Arthur worked as a stage electrician and belonged to the Sapulpa stage electricians’ union. His obituary reports that he had lived in Tulsa and Sapulpa for about thirty years.

He died at his Tulsa home on 31 January 1951, aged fifty. The Sapulpa Daily Herald of 2 February 1951 names his brother Lester of Los Angeles and his aunt, Mrs. J. D. Guthrie of Sapulpa, among the surviving family. That aunt was Eva Viola Guthrie, Elmer’s sister and the wife of James Daniel Guthrie.

Arthur’s remains were returned to Butler County, Pennsylvania, for burial. He was unmarried, and no children are known.

Lester spent part of his childhood in Sapulpa and later became a draftsman. On 17 August 1928, while living in Missouri, he married Lela “Winifred” Johnson.

They settled in Tulsa, where a daughter was born in 1931 and a son in 1932. By 1938 the family had moved to Los Angeles County, California, where the family’s census research continues to place them in 1940 and 1950.

Lester died on 23 August 1970. Winifred died on 27 December 1988. Both are reported buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

Children: One daughter and one son.

Known as Fannie, Frances was nine when her mother died. She lived in Butler County and married Wilson S. Watterson on 11 February 1927.

Wilson worked as a coal miner during the early years of their marriage and was employed at a steel mill by 1950. Their family included six children: a child stillborn on 21 December 1927, a daughter born in 1930, two sons born in 1932, and two sons born in 1935.

The stillborn child appears as “Baby Patterson” in the family account; the original record is needed to resolve that surname. The shared birth years of the later sons do not, by themselves, establish that they were twins.

Frances died in October 1984. Wilson died in 1988.

Warren left the family home before 1930 and worked as a private-family chauffeur. Between 1930 and 1940, he married Eleanor Rivers. By 1940 he was working as a mechanic in a service garage.

The family’s military research records U.S. Army service beginning 28 March 1944, foreign service from 16 April to 23 October 1945, and separation from active service at Indiantown Gap on 28 October 1945.

His application for veterans’ compensation, dated 14 February 1950, names Eleanor R. Hutchison of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, as his beneficiary. Eleanor died in Darlington, Beaver County, on 1 January 1960, aged fifty-one; the family account reports breast cancer.

Warren later moved to Florida, where his father and stepmother had settled. He died on 23 August 1982, with his residence recorded as Ormond Beach, Volusia County. No children are reported.

Bertha was four when Ida died. Her father’s marriage to Rosa the following year brought a stepmother into the household during Bertha’s early childhood.

By 1929 she had moved to Cleveland, Ohio. On 30 November 1929, she married a machinist of the Tagg family. Their son was born in 1930. By 1940 Bertha worked as a seamstress in a shirt factory.

The family account places the divorce between 1941 and 1949; her first husband was recorded as divorced in 1950. By that census, Bertha had married Joseph George Ondre, a landscaper. Joseph died on 14 May 1951, aged thirty-six.

On 25 November 1952, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Bertha married Frank S. Komer. She died on 24 March 1998; Frank lived until 2009. Her one identified child is a son from her first marriage.

Farest’s name appears in records and indexes as Farest, Fairest, Forest, and Faust. Her childhood followed her father’s oil-field employment from West Virginia through Illinois and Indiana.

On 11 March 1918, aged eighteen, she married Peter Edward Phillips in Hamilton County, Ohio. Peter was a Greek immigrant from Sparta. The family account describes his World War I military service and his work as a confection merchant. They lived in Clinton, Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1920.

By 1930 Farest had her own rented household in Terre Haute and managed a beauty shop. The census used her maiden name and recorded her as single. The record ending her first marriage has not been established. Peter later remarried, moved to Florida, and died there in 1951.

Farest married John Arthur “Jack” Lowe on 16 May 1931. Jack was born in Leigh, England, in 1899, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and lived in Terre Haute. His work changed from painting in an automobile shop to selling automobile insurance. Farest was working as a beautician and department-store sales clerk by 1950.

Jack died in Terre Haute in 1956 and was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park. Farest later moved to Brazil, Clay County, Indiana, where her brother lived. At age sixty-eight she married Mack Mace, a native of Poland, Indiana, who worked as a railway express agent. This was also Mack’s third marriage; his children from his first marriage were already adults.

Mack died in Brazil on 27 February 1978. Farest died on 28 November 1987, with the family account reporting acute congestive heart failure. She was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park in Terre Haute. No children of her own are reported.

Robert was born while his father worked in the Illinois oil fields. In 1930 he was eighteen, attended school, and lived with Etta in Terre Haute. His 1940 draft registration identifies his employment as a salesman at Fischer Auto Sales.

The family’s military research records U.S. Army service from 11 December 1943 to 14 February 1946. On 28 May 1946, Robert married Evanette Marie Urwin, daughter of William “Harry” Urwin and Anna Smith.

They settled in Brazil, Indiana, in the home of Evanette’s widowed mother. Anna operated the family printing shop; Robert worked as its printer, and Evanette continued the secretarial work she had done in her parents’ business.

Their two sons, William Robert (provisionally 1947) and John Ray (1948), both died in infancy. Their individual birth and death records remain important to completing this family’s chronology.

Evanette died in Brazil on 24 July 1994, aged seventy-six. Robert died there on 6 December 1997. No surviving descendants are identified.

Garmen was Milard and Elizabeth’s first child and only known son. He was about twenty-two months old when he died in the collision at the Bell Avenue railroad crossing in Claysville.

The Pittsburgh Daily Post report of 17 July 1907 names Garmen and seventeen-year-old Roy Blayney as the two people killed. Elizabeth suffered a broken arm and injuries to her head and face and was taken to North Wheeling Hospital. The report describes a barn and a freight train obstructing the view of the approaching Baltimore & Ohio passenger train.

The family account records Garmen’s burial at Washington, Pennsylvania, on 18 July 1907. It also reports a subsequent suit seeking $10,000 in damages from the railroad. That figure is the amount requested; an award or settlement has not been established.

Garmen left no descendants. His reported birth date and exact age at death need comparison with the original death certificate.

The elder daughter’s 1927 newspaper profile names Pittsburgh as her birthplace and says that she came to Tulsa sixteen years earlier. A 1911 arrival notice for Milard, his wife, and one child fits this chronology: Garmen had died in 1907, and Frances Catherine would not be born until 1915.

During the early 1920s, the elder daughter appeared in Tulsa’s social columns. A 1923 notice describes a formal dance and buffet supper for thirty friends at her parents’ home. Her singing soon brought wider attention.

On 10 January 1926, the Tulsa World reported her return to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. A follow-up on 13 June 1926 described her studies with Madame Berta Gardina Reiner, her appearances in conservatory recitals, and a planned performance at First Presbyterian Church. The newspaper described her voice as a dramatic soprano.

On 9 June 1927, the Daily Ardmoreite announced a series of weekly, half-hour performances on Tulsa radio station KVOO. The article recalled the family’s earlier years in Ardmore, where Milard had worked as a drilling contractor.

The Tulsa World feature of 21 August 1927 reported that the nineteen-year-old had won a contract with musical-revue producer Gus Edwards after an appearance at the Orpheum Theater. It included her portrait and described plans for further stage appearances. References to possible motion-picture work were plans for her future, not confirmation of a completed film career.

A September announcement reported a two-week singing engagement at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. On 18 May 1929, back in Tulsa, she married; a newspaper announcement followed on 20 May.

The elder daughter’s later life and any children have not been securely traced. Her last established event in this account is the 1929 marriage.

Also found as Frances K., Katherine, and Kath., she was the youngest child. The November 1920 divorce report names both daughters but gives Frances Catherine an age of ten, conflicting with the reported 1915 birth.

She was not listed with Milard, Elizabeth, and their elder daughter in the family’s January 1920 Wichita census account. A nearby household headed by John H. Butts includes a Frances K. Guthrie, aged four years and two months, born in Oklahoma. This is a possible identification, but the connection remains unproved.

Dallas directories provide later leads. In 1931, Marion E. Guthrie appears at 832 Blaylock Drive, apartment 3; in 1932, at 422½ East Jefferson Avenue. The 1934 directory places Marion and Kath. Guthrie at the latter address. In 1937, Frances K. Guthrie, a stenographer with Kennedy Machine & Brass Company, and an entry for Kath. Guthrie both use 107 East 10th Street.

Before the 1950 census she married into the Williford family. They lived in Dallas with her mother, Marion E. Edmonston. Her husband worked in a wholesale warehouse, while Katherine worked as a stenographer and later as an accountant. A subsequent divorce is reported, but its date has not been established.

The family account reports that Katherine developed Parkinson’s disease later in life. She died on 17 April 1981, aged sixty-five, and was cremated through Restland in Dallas. The precise placement of her cremated remains needs confirmation. No children are known.

The family’s birth-record abstract gives 31 January 1909 in Clarion, Pennsylvania. His obituary and other references give 1 February. He grew up in Sapulpa after the family’s move to Oklahoma.

Before 1930, James married for the first time. His wife worked as an operator. The record ending that marriage has not been located.

On 4 November 1934, in Sapulpa, he married into the Powell family. Their two identified children were James Powell Guthrie (1940), who reportedly died at twenty, and a daughter born in 1942.

By 1950 his former wife had married into the Marks family. A son of that later marriage was born in 1949. The children in the 1950 household were listed with the Marks surname, but that census usage alone does not establish a legal adoption. The date of James Alvin’s divorce remains unconfirmed.

James Alvin was living in California by 1965 and moved to Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, a few years before his death. He died on 13 October 1981 after a fire in his apartment. The family’s account of the police report describes limited mobility, use of a walker, and death from smoke inhalation after he took refuge in the kitchen. It also notes an uninstalled smoke detector on the counter.

James Alvin’s obituary reports a surviving daughter and thirteen grandchildren. The daughter’s identification across records, and the parentage of the grandchildren, require further documentation. No continuing father-to-son line is presently identified through James Alvin.

Dorothy was born in Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and grew up partly in Sapulpa. At about twenty-three she married Lloyd Ellsworth Keller in Little Rock. Lloyd was a son of John Franklin Keller and Laura Estella “Stella” Warner.

Lloyd managed a Food Mart in 1940. By 1950 he worked as a wholesale biscuit salesman, while Dorothy was a clerk at a credit bureau. Their one identified son was born in 1939.

Dorothy’s mother Eva lived with her in Little Rock during her final years. Lloyd died there on 26 June 2005 and was buried at South Heights Cemetery in Sapulpa. Dorothy died in Little Rock on 24 December 2010, aged ninety-nine, and was also interred at South Heights.

Viola was born in Oil City and moved with the family to Sapulpa in 1918. At seventeen she was a high-school senior and active in school organizations.

The family’s account of her obituary describes a sudden illness: she attended classes on Thursday, became seriously ill on Friday, and died of peritonitis after only a few hours. Her obituary appeared in the Sapulpa Herald on Saturday.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist church on Sunday, with Rev. J. P. Atkins officiating, followed by burial at South Heights Cemetery. Viola left no descendants.