I've decided here on out to post information by families with the oldest member I can find listed first. It's not just the Smalley family but many when it is useful to view the things they have done in a bigger context seeing how they were raised or what happened to them growing up.
WILLIAM
D. SMALLEY
William
D Smalley was born November 1859 in Macoupin, Illinois to William C.
and Virginia (Hilyard) Smalley.
I found
a lot of census on this family in various forms.
We know
William's father died when he was four.
1860
Census is listed in Township, Illinois when William D is one. His
father is William born in in New Jersey and he is 32 and a farmer
with a Personal estate of 185 which is not much even in those days!
Virginia is 28, Resin is 9, Jane 7, Silas 5, Leonard 4.
1870
Census listed in Township Illinois. William is 11. His mother is
listed but not his father (he died in 1864). Children Leonard 6,
Lizzie 13 and Weston 6 are listed. Their personal Estate value:
$309.00
There is
an 1880 Census but I'm not certain it is our William. There
are things that point in the direction this is him ….but it lists
his mother as Christine. We know many reasons why it would go from
Virginia to Christine (step mother) but I'm not sure.
I do
have the death certificate for W D Smalley and his father is not
listed but his mother is listed as Christine Barth (maiden name). It
also lists him as divorced.
We see
that he married Tennessee “Tennie” Pipkins (1861-1936) August
16, 1880 in Brazos, Texas when he is 20 and she is 18.
They had
two children Edward Dekerd (1881-1929) and Jessie Christine
(1885-1975).
By April
15, 1897 we find Tennie married to James Redden Mattox
according to marriage records.
She
shows up in 1900 Census in Seminole Nation, Indian Territory
which lists JR (67), Tennessee (37), Bell (all Mattox except Jessie
Smalley) who is 16, Charles (15), Elmer (13) and Jessie Smalley (15).
Family
history shows Jessie did not like her stepdad so she left home we
were told when she was 13 but the 1900 census shows her as in the
home and 15. She went to live with the Dunway family which had 17
children and she cooked for them. When she was 17 she married.
The 1910
Census the Mattox family is listed in Norman Oklahoma - James (57)
and Tennie (48).
1920
Census again in Norman with James (67) and Tennie (57). The Census
says Tennie's parents were both born in Tennessee.
By 1930
Tennie (69) lives with Cecil Smalley 22, Laura Smalley 50 and Billie
Smalley 21. The men are farmers and it says Tennie's first married
when was 18. Why do some census collect more information than others?
What a shame.
We were
lucky to find a picture of Tennie and James with a horse names Sealam
taken in
There is
also a picture of two couples one of them Tennie and James.
All of
the census are listed on Ancestry.com if you want to see them.
Jessie
Christine Smalley
Jessie
was born April 27, 1885 in Franklin, Texas to William and Tennessee
“Tennie” (Pipkins) Smalley.
She
shows up in 1900 Census in Seminole Nation, Indian Territory
which lists JR (67), Tennessee (37), Bell (all Mattox except Jessie
Smalley) who is 16, Charles (15), Elmer (13) and Jessie Smalley (15).
The census shows she had had no schooling but can read and write.
Family
history shows Jessie did not like her stepdad so she left home we
were told when she was 13 but the 1900 census shows her as in the
home and 15. She went to live with the Dunway family which had 17
children and she cooked for them. When she was 17 she married.
She had
Phillip Orval Littleton Dec 9, 1903-1959 with Otis
Littleton. Then Una
Mae Stringer was born in 1906-1912 and Delbert
Elloid Stringer was born Dec 18,1909-1998 to Joseph Daniel Stringer.
But by April 23, 1911 Jessie gave birth to Otha Littleton and went on
to have a total of eight children with Otis Littleton. Once she left
Joe Stringer she left her two children of his with him and they did
not reconnect until Delbert was 50 …...and at first she denied him.
I, as Delbert's granddaughter, had a hard time understanding that at
all. Now that I've done the genealogy of the family I see that tough
decisions were made and you never know what you will do. Her family
history did not prepare her for so much of what happened to her. I'm
told she actually was a nice lady and that her children and
grandchildren love her. My grandfather spent his life wishing to find
his mother and once he did and she finally accepted him it made him
very happy so that says a lot.
In
the 1920 Census the
Littleton family is in Kirk, Oklahoma. Otis is listed as 46, Jessie
33, Orval 16, Otha 8, Ethel 6 and Jessie is 2. Otis is a farmer
1930
Census the family is in Garvin, Oklahoma. Otis is 56, Jessie 44,
Jessie 12, Edna 9, Esta 7, Liona 5 and Oscar 3.
1933
records the family in Fort Worth, Texas.
1940
Census in Willis, Oklahoma. Otis is 56, Jessie 55, Esther 17, Leona
14 and Oscar 13.
Her
husband passes away when she is 59.
Jesse
Smalley told her daughter, Leona Wallace, that she was part German
and during the war reminded her to keep this a secret. Jesse
could recite the Lord's prayer in German.
Children
of Mother Jessie Littleton
Phillip
Orval Littleton Dec 9, 1903-1959, UnaMae Stringer (also listed as
Mabel) 1906-1912,
Delbert
Elloid Stringer Dec 18, 1909-1998, Otha Littleton April 23, 1911,
Ethel Littleton April 2, 1913, Jessie M Littleton Jan 18,1918-1990,
Edna Mae Littleton Aug 28, 1920-2010, Esther Lorene Littleton Dec
6, 1922-2015, Leona Janice Littleton Aug 8, 1925-2019, Oscar
Clifford “Tom” Littleton Dec 22, 1926-1999
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