SC Earwood and Birdie White

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Starling Culmon Earwood was born 1 September 1897, Cobb County, Georgia and died 12 May 1968, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas.[1] He married 2 July 1921, Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma,[2] Birdie Elizabeth White, born 12 September 1903, Tennessee and died 14 May 1968, Lubbock.[3]

Culmon’s Birth and Parents

Starling Culmon Earwood was called Culmon most of his life. In many records he used his initials only and signed his name S.C. Earwood and later in life he went by Jack Earwood. Culmon was the second child and first son born to John Archie Earwood and Sarah Artimincy Sorrell, and they are named on his death certificate.[4]Born in Georgia, the family had moved to Marshall County, Alabama, by his second birthday.[5] His grandparents, Starling N & Angie Earwood, had also moved there.[6] Starling N’s brother, John Oliver, had moved to adjoining Cullman County, Alabama[7] and Culmon always said he was named for that county. When he signed his complete name, he spelled it Culmon.

The family migrated to Choctaw County, Oklahoma, when Culmon was 12–14 years old. They were living south of Hugo by the time Choctaw County took the school census on 15 January 1912.[8]

Culmon completed his World War I Draft Registration card on 12 September 1918 in Choctaw County. He was twenty-one years old and a farmer. He listed his nearest relatives, his parents, who had moved to Commerce, Hunt County, Texas, which was only about sixty-five miles southwest.[9] In 1920, he is listed in the household of Robert L. Stepp as a cropper.[10]

Birdie’s Birth and Parents

Birdie was the first child born to John Lee White and Nancy Sissom. Her parents are named on her death certificate.[11] She was also named in her father’s obituary,[12] and was in their household in the 1910 & 1920 census. She was likely born in Coffee County, Tennessee where her parents lived at the time.[13]

The White family moved from Tennessee to Leonard, Fannin County, Texas about 1914 on a train and then moved to Choctaw County, Oklahoma.[14] At the age of 15, Birdie drew two maps for a school project. One was Choctaw County and the other the state of Oklahoma.[15] She won first place for her county map in the 1918 Choctaw County Interscholastic Meet:

“CHOCTAW COUNTY INTER-
      SCHOLASTIC MEET
                  ——
  The following were the lucky con-
testants in thea nnual [sic] Choctaw coun-
ty Interscholastic meet, which took
place here on Friday and Saturdy. [sic]
…Best map of…Choc-
taw county, Birdie White, Edgewood;…”[16]

The White family lived south of Hugo and Birdie’s future husband, Starling Culmon Earwood, would pass by on his way to town according to their daughter. Culmon would cut people’s hair but he never worked at a barber shop. Before their marriage, Birdie had him cut her hair short like the style at the time.[17]

Birdie had become good friends with Culmon’s Aunt, Lillie Mae Earwood Bell, who was just a few years older than him.[18] Birdie and Lillie Mae were reported together in many social happenings.[19] Lillie Mae’s husband, Cad W. Bell, had died in 1917[20] and she married second, Richard Jackson Tate, in a double wedding ceremony on 2 July 1921 with Birdie and Culmon. Rev. M. N. McFarland, Baptist Pastor, married the two couples and his wife, Lavena, was witness along with Culmon and Richard witnessing each other’s marriages.[21]

Family Life

Culmon and Birdie moved to East Texas soon after their marriage where their five children were born. Culmon was a tenant farmer so they moved often, mostly in and around Hunt & Lamar counties. By 1930 they had three children: Gladys Marie, J.C. Russell, and Archie Lee.[22] The last two children, Ray and Margie, were born by 1940.[23] Between their births, Birdie sat up in bed one morning and her appendix burst. Culmon had gone out to milk the cow and when she sat up in bed she knew something was wrong. She sent one of the kids out to the barn to get him. He took her to the country doctor, “Dr. Clarence,” and he cut her open and found it black with infection. He cleaned it all out and then packed it with cotton and poured a gallon of alcohol in. Birdie overheard him telling the nurse to keep her comfortable till the end. When he came back in the room she said “Dr. Clarence I have you know I am not ready to die.” They did not sew her up and let it heal itself. She always had a deep scar that she could put her finger in.[24]

Culmon would kill a hog in the fall and cure it in the smoke house. At Christmas they gave the children $1 each to spend at the dime store. They opened their gifts on Christmas Eve. They had a simple tree with simple decorations of bead garland and balls, no lights. Birdie would cook chicken and dressing or roast and dressing. She always made fruit cake the week after Thanksgiving. She put them in large boxes under the bed until Christmas. Houses were colder back then and they did not spoil like they would in modern warm homes.[25]Her fruit cake recipe was from “Bewley’s Best Bakes Better” booklet that Culmon got once when he bought sacks of flour.[26]

Farming

By 1930 almost 61% of all Texas farmers were tenant farmers and a third of these were sharecroppers.[27]Culmon was a tenant farmer. It was referred to as “third and fourth.” The landlord would be paid a third of the cotton crop and a fourth of the grain crop. Culmon grew mostly cotton. He purchased his own tools, equipment, and seed. Cotton grew much taller in those days. It would be about two feet tall in East Texas. They picked the cotton out of the bolls wearing gloves so as to not cut up their hands. The cotton was taken to the gin to be separated. In west Texas cotton was not quite as tall and they stripped the boll and the gin could separate it. Culmon would keep the seed to plant the next year.

As the children grew, they all went to the fields to work. When Gladys was old enough, she was given the choice of working in the fields or staying home and doing the cooking and cleaning which she chose to do. They would hoe daily after the plants started growing to keep the weeds from choking the cotton. They would pick cotton and stuff it in the cotton sacks, over 10 feet long. Birdie made the sacks with heavy muslin. They would shake it down to get more in. There was a scale by the wagon to weigh the cotton. They would empty the sacks into the wagon. After it was full, Culmon would take it to the gin and everyone else would keep picking. Culmon usually had about 100 acres to farm. Mostly cotton, but they also grew some corn and a small patch of alfalfa for feeding the cow. The number of bales of cotton varied each year.[28]

In 1944 they produced at least three bales of cotton in Lamar County weighing 480–550 pounds each.[29] In 1946, Culmon borrowed $1696.75 and listed the collateral as:

  • McCormick Deering H Farmall tractor, planters, benders, value $2000
  • Cattle herd, valued at $750:
    • 5 jersey milch cows
    • 1 spotted jersey bull, 2 years old
    • 6 jersey heifers
  • Entire crop for 1946 consisting of
    • 150 acres in cotton
    • 50 acres in corn

They were farming on the Mary Cook Ellis and Martha J Gordan farm located 14 miles southwest of Paris, Lamar County.[30]

While mowing one day, Culmon hit a rough spot in the pasture and got thrown off the tractor. His hand landed in the mowing blade. It cut one fingertip completely off and another was hanging by skin. JC drove him to the doctor. They had heard that if a finger was buried and ants got it, you would feel it so JC went out and looked for his finger, put it in a jar and buried it.[31]

There was a severe food crisis in Europe during WWI as farms were turned into battlefields. The U.S. began a push for Americans to contribute to the war effort by planting & storing their own food so more could be exported to our allies. It was promoted through propaganda posters. These gardens reemerged during WWII as commercial crops were being diverted to the military overseas. Food rationing began in 1942 making it more important to grow your own food. By 1943, there were 18 million victory gardens in the U.S. These gardens boosted morale and showed patriotism.[32] The Earwood’s enlisted in farm war production and were given a certificate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture:[33]

JC was inducted into the Army in August 1944. He was working on the farm with his father to support the family. The government had passed “Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act of 1942” to help families that would have a hardship when a family member was inducted into the military. JC and his parents applied for the assistance. The application named the family members and their dates of birth. The family’s average monthly income was $90 and the inducted man provided approximately half of the entire support through labor, valued at $936. The application was approved and commenced on 1 December 1944, showing 75% dependency.[34]

Life in West Texas

By the early 1950s, the family had moved to rural Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. After two crop failures from locust, Culmon filed bankruptcy and the family moved to Slaton, Lubbock County, in west Texas, where he worked in the cotton gin.[35]

After the bankruptcy, Culmon started going by the name Jack Earwood. He did not legally change his name until 22 September 1966.[36] On 18 July 1959, Culmon and Birdie bought a home at 704 Walnut, in Lubbock. He began his career in gas stations there. He ran several over the years:

  • Jack Earwood Service Station on 19thSt & Quirt Ave.,[37]
  • Jack’s Service Station/Jack’s Sinclair at 2324 Avenue H,[38]
  • Earwood Fina,[39]
  • He sold out to his son, Ray, in 1965 and worked for him at Ray’s Gulf Service,[40]
  • Jack’s Gulf Service Station, 39th and Avenue A.[41]

Birdie ran a hamburger stand, “Dixie Dog,” from about 1962–1965.[42] It was located at 1018 E 34th St. in Lubbock.[43] She closed because she could not find help and was too busy to run it alone. Her deliverymen made sure they delivered at lunch time so they could eat there. She was very clean and nice to everyone and only used good meat.[44]

Death

Culmon and Birdie died in May 1968, Lubbock,[45] and are buried at Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock.[46]

Children of Culmon Earwood and Birdie White:

  1. GLADYS MARIE EARWOOD, born 3 November 1922, Commerce, Hunt County, Texas, and died 24 June 2009, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.[47] She married Lemmett Clarence Thomason, 12 November 1945, Petty, Lamar County, Texas.[48] He was born 13 October 1917, Point, Rains County, Texas,[49] and died 1 October 2001, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.[50]
  2. J.C. RUSSELL EARWOOD, born 1 December 1924, Commerce, Hunt County, Texas, and died 10 January 2019, Garland, Dallas County, Texas.[51]   
  3. ARCHIE LEE EARWOOD was born 29 January 1928, Commerce, Delta County, Texas[52] and died 21 May 2009, Crockett, Wythe County, Virginia.[53] He married first, Edna Lou Prince, 6 September 1947[54]. She was born 30 January 1930 and died 1 February 2001.[55] They divorced 26 July 1978, Denton County, Texas.[56] He second married, Mary Hall, 26 August 1984, Denton County, Texas.[57] She was born 10 July 1931, Wythe County, Virginia, and died 23 October 2012, Crockett, Wythe County, Virginia.[58]
  4. MORRIS RAY EARWOOD, born 26 February 1931, Commerce, Texas and died 27 September 2013, Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas.[59]
  5. MARJORIE RUTH EARWOOD, born 1936, Hunt County, Texas.[60]

 

[1] Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 36792 (1968), Starling Cullmon Earwood; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin. “U.S. WW II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947” images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 June 2020); card for Starling Culmon Earwood, Hunt County, Texas.

[2] Original marriage certificate, S.C. Earwood-Birdie White, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, (1921); privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina; returned to Earwood by Clerk’s Office, with notation recorded the 13 day of July 1921.

[3] Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 36819 (1968), Birdie Elizabeth Earwood; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin.

[4] Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 36792 (1968), Starling Cullmon Earwood; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin. 1900 U.S. census, Marshall County, Alabama, population schedule, Albertville, p. 46B, ED 83, sheet 21-B, dwelling 384, family 389, Archie Earwood household; citing NARA microfilm T623, roll 30.

[5] Newspapers.com, database with images, (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 7 July 2017); “Wyeth City Notes,” The Guntersville (Alabama) Democrat, 14 September 1899, n.p. , col. 3.

[6] Newspapers.com, database with images, (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 7 July 2017); “High Point,” The Guntersville (Alabama) Democrat, 25 October 1900, n.p., col. 5.

[7] 1900 U.S. census, Cullman County, Alabama, population schedule, Dagnall, ED 61, p. 4A, dwelling/family 55, John O. Earwood household; citing NARA microfilm T623, roll 12.

[8] Oklahoma, “Oklahoma, School Records, 1895–1936,” images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 19 April 2018), Mincy Earwood’s children, Choctaw County, Dist. 15, 1912–1913.

[9] “U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” digital images, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : viewed 16 December 2011), card for Starling Culmon Earwood, Local Draft Board, Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma; citing NARA microfilm M1509, imaged from FHL film 1,851,695.

[10] 1920 U.S. census, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Everidge, ED 62, page 9-A, dwelling 145, family 149, Robert L. Stepp household; image, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 June 2009), citing NARA microfilm T625, roll 1456.

[11] Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 36819 (1968), Birdie Elizabeth Earwood; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin.

[12] “John L. White, 75, Succumbs At Home Friday Morning,” obituary, The Daily Journal (Commerce, TX), 28 February 1941, p. 1. col. 6; Community History Archive of the Commerce Public Library (http://commerce.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?i=f&d=01011830-12311941&e=john%20l%20white&m=between&ord=e1&fn=daily_journal_usa_texas_commerce_19410228_english_1&df=1&dt=2 : accessed 28 May 2022).

[13] 1910 U.S. census, Coffee County, Tennessee, population schedule, ED 46, p. 3A, p. 98, dwelling/family 52, John J. L. White; citing NARA microfilm T624, roll 1494. 1920 U.S. census, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, population schedule, ED 62, p. 20, dwelling /family 29, John L. White; citing NARA microfilm T625, roll 1456.

[14] Anna Ruth (Ames) White, “John Lee White Family Genealogy,” compiled 1986; Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina. Anna Ruth White was the wife of Leonard Aubrey White. They married about nine years before Nancy’s death and may have been told the story from her.

[15] Choctaw County, Oklahoma map, and State of Oklahoma map, drawn by Birdie White, c. 1919, privately held by her daughter [address for private use,]. Photographed by Lori Cook-Folger, 22 October 2016.

[16] Newspapers.com, images (www.newspapers.com : accessed 18 April 2020); “Choctaw County Interscholastic Meet,” article, Choctaw Herald (Hugo, OK), 18 April 1918, p. 3, col. 2.

[17] Marge Earwood, daughter of Culmon & Birdie Earwood (Riverside, California), telephone interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 23 January 2019; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[18] 1900 U.S. census, Marshall County, Alabama, population schedule, Rock Springs, p. 128, Enumeration District (ED) 90, sheet 3-A, dwelling 49, family 49, Sterling Erwood household; citing National Archives microfilm T623, roll 30. Choctaw County, Oklahoma, Marriages, 2:279, C. W. Bell to Lillie May Earwood, 1910; Clerk’s Office, Hugo.

[19] For example, Newspapers.com, images (www.newspapers.com : accessed 18 April 2020); “Shoat Springs,” and “Edgewood Items,” articles, Choctaw Herald (Hugo, OK), 24 April 1919, p. 4, col. 1 & 2.

[20] Find A Grave, database with images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 8 July 2017), memorial no. 81,908,146, Cad W. Bell (1887–1917), photographed by Sydney Holt Groat; citing Goodland Cemetery, Choctaw County, Oklahoma.

[21] Choctaw County, Oklahoma, Marriage Licenses, vol. 10:265, R.J. Tate to Lilly May Bell, 2 July 1921; digital images, FamilySearch(http://www.familysearch.org : viewed 19 May 2016), imaged from FHL microfilm 2,436,465. Original marriage certificate, S.C. Earwood-Birdie White, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, (1921); privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina; returned to Earwood by Clerk’s Office, with notation recorded the 13 day of July 1921.

[22] 1930 U.S. census, Hunt County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 6, Enumeration District (ED) 33, sheet 8-A, dwelling 170, family 170, Culmon S. Earwood household; citing NARA microfilm T626, roll 2360.

[23] 1940 U.S. census, Hunt County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 6, p. 526B, Enumeration District (ED) 116-33, household 51, S.C. Wood household; citing NARA microfilm T627, roll 4072.

[24] Marge Earwood, daughter of Culmon & Birdie Earwood, conversation with Lori Cook-Folger, 29 August 2019; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[25] Marge Earwood, daughter of Culmon & Birdie Earwood, interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 11 & 23 December 2015; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[26] Irene Nevill Aby, compiler, Bewley’s Best Bakes Better (Fort Worth, Tex. : n.d.), 20. Birdie’s daughter, Gladys, kept this book after her mother’s death.

[27] Cecil Harper Jr & E Dale Odom, “Farm Tenancy,” Handbook of Texas (https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/farm-tenancy : accessed 15 April 2023).

[28] Marge Earwood, telephone interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 26 July 2017 and 30 June 2020; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[29] SC Earwood Cotton Producer’s Notes, 1945; Birdie White Papers, B1–F01, Cook-Folger Collection; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina.

[30] SC Earwood Chattel Mortgage, 1946; Birdie White Papers, B1–F02, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina.

[31] Marge Earwood, telephone interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 30 June 2020; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[32] Laura Schumm, “America’s Patriotic Victory Gardens,” History (https://www.history.com/news/americas-patriotic-victory-gardens ; accessed 5 January 2022). “Conservation,” Smithsonian In Your Classroom, Fall 2007, Smithsonian Education(http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/civic_responsibility/smithsonian_siyc_fall07.pdf : accessed 5 January 2022). Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org : accessed 5 January  2022), “Victory Garden,” rev. 21:07, 27 December 2021.

[33] Certificate of Farm War Service, 1943; Birdie White Papers, B1–F2Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina.

[34] JC Earwood, Application for family allowance, Servicemen’s dependents; Birdie White Papers, Box 1, F03, Cook-Folger Collection; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger.

[35] Marge Earwood, telephone interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 26 July 2017; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[36] Original name change, Starling Culmon Earwood to Jack Earwood, 22 September 1966, judgement no. 51767; JC Earwood Papers, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina.

[37] Newspapers.com, images (www.newspapers.com : accessed 15 April 2023); “News Briefs,” article, Lubbock (TX) Evening Journal, 30 May 1956, p. 10, col. 7.

[38] “News Briefs,” The Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche Journal, 29 November 1961, p. 1, col. 4; digital images, NewspaperArchive(http://www.newspaperarchive.com : viewed 25 May 2016). Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1960 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1960), 185 & 330, entries for Earwood; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 25 May 2016).

[39] “Thugs Loot 10 Stations,” The Lubbock (Texas) Evening Journal, 30 May 1960, p. 10, col. 7; digital images, NewspaperArchive(http://www.newspaperarchive.com : viewed 25 May 2016).

[40] Gladys & Clarence, birthday cards, 1965; Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina. The card said they had sold out to Ray. Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1965 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1965), 269, entries for Earwood.

[41] Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1967 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1967), 234, entries for Earwood. Newspapers.com, images (www.newspapers.com : accessed 15 April 2023); “7. Merchandise F. Miscellaneous,” ad, Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal, 15 April 1968, p. C9, col. 7.

[42] Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1962 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1962), 210, entries for Earwood. Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1963 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1963), 210, entries for Earwood. Hudspeth’s Lubbock (Lubbock County, Texas) City Directory, 1964 (Dallas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1964), 260, entries for Earwood.

[43] Newspapers.com, images (www.newspapers.com : accessed 15 April 2023); “Grocery Looted,” article, Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal, 6 July 1961, p. 12A, col. 4.

[44] Marge Earwood, daughter of Culmon & Birdie Earwood, telephone interview by Lori Cook-Folger, 25 May 2016; transcript privately held by interviewer, South Carolina.

[45] Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 36792 (1968), Starling Cullmon Earwood and death certificate no. 36819 (1968), Birdie Elizabeth Earwood; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin.

[46] SC & Birdie Earwood funeral program, citing service held 15 May 1968; Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, South Carolina. Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery (Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas), Culman & Birdie Earwood double marker, Garden of Prayer section, photographed by Lori Cook-Folger, 1 September 2001.

[47] Texas Department of State Health Services, death certificate no. 142-09-077505 (2009), Gladys Marie Thomason; Vital Statistics, Austin.

[48] Original marriage record, L.C. Thomason-Gladys Earwood, Lamar County, Texas, license number 745 (1945); Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, North Carolina, 2009. Returned to Thomason by Clerk’s Office, with notation “Returned and filed for record the 14 day of Nov 1945 and recorded the 15 day of Nov 1945 in Book 44 page 581.”

[49] Certified Texas birth cert. no. 193984, Lemmett Clarence Thomason, 1917, issued 1970; Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, North Carolina, 2009.

[50] City of Dallas, death certificate no. 02-07682, Lemmett Clarence Thomason, 2001; Gladys Earwood Thomason Family Collection, Cook-Folger Family Archive; privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, North Carolina, 2009.

[51] “JC Russell Earwood,” obituary, Restland Funeral Home (https://www.restlandfuneralhome.com/obituaries/JC-Earwood-1055/#!/Obituary : accessed 16 January 2019). J.C. Earwood funeral program citing services held 14 January 2019; Earwood Files, Cook-Folger Collection, privately held by Lori Cook-Folger, North Carolina, 2019.

[52] “Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932,” Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2015), birth certificate image, Earwood, 30 January 1928, no. 2262.

[53] “Obituaries, Archie L. Earwood,” Enterprise (Wytheville, Virginia), 27 May 2009, p. A3; clipping mailed to Gladys Earwood Thomason, inherited by Lori Cook-Folger, 2009, Cook-Folger Collection.

[54] “Texas, Divorce Index, 1968–2014,” index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2017), entry for AL & Edna L Earwood.

[55] Find A Grave, database and images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 June 2017), memorial no. 6,722,910, Edna Lou Prince Earwood (1930–2001), photographed by “Amy the Spirit Seeker”; citing Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

[56] “Texas, Divorce Index, 1968–2014,” index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2017), entry for AL & Edna L Earwood.

[57] “Texas, Marriage Index, 1824–2014,” index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2017), entry for Archie L. Earwood.

[58] “Mary Hall Earwood,” obituary, Highland Funeral Service (https://www.highlandfuneralservice.com : accessed 25 October 2012). Kings Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery (Crockett, Wythe County, Virginia), Archie L. & Mary H. Earwood double marker, photographed by Lori Cook-Folger, 12 April 2015.

[59] Texas Department of State Health Services, death certificate no. 142-13-133694 (2013), Morris Ray Earwood; Vital Statistics, Austin.

[60] Hunt County, Texas, birth certificate no. 81076 (1936) Sarah Maurine Earwood, p. 1 of 2 and corrected birth certificate no. 81076, issued 1945, Marjorie Ruth Earwood, p. 2 of 2; County Clerk’s Office, Commerce.

 

 

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