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Marriage: Children:
  1. Ella Pauline Gumfory: Birth: 6 APR 1911 in Cleburne, Texas. Death: 11 JAN 1991 in Globe, Gila County, Arizona.

  2. Douglas Ray Gumfory: Birth: 17 JUN 1914 in Cleburn, Johnson County, Texas.. Death: APR 1977 in Belen, New Mexico

  3. Dorthy Faye Gumfory: Birth: 17 JUN 1914 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas.. Death: 10 APR 1979 in Superior, Pinal County, Arizona.

  4. Hazel Marie Gumfory: Birth: 29 SEP 1917 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas.. Death: 29 DEC 1990 in Deming, Luna County, New Mexico

  5. Hiram Abiff Gumfory: Birth: 29 MAR 1920 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas.. Death: 7 JUN 1968 in Deming, Luna County, New Mexico

  6. Laura Margaret Gumfory: Birth: 5 SEP 1922 in Estancia, New Mexico. Death: 1967 in Raton, New Mexico.

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  8. W.G. Gumfory: Birth: 31 OCT 1927 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. Death: 27 JAN 1995 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona

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Sources
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Notes
a. Note:   By Robert Lawrence Gumfory, youngest son of Michael Oliver Gumfory:
 November, 1998
 Michel Oliver Gumfory was the son of William George (Gumphrey) Gumfory and Laura C. Bragg Bragg. William George changed his name from the spelling of Gumphrey to Gumfory when he came to the United States from Germany the place of his birth. Laura C. Bragg was the daughter of the late Daniel Boone Bragg and Mary M. Polly Mckensie. The wife of Daniel Boone Bragg who Michael Oliver knew as Granny Bragg was taken and moved to the state of Missouri to a farm near Cedar Gap Missouri, so that Granny Bragg, and the children would be out of harms way and in total safety from the war going on between the North and South, called the Civil War.
  My parents traveled by train many times to visit Granny Bagg and my oldest sister Ella Pauline Gumfory Mc Craney told of many experience of their journeys to Granny Braggs in Cedar Gap. My parents fare was free travel at that time because Dad worked for the San Luis Railroad and The Texas & Pacific Railway Company. Please take note to the train passes that have been copied in Dad's behalf. Dad also worked as a Boiler Maker in Cleburne Texas before coming to New Mexico and also lived in Oklahoma where he bought a farm there and found that farming was not to his likings and then moved to Santa Rita, New Mexico and they also had lived in Belen, and Estancia, New Mexico where Dad worked for the Railroad.
  Michael Oliver was also known by his title of Master Mechanic for the railroad, and at that time he was very experienced in locomotive engineering operation, and I remember on his death bed he was driving an old steam engine locomotive in his delusions of the past on his death bed. ( J.W. Gumfory son of Uncle Henry Gumfory was present with me at the time of Dad's death. He died in the Magma Copper Hospital in Superior Arizona on September 25, 1957, see copies of his death certificate in records of this work in our genealogy book.) Michael Oliver later became a top notch journeyman as a Boilermaker by trade and worked in Santa Rita, New Mexico where I was born and he stayed there until the depression hit so hard in 1931, and he was laid off from the mines. He moved the family to Deming New Mexico to a small twenty acre ranch southwest of Deming about five mile from town. There we had Cows, horses, pigs and turkeys, and chickens. Rabbits and deer was also a luxury free for the taking back in those days without any hunting license. And we always had a huge garden of vegetable to provide for the family during the depression. He also worked in the Deming area as a Blacksmith and a lot of the older building in Deming you will still find some of the ornate steel work on the doors with the hinges and ornate door handles on them, and also you will still see some of his work at the Sunshine School just South of Deming on the road to Palomas, Mexico. In Deming I can still remember that Dad would work for neighboring farmers in exchange for fruit and pinto beans and one in particular that I can remember was for Paul Yate's Dad, who we all knew as Pappy Yates and oh!! my how good the Yate's peaches where at that time. I can also remember the big threshing machines that they used to harvest the pinto bean crops on the farms in the Deming area and the threshing teams would move from farm to farm, as only very few could afford the threshing machine equipment in those day's. He went from Deming work to work in the copper mines at Miami Arizona in the later thirty and the family stayed on at the ranch until the Second World War broke out in 1941, when the Japanese bombed Peal Harbor. ( and a note of interest was that Uncle Henry was working in the shipyard at Pearl Harbor when in was bombed on December the 7th. 1941, and I myself can remember the fear that came over me and all when we went to town and could hear the cry from the paper boy's and every one we would run into would say; did you hear that we were at war!! ) When the war broke out Dad volunteered to go to Vallejo California, to teach the Boilermaker trade to the employees at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and he worked there until the end of the war, and I can remember that we lived in Naval Housing in Vallejo and it all seem so great and big but I have since traveled back to Vallejo California many times, and it all looks so small and not so GREAT!!. Next: Dad moved back to: He thought it to be Miami, Arizona, but because he had developed high blood pressure, and he failed the physical exam there, he then applied at Magma Copper Company Machine Shops in Superior, Arizona, as Boiler Maker Lay out and Blue Print Foreman, and worked there until his death in 1957. I remember Pauline writing to Mother and telling her of the big two story house Dad had rented in Superior for us and it had six rooms and a bath, as he went on ahead of us to establish employment . It was as she said, but it looks so small today to what it did then, and you can still see the old house at 148 McNeary Avenue in Superior, Arizona.
  Michael Oliver Gumfory was a good husband, a good provider for his family as Mother always quoted, and an excellent Father, and Grandfather, and was known by his Children and Grand Children as Dad, Daddy, Pop, Poncho, Grandad and Grandaddy. Dad and Mother was loved very much, and highly respected by their children, and all that new them, and are still sorely missed to this day and every day in the year that passes, and I truly believe that they are surely with the Father in Heaven,and for surely are praised highly by him for their good and loyal deeds. May God rest their souls, and all that have gone on before us, and one day soon we will all be reunited into the GREAT FAMILY ON HIGH!!!!!! Where we will dwell in the house of the Lord FOREVER!! Jesus quotes in the Bible that in My Fathers House are many mansions, and if this was not so, I would not tell you of such, and I go there to prepare a place for you and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord FOREVER & EVER!! In FULL HARMONY & HAPPINESS and LOVE for ALL there, with no wars, no lying, and no thefts, or murdering. Just happiness and peace with tranquility in its fullest.!!


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