Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Wilfred (Born Isaac) Leo Allen (1904-1983)

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• Hij is geboren op 5 juli 1904 in Catesby, Ellis Co., Indian Terr..Bronnen 1, 2, 3
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1920: Chickasha Ward 4, Grady, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten.Bron 3
• op 1 april 1940: Tolleson, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.Bron 1
• in het jaar 1930: Rush Springs, Grady, Oklahoma.Bron 2
• op 1 april 1940: Tolleson, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden op 31 maart 1983 in Yuma, Yuma Co., Arizona, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Ezekiel Allen en Stella Maud Hall

Gezin van Wilfred (Born Isaac) Leo Allen

Hij is getrouwd met Vergin Murdock.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 november 1950 te Somerton, Yuma Co., AZ, hij was toen 46 jaar oud.

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Notities over Wilfred (Born Isaac) Leo Allen

-1- Allen Family History as told by Leo to his niece Totsy on November 22, 1981. [All of the following notes were transcribed from handwritten letters from Totsy, to her cousin, Charlotte Allen Cosby by Richard L. Cosby, Charlotte's husband, and self annointed Allen and Cosby family historian]. 'Leo was born in a sod house with drop shutters, but no windows, on July 5, 1904 in Ellis County, Oklahoma, 17 miles northeast of Shattuck. When they [the Allen's] first came to Ellis Co., OK, Dad had $3.25, a team of small mules, a covered wagon, a plow, and a few implements to homestead with. The $3.25 was left over from paying the filing fees on the 160 acre homestead. They didn't have a bedstead, so they piled up hay on boards in the corner of the sod house they had built themselves. He had made a deal with a cowman to look after his cattle and in return he [E.Z.] would get wire fencing for his farm. He got his own posts over in the Cedar Breaks [across the state line in Texas]. He would be gone for a week at a time to cut the posts and Mama would be there by herself except for her baby Leo. They had pretty good luck with his farming considering the times. Rats would gnaw holes in the sod house and come in; and one time, a skunk came in. Dad was a crackshot and he shot the skunk which had gone under the safe which held Mama's prized possessions. We could smell that odor in the safe for five years. Somewhere along the line, they got some turkeys that were raised to be hens. The hens raised some pullets. There was a hen sitting in a wooden barrel across the draw, and Stub [Ira] had heard talk about worrying if the hen left her nest that the eggs would ruin. Leo, 5, and Ira, 4, caught the hen off the nest and began to worry that the eggs might spoil. Without waiting to see if the hen would return, and not knowing that the hen had to get off occasionally, they proceeded to sit on the eggs themselves. You can imagine the mess. Mama cried because they had great plans for the money the turkeys would have brought. For heat and cooking, Mama took the wagon out across the pasture and picked up dry cow chips and used them for fuel. They had to be kept dry or they wouldn't burn. Five years after buying the homestead, Dad bought a frame, three-room house, and moved it onto the property. Mom raised eight children to maturity, all of whom work at being Christians, and with all the hardships, she still lived to be 94. She never knew what an electric iron was until Leo was almost a grown man. Leo bought her her first power washer after he came home from the war, in 1949. She didn't know what a refrigerator was in those days, either 'Dad was 'diggin' a well once, and while riding on a horse, came too close to the edge. Uncle Jerry, Dad's brother, was down in the well and thought they were going to fall in on him, much to Dad's delight. Mama rode a horse and put Leo behind her, and Ira in the front. 'The baby, 'Effie', was born in Noble in 1903. Leo, Ira, Ornan and Martha were born on the farm near Shattuck. Zeke was born at Grandpa Hall's house so Mom could be near Dr. P. D. Hall, her father's brother. Mama was getting in bad health due to the hard life. In 1913, Dad had a sale and sold everthing. The family then moved to Marlow in 1913. Pete was born in Marlow in 1913. 'Dad [E. Z.] went to Texas to work in the oil fields in Houston with his brother, Jerry. Dad was then hired to go to Old Mexico to drill for oil. The [Mexican] revolution was going on all around, and Dad was put in the Pokey during fighting, and no one at home know where he was. While E. Z. was in jail, the family moved out west of town [back] to grandpa's place in the latter part of 1914. When he came back with a little back pay from the oil company, Dad hired a team to move them to Chickasha. During the time he was in jail, Mama had had bronchial pneumonia, which weakened her tremendously. The family stayed in Chickasha until 1919. Dad worked at a Hardware store a little. He met Art Dale, who had a thrashing machine, which they worked together; and then they got started in the oil lease business. Dad made, or came up with, a bunch of money, drilled some wells, [some dry, two producers], in Ranger and Desdemona, Texas. He wasn't home much, because he was out in the oil patches. We 'was' making some money. We were living better than we had in the past. We had spurts of wealth interspersed with poverty.' ____________________________________________________ January 20, 1987--A little footnote or two from Totsy...... 'After reading the notes I had written three years ago, I realized the locations of the state where they lived were quite different. Shattuck is only 7 mi. from the TX/OK border on the West. Much of the land in that area is covered with mesquite; it is sandy, and if irrigated, is good farming land. It is about 75 miles north of I-40. Noble is about 5 mi. south of Norman, where the University of Oklahoma is, and about 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City. The Cedar Breaks are across the Texas border to the West.' ____________________________________________________ 'Another part of Leo's recollections'; Speaking of his sister: 'Martha was the prettiest girl in Marlow, too pretty for her own good. All the boys chased her and gave her an exalted look of herself. Zeke [Martha's brother] and Tink Townsend were friends and Tink spent all his time at the Allen house. No one knew he and Martha were going to get married. Preacher Acord [Baptist] married them without calling the family, or anything, probably because Tink had $5. Tinky managed to get into Oklahoma University.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------

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