some additional information about Harry.
    He had been a peace officer since he was 19 when he became a deputy sheriff of Grayson Co., TX. Later he bought eight sections of land in Pecos Co., TX and ranched for a time but it was not long before he was serving as deputy sheriff at Fort Stockton, TX.
    While still a young man he entered the Ranger service during the lawless days of West Texas. As a sergeant under Capt. Monroe Fox he took part in cleaning up the Big Bend country. Although Captain Odneal seldom spoke of the "old days" tradition has it that 16 Mexican bandits were killed in one fight in which he participated.
    Captain Odneal was stationed in the Ranger oil fields during the boom several years ago.
    The captain was transferred to Fort Worth in March of 1933 to succeed Capt. Tom Hickman as head of the Rangers in this district. He has livied here continously ever since.
    They had three daughters

VIVIAN ODNEAL

ADA ODNEAL

MARGARET ODNEAL
 

EARL LARIMORE ODNEAL

Earl
Thelma

    Earl was born in Mar. 1894 and by 1918 was married to Thelma Gwendlyn EATHERLY. Thelma died about 1924 and Earl married Alberta BROWNFIELD by 1925 they had five children, Earl Larimore Jr. (1925), Raymond Clifford (1927), Jo Alyce (1928) changed her name to Mary Alyce when she became a nun, Paul Ernest (1929) and Martha Marie (1930).  Alberta died about 1931 and the children were put in Catholic schools in Dallas.  The boys were in one school and the girls in another.  Earl married a third time to a lady named Gertrude.  Earl died in 1962 in Sherman, Texas.  He had a heart attack while talking with friends.  Gertrude died in 1963.
 Some information related from Earls oldest child Billie Margaret;
    Earl owned a feed and seed store in Sherman TX and owned the house of his father .  He also had a large vegatable garden and raised leghorn chickens.  The Negros lived in houses in back of the main house and took care of the chickens.  Earl’s children Billie and Wilbur lived with their Eatherly grandparents after their mother died.  When Earl remarried Alberta, Billie came back to live with them and took care of  her five step brother and sisters.  The death of her mother was especially difficult for her. and as a result much of her Odneal memories are gone.  She does remember very well the fureral.  Thelma was laid out on a rolled red velvet couch and  was only placed in the casket before being sealed in the wall of the Odneal Mouseleum.  Billie remembers going up to the third floor of the house and watching the court house burn as a result of a mob after a Negro.  The story is the Negro had raped a white woman and hid in the courthouse.  The mob burned the courthouse down in order to get him to comeout.  He was then dragged through the streets and lynched.  This is why early records of Sherman are hard to obtain as they were burnt up in the fire.  Earl died in Sherman Texas from a heart attack while visiting with friends.  Earl and Thelma are both buried in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, TX.
 Earl and Thelma’s children
 
 

BILLIE MARGARET ODNEAL

Billie Margaret

    Billie was born July 14, 1918 in Sherman, Texas.  She married Ralph Wheeler BABB.  Billie has been active in the Greene County Democratic Party.  She is the first woman to be elected Chairman of the Greene County Democratic Party.  Ralph worked for Kraft Foods.  He passed away Aug. 17, 1987 in Springfield, MO and Billie continues living in Springfield, MO.

WILBUR McCOY ODNEAL

Wilbur and Billie

    Wilbur was born Dec. 10, 1920 in Sherman, Texas.  He married Billie Margaret JUDKINS and they had one child.  Wilbur and Billie divorced and he married Phyllis Jean CHANDLER  Wilbur died June 8, 1997 in Dallas, TX.  He willed his remains to the medical  schoola and was then cremated and buried at West Hill Cemetery, in Sherman, TX.
Earl and Alberta's children.

EARL LARIMORE ODNEAL JR.

RAYMOND CLIFFORD ODNEAL

MARY JO ALICE ODNEAL

PAUL ERNEST ODNEAL

MARTHA MARIE ODNEAL
 

LUCILLE F. ODNEAL
by Debbie Parrish & Marvin Odneal

    Lucille was born Feb 20, 1897 and married Frank Earl Keith Sr. born Sept 5, 1893. "Farnk Keith Sr. supposedly came through Georgia to Louisiana to Tyler Texas and then to Sherman, Texas. There is not much info on his parents at this time, however Mary Louise said both grandmothers were named Mary Alice. She also said that her materinal grandmothe, Mary Alice BOND Odneal was a direct decendant of Englands King George, she was shown this in a Bible."
    "Frank Earl Sr. and Lucille owned a cafe in Sherman. Frank Sr. also worked in a pharmacy or may have been a pharmacist, at one of his nephews pharmacies in Sherman. The nephews were Joe and Bill Keith. One of which was a lawyer that moved to Louisiana and became a U S Senator. Frank Sr.'s brother, Percival Cleveland Keith, has a lot of interesting history. He was a nuclear scientist & put the pin in the first atomic bomb. His laboratory was in Peapack, NJ and he was very involved in the "Manhatten Project" (atomic bomb research). He also designed refineries that take oil and make products. He discovered a way for there to be a plant to take nuclear products and derive atomic energy for bombs(plutonium)."
    "Frank and Lucille divorced and she married a man named Gabbert and moved to Driscoll, TX. They later divorced also. She moved to Corpus Christi, TX and never married again."
    "After their divorce Frank Sr. moved to Baton Rouge, LA where he had a vending machine business. At the time of his death he had a large barrel almost full of pennies."They owned a cafe in Sherman and Frank Sr. also worked in a pharmacy, perhaps as a pharmacist. Frank and Lucille divorced about 1940?. Lucille remarried a farmer named Gabbert near Driscoll, TX about 1940. Frank died Jan 1961 in New Orleans, LA. Lucille died Aug. 26, 1977 in Corpus Christi.

    Lucille's Obiturary from the CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER

    Lucille F. Gabbert, 81, of 937 Rosedale, died yesterday in a local nursing home after a long illness.  She was a retired salesclerk.
    Survivors include two sons, W. A. Keith, of Corpus Christi and Frank Earl Jr. of Baton Rouge, LA.; a daughter, Mary Louise of Corpus Christi; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
    Clifford-Jackson Funeral Home on Kostoryz.
    They had three children.

FRANK EARL KEITH Jr.

    Frank Jr. contacted a childhood disease (measles) that left him mostly deaf. He married Blanche RYDER who was also nearly deaf due to the same reason. He retired from "Advocate State Times" of Baton Rouge, LA. He was an avid lover of flowers, espically orchids. He and his mother both liked Boston Bulldogs and owned one. Frank and Blanche had three children.

MARY LOUISE KEITH

    Mary married William Fred Jenkins and they had four children. They divorced and she married Leroy Blount. They did not have any children.

WILLIAM ARTHUR KEITH

    William Arthur (Bill) Keith retired from the U S Postal Service. He married Anntta Gowin RODRIGUEZ. They had one daughter.

Additional thoughts about John Washington Odneal
by Hugh Marvin Odneal

    There is a John W. O'Neal listed in Co B 10 Reg. MO Cav. Union Army of the Civil War. He joined for duty and was mustered in at Rolla, MO on Aug. 1, 1861. He wasa a private and worked in the Blacksmith shop. He was mustered out at the end of his enlistment on Oct. 8,1864. This may or may not be John Washington. It is known that his brother Thomas B. was in the Union Army.
    In the July 3,1870 Texas census J. W. Oatmeal is listed with E. F. Halsell family in Grayson Co., TX, age 27, Merchant, $60 real estate, $1000 personal property, born in MO. It's difficult to tell about the Halsell's. E. F. is listed as the head with Mary P. age 21 born in MO, John age 74 born in SC, Susan born in MO and then J M Oatmeal is listed. I believeJohn age 74 is the father and E. F., Mary and Susan are siblings. It really doesn't matter as too our history, just a mystry. Did John go to Texas from MO with them, or did they meet down there? Mary Alice Bond, John's future wife was living with her father George W. Bond age 53, occupation trader in livestock, real estate value $110,000 and personal property $3,000, born in TN, mother Elizabeth age 44, keeping house, born in NC. There were also 8 other children living in the household. It seems it may have been two families since there was a George W., age 22, born in AR and a George W., age 14, born in TX. Including Mary Alice there were four children born in AR.
    In 1880 Sherman, Grayson Co., TX census #'s 14-5-19-38 a J. W. Odnel age 34, Farmer, born in MO, wife Alice age 28 born in AR keeping house, son George age 8, Bert age 6, Robert age 4 and Ada age 1. All children born in TX. There was no John listed, I believe this is an error from an early family tree or perhaps John and George were the same person.
    Also of interest was a J. T. Loving family listed in Sherman on page 3 of the 1880 census, his age 30, wife L. E. age 31, Edmund R, age 9, Jessie R. age 7, W. B. age 6, Sam Houston age 4 and Charles C. age 2. Ada, John's first daughter, married a Loving, name unknown. Hopefully time will give us more information to fill these holes.