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Persoonlijke gegevens Willie Green McKeown 

• Hij is geboren op 4 augustus 1894 in the country, 4 miles north of Giddings, Lee County, Texas.Bronnen 2, 3
• Hij is gedoopt april 1949 in First Baptist Church, Orange, Texas.Bron 4
• Beroep: in Electrician.
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1900, Lee County, Texas.Bron 5
• (Medical/Physical ) in Brown eyes, brown hair.Bron 6
• (EDUC ) BET. 1909 - 1910 in Willy Branch School, Old Dime Box Road, Lee County, Texas.Bron 7
• Hij is overleden op 21 juli 1987 in Orange Memorial Hospital, Orange County, Texas, of cerebral embolism due to arteriosclerosis, hij was toen 92 jaar oud.Bronnen 8, 9

  Oorzaak: cerebral embolism, due to atrial fibrillation, due to arteriosclerosis

• Hij is begraven juli 1987 in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Orange County, Texas.
• Een kind van James Thomas McKeown en Margaret Lillian Johnson
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 23 januari 2007.

Gezin van Willie Green McKeown

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Ethel Steger.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 30 augustus 1922 te Snyder, Scurry County, Texas, hij was toen 28 jaar oud.Bron 10

Kind(eren):

1. Lillian Ruth McKeown  1925-2001 
2. (Niet openbaar)
3. (Niet openbaar)
4. Frank Lawrence McKeown  1945-1946

Notities over Willie Green McKeown

1 _MILT
2 PLAC U.S. Navy - World War I
1 _MDCL Height and weight were at age 47, listed in USA War Ration Book One issued to Willie Green McKeown.

Willie Green McKeown wrote his memoirs in the latter years of his lifeand the portions which follow have been slightly edited.
"On August 4, 1894, I was born four miles north of Giddings, Texas.I was the fourth son of Tom and Maggie McKeown. I do not remember any ofthis - just hearsay.
When I was six months old, my aunt Cora was teaching school. Shecame by our house one day and held me in her lap. The next morning, shewas broken out with measles. In about one week, I was broken out withmeasles. I was over them when my dad, mother, Fred, Wise, and Guy gotthem. They say it was sure cold. We lived about 200 yards from Grandma,so she came down and waited on the sick. She told Mother she would takeme up to her house so I would not get cold. It came a snow that night 20inches deep - the worst snow ever. Later that night, she found me socold I had already turned blue. She got me warm, and then I was allright.
We took a trip I don't remember much about. Bessie was a baby. Wecame down here someplace . . . up at Woodville to see Mama's sister. Wecame in a covered wagon. I can remember eating syrup out of a tinplate. When we got back home in Lee County, Mama gave us medicine in thesyrup. After that, I never did eat syrup again. Neither did Fred or Guy.
In 1900, Henry was born. The next morning, Mama called me in whereshe was and said, 'Here, look at your little brother.'
I cried and said, 'I don't want no little brother. I will not bethe baby boy anymore.' Lots of times after that, Mama would call me BabyBoy . . . as long as she lived, to 1940.
Later, Cora and Green Garner were married. Green was a cowboy. Hewent up the trail with cattle, and Cora would stay at Grandma's at night,and I'd go over to her house. In the daytime, I would go with her (toschool) and ride an old white horse. One day she was churning andsomething happened to her hen and little chicks. She told me to watchthe dogs. I did. One of them licked out of the top of the churn. Shecame back and said, 'I told you to watch those dogs.'
I said, 'I watched one of them lick out of the churn.' It made hermad, but when we got home, she laughted and told Pap what I said.
I started to school but did not learn much. The school was neverover six months, sometimes only four months. Cora was my teacher. Onetime me and a little Bohemian were sitting on the same bench in back ofschool. A dirt dauber was fixing his nest out of mud. He would come ina crack in the board wall. He would go up to the top of the building andwould make a fuss. It sounded like he was saying, 'Yang, yang, ya!' Wewould get to laughing. Cora came back and got after us and went back toher desk. I would not laugh anymore, but I would make the Bohemianlaugh. Cora came back and was about to switch him. I told her I madehim laugh. She said, 'You had better get your lesson, or I will getyou,' but she did not.
In November 1906, we moved to Coleman County. Pap, Wise, and I wentin a boxcar with household goods, horses, and mules. Wise and I wouldhave to stay out of sight of the train men. It took us three days andnights to get there. Mama, Fred, and the others went on passengertrain. We got there and while we were unloading, a norther came up. Bythe time we got out six miles, it was freezing. We were going to live ina tent. We got out to put it up, and it was only six feet by eightfeet. We put up one bed. I don't know where everybody slept. Most ofthe boys got in the wagon. The next morning ice was all overeverything. Pap went back to town and got a bigger tent, and we used itfrom then until February 24. Then we loaded up two covered wagons againand started back to Lee County.
When we had left Giddings, Pap had a STAR route carrying mail. Hedid not have it fixed up right for Grandpa to carry it, so Pap had tomove back. We picked cotton all that winter, but it did not get coldanymore. It took us eight days to get back. We drove two nights to getout of the black mud in Wiliamson County. It was bad one night. We hadto leave one wagon. We put four horses to one wagon and got back.
In 1907-1908, we stayed in Lee County. That fall we went back toColeman County to the cotton fields. We went in a wagon again, and ittook us 10 days to make that trip. We stayed in Coleman County 16 monthsand then back to Lee County, that time on a train.
Hazel was born in Coleman County, the rest of us in Lee County. Cavewas born in Giddings, the rest of us in the country four miles north ofGiddings.
I went to Giddings school about four months and dropped out and wentto work driving 5 yoke of oxen, grading County roads. I was 16 years oldthen. The next job was in 1911 serving the railroad that runs intoGiddings, to Hearne on the Brazos River. From the year 1912 I deliveredice up until 1918, when I went to the Navy.
In 1915 when I came to 21 years old, they gave me a chicken supper.About 50 people came out and ate chicken. That was not all we had . . .cake, pie, and other things. [Memoirs continue with descriptions of hisjobs and family moves.]

Nelda Steele reports that Willie Green McKeown and Mary Ethel Steger metas follows: The McKeowns and the Stegers were both living in Snyder,Texas, in the early 1920s. One day Emma Seale Steger was having troublemilking an uncooperative cow. She sent her daughter Mary Ethel down theroad to see if "one of the McKeown boys" could come and help her. TheMcKeown "boy" who came to help milk the cow was Willie Green. They weremarried in 1922 when she was 17 and he was 28.

After winning an election bet, Willie Green McKeown was mentioned in abrief Jacksonville, Texas, newspaper article. "Charlie Sartain,pipe-fitter for the Gulf Public Service, was a hot-headed Ferguson man,while W. G. (Bill) McKeown, a fireman, was just as strong for Sterling.One word brought on another until the men decided to settle the argumentby way of the wheel barrow route so commonly known to election bets. Theloser agreed to push the winner through the streets of Jacksonville onSaturday afternoon, August 30. Tomorrow afternoon will see Charlie, thebig 250 pound pipe-fitter, between the handles and Bill (W. G.), the 150pound fireman, getting the ride."

The following article appeared in BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE, Aug. 16, 1984:
"World War veteran W. G. McKeown, who served aboard the BattleshipUSS Minnesota, celebrated his 90th birthday with 70 relatives at theThomen Community Center.
A retired electrician who once installed telegraph lines throughthis part of the country, McKeown worked in the furnace room of thebattleship which he says hit a mine during the war."

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