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George Wilson Wails

• Last Edited: 15 Nov 2009

• Name Variation: Wilson G. Wails
• (Child) Birth*: November 1861; Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; son of Thomas Lawrence Wails & Elizabeth Lewis
• (Groom) Marriage*: say 1883; Bride=Nancy Daisy VanZandt
• (head of family) 1900 Census*: 1 June 1900; Norman, Cleveland Co., Oklahoma; Wife=Nancy Daisy VanZandt, Daughter=Ida M. Wails¹
• (head of family) 1910 Census*: 15 April 1910; Goldsby, McClain Co., Oklahoma; Wife=Nancy Daisy VanZandt, Daughter=Ida M. Wails, Son=George E. Wails²
• (head of family) 1930 Census*: 1 April 1930; Goldsby, McClain Co., Oklahoma; Wife=Nancy Daisy VanZandt, Daughter=Ida M. Wails, son-in-law=Alton Davis Latimer, Grandson=Marvin Harris Latimer³
• (Deceased) Death*: after 1 April 1930; McClain Co., Oklahoma

Nancy Daisy VanZandt

• Last Edited: 15 Nov 2009

• (Child) Birth*: December 1869; Indiana
• (Bride) Marriage*: say 1883; Groom=George Wilson Wails
• Married Name: say 1883; Wails
• (Wife) 1900 Census: 1 June 1900; Norman, Cleveland Co., Oklahoma; head of family=George Wilson Wails¹
• (Wife) 1910 Census: 15 April 1910; Goldsby, McClain Co., Oklahoma; head of family=George Wilson Wails²
• (Wife) 1930 Census: 1 April 1930; Goldsby, McClain Co., Oklahoma; head of family=George Wilson Wails³
• (Deceased) Death*: after 1 April 1930; McClain Co., Oklahoma

George E. Wails

• Father: George Wilson Wails b. Nov 1861, d. a 1 Apr 1930
• Mother: Nancy Daisy VanZandt b. Dec 1869, d. a 1 Apr 1930

• Last Edited: 15 Nov 2009

• (Child) Birth*: 4 April 1902; McClain Co., Oklahoma¹
• (Son) 1910 Census: 15 April 1910; Goldsby, McClain Co., Oklahoma; head of family=George Wilson Wails²
• (Deceased) Death*: May 1984; Mount Juliet, Wilson Co., Tennessee¹

Mary Ann Strickland

• Father: Owen Pershing Strickland b. 31 Mar 1919, d. 10 Nov 1986
• Mother: Henrietta Harper b. s 1921, d. 5 Jan 2005

• Charts: Stewart Descendants, Strickland Descendants

• Last Edited: 5 Aug 2013

• (Child) Birth*: 18 September 1941; Hickory Flat, Chambers Co., Alabama¹
• Married Name: say 1962; Hymel
• (Deceased) Death*: 13 November 2009; Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; A former secretary for State Farm Insurance and a resident of Baton Rouge, she died at 1:10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. She was 68 and a native of Standing Rock, Ala. Visiting at Resthaven Funeral Home, 11817 Jefferson Highway, on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Visiting continues at the funeral home on Monday, Nov. 16, from 1 p.m. until religious service in the chapel at 2 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Glen Miers. Interment in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by her husband, Kerry J. Hymel; two daughters and sons-in-law, Rhonda and Gene Gregoire and Michelle and Pete Estave; a son and daughter-in-law, Jody and Teresa Hymel; a sister, Vicki Mitchell and husband Stacey; a brother, Stanley Strickland and wife Lilly; five grandchildren, Todd Gregoire, Cindi Gregoire, Ashley Estave, Austin Estave and Ashton Estave; and a great-grandchild, Scotty Thibodeaux. Preceded in death by her parents, Owen P. and Henrietta H. Strickland; and a brother, Roger Strickland. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
  [ From: Robert Bonner Sent: Nov 13, 2009 3:40 PM Adistant cousin and my emailfriend died this morning in Baton Rouge, LA.Mary Strickland Hymel was born and raised in the Standing Rock, ALcommunity. She caught a staph infection while in the hospital for a back problem. They noticed a spot on the tip of a lung and performed a biopsy which led to the infection. Except for the back pain, she was in good health until this happened. It happened real fast, all her vital organs just shut down. Robert ]²
• Burial*: 16 November 2009; Resthaven Gardens of Memory and Mausoleum, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana²

Roger Strickland

• Father: Owen Pershing Strickland b. 31 Mar 1919, d. 10 Nov 1986
• Mother: Henrietta Harper b. s 1921, d. 5 Jan 2005

• Charts: Stewart Descendants, Strickland Descendants

• Last Edited: 18 Nov 2009

• Birth*: say 1939; Hickory Flat, Chambers Co., Alabama
• (Deceased) Death*: before November 2009

Horace Ragland

• Charts: Bostick Descendants, Smith Descendants, Webber Descendants

• Last Edited: 24 Nov 2009

• Birth*: say 1920
• Marriage*: say 1980; Principal=Eloise Irene Evers
• (Deceased) Death*: before October 2009

Lucy Steed¹

• Charts: Stewart Descendants, Strickland Descendants

• Last Edited: 21 Dec 2009

• (Child) Birth*: 30 August 1920¹
• Married Name: say 1946; Strickland
• Marriage*: say 1946; Principal=James Paul Strickland Jr.
• (Deceased) Death*: 5 December 2009¹

Ardilla C. Malone¹

• Father: Burwell Malone Jr.¹ b. c 1831
• Mother: Catherine A. Merritt¹ b. c 1843

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 28 Dec 2009

• Birth*: circa 1871¹
• (Daughter) 1880 Census: 1 June 1880; Douglas Co., Georgia; head of family=Burwell Malone Jr.²

William Lafayette Malone¹

• Father: Burwell Malone Jr.¹ b. c 1831
• Mother: Catherine A. Merritt¹ b. c 1843

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 17 Jan 2010

• Birth*: circa 1873¹
• (Son) 1880 Census: 1 June 1880; Douglas Co., Georgia; head of family=Burwell Malone Jr.²
• (Groom) Marriage*: circa 1909; Georgia; Bride=Irma O. (?)
• (head of family) 1910 Census*: 15 April 1910; Douglasville, Douglas Co., Georgia; Father=Burwell Malone Jr., Mother=Catherine A. Merritt, Wife=Irma O. (?)³

Francis L. Malone¹

• Father: Burwell Malone Jr.¹ b. c 1831
• Mother: Catherine A. Merritt¹ b. c 1843

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 28 Dec 2009

• Birth*: circa 1875¹
• (Son) 1880 Census: 1 June 1880; Douglas Co., Georgia; head of family=Burwell Malone Jr.²

Hellena Malone¹

• Father: Burwell Malone Jr.¹ b. c 1831
• Mother: Catherine A. Merritt¹ b. c 1843

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 28 Dec 2009

• (Child) Birth*: circa 1878¹
• (Daughter) 1880 Census: 1 June 1880; Douglas Co., Georgia; head of family=Burwell Malone Jr.²

Eleanor Ophelia Malone¹

• Father: Burwell Malone Jr.² b. c 1831
• Mother: Catherine A. Merritt² b. c 1843

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 16 Jan 2010

• Name Variation: Elena Ophelia Malone
• Name Variation: Ellena Ophelia Malone²
• Birth*: 1881²
• Married Name: say 1902; Wright²
• Marriage*: say 1902; Principal=Judson Graves Wright²

Wilson Strickland (?) of the Texas Revolution

• Last Edited: 6 Jan 2010

• (Child) Birth*: say 1815
• Biography*: From the New York Times, 1940:
  
  OIL Long Suit
  Decided last week, just 24 days less than a year after it began, was the longest court trial
  ever held in Texas. Involving big Humble Oil & Refining Co. and 5,000 little claimants, the trial
  was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L.
  Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many
  exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake
  was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth
  $30,000,000.
  In 1838 Texas originally gave title to the land in question to an illiterate young
  Southerner named WILSON STRICKLAND, who had migrated west, presumably had fought in
  the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of
  pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of
  hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave
  trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $300 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince
  never bothered with it, either.
  When oil was discovered in 1932, nobody knew who really owned the land. In
  association with some other oil companies, Humble bought up leases based on one deed, of
  doubtful origin, which had been kicking around Texas for 40 years. The company also tracked
  down some 60 descendants of Allen Vince, paid them $300,000, gave them royalty rights. But
  Humble's lawyers were still worried about Wilson Strickland. They cut off the Vinces royalty
  payments, invited them to start a lawsuit which would settle title for once & all, advertised for
  heirs of Wilson Strickland to join in the suit.
  The advertisement produced startling results. When the trial began in Conroe, some
  5,000 people claimed to be heirs. They traced their family lines back to various different Wilson
  Stricklands who had migrated to Texas from the Southeast, tried to prove that their Wilson
  Strickland was the right one. As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on
  the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle loading shotgun, other heirlooms.
  One plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the
  rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Montgomery County pine tree. Most
  amazing witness was a Mrs. Anne Stuart Stow.. [poor copy], Strickland descendant from
  Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when
  she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible,
  described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the
  lower left hand corner of page two after he had quarreled with his father. Opposing attorneys
  tried for two days to cross question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all. One woman
  claimed that Wilson Strickland was buried in her family graveyard in New Orleans beside
  Napoleon Bonaparte and John Paul Jones.
  The jury of farmers and workmen listened to about 400 witnesses, more than 100
  depositions, (one of which took four days to read). Jury fees ($21 a week) totaled more than
  $11,000. In the course of the trial the court bailiff died; one juror became a father; two became
  grandfathers.
  Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of
  the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan. After three days they
  returned a verdict that made 5,000 people very sad, none of the litigating Stricklands was a
  descendant of the right Wlson Strickland, and the Vinces had no legal claim. Result, Humble Oil
  and its associates controlled the property, would not have to pay the claimants a cent.

Judson Graves Wright¹

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 16 Jan 2010

• (Child) Birth*: 17 February 1877^1,2
• Marriage*: say 1902; Principal=Eleanor Ophelia Malone¹
• (Resident) Residence*: 12 September 1918; Chamblee, DeKalb Co., Georgia²

Walter Leake

• Father: Mask Leake b. 1735, d. 1 Sep 1813

• Last Edited: 8 Jan 2010

• (Child) Birth*: 25 May 1762; Albemarle Co., Virginia
• Portrait*: say 1820
  

  Walter Leake
• (Deceased) Death*: 17 November 1825; Mount Salus, Hinds Co., Mississippi
• Biography*: LEAKE, Walter, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Albemarle County, Va., May 25, 1762; served in the Revolutionary War; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced; appointed by President Thomas Jefferson one of the United States judges for Mississippi Territory in 1807; moved to Hinds County, Miss., and engaged in the practice of law; upon the admission of Mississippi as a State into the Union was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from December 10, 1817, to May 15, 1820, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixteenth Congress); appointed United States marshal for the district of Mississippi in 1820; Governor of Mississippi 1821-1825; died in Mount Salus, Hinds County, Miss., November 17, 1825.

Mask Leake

• Father: Walter Leake b. 16 Jul 1695, d. 31 Oct 1757
• Mother: Judith Mask b. 14 Apr 1698, d. a 1757

• Last Edited: 25 Mar 2018

• Birth*: 1735; Virginia¹
• Death*: 1 September 1813; Albemarle Co., Virginia¹

Walter Leake

• Father: William Leake b. s 1664, d. 1713
• Mother: Mary Bostick b. s 1665, d. 1718

• Last Edited: 25 Mar 2018

• Birth*: 16 July 1695; Henrico Co., Virginia¹
• Marriage*: say 1722; Principal=Judith Mask
• Death*: 31 October 1757; Goochland Co., Virginia¹

William Leake

• Father: Walter Leake¹ b. s 1635

• Last Edited: 25 Mar 2018

• (Child) Birth*: say 1664; Nottingham, England
• Marriage*: say 1686; Principal=Mary Bostick
• Burial*: 1713; Leake Family Cemetery, Rocky Springs, Goochland Co., Virginia¹
• Death*: 1713; Goochland Co., Virginia
  

  William & Mary Bostic Leake

(?) Bostick

• Charts: Bostick Ancestry, Smith Ancestry

• Last Edited: 9 Jan 2010

• Birth*: between 1620 and 1630; England

Mary Bostick

• Father: (?) Bostick b. bt 1620 - 1630

• Last Edited: 25 Mar 2018

• Birth*: say 1665; England
• Married Name: say 1686; Leake
• Marriage*: say 1686; Principal=William Leake
• Burial*: 1718; Leake Family Cemetery, Rocky Springs, Goochland Co., Virginia
• Death*: 1718; Goochland Co., Virginia
  

  William & Mary Bostic Leake

Catherine Mozelle Wright¹

• Father: Judson Graves Wright¹ b. 17 Feb 1877
• Mother: Eleanor Ophelia Malone¹ b. 1881

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 16 Jan 2010

• (Child) Birth*: say 1924¹
• Married Name: say 1946; Howell¹
• (Bride) Marriage*: say 1946; Groom=Lucian Pate Howell¹

Lucian Pate Howell¹

• Charts: Malone Descendants

• Last Edited: 16 Jan 2010

• (Child) Birth*: 28 February 1924^1,2
• (Groom) Marriage*: say 1946; Bride=Catherine Mozelle Wright¹
• (Deceased) Death*: 30 January 2004; Gainesville, Hall Co., Georgia²