264. Kaye Don Owens (Paul Llewellyn Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Kaye married (1) Joanne Dennis.
They had the following children:
309 F i Marthe Owens + 310 M ii Paul Riley Owens 311 M iii Seth Llewellyn Owens 312 M iv Mathew Owens
Kaye married (2) Wilhelmina Schiessel.
265. Leroy Dee Owens (Twin) (Paul Llewellyn Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Leroy married Mary Jo Roberts.
They had the following children:
313 M i David Owens 314 M ii Douglas Owens 315 F iii Diane Owens 316 M iv Daniel Owens
267. Mary Sylvia Owens (Paul Llewellyn Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Mary married Roger Caspell Moorhead.
They had the following children:
317 M i Jeffrey Max Moorhead Jeffrey married Karen Ann Frowley on 14 Sep 1985. + 318 F ii Katherine Moorhead
269. Stanley Warren Slenning (Marguerita Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Stanley married Carla Jo Bressler on 7 Jan 1945.
They had the following children:
319 F i Lisa Marie Slenning 320 F ii Diane Slenning
270. Marvin Edgar Slenning (Marguerita Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Marvin married Yvonne (Bonnie) Jackson on 18 Jun 1966.
They had the following children:
321 M i Johnathan Anthony Slenning 322 F ii Ronnette Marie Slenning 323 M iii Daniel James Slenning 324 M iv William Oscar Slenning
271. Deetta Rae Owens (Evan Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Deetta married Norman Charles Kerr on 3 Jul 1966.
They had the following children:
+ 325 F i Tamara Rae Kerr
272. Elton Eugene Owens (Evan Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Elton married Jill Sue Philip on 14 Jul 1968 in Lewistown Mt.
They had the following children:
326 F i Wendy Jo Owens 327 F ii Jennifer Lynn Owens
273. Darla Kay Owens (Evan Owens , Sylvia Belle Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Darla married Charles Henry Jones on 20 Oct 1984 in Lewistown Mt.
They had the following children:
328 M i Adam Kyle Jones
274. Harlan Paul Barnett (Alice Mendenhall , Paul Arthur Mendenhall , Hannah Jane Blackledge , Charles Dingee , Joseph , Robert Sr. , Thomas , William )
Harlan married Marilyn Ruth Barnes on 15 Aug 1955.
They had the following children:
329 F i Kerry Barnett
276. Dora May Piper (Josephine N. "Josie" Wollam , Josiah Wollam , Margaret Blackledge , Thomas , Enoch , Thomas Jr. , Thomas , William ) was born 1 on 16 Jul 1885 in Palisades, Hitchcock, Ne. She died 2 on 4 Oct 1970 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. She was buried 3 on 7 Oct 1970 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok.
See Joe Gibson's bio.
Dora married Joseph Philander "Joe" Gibson son of Williamson Osborn Gibson Rev. and Mary Frances Glore on 16 May 1906 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. Joseph was born on 18 Mar 1862 in Old Mines, Washington, Mo. He died 1 on 8 Mar 1947 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. He was buried 2 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok.
JOE & DORA (PIPER) GIBSON
By their daughter, Betty Jo Gibson Scott, 1996
Joe Gibson was born in Old Mines, Washington County, Missouri in 1862, just at the beginning of the Civil War. He was the son of Rev. Williamson Gibson and Mary Glore. He was one of 16 children, 13 lived to adulthood. Three of the children died due to typhus. According to Joe, his father was "a red-headed, Scot-Irish, hell-fire and brimstone, circuit riding Primitive Baptist preacher." They also lived in Crawford and Oregon Counties, Missouri, until they settled near Pine, Ripley County, Missouri (after Joe had left home).
Joe left home at a young age and worked as a cowboy on the cattle drives between Texas and Kansas. He had only had two years of schooling when he left home and was 21 years old when he got the equivalent of an eighth grade education. He was a self-taught man and had a very bright, active and inquiring mind and could read, write and express himself very well. He had auburn hair and blue-green eyes and was 6' tall until a fall from an apple tree broke both legs. His legs did not heal properly and after that he was bow-legged and it also affected his walk a bit. He had a beautiful tenor voice and sang a solo in church just a few weeks before his death at age 85. He learned to read music by the old shaped note method and had a song book with the shaped notes that he sang from every evening after his bible study.
While living in Kansas in early 1893 he heard of the opening of the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma where people wanting their own land could participate in the "great land run of 1893" and if they were lucky, they would be able to stake a claim on 160 acres. He came to Oklahoma, along with Simon and Ellen (Cutter) Irey and stayed with his brother-in-law, Orville Cutter, who had secured his land in Logan County around 1889. He was elated when he got his claim and immediately set about building a dugout where he and Sarah could live until he could get a proper frame house built.
He farmed, raising wheat and other grains and large plentiful gardens. For awhile he raised broom corn and made brooms to sell. With the advent of the automobile, he was also a car dealer, working from his farm home, for awhile. He donated the northeast corner of his land so a school house could be built there. It was named Diamond School but everyone called it "Crackerbox".
It was at church that he met his second wife, Dora May Piper. She said the first thing that impressed her was his devotion to his two little girls. He was struck by her dark brown sparkling eyes and dark hair, 21 inch wiast and shyness. He was 43 when he married Dora, age 21, and they were to have 9 children, Dora's parents were John Piper and Josephine "Josie" Wollam and both were of german descent (See Chapter 10) Her mother died in childbirth when Dora was 8 years old. John then married Alice Roberts, who raised the 6 children.
Dora was a soft spoken, gentle and compassionate lady, always ready to help a neighbor, and raised a large family. I never heard her complain or talk about other people. She worked long days just like Joe. She did a lot of canning and preserving; made most of the family clothes; did nice hand work and never sat in a chair without a piece of mending in her hands.
Joe and Dora were active in the Douglas Christian Union church and after they moved to Douglas they never missed Sunday morning sunday school, church service, Sunday evening service and prayer meeting on Wednesday nights. Joe had a wonderful sense of humor and loved to play practical jokes on his family and friends. He was an avid Democrat and loved to "discuss" politics with his father-in-law, John Piper, who was only one year older than Joe and a staunch Republican. He was a hard worker and worked long days to support his harge family.
In September, 1928, they moved to a dairy farm near Covington. After nine months they moved near Hayward and ran a dairy there for a year. Then they moved to Covington where he ran a small grocery store specializing in his home butchered meat. The depression was on by this time and times were very hard. He never refused credit to anyone in need of groceries to feed their families knowing it was unlikely they would ever be able to pay. After his mother-in-law, Alice Piper, died in December, 1932, they moved to Douglas to make their home with John Piper. He immediately set about buying all the vacant lots in Douglas for back taxes, then he proceeded to clear them and plant them all in fruit and vegetables. The cellar was always full for the winter with all kinds of home grown and home canned meat, vegetables and fruit and the smoke house was full of cured beef and pork. He raised cattle, pigs, chickens, planted an orchard, and sold milk to townspeople.
He used horses to work the ground and there was a large barn, granary, pig pen, coal shed, kindling shed, chicken house, garage, and of course the outhouse, behind their house on the large lot. He had a pasture at the edge of town for the cows and horses. The horses, Dan and Fanny, eventually died at a ripe old age, and Dora thought that now he wouldn't work so hard. Much to her dismay he bought a pair of mules and kept on working as hard as ever.
Sundays were always a big day in their home and at times all six leaves were used in the table and they still needed two sittings to handle all the children and grandchildren that had come to visit. All of their social activites had to do with the school, church, community and family.
Joe did not have a child until he was 40 and then raised 10 children. I was born when he was nearly 67 years old. Mother told me that one of his prayers was that he remain healthy and able to work until I became of age. He died at the home in Douglas at the age of 85, when I was 18. I never knew him to spend one day in bed but in 1947 the barn and all of the outbuildings burned and he seemed to lose the twinkle in his eye. Soon after that he became ill and lived for only 2 weeks.
With his family gathered around his bedside his last words were "I see the light" with a look of wonderment on his face. He was a devoted family man and was respected and loved by many people. After Joe's death Dora lived in the home, with the exception of a year in Oklahoma City with her daughter and a time spent in a nursing home after she broke a hip. Her daughter, Lula, moved to Douglas to live with Dora so she could be in her own home. She died there in 1970 after a lengthy illness with her daughters at her side. She welcomed death because, after many years, she was "going to be with Joe". Joe and Dora were god-fearing, loving people and it is with gratitude and pride that I call them Mom and Dad.(My memories of my parents do not include living on the family homestead since they moved from there when I was born, so I write mostly of their later years.)
They had the following children:
330 M i John "Paul" Gibson was born on 6 Mar 1907 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. He died on 1 Aug 1969 in Garber, Garfield, Ok. He was buried on 4 Aug 1969 in Garber, Garfield, OK. John married (1) Tessie Edna Groenewald on 4 Jan 1928 in Enid, Garfield, Ok. John married (2) Beulah Mick Cunningham. John married (3) Beulah Mick Cunningham. + 331 F ii Vera "Docia" Gibson + 332 M iii William "Wayne" Gibson + 333 F iv Lula Fern Gibson 334 M v Glenn Ivan Gibson was born on 1 Dec 1913 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. He died in Dec 1913 in Douglas, Garfield, Ok. He was buried in Dec 1913 in Covington, Garfield, Ok. + 335 M vi Ralph "Don" Gibson + 336 F vii Dora Alice Gibson + 337 F viii Mary Josephine "Jobie" Gibson + 338 F ix Betty Jo Gibson
279. Earl Frederick Piper (Josephine N. "Josie" Wollam , Josiah Wollam , Margaret Blackledge , Thomas , Enoch , Thomas Jr. , Thomas , William ) was born on 15 May 1891 in Palisades, Hitchcock, Ne. He died in 1947 in Muskegon, Mi.
Earl married (1) Maude Akins daughter of George H. Akins and Elnora Jane Anderson on 19 Aug 1913 in Hastings, Mi. The marriage ended in divorce.Maude was born on 1 Jun 1893 in Ithaca, Mi. She died on 7 Feb 1927 in Muskegon, Mi.
They had the following children:
339 F i Dorothy Leigh Piper was born on 2 Dec 1914 in Muskegon, Mi. She died on 5 Dec 1914 in Muskegon, Mi. 340 M ii Leonard Piper was born on 3 May 1916 in Muskegon, Mi. He died on 19 Jun 1916 in Muskegon, Mi. 341 M iii Robert Piper was born on 19 Feb 1917 in Muskegon, Mi. He died on 19 Feb 1917 in Muskegon, Mi. 342 M iv Earl F. Piper was born on 7 Apr 1918 in Muskegon, Mi. He died on 6 Sep 1978 in Muskegon, Mi. 343 F v Vera Alice Piper was born on 5 Jul 1919 in Muskegon, Mi. She died on 28 Sep 1919 in Muskegon, Mi. 344 F vi Marguerite Ethel Piper + 345 F vii Doris Marie Piper 346 M viii Donald Lavern Piper was born on 20 Jun 1926 in Muskegon, Mi. He died on 7 Aug 1926 in Muskegon, Mi. 347 ix Infant Piper was born on 7 Feb 1927 in Muskegon, Mi. Infant died on 7 Feb 1927 in Muskegon, Mi.
Earl married (2) Edith B., Wife of Earl, Piper.
They had the following children:
348 F x Arlene Piper 349 F xi Elena Piper 350 F xii Marvel Piper
280. Joseph Lantz Piper (Josephine N. "Josie" Wollam , Josiah Wollam , Margaret Blackledge , Thomas , Enoch , Thomas Jr. , Thomas , William ) was born on 12 Apr 1893 in Palisades, Hitchcock, Ne. He died after 1954 in Keokuk, Van Buren, Ia. He was buried in Keokuk, Van Buren, Ia.
Joseph married (1) Bessie Davis on 27 Feb 1913. The marriage ended in divorce.Bessie was born in 1891. She died in 1953.
They had the following children:
351 F i Janice Piper 352 M ii Leo Leonard Piper 353 F iii Marie Piper 354 M iv Clell Eustace Piper
Joseph married (2) Ruth White on 15 Oct 1935 in Troy, Ks.