Velma A. Hefley (1902)

Born 1902 in Indian Territory, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Velma A. Hefley was born in 1902 to Columbus Hefley and Winnie Hargrove.

Marriage

She was married to 17 year old Clarence Payne on the 1920 Federal Census at the age of 17. They either divorce or she dies early because her son says that his mother is Pansy J. Payne by 1930. The 1930 U.S. Federal Census shows that Pansy is a different person. She was first married at 19 and she was born in Missouri. The confusion deepens because the sons shown on that census are C.R. Jr. 9 and Thomas Ray 8.

Child of the Payne-Hefley Marriage

Thomas Ray Payne, known as Ray, was born on 2 March 1922 in Quinton, Haskell, Oklahoma, United States. He died on 31 July 1980 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States. ^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ Texas Death Certificate
2. ↑ Find A Grave

• 1910 United States Federal Census in Brooken, Haskell, Oklahoma on 23 April. Sheet 7, lines 42 thru 48. Columbus L. is 50, born in Texas to parents born in Tennessee. He is a farmer and owns the farm free of mortgage and is able to read and write. Also here are wife Winnifred 47, born in Oklahoma to a father born in Texas and a mother born in Arkansas. She gave birth to 8 children and 6 are still living and married for 23 years. Children are son James M. 17; son Collier 15; daughter Bonnie M. 13; daughter Velma 8; daughter Ila M. (Mae) 5.
• 1920 United States Federal Census in Quinton, Pittsburg, Oklahoma on 14 January. Sheet 10B, lines 93 and 94. Payne, Clarence R. 17, born in Oklahoma to parents born in Virginia, laborer at the zinc smelter; Velma 17, wife, born in Oklahoma.
• U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index for son Thomas Ray Payne. It gives Velma and Clarence R. as the parents.