Lewis Arthur Coble (1895 - 1967)

Born 13 Dec 1895 in Hyannis, Grant, Nebraska, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Gladys Marie (Minard) Coble — married 7 Mar 1921 in Johnstown, Brown, Nebraska, United States

Died 6 Mar 1967 at age 71 in Valentine, Cherry, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

Lewis Arthur Coble was born on December 13, 1895, in Hyannis, Grant, Nebraska, United States. His parents were Arthur V. Coble and Maude O. Davis. ^[1][2]

Lewis moved from Hyannis, Grant, Nebraska to an area south of Johnstown, Brown, Nebraska (Dewey Lake, Loup & Pleasant Hill Precincts) by 1900. His siblings living during that time were Dwight and Reuben. ^[1][2]

After his parents divorced in 1909, he moved with his mother and daughter (Agnes) into Johnstown. His mother married Clyde Ashworth, where they owned and operated the local hotel.^[1].

On October 6, 1917, Lewis went into the Army, serving in the Veterinary Corps. During this time, he was stationed in Kansas and Virginia. He travelled by ship to France with a load of horses and mules, but shortly after he arrived there, WWI was over and he returned to the United States., where he received his discharge on August 20, 1919, and returned to Johnstown. There, [he met] Gladys Marie (Minard) Johns, who was working at the hotel. ^[1]. Lewis adopts, Gladys' previous children, Clyde Johns and his older brother Lewis,

Needing a vocation, he attended the Sweeney Automobile Mechanics school in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. On March 7, 1921, he and Gladys were married in Marysville, Nodaway, Missouri. They made their home in Johnstown, where Lewis found employment as a garage mechanic. In addition to the two kids his wife had from a previous marriage (Lewis Levi Johns b.1818 and Clyde Vance Johns, b. 1919), in the ensuing years, three more sons were born: ^[1].

• 3) Adelbert Demar Coble, b. August 17, 1921
• 4) Alvin Keith Coble, b. October 7, 1923
• 5) Donald Eugene Coble, b. March 16, 1926

In the late 1920s, Lewis's mother and stepfather, Maude and Clyde Ashworth went to California to visit [his sister] Agnes Coble and family. They took their son, Clyde (called "Clydie") with them. They liked California, and so decided to stay. Clyde grew up with the Ashworths. They couldn't afford to bring him back to Nebraska, and neither could Lewis and Gladys, so he remained in California. They never saw the child again ^[1]. (And even by the publishing of the Coble Bible in 1995, his whereabouts were still unknown).

In the fall of 1926, Lewis and his family moved to Wood Lake, Brown, Nebraska, where Lewis worked as a mechanic for Dick Kirkman. There, they lived in a small house next to the garage, on the second block of Main Street. In June 14, 1928, the sixth child joined the family---Thomas Arthur Coble. Thomas was born with eczema, and needed far more care than the other children ^[1].

In the 1940s, Lewis and the family lived at several different addresses in Wood Lake. They first moved to a house several doors to the north known as the Provost House, and later they moved to a house in the west part of town (the Krampert House). In 1946, they bought the Hamaker House in the northern part of town, where Lewis and Gladys lived at for the rest of their lives ^[1].

Also during the 1940s, Lewis went into the garage business for himself, and remained in the business for the next 20 or so years. His failing health forced him to retire in 1965. He suffered several severe heart attacks and was taken to the Vets hospital in Lincoln, where his wife spent five long months at her husband's bedside. In February 1967, Lewis was brought back to the hospital in Valentine (in Cherry County), where he died, on March 6, 1967, of heart failure. He is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery at Wood Lake, Brown, Nebraska, USA. ^[1][3]

Obituary: ^[1]

• "Lewis Arthur Coble was born December 18, 1895, in Hyannis, Neb. and died at the Sandhills General Hospital in Valentine on March 6, 1967, at the age of 71 years. He was the son of A.V. and Maude Coble. "

• "He is survived by his wife, Gladys; five sons, Lewis of Phoenix, Ariz., Adelbert of Valentine, Neb., Keith of Bassett, Neb., Donald of Norfolk, Neb., and Thomas, who is serving with the armed forces in Vietnam. He also leaves 14 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, one brother, Dwight of Lincoln, Neb., and one sister, Agnes Hammond of Monterey, Calif."

• "He was a veteran of World War I, a member of World War I Barracks 1734 and a member of the American Legion Ralph A. Piper Post No. 202 of Wood Lake. He was a member of the Union Church in Wood Lake."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} The Coble Family History|Coble: A pictorial story of the Coble Family as compiled by Elsie Coble, date 1995. A copy currently in possession of Michael Hammond. Includes Coble Family History, plus names, birth, and death dates of family members from 1406 to 2001. Pages 3,5, 7-10.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3BG-J37 : accessed 2 October 2018), Lewis Coble in household of Arthur V Coble, Dewey Lake, Loup & Pleasant Hill Precincts, Cherry, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43, sheet 1A, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,919.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV2-2GXV : 13 December 2015), Lewis Arthur Coble, 1967; Burial, Wood Lake, Cherry, Nebraska, United States of America, Mount Hope Cemetery; citing record ID 21472785, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.