Alonso Melton was born on the 22nd of March 1887 in Arkansas. He was the son of John P. Melton and Mary Frances Russ.
Lonnie married May Ragsdale in 1906.[1] They homesteaded a farm in Van Buren County, Arkansas. Two boys Harve and Cecil completed the family. When the government built a dam flooding the farm, they moved to a farm outside Shirley, Arkansas.
Lonnie died from pneumonia in 1911. He is buried at Bradford Cemetery in Shirley, Arkansas.[2]
Research Notes
"Lonnie signed his X and his mother signed his full name. Lonie changed his name from Alonzo to Lonie by the time he got married. The name Lonie has been misspelled in the Census records. Harve and Cecil were both born in a log cabin in Choctaw, Ark. Grandma Mae kept a large, framed picture of Lonnie, above her bed, that she gave to me. I have had it put on a CD, had small pic's made up. It will be passed on to my children.
Sources
↑ "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NM2Y-GJW : 17 October 2017), Lonie Melton and May Ragsdale, 01 Mar 1906; citing , Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 2,131,955.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XD-3ZC : accessed 12 July 2018), Alonso K Melton in household of John P Melton, Holly & Union Townships, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 142, sheet 2A, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,078
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKK7-K51 : accessed 12 July 2018), Lonnie K Melton, Red River, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 126, sheet 7B, family 121, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 66; FHL microfilm 1,374,079.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lonnie by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Richard Melton :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #B655789 +
Y-Chromosome Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-BY159358, FTDNA kit #B655789
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lonnie: