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Descendants of Habeeb Bayoud

Generation No. 2

2. COL. SOLOMON HABEEB² BAYOUTH (HABEEB¹ BAYOUD) was born Jul 02, 1888 in Jedeidet Marjeyoun, Lebanon, and died Dec 08, 1954 in Tulsa, OK. He married (1) ALIHA BAYOUTH Dec 26, 1909 in Wichita, KS, daughter of EID BAYOUD and SEEDA. She was born Apr 08, 1892 in Lebanon, and died Nov 27, 1924 in Collinsville, OK. He married (2) SALWA ANDEEL Abt. 1926, daughter of ABDULLAH ANDEEL and NAZHA HORANEY. She was born Sep 05, 1905 in Jedeidet Marjeyoun, Lebanon, and died Aug 13, 1984 in Tulsa, Ok.

Notes for COL. SOLOMON HABEEB BAYOUTH:
SOLOMON HABEEB BAYOUTH (Excerpts from a 1998 interview of Kaline (Kay) M. Bayouth by the Tulsa World Newspaper)
Solomon `Sol` H. Bayouth was about 14 when he came to America to seek his fortune and ultimately established a small empire of dry good stores throughout Northeast Oklahoma.
When Sol Bayouth arrived in America in 1903, he went directly to Wichita, Kan. where an uncle was in the wholesale dry goods business. The uncle `loaded a suitcase with merchandise and strapped it to my father's back and sent him out to sell,` said K.M. `Kay` Bayouth, Sr. -- the second generation to operate the Collinsville Bayouth store. The young salesman traveled south into Indian Territory, going from farmhouse to farmhouse on foot. He found such success within seven months that he was able to buy a hard-covered wagon and team of horses. He established a sales route between Wichita and Oklahoma City, replenishing his stock at both ends from wholesalers, Kay said. 1905 was the year Sol first began peddling in the Collinsville area, recalling in an old newspaper article that, `most of the people lived in log houses and had plenty of corn bread and molasses.` It would be slightly more than a decade before he opened a store in Collinsville.
His first store was in Aline near Enid in western Oklahoma. `That was in about 1911,` said Kay, adding, `I was born there in 1913.` Kay said his father not only came to America because it was a prosperous nation, but followed the best prosperity he could find after arriving. `He went to Aline because that was wheat country and wheat meant money.`
Later, hearing about even more prosperity in the northeast Oklahoma oil fields, Sol closed up shop and moved his family to Oilton, opening his second store in the midst of the 1915 oil boom. An oil well fire forced Sol from Oilton, said Kay. `The fire burned an entire block full of businesses to the ground. He had nothing left. He was totally wiped out without a penny to his name.`
Again following prosperity, Sol packed up his family and headed to Collinsville, where he heard the world's two largest smelters operated. `He didn't have a penny, but managed to open a little store and talked some dry good wholesalers into advancing him some merchandise based on his good reputation. They knew him as an honest businessman,` explained Kay. That was in 1916 and it wasn't long after he arrived that he arranged for a loan from H.E. Huland (president of the local bank).
Sol's wife Aliha, who bore him seven children, died a decade after he became a Collinsville merchant. They had married in 1910 in Wichita, Ks. His father was broken hearted, said Kay. `He packed us kids up and took us back to Lebanon. We stayed there 18 months and those of us old enough went to school. He did not go back to marry, but met Salwa Andeel there and married her. She was the greatest mother anyone could have. She raised us kids and gave us four more siblings,`
said Kay, who was nine years old when the trip to Lebanon was made. The youngest of the original seven children was just a baby then, Kay recalled. Kay's older sister, Louise, helped Sol raise the younger children until he remarried.
The Collinsville store remained open during the nearly two years of Sol's absence. He had turned operations over to his brother Sam. Some time after returning, Sol purchased the two-story Lee building next door to his then existing business Bayouth's has operated from that location at the corner of 11th and Main streets since.
The elder Bayouth set the pace for civic involvement for the rest of the family members who eventually operated stores in various other northeast Oklahoma cities. He served as president of the Collinsville Chamber ofCommerce and the local Eagle Lodge and was treasurer of the Masonic lodge for more than three decades. He also was Noble Grand of the Odd Fellow Lodge four term. In addition to many other civic accomplishments, Sol was the promoter and financier of the Collinsville veterans building. During World War II, Sol was chairman of several war drives such as gathering scrap iron, U.S.O., Red Cross and War Bond sales. `He did it all . He was the biggest promoter of the country and the war effort and he made sure Collinsville was always the first to go over the top on any of the war effort drives,` recalls Kay.
Kay did not begin working for his father until after high school graduation. He was too busy with academics andathletics. `I lettered in football and basketball four years, baseball three years and track two years.` He especially loved football and basketball. `I started every game and never missed one.` His school football career spanned six years, not because he spent six years in high school, but because `I was good enough to play on the high school team when I was younger even though I really wasn't supposed to.` The smallest player on the team, Kay played guard much of the time and was the team's starting quarterback his final two years. He was not alone in his love of sports. `We all played sports,` he said of his brothers. That love of athletics by the entire Bayouth family remains evident today. Over the years, all Bayouth stores were the central gathering spots for high school coaches, players and any other sports enthusiasts.
His working days in the Collinsville Bayouth store began right after high school graduation in 1934.
Kay didn't get to go to college. That was during the Depression and it was very difficult, he said, for Sol to keep the business going. `There were days he'd sit in the store all day long without a single customer coming in. No one had any money. He traded with farmers for chickens, pecans, milk and other food to keep us going.` Sol was never a quitter. He kept going after the Oilton fire and when sales were few and far between during the Depression and throughout other rough times because, Kay said, `he loved the dry goods business. That was his life. It just kept him going.`
Kay worked in the store right up to the time he shipped out for Europe with the 45th Division, 160th Field Artillery of the Oklahoma National Guard. When Kay returned home to Collinsville, he assumed operation of the Collinsville store from Sol, who wanted to retire. `He retired, turned the business over to me, but he continued to hang around the store. It was just part of him.`
Sol continued to be a key figure in Collinsville and very healthy and strong, said Kay, until his death at 68 in a 1954 car accident in Tulsa.
`We've all been married to these stores,` he said of many Bayouths who have grown up in a Bayouth's Department Store. `It's been our entire lives. And, it's been wonderful. I've loved every minute. `Thanks to all the wonderful people who have worked for us and those who have been our customers and friends. We love you.`

More About COL. SOLOMON HABEEB BAYOUTH:
Burial: Dec 1954, Collinsville , OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary)

More About ALIHA BAYOUTH:
Burial: Collinsville, OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary)

More About SOLOMON BAYOUTH and ALIHA BAYOUTH:
Marriage: Dec 26, 1909, Wichita, KS

More About SALWA ANDEEL:
Burial: Collinsville, OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary)

More About SOLOMON BAYOUTH and SALWA ANDEEL:
Marriage: Abt. 1926

Children of SOLOMON BAYOUTH and ALIHA BAYOUTH are:

5.	i.	WILLIAM("BILL") SOLOMON³ BAYOUTH, SR., b. Nov 16, 1910; d. Jan 29, 1983, Tulsa, OK.
6.	ii.	LOUISE ("LOU") HELEN BAYOUTH, b. Feb 26, 1912, Amorita, OK; d. Aug 10, 1987, Tulsa , OK.
7.	iii.	KALINE ("KAY") BAYOUTH, b. Aug 16, 1913, Aline, OK; d. Apr 25, 2006, Collinsvile, OK.
	iv.	JAMILE BAYOUTH, b. Dec 10, 1914, Aline, OK; d. Mar 05, 1915, Aline, OK.
8.	v.	ABRAHAM("BUS") BAYOUTH, b. Jan 25, 1916, Oilton, OK.
9.	vi.	INEZ ISABELLE BAYOUTH, b. Mar 08, 1918, Collinsville, OK; d. Jul 27, 2003, Tulsa, OK.
10.	vii.	JUANITA("NITA") ELIZABETH BAYOUTH, b. Dec 12, 1919, Collinsville, OK; d. Feb 02, 2003, Tulsa, OK.
11.	viii.	EDWARD("EDDIE") SOLOMON BAYOUTH, SR., b. Apr 27, 1921, Collinsville, OK.

Children of SOLOMON BAYOUTH and SALWA ANDEEL are:

12.	ix.	EMILE SOLOMON³ BAYOUTH, b. Oct 20, 1926, Collinsville, OK.
13.	x.	DELORES ("DEE") BAYOUTH, b. Jul 10, 1929, Collinsville, OK.
14.	xi.	JOANN BAYOUTH, b. Jul 27, 1931, Collinsville, OK.
15.	xii.	RALPH("TEX") BAYOUTH, b. Jul 22, 1937, Wellington, TX.

3. SALEM ("SAM")² BAYOUTH (HABEEB¹ BAYOUD) was born 1890 in Jordan, and died 1975 in Tulsa, OK. He married HAFITHA ("ANNA") KENEMY. She died 1969 in Collinsville, OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary).

More About SALEM ("SAM") BAYOUTH:
Burial: Collinsville, OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary)

Children of SALEM BAYOUTH and HAFITHA KENEMY are:

16.	i.	KAMEL ("KAY") SAM³ BAYOUTH, b. May 08, 1913, Wichita, KS; d. Dec 07, 1973, San Francisco, CA.
17.	ii.	ISSAC ("IKE") BAYOUTH, b. Nov 02, 1914, Oilton, OK; d. Feb 11, 1989, Tulsa, OK.
	iii.	FRED BAYOUTH, b. Aug 23, 1916.
	iv.	JIM J. BAYOUTH, b. Sep 14, 1918; d. Jan 21, 1986.
18.	v.	HARRY HENRY BAYOUTH, b. Apr 01, 1920, Oilton, OK; d. Sep 11, 2001, Tulsa, OK.
19.	vi.	ZACK BAYOUTH, b. May 10, 1922, Oilton, OK; d. Jul 03, 1970, Muskogee, OK.
	vii.	JERRY BAYOUTH, b. Sep 11, 1923.
20.	viii.	WEDAD BAYOUTH, b. Nov 14, 1926, Collinsville, OK.
21.	ix.	BUSTER ("BUSS") SAM BAYOUTH, b. Nov 03, 1927, Collinsville, OK.
22.	x.	MARY JUNE BAYOUTH, b. Jun 04, 1929, Oilton, OK; d. Dec 21, 1993, Tulsa, OK.
23.	xi.	NORMA LEE BAYOUTH, b. Aug 17, 1931, Tulsa, OK.

4. GEORGE H.² BAYOUTH (HABEEB¹ BAYOUD) was born in Jedeidet Marjeyoun, Lebanon, and died in Tulsa, OK. He married DOROTHY ALTON Jul 09, 1917 in Tulsa OK.

More About GEORGE H. BAYOUTH:
Burial: Collinsville, OK (Ridgelawn Cemetary)

More About GEORGE BAYOUTH and DOROTHY ALTON:
Marriage: Jul 09, 1917, Tulsa OK

Child of GEORGE BAYOUTH and DOROTHY ALTON is:

ALFRED³ BAYOUTH, b. Pawhuska, OK.

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