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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Vivian Aileen Medford: Birth: 11 JAN 1897 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 3 DEC 1900 in Red River, Texas, USA

  2. Charles Herman Medford: Birth: 5 DEC 1898 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 10 DEC 1898 in Red River, Texas, USA

  3. Mary Louise Medford: Birth: 27 JAN 1900 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 13 JUL 1981 in Red River, Texas, USA

  4. Gervaise Rupert Medford: Birth: 23 MAY 1902 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 26 APR 1993 in Lubbock, Texas, USA

  5. Perry Laval Medford: Birth: 22 AUG 1904 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 16 JUL 1984 in Hermon, St Lawrence, New York, USA

  6. Opal Mozelle Medford: Birth: 7 SEP 1906 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 17 AUG 1986 in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA

  7. Joe Davis Medford: Birth: 22 MAR 1909 in Jones, Texas, USA. Death: 6 SEP 2000 in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, USA

  8. Esther Imogene Medford: Birth: 23 JUL 1911 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 25 NOV 2001 in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas, USA

  9. Seldon Irskin Medford: Birth: 12 FEB 1914 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 9 OCT 2007 in Red River, Texas, USA

  10. James Edward (Jim Ed) Medford: Birth: 12 JUL 1918 in Red River, Texas, USA. Death: 2 FEB 2007 in Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Chipley Genealogy, A Memorandum of Records of the Family in America 1709-1930, Glynn Baldwin Chipley
Page:   17
2. Title:   Chipley Genealogy, A Memorandum of Records of the Family in America 1709-1930, Glynn Baldwin Chipley
3. Title:   SSDI
4. Title:   Dawson County, TX Deaths Online
5. Title:   FamilySearch.org Death Certificate Images
6. Title:   Personal knowledge, Rose Parks
7. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 8, Red River, Texas; Roll: 1665; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0114; FHL microfilm: 1241665
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;
8. Title:   Red River Co. TX. Marriage Records
Page:   Book H, page 465

Notes
a. Note:   She was at one time 5ft. 7 or 8 inches tall she told her daughter in law Mabel, but was not that tall in 1934 and by 1948 or so was no more than 5ft 2 inches tall. She seemed to shrink more than some. At one time, in older pictures,she looks to have been pretty heavy but later pictures she is still plump but not quite as heavy. She had dark brown hair and light brown eyes. She liked plants and flowers and kept house plants before most people I ever knew did. She would take coffee and tea grounds and pour on her plant soil. She made the best potato's. Brenda and I have both tried to make them like hers, but they never tasted as good as we remember. She dipped snuff ever since I can remember and she crocheted really nice. I have 3 doilies she made for me. One when I was 5 for my little table and chair set and the other two about the time I got married. Ruth was born in Navarro Co. Texas, I believe, tho she states on Seldon's birth certificate that she was born in Henderson Co. Tax records and Masonic records show them to live in Navarro Co. in 1876. She was nicknamed EUKIE early in life, as her older sister couldn't say Ruthie, sounded like Eukie, so that is what she was to most people. It is even her name given on marriage license. They were married 22 December,1895 near Woodland, in N.W. Red River Co. Texas. I have a picture of Ruth with Lizzie Pridgen about 2-3 years before the marriage. She married Charles Robert Medford. His half brother owned saw mill near where she lived and a half sister of his, Adeline, lived near there also, so guess that's how the two met. Research since makes me believe they already lived south of Avery at the time of her marriage. Charlie had lived in Red River County since he was 4 months old. He was born near Helena Phillips Co. Arkansas as his parents were coming to Texas. There is a story that he was born in the wagon crossing the Mississippi River at Helena. His parents, with many relatives on both sides, and maybe some friends had all pooled resources and made the trip together. Charlie was the 8th child of his father, 3rd child of his mother and the first child of this marriage. Luke had 1 daughter and 6 sons and Louise 2 sons. They all arrived in Red River Co. Texas in March of 1870. After Charlie and Ruth married, they settled near the old Medford place. They later bought some land that her father had bought only a short time before, and together gave one acre to the Rehoboth Missionary Baptist Church. Their 1st child was Vivian Ailene, born in January 1897 and in December 1898 Charles Herman was born, but he didn't live long and was buried in the Medford Family Cemetery. In 1900 Mary Louise was born. She was named for her 2 grandmothers. At the end of that year a family stopped by to get some water and some of the family had scarlet fever. Vivian took it and died and was buried along side Charles H. These graves are at the west end of the cemetery and marked only by a metal post and rock. Charlie sold the land he had bought from the Keens to Ruth's sister and brother in law, Jeff and Alice Davis, but a year later bought it back from them. In 1901 he sold 30 acres of it to his brother in law, Thadius McCleskey, where it joined him, and in 1904 he sold the remaining 69 acres. Now he bought land from Jeff Davis, just east of Avery. After Charlie's father died in 1895, he got his share of that land, but sold it to a brother. By this time Gervaise (1902) and Perry (1904) and Opal had come along (1906). Sometime in 1908 they packed up and moved to Jones Co. Texas, near Truby, on the banks of the Clear Fork of the Brazos. Charlie's half brother, James A. Arwood had moved there, bought land and took his medical practice there. He was the Dr. attending Ruth when Joe D. was born in 1909. They didn't stay much longer out there, but came back to Red River county. The land east of Avery was not sold till 1910. Imogene and Seldon were born between 1911 and 1914 and Jim Ed in 1918 and their family was complete. Charlie bought 93 acres from his mother on the old home place. All Charlie's brothers and sisters and Ruth's too lived in Red River County and mostly near Avery and I'm sure they had good times visiting together Keen family picture was taken about 1904 and in 1921 the Medford family had a large reunion at Charlie's youngest sister's home just north of Avery. There were many more get togethers, but these were recorded in pictures. They were long time members of the Baptist church, at Lydia and Rehoboth, and both of these churches are gone now, with no records, but Charlie is on records at Avery as being a Deacon from 1912 till they left Red River County in 1923,and he was a deacon in Dawson County, Texas also.

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