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Descendants of John Conway - June 24, 2003

307. LENA ELIZABETH⁶ GROUND (JOHN⁵, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 16 Jul 1878 in Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX, and died 16 Jan 1942 in Wichita Falls, Wichita Co, TX. She married WILLIAM FREDERICK CLAER 16 Sep 1896 in Archer City, Archer Co, TX. He was born 01 Aug 1870, and died 15 Jun 1938 in Wichita Falls, Wichita Co, TX.

Children of LENA GROUND and WILLIAM CLAER are:

559.	i.	ALICE JOHANA⁷ CLAER, b. 24 May 1897, Bowman, TX; d. 05 Apr 1994, Longview, Gregg Co, TX; bd Burkburnett Cemetery, TX.
	ii.	ROBERT GUSTAV CLAER, b. 20 Dec 1898; d. 19 Mar 1991.
	iii.	MARGARET CLAER, b. 06 Mar 1901; d. Unknown; m. .. GREER, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	iv.	JOHNNIE W. CLAER, b. 15 Apr 1903; d. 09 Jul 1975.
	v.	RAYMOND CLAER, b. 27 Jan 1906; d. 10 Jan 1976.
	vi.	GERTRUDE CLAER, b. 24 Jul 1909; d. 28 Nov 1972; m. .. TAYLOR, Private; b. Private.
	vii.	AGNES CLAER, b. 13 Sep 1910; d. 26 Jun 1983; m. (1) .. SIMMONS, Private; b. Private; m. (2) .. RICHARDSON, Private; b. Private.
	viii.	BLANCH CLAER, b. Private; m. .. JOHNSON, Private; b. Private.

308. BERTA VIOLA⁶ GROUND (JOHN⁵, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 04 Mar 1881 in Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX, and died 02 May 1974 in Denver, CO. She married ALBERT A. PRIEBE 29 Sep 1897 in Archer City, Archer Co, TX. He was born Abt. 1875 in Minnesota, and died Unknown.

Children of BERTA GROUND and ALBERT PRIEBE are:

560.	i.	CALLIE L.⁷ PRIEBE, b. 07 Dec 1898, Archer City, Archer Co, TX; d. 01 May 1981, Wichita Falls, Wichita Co, TX; bd Crestview Memorial Park, Wichita Falls, TX.
	ii.	MABLE PRIEBE, b. 22 Feb 1901, Texas; d. Unknown; m. .. CARROLL, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	iii.	MARY PRIEBE, b. 15 Feb 1903; d. Unknown; m. .. WADLEY, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	iv.	JOHN H. LESTER PRIEBE, b. Abt. 1904, (date listed as 16 Aug 1903; believe wrong) b. Texas; d. Sep 1972, Wyoming.
	v.	CHARLES LEONARD PRIEBE, b. 05 Feb 1906, Texas; d. Jul 1984, Wyoming.
	vi.	GRACE PRIEBE, b. Private; m. (1) .. WARD, Private; b. Private; m. (2) .. MOSS, Private; b. Private.
	vii.	HARLES PRIEBE, b. Private.

309. MARY MAHALA⁶ GROUND (JOHN⁵, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 28 Feb 1898 in Archer City, Archer Co, TX, and died 08 Aug 1994 in Cordova, Walker Co, AL. She married JOHN CARL BIRCHFIELD 08 Sep 1925 in Archer City, Archer Co, TX, son of JOHN BIRCHFIELD and ROSALIE BISHOP. He was born 13 Jun 1895 in Lineville, Clay Co, AL, and died 04 Aug 1940 in Jasper, Walker Co, AL.

Notes for MARY MAHALA GROUND:
Mahala Ground attended Liberty School in Archer County, Texas, as a child. She attended Texas Normal in Denton, Texas, to become a teacher. She also took a secretarial course.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Mahala and her husband, Carl Birchfield, homesteaded land near Roswell, New Mexico. They lived there long enough to finish the claim and to own it. Mahala became pregnant with Rosemary and because the land was so hard to farm and the nearest running water was in Roswell, 50 miles away, they decided to move to Alabama to work for the Birmingham Water Works Company. Carl's father, J. D. Birchfield, owned some stock in the company. He told his son if they would come back to Alabama, he would get him a position. Carl was from Clay County, Alabama and went out west after World War I to work in the oil fields. This is where Mahala and Carl met.

Mahala joined Mt. Carmel Baptist church in Cordova, Alabama before June 1933 and taught Sunday School there for about 40 years. She was a member of the Eastern Star and received her 50 year pin in 1987.

After the death of her husband, Mahala began teaching school at the old Indian Head school building. She taught the first grade for about 18 years. She taught about 8-10 of those years at the new building.

At the time of her death, Mahala was in the Cordova Health Care home for one month. The health care home is located on the site of the old Indian Head School. She died on the spot where she spent so many of her years teaching.

Notes for JOHN CARL BIRCHFIELD:
Carl Birchfield worked as a telegraph operator as a young man and when he entered the Army during World War I, he served in the Signal Corps as a telegraph operator. After the war, Carl went to Texas and worked in the oil fields. He marrie Mahala Ground, and after a couple of years, they moved to New Mexico to homestead land.

In 1932, they moved to Dora, Alabama, and then in 1933 to Cordova, Alabama, where Carl was employed by Birmingham Water Works as the Superintendent over Cordova, Dora, and Parish water plants.

Child of MARY GROUND and JOHN BIRCHFIELD is:

561.

ROSEMARY⁷ BIRCHFIELD, b. Private.

310. ANNIE CATHERINE⁶ GROUND (JOHN⁵, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 23 Oct 1899 in Archer City, Archer Co, TX, and died 31 Jan 1998 in Res Odessa, TX 1987; d Austin, TX. She married THEODORE L. TODD 03 Nov 1929 in Wichita Falls, Wichita Co, TX. He was born 14 Jan 1893, and died 19 Dec 1968 in Odessa, Midland Co, TX.

Child of ANNIE GROUND and THEODORE TODD is:

562.

TED⁷ TODD, b. 01 Sep 1930; d. 06 Jan 1993, Austin, Travis Co, TX.

311. MINNIE⁶ MORGAN (SARAH CATHERINE⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 1879, and died 13 Nov 1978 in Arlington, TX hospital. She married JOHN A. YOUNG Unknown. He was born Abt. 1875 in Hamilton, TX, and died 13 Nov 1978 in lived in DeSoto, TX.

Children of MINNIE MORGAN and JOHN YOUNG are:

	i.		MARGARET⁷ YOUNG, b. Abt. 1900; d. Bef. 1978, res Sanger, TX; not ment in mother's obit 1978; m. .. SKIPWORTH, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	ii.		OLIN YOUNG, b. Abt. 1903; d. Unknown, res Dallas, TX 1978.
	iii.		MYRNA YOUNG, b. Abt. 1906; d. Unknown, res Arlington, TX 1978; m. .. ALLEN, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

312. HENRY LESTER⁶ GROUND (WILLIAM HARRISON⁵, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 01 Jun 1881 in "Jud" b. Texas, and died 13 Nov 1913 in Vernon, Archer Co, TX. He married LOUISE MELUGIN Unknown, daughter of SIM MELUGIN. She was born Abt. 1889 in Texas, and died Unknown.

Notes for HENRY LESTER GROUND:
The Archer Dispatch, Friday, November 21, 1913

Jud Ground was accidentally killed when a horse fell on him while he was rounding up and branding on the Waggoner ranch twenty miles southof Vernon last Saturday, November 15, 1913 and the body was interred in the cemetery here Monday afternoon. He is survived by a wife and one child.

For the past month Jud had been working for Waggoner in the vicinity of Vernon and on the fatal Saturday was assisting the other boys in rounding up and branding calves when a calf ran under his horse and threw it, the man, and the calf falling in one jumbled pile. In the fall, Jud was injured so badly that he was unconscious when the others came to him and aside from opening his eyes onec, he never showed any signs of regaining consciousness. The accident happened about two o'clock and he lived until that night. Covington of this place was working with him at the time and stayed all the time until the end.

His body was placed in a wagon and they started to Vernon with it Saturday night, but it rained so much that they had to stop and wait for daylight, arriving in Vernon about 9 a.m. Sunday morning. Arriving there the body was embalmed and prepared for shipment on the noon Denver train. Ed Turner, cowboss, and R. L. Moore, bookkeeper for the Waggoner ranch, paid all the expense incident to shipping the body to this place.

His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ground and sister, Miss Mary Ground of Lelia Lake, and Mrs. J. S. Hayter and husband of Clarendon, had been notified and came to Vernon on the Denver and finding the body ready for shipment, came on with it from Vernon to this place. J. S. Melugin, Jud's brother-in-law, met them at Whichita Falls and escorted them to this city.

Funeral services were conducted at his residence here Monday at two p.m. by Rev. J. W. Beck and the order of the Woodmen of the World. Relatives present from other places were E. H. Dodson, an uncle, of Dodsonville, Rolla Fisher, a cousin, of Wellington, J. R. Blessing, Wellington, J. M. Hayter and wife, Megargtel, John Ground and family of the north side of the county.

Mrs. Lois Ground, the widow, and little daughter, Madeline, left Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ground for their home at Lelia Lake where she will stay for some time.

Nothing that has happened in recent years has cast such a shadow of gloom ove the entire community as this sad accident. Jud was well and favorably known to almost every man in the county and his sudden demise made all the more difficult the task of losing his companionship. Perhaps all themore because of his close association with Mr. Melugin of the Dispatch force, our hearts go out in the tenderest sympathy for the bereaved wife and innocent daughter whose heart has yet to learn the sadness of the loss of a loving father.

May the choicest blessings of an all wise and ever kind Heavenly Father abide with them though this hour of sore trial and deep sorrow and guide, guard and comfort them so long as life itself shall last.

Child of HENRY GROUND and LOUISE MELUGIN is:

MADELINE⁷ GROUND, b. Private.

313. JEHU BOYETT⁶ WILDER (ANNIE ELIZABETH⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 06 Jul 1876 in Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX, and died 09 Jul 1954 in res Dallas, TX 1923; 2602 Gladstone Dr.. He married IDA MATTIE RAPE 21 Dec 1900 in Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX, daughter of WILLIAM RAPE and MARGARET BRYSON. She was born May 1880 in Dallas Co, TX, and died Unknown.

Children of JEHU WILDER and IDA RAPE are:

563.	i.		THEODORE CORNELIUS⁷ WILDER, b. Abt. 1901, Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX; d. Unknown, res Lancaster, TX.
	ii.		WILLIE ALETHA WILDER, b. 12 Feb 1903; d. 07 Feb 1949, Dallas, Dallas Co, TX; m. C. B. LEMON, Unknown; b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown.

314. BIRDIE PEARL⁶ WILDER (ANNIE ELIZABETH⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 03 Jun 1880 in Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, TX, and died 25 Dec 1970 in Houston, Harris Co, TX; bd. Houston, TX. She married THOMAS HOLLY WEAVER 03 Jun 1903 in Lufkin, Angelina Co, TX, son of WILLIAM WEAVER and AMANDA HAWKINS. He was born 29 Jun 1869 in Woodville, Tyler Co, TX, and died 12 Jun 1958 in Houston, Harris Co, TX; bd. Jonesville Cemetery, nr Huntington, Angelina Co, TX.

Children of BIRDIE WILDER and THOMAS WEAVER are:

564.	i.	WAYNE⁷ WEAVER, b. 05 Mar 1905, Lufkin, Angelina Co, TX; d. 29 Oct 1954, Houston, Harris Co, TX.
	ii.	INFANT WEAVER, b. Private.
	iii.	THEODORE JACKSON WEAVER, b. Private; m. LUCILLE EDDINGS, Private; b. Private.
	iv.	ANNIE LAURIE WEAVER, b. 29 Feb 1916, Alto, Cherokee Co, TX; d. Unknown, unmarried.
	v.	HOLLY MAXINE WEAVER, b. Private; m. OSCAR BUNYAN WILLIAMSON, Private; b. Private.

315. THEODORE CORNELIUS⁶ WILDER, JR. (ANNIE ELIZABETH⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 09 Oct 1882 in Hamilton, TX, and died 17 Oct 1952 in Beaumont, TX. He married VIRGINIA AHERNS 20 Mar 1912 in New Orleans, LA. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown.

Child of THEODORE WILDER and VIRGINIA AHERNS is:

VIRGINIA AHERNS⁷ WILDER, b. Private.

316. ANNIE ATWOOD⁶ WILDER (ANNIE ELIZABETH⁵ GROUND, ROBERT⁴, RHODA CONWAY³ LONG, MARY² CONWAY, JOHN¹) was born 25 Jul 1889 in Joaquin, Shelby Co, TX, and died Bet. 1982 - 1983 in res Abilene, 1944. She married ROBERT M. MEANS 28 Jun 1916 in Andrews, Andrews Co, TX. He was born Unknown, and died Unknown.

Children of ANNIE WILDER and ROBERT MEANS are:

	i.	MARJORIE ANN⁷ MEANS, b. Private; m. J. B. BOLES, Private; b. Private.
565.	ii.	MARY BOB MEANS, b. Private.
	iii.	INFANT MEANS, b. Private.

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