Elizabeth married L. G. Howard [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Audrey Lee Howard
2. Marva Gene Howard was born on 13 Sep 1949; died on 16 Sep 1949; was buried in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico.

Elizabeth married Joseph Wallace Pepper [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oscar married Lura Smithson on 15 Jun 1924. Lura (daughter of Joseph Chadwell Smithson and Lillie Lura Stout) was born on 20 Dec 1894 in Nocoma, Montague County, Texas; died on 24 Aug 1997 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico; was buried on 27 Aug 1997 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Lura Graves Labrier, 102, died August 24, 1997, in Clayton

Funeral services were to be held at 10.00 a.m. Wednesday this morning) August 27, at the First Baptist Church in Clayton, with Reverend Billy Rammage, pastor, officiating. Burial was to follow in Clayton Memorial Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Lonnie Roberts, Ethan Labrier, Lewis Williams, Paul Williams, Lewie Gibbs, and Paul Riley.

Honorary pallbearers were James Schrock, Pete Davis, and Buddy Lovin.

Lura was born in Nocoma, Montague County, Texas, on December 20, 1894,to Joseph Chadwell Smithson and Lillie Lura (Stout)Smithson. She was the oldest of seven children.

The family moved to Clayton,New Mexico, in 1918. Lura had a job at the First National Bank when she arrived, and later worked at Isaacs Hardware Store, the M. G. Tixier Clothing Store and as the Clayton City Clerk for two years.

Lura had been a resident of Salida del Sol Nursing Home sinceDecember, 1990. She was a homemaker, business woman, ranch woman, and could ride a horse with the best of cowgirls, She loved her yard and garden, and excelled in raising beautiful roses and other flowers. Lura furnished flowers for her church as well as sharing with friends. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, having been
saved at an early age. Lura also belonged to numerous civic organizations.

Lura was preceded in death by one son, Harold Porter McCuistion; one stepson, Robert Dee Graves, whom she raised; and by her parents, four sisters and one brother. Lura is survived by one daughter, Elizabeth "Betty" Pepper of Clayton; two step daughters, Leona Armijo of Montezuma, New Mexico, and Imogene Francis of Glendale, Arizona; one step daughter-in-law, Jo Graves of Grants, New Mexico; one brother, Malcolm Smithson of Clayton; two granddaughters. Peggy Bolivar of Plantation, Florida, and Audrey Lea Best of Norman, Oklahoma; and many step-grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Published in the "Union County Leader" Clayton, New Mexico, August 27, 1997.

Notes:

Birth:
Benjamin was born on Wednesday.

Benjamin married Rebecca McClintock on 4 Apr 1830 in Ray County, Missouri. Rebecca was born about 1814 in North Carolina; died on 24 Jul 1884 in Ray County, Missouri; was buried in Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
The 1850 census lists her age as 37, she would have to have born about 1814, not between 1814 and 1817 as stated in the original genealogy.

Joseph married Lillie Lura Stout. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
DAR records lists the date of birth as 23 Nov 1758.

Died:
He died suddenly, falling from his chair.

James married Jean Nicholson on 11 Sep 1792 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Jean (daughter of Elisha Nicholson and McLEAN) was born in Jan 1767 in Maryland; died on 1 Dec 1842 in Ray County, Missouri; was buried in Millville, Ray County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Apparently Jean Nicholson was an orphan with two brothers Elijah and Elisha.

Notes:

Married:
Elisha Nicholson is listed on the bond with Jonathan Hamilton listed as witness and Clerk of the Court.