Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Martha Amanda Allen (1911-1981)

Persönliche Daten Martha Amanda Allen 

• Sie ist geboren am 29. Juli 1911 in Catesby, Ellis Co., OK.Quelle 1
• Wohnhaft im Jahr 1920: Chickasha Ward 4, Grady, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten.Quelle 1
• Sie ist verstorben am 20. November 1981 in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma, USA, sie war 70 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Ezekiel Allen und Stella Maud Hall

Familie von Martha Amanda Allen

(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit Henry Earnest "Babe" Robertson.

Sie haben geheiratet am 16. Dezember 1929 in OK, sie war 18 Jahre alt.

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(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit (Nicht öffentlich).

Sie haben geheiratet in OK.

Notizen bei Martha Amanda Allen

-1- 'Totsy' Margaret Louise Robertson Scott's Memories of her family and her youth. 'Babe and Martha [Dad and Mom] married Dec. 16, 1929, about the time of the big market crash. Her parents [the Allen's] didn't like it and wouldn't have much to do with the new couple for a while, but soon everything was fine. Times were really bad. They lived on a rented farm west of Marlow near the Robertson home place. Babe & his Baptist preacher father shared farming equipment. Babe was the youngest of eight children, 6 boys, 2 girls. The homestead had a nice new 3 bedroom house on it because the old house had burned. Babe started buying the place he was renting. His Dad was still paying for his place. Charles, an older brother, and Cecil his wife, the only child of a well-to-do farmer, lived north of them, 3-4 miles. Jed, another brother, was employed at the Naval Base at Norman, OK. In '32, lots of Bank closings and not much money coming in to pay on the loans, caused Babe & his Dad to pool their resources to save one of the farms, the homestead. Babe's Dad died and his brother, Jed, moved back to the home place. The family agreed if Jed & his new wife, Rose, would care for their mother, who was a difficult woman to live with, he could have the home place. It ended up some 15 years or so later, that Jed and Rose moved Grandma to town and everyone helped care for her. The homeplace, now Jed's and Rose's place, was found to have a gas well!!! 'A-la-fantastique!!!' When Babe and Martha let the land go back to the bank, they moved east of Marlow, North of Highway 29 on the Tugman place in the Bray community. They farmed, -- survived. Charley started to school at Bray. Then, in Dec. of '37, with times still bad in Oklahoma, [Dust Bowl Days], they followed the Allen's west to seek their fortune, taking Grandma and Pearl with them, all seven in a Ford Pickup covered with a tarp with cardboard insulating the side boards. 'Okies goin' West!!' They, however, took lots of food from the farm, ham, canned goods, potatoes...., and Babe found a job soon after they got there, working on a farm. He made the owner, who didn't want to rent the empty farm house to an 'Okie'!!, a deal that he could keep the $25 he gave him for pay, if his labor wasn't satisfactory, to pay for the rent. The man was happy with Babe, but Babe wasn't happy. Said he could starve better in Oklahoma than Arizona, so they moved back in the Summer of '38. They lived in Marlow on the Allen place on Arapahoe & Broadway. Margaret started 1st grade at Marlow, and Charley was in the 3rd. Alma & Lee lived in a house south of the old country club, south of town. Babe and Martha lived in Marlow 'til December of '39, when they moved to Bray on a place owned by the same people the Robertson family had bought the land from west of town. Mr. Hitchcock, OKC, was the man Babe was dealing with. Mr. Hitchcock owned a big farm about 5 miles east of us. Daddy helped him a lot. Then in 194_, Hitchcock suggested we buy the place we were renting, for $5,000 for 180 acres of land and 120 acres of mineral rights, $1,000 of which must be paid one year from the time of the deal. He was doing pretty good, farming watermelons, corn, cotton, broomcorn and peanuts. Also was working a little here & there welding and carpentry work with cousin Bill Steg?. We had milk cows and some chickens and a garden. We sold cream every Saturday in Marlow when we went to town to go to the Saturday Night Movies & buy groceries. [Some interesting growing up memories]. Times were getting better, but Hitchcock didn't think Daddy would be able to pay the $1,000 coming due. Daddy bought a peanut thrasher that year, and made a $700 profit above the cost of the thrasher, and had enough savings to go with it to pay the $1,000. It was a great day for Babe when Hitchcock came to Marlow to collect, not thinking Daddy had the money. Daddy was proud as a peacock and went to Marlow to see him and take him to the bank to get his money. Mr. Hitchcock was as happy as Daddy was. Daddy later bought an old stately farm house from the Harrison family, tore it down, and built a new house, which we moved into when I was a freshman ['47]. Charley helped build. During the building, he learned to plumb & wire a house. Electricity had arrived in '46. We had had a wind charger before that , and water from a tank attached to the windmill. Daddy was ingenious in fixing things. Everyone got Daddy to wire their house for a little or nothing; also plumb them for water & put in electric water well pumps. He had 3 peanut thrashers that were keeping us afloat. Also, they started drilling in our area for oil. We had sold 20 acres of land and 20 acres of mineral rights, but leasing out 100 acres paid for part of the farm and gave the family money to do things we wanted to do. We weren't rich, but as well off as anyone else in the community. Charley graduated from High School in '48 and went to Cameron College for a semester. [I can't remember if it was before he joined the Air Force or after he got back]. He was in the Air Force 4 years & spent a tour in Germany. Mama and Daddy really missed him. Margaret graduated in '50 and worked for the Telephone Co., in Lawton for 2 years before going to college at A&M, now Oklahoma State University where she married Melford Scott. Martha Ann had married a military man [Toche], who she met at Lawton. They married in '51. Charley married in '55 to Betty. Babe and Martha, alone now, were living conservatively, well. Babe was contracting plumbing, heating and air conditioning jobs, and doing fairly well. He tried to retire when he was about 70, but his neighbors wouldn't let him. He plumbed, put in heating and AC and wiring in a new house for Margaret & Melford when he was 73. Martha made ceramics. In '70, they sold the home place for $25,000, not including the royalties, and bought 180 acres and built a new brick home 3 miles south of Bray on Duncan Lake Road. He was 66 and Mom was 60, and had diabetes. Her health gradually deteriorated and she died of a heart attack Nov. 20, 1981 at age 70. Daddy was grief stricken and was still crying over her death when he remarried Frankie Harmon of Mooreland, OK. He was happier to have someone with him. They married Feb. 7, 1983. He got cancer 1 year later and died after a 9 month war with lung cancer, on Nov. 22, 1984, age 78. Babe & Martha attended Chuch at Owens Prairie Church of Christ from 1954 on. They worked hard so they could leave a generous amount of love, money and land to their 3 children.

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