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Eustace Windham >
Samuel B. Windham >
John Darby Windham >
Hilary
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Children:
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1. Addie Louise
WINDHAM (b.
13 Apr 1910, TX; d. 12 Apr 1912, CA, age 1;
Find-A-Grave 34030225, CA)
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Addie Louise Windham died young in California and is buried there.
She was originally buried at Kennett Cemetery, but was re-interred
to
Central Valley Cemetery, Shasta Lake,
ShasCtyCA,
because of the creation of Shasta Lake.
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2. Lucille Vera Inez
WINDHAM (b.
5 Feb 1915, TX, Kennett, ShasCtyCA; d. 31 May 2003,
Carlsbad, EddyCtyNM;
Find-A-Grave 112288949, cremated)
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m.
Richard Tanksley
WRIGHT (b. 21 Oct 1915, Oplin, CallCtyTX;
d. 12 Mar 2005, ) on 21 Dec 1935, Tecumseh,
CallCtyTX
Parents: John B.
WRIGHT and Ora Mae PEEVY
Children:
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Dixie Louise WRIGHT (b.
7 Jan 1941,
CallCtyTX; d. 1959, age 18;
Find-A-Grave 68224663, NM)
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Susan Elizabeth WRIGHT (b.
1 June 1943, LampCtyTX)
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Richard Olester WRIGHT (b.
2 Mar 1945, LampCtyTX)
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John Forrest WRIGHT "Johnny" (b.
24 Aug 1947,
NM)
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Sarah M. WRIGHT (NM)
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Cindy WRIGHT (b. 19 Nov 1956,
NM)
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Lucille Wright went through school in Oplin, Texas. She graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1934. She returned to Oplin
to teach school in 1940 (she would eventually retire as a teacher).
In 1934, Lucille married R.T. Wright, son of John B. Wright and Ora Mae Peevy Wright. They lived in Oplin until 1941. A daughter, Dixie, was born there. Later that year, R.T. and Lucille moved to Lampasas County to help on the ranch. While living there, Susan and Richard were born.
In 1946, R.T., Lucille and family moved to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico where they operated a grocery story. John was born there.
In 1949 they moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico. R.T. worked in a Potash mine and Lucille taught school there until 1975. Sarah and Cindy were born there. All the children
graduated from Carlsbad Schools and went on to colleges. Susan worked in the Extension Department of New Mexico State University. Richard and wife lived in Dallas, Texas. He has one son. John worked as
an electrical foreman for Potash Company of America at Carlsbad. He has two sons and a daughter. Sarah worked at Los Almos Atomic Laboratory. She has two sons. Cindy is finishing her Master's Degree number two in Home Economics at Pullman, Washington. She has two daughters.
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Forrest Windham was born on Windham Ranch in
Tecumseh,
CallCtyTX. Ernest passed away in
Carlsbad, NM in 1972. Forrest and Ernest are buried at
Tecumseh Cemetery,
CallCtyTX.
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Forrest and Ernest Windham lived in Oplin,
CallCtyTX where he had a drug store and post office for several years. They purchased a ranch near Mineral Wells, TX and lived there until Camp Walters Army camp included the property and they had to move. They then moved to Lampasas, TX for a few months while locating a ranch to buy. They purchased the Luther
MILLER ranch between Lometa and Adamsville, living there two years before the death of Forrest in 1942.
Here is the complete biography from I Remember Callahan County.
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From 1920 US Census for
CallCtyTX:
Name |
Est.DOB |
Age |
Rel. |
Race |
Sex |
Mar.Stat |
Birth
Place |
Father BPlace |
Mother BPlace |
Occ. |
Forest Windham |
1887 |
33 |
Self |
W |
M |
M |
TX |
TX |
TX |
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Ernestine Windham |
1892 |
28 |
Wife |
W |
F |
M |
TX |
TX |
TX |
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Lucille Windham |
1915 |
5 |
Dau |
W |
F |
S |
TX |
TX |
TX |
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ModLog:
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20 Apr 2022 |
Author's upgrade |
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Names Added to Name Index: YES
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