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47 years ago today, January 5, 1979, Meredith Levi Wilcox died in Longview, Texas. He was born August 15, 1893 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He was the 6th of 10 children born to Jessie and Julia Ann Wilcox. He served in the United States Army during WWI and after the war was stationed in Kansas, where he me Dolores Custer. They were married in June 1918 in Sedan, Kansas and stayed in the area until they moved to Gladewater, Texas in 1930. They had 5 children, Eugene “Jean”, Wilbur, Nadine, Virginia, and Mary Lou. Meredith worked in the oil field. He was my great grandfather. Clarksburg History Museum Chautauqua County Historical and Genealogical Society

Meet Gertrude “Gertie” May Smart born today in 1877 in Kansas City, Kansas. She married Allen Wilson Custer April 17, 1898 in Chautauqua, Kansas. They had 3 children, Hester Lee (1895-1899), Raymond Jewell (1900-1973), and Dolores Emmogene (1902-1994). She contracted pneumonia and died at the age of 34 on January 17, 1911 in Delaware, Oklahoma. She was buried in Peru, Kansas where her husband joined her 21 years later. Gertie and Allen were my 2nd great grandparents.