Charlsie Myrtle Phillips (1890 - 1982)

Born 8 Jan 1890 in Gladewater, Upshur County, Texas

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1982 at age 92 in Cherry Valley, Riverside, California

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Death

Died 8 Mar 1982 in Cherry Valley/Riverside, California. Death certificate lists name of father and mother

Burial

Burial:

Date: 11 Mar 1982

Place: Stewart Sunnyslope Cemetery, Beaumont, California. Death Certificate on file in Johnson folder.

Reference

Reference: 7

Census

Census: Gladewater, Upshur County, Texas

Date: 1900

Census: Gladewater, Upshur County, Texas

Date: 1910

Census: Gladewater, Upshur County, Texas

Date: 1920

Census:

Date: 1930

User ID

User ID: 7257DF5085FB4196B58A0F9BAB8380D9BF2D

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Date: 8 Jan 2015

Time: 10:39

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Note

Note: #NI7

Sources

1. ↑ Phillips-11439 was created by Billie Girouard through the import of Edward Doty Descendants Only Not Entire Line.ged on Jan 8, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

Notes

Note NI7Myrtle's first name has been spelled so many different ways I decided that the spelling in Granny's birthday article was probably the correct way so I settled on Charlsie. In that article it states that Ludie was christined Charlsie Louisa Haigwood so I am assuming that Myrtle was named after her mother.

Myrtle was 33 years old and had five children, the youngest 3 years old, when her husband (James Crawford) died of complications from Flu.

My daddy (James Edwin) was 16 years old when his father died and he dropped out of school and helped his mother and Uncle Ed (who was a bachelor and working in the oil fields) plant and harvest a crop of cotton. They were tennant farmers.

After Croff died, the family moved closer to Abilene and happened to move to the farm next to John Richard Stovall, (born 26 February 1875) who was a widower with three children of his own, only older. Myrtle and Mr. Stovall, as we all called him, married 12 September 1925 and they had two children, Joseph Claiborne born 15 January 1928, died 4 February 1987, and Gerald Cash born 16 March 1929 died 6 September 1950. (It was later learned upon his death that his recorded birth certificate listed his name as John Richard (after his father). He was killed in the Korean War and is buried in Abilene, Texas.

Mr. Stovall died 13 December 1942 in Big Spring, Texas, in a mental hospital. We know now that today his affliction would be Alzheimer. He married first to unknown lady who had one child, Gilley, by her previous marriage. Together Mr. Stovall and unknown lady had three children, Cameron, Florise, and Jake.

After Gerald's death in 1950 Myrtle moved to Gladewater and lived on the property of her mother 'Ludie Phillips' in a small apartment located behind the big house. She lived there with her son Joe until the death of her mother in 1955 at which time she moved to California to be near her daughter Louise (Sis) Smith and her family. She bought a mobile home located in a retirement community in Cherry Valley and lived there with two of her sons, Clifton Lewis Johnson, and Joseph Claiborne Stovall.

Another son, Altus, had property near her and helped her in many ways. Clifton had emphysema and could hardly walk across the room and Joe was just sick. Aunt Sis lived not too far away and came whenever she could to help them. Grandma Myrtle last saw her eldest son in June 1967. She was visiting them and went with them to Baton Rouge to visit Billie and had returned to Odessa and was on a bus headed back to Californis when the bus was stopped by a highway patrol and told of the death of her son Edwin. She and her two sons returned to Odessa for the funeral. Her other son, Altus, and daughter Sis, drove to Odessa for the funeral and they all left for California together. Mother only went back to California once after Edwin's death, and that was to drive Uncle Lyman out there to visit his sister. Uncle Lyman died in 1987, five years after his sister.