My Great Aunts and Their Families

--b. April 25, 1897 Dawson, Navarro Co., Texas
--d. December 5, 1975 Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas
----buried Moore Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant Co., Texas
--m/1 Oliver W. OWENS
----November 1913 (divorced)
--b. April 10, 1892 Alabama
--d. July 15, 1970 VA Hospital, Dallas Co., Texas
----buried Dawson Cemetery, Navarro, Co., Texas
--m/2 Theo Jasper 'Tom' HARRIS
----December 21, 1919 Navarro Co., Texas
--b. November 1, 1892 Tennaha, Texas
--d. Decmeber 12, 1965 Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas
---buried Moore Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant Co., Texas
--m/3 Johnny PETTY
--aft 1965
--m/4 Joe McCLURE
--aft 1966

• 1900 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Jewel D., age 2
• 1910 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Lena J., age 14
• 1920 Navarro Co., Texas
  --listed as Lena, age 23
• 1930 Limestone Co., Texas
  --liste as Jewell, age 30

1. Estelle Claire Owens

   --b. March 7, 1914 Navarro Co., TX
   --d. Sept 9, 1930 TX)
   --m. Freddie SHELTON

   Estelle Owens and Freddie Shelton

   

   Taken August 30, 1930 at her grandparents, Granville and Eva (Ledbetter) Vinson

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2. Buddy Weldon Owens

   --b. March 14, 1916 Navarro Co., TX
   --d. Aug 1, 1973 Oklahoma City, OK)
   --m/1 Hazel ?
   --m/2 Lois CHANDLER
   --January 31, 1942 Los Angeles, CA
   

   Children by Tom Harris

   

3. Eva Atrail 'Totsie' Harris

   --b. October 18, 1920 Texas - )
   --m/1 Claude T. BOUNDS
   --m/2 William DAVIS
   

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4. William Ray 'Willie' Harris

   -- details withheld

--b. November 26, 1900 Coolidge, Limestone Co., Texas
--d. May 3, 1976 Grandview, Johnson Co., Texas
----buried Coolidge City Cemetery, Limestone Co., Texas
--m. Marvin Ellis KAY
----July 12, 1919 Coolidge, Limestone Co., Texas
----license bought Coriscana, Navarro Co., Texas
--b. January 27, 1891 Mauda, Alabama
--d. Septemaber 10, 1983 Grandview, Johnson Co., Texas
----buried Coolidge City Cemetery, Limestone Co., Texas
--s/o Perry Lafayette Kay
--brother to Emmons Chester Kay, Irene Vinsons' husbband

Photograph: Lillie and Ellis in 1951

• 1910 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Lillie A, age 9
• 1920 Navarro Co., Texas
  --listed as Lillie, age 19
• 1930 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Lillie, age 19
  

Lillie and Ellis (1926) and (Feb 1972)

Children by Ellis Kay

1. Clayton Ellis Kay

   --b. May 13, 1920 Limestone Co. TX
   --d. September 16, 2001 Tarrant Co., TX)
   --m. Pauline Jewel BARGER
   --March 4, 1939 Limestone Co., TX
   

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2. Ruby Genette Kay

   --b. Feb 12, 1923 Limestone Co., TX
   --d. March 1994 Tarrant Co., TX>
   --m/1 Buddy Glenn ADAMSON
   --m/2 Dalton E. KELLY

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3. Perry Lafayette 'Pat' Kay

   -- details withheld
   

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4. Peggy Joyce Kay

   -- details withheld
   

(left) Ruby in 1926 - (right) Ruby, Pat, Clayton in 1928

--b. May 27, 1911 Coolidge, Limestone Co., Texas
--d. Feburary 18, 1988 Mexia, Limestone Co., Texas
----buried Coolidge City Cemetery, Limestone Co.,Texas
--m/1 Emmons Chester KAY
----June 2, 1934 Coolidge, Limestone Co., Texas
--b. August 16, 1895 Tishomingo Co., MS
--d. September 3, 1963 VA Hospital, Temple, Bosque Co., Texas
----buried Coolidge City Cemetery, Limestone Co., Texas
----s/o Perry Lafayette Kay
----brother to Marvin Ellis Kay, Lillie Vinsons' husband
--m/2 Oscar K. ALLEN
--October 3, 1974 Limestone Co., Texas
--b. abt 1911
--d. March 27, 1992

• 1920 Navarro Co., Texas
  --listed as Irine, age 8
• 1930 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Irene, age 19

*Aunt Irene and Uncle Emmons had no children.

Photographs of Gt. Aunt Irene

Irene in 1926/27 (age abt 16)
Irene and Emmons in mid 1940's

*I got to know Aunt Irene quite well as often Daddy would go to Coolidge to get her and she would come for a week or two to visit my grandmother. I always found her a lot of fun to be around.

--b. July 15, 1914 4 miles from Coolidge, Limestone Co., TX
--d. October 11, 1943 Coriscana, Navarro Co., Texas
----buried Armour Cemetery, Coolidge, Limestone Co., Texas
--m. Connie Leon BUNCH
--September 23, 1932 Coolidge, Limestone Co., TX
--b. December 1, 1913
--d. July 11, 1992 Waco, McLennan Co., Texas
----s/o George Lee Bunch

• 1920 Navarro Co., Texas
  --listed as Lorina, age 5 6/12
• 1930 Limestone Co., Texas
  --listed as Lonna, age 16

Photographs of Gt. Aunt Tommie

1922 (age 7) - 1926 (age 12/13)

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Obituary of Tommie (Vinson) Bunch
Collidge Herald 1943
Saved in my grandmother's scrapbook

MRS. CONNIE BUNCH BURIED TUES. AFTERNOON

Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. for Mrs. Connie Bunch, who died very suddenly Monday afternoon, October 11th in a Coriscana Hospital. Rev. R.E. Briggs, assisted by the Rev. Robt. James conduted the services at the Methodist Church with internment following in the Armour cemetery under the direction of the McElroy Funeral Home.

Mrs. Bunch had been in ill health for many months past, but it was throught that she was greatly improved the past few weeks. In fact, she felt well enough to go for a visit in the home of Mr. Bunch's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Bunch, Saturday afternoon and it was at their home when she became seriously ill Saturday night. Physicians were summoned and every possible thing was done to relieve her suffering but they were unsuccessful and she was then carried to a Coriscana Hospital Sunday afternoon where her condition gradually grew worse until her death ended her suffering on Monday.

Lorena Vinson was born July 15, 1914 in Coolidge and had spent the major portion of her life in and around this city. In early life she united with the Methodist Church and since that date she had devoted much of her time to the furthering of the Christian religion. On September 24, 1932 she was united in marriage to C.L. Bunch, and to this union one daughter, Linda Jean, was born, who with her daughter survive.

Other immediate relatives include four brothers, Marcus Vinson, Aubrey Vinson, Arthur Vinson, and Arch Vinson. Four sisters were Mrs. M.E. Kay, Mrs. E.C. Kay, Mrs. T.J. Harris, and Mrs. B.R. Davis of Coriscana.

Pallbearers were R.L. Bunch, Tom Dickinson, Herman Dowdle, H.S. Brooks, W.M. Blount, and Archie Patterson.

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Tombstone of Aunt Tommie

Old Armour Cemetery, Limestone Co., TexasBR>

Armour Cemetery Entrance - Limestone Co., Texas

Children by Connie Bunch

1. Linda Jean Bunch

   -- details withheld

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