Descendants of Timothy Rich

41. Jewel Etha Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 25 Jun 1925 in Afton, Texas (Glenn, Texas), died on 25 Apr 1992 in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas at age 66, and was buried on 29 Apr 1992 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas.

General Notes: Died of breast cancer.

Gravesite location:
N33 45.910
W100 48.357

Jewel married Walter James (Jim) Stephenson, son of Samuel Walter Stephenson and Annie Marinda Elizabeth Garrett, on 20 Oct 1945 in McAdoo, Texas. The marriage ended in divorce. Walter was born on 18 Jan 1918 in McAdoo, Dickens County, Texas, died on 6 Feb 1996 in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas at age 78, and was buried on 8 Feb 1996 in McAdoo, Dickens County, Texas.

+ 65 F ii. Linda Rebecca Stephenson was born on 30 Jun 1948 in Spur, Texas, died on 30 Nov 2003 in Longview, Texas at age 55, and was buried on 3 Dec 2003 in Rosewood Park, Longview, Texas.

66 F iii. Carolyn Louise Stephenson was born on 16 May 1951 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas.

General Notes: Memories, by Carolyn Stephenson

Memories are sometimes just a flash in the mind…a piece here and there, but does not always have the whole story. Sometimes they run into other memories and things get confused. Did this really happen this way or am I getting it mixed up with another memory. Sometimes, they are just as real as yesterday. Jenk has asked me to write things I can remember about growing up. What I remember will probably be different from what others can remember. So I will write what I can remember , but my memories tend to jump around from time to time.
The other night I was talking to Jenk and asked him if he remembered Crow-bar, her brand was a K-Bar but of course, that triggered his memory and it was actually K-Bar, the cow. I remember that ole cow. She was a favorite, because it was the only cow we had. She was all black with a white spot between the eyes. Jenk being the oldest was responsible for milking the cow, but after awhile you get tired of doing the same chore every morning and start clowning around. The best part about milking K-Bar was seeing how far we could shoot the milk across the stall into the face of a younger brother. I remember the milk being warm and to this day I can still smell that milk scent. The smell didn't bother us, because that was the way milk smelled. K-Bar would give us a gallon of milk most of the time and mom would have the chore of straining the milk after it was taken to the house. Other times K-Bar would get restless and kick over the bucket and we would get only ½ a bucket. I remember the foam floating on top of that rich milk mixed with some dirt floating on top. But mom would strain it using a cup-towel. She would then pour the milk into a jar and set in the refrigerator over night. The next morning, Jenk would beat us all to the icebox, as we called it, to dip off the thick heavy cream to put on his cereal. Leaving very little for the rest of us to share with 3 (Linda,Carolyn,Tom) Mom would say things like " I wanted that cream to make butter" Well, mom would skim off what was left and save it till she got more cream from other milkings. We would take that cream and "churn" it. It was put in a glass salad dressing jar and we kids would shake it and shake it and shake it 'till it was butter. It would take bout 30 minutes to churn butter. Mom would scrape the butter out of the jar and then drain off the excess milk. She would then shape it into a rectangular shape and put it back into the icebox. That night for supper we would have fresh homemade butter. K-Bar was a good ole cow, but I don't remember what ever happened to her.
We were living at McAdoo (in a house that daddy and Raymond Brown built after our house burned) when I first started school. I was in the first grade and Mrs. Lane was my teacher. I remember sitting next to Mrs. Lane's desk while she listened to me read. I was always a slow reader and very quiet. Mr. McGlaughn ( I think that was his name - he is in the school annuals) was just starting his student teaching and later became my principal when I went back to McAdoo to teach in the same school). He was helping Mrs. Lane teach math. I remember him holding up math flash cards at the end of a table. I was always very quiet and seldom talked. Mom said I never really started talking until I was almost 3 years old. Aunt Lou was worried that I could not talk and said something about it to mom. Mom told her I could talk, that I just didn't talk in front of grown ups. Mom said she could hear me talking to the other kids outside playing in the dirt with the boys, but once I came in the house I was very quiet. One time Aunt Lou was visiting us at home at McAdoo. She pulled up in her car and went into the house and asked mom ,"Who was that little boy playing with the other kids outside in the dirt." Mom kind of laughed and said " Lou, that is Carolyn". Aunt Lou could not believe it because I had a burr haircut. Mom told Aunt Lou that daddy had gotten mad because my hair was always in my eyes and he told mom he could keep it out of my eyes, so he took the clippers and cut it all off. (Mom said I had beautiful curls, because I had curly hair. When she saw that all my hair was gone, she cried. My hair eventually grew back but it grew back as straight as it is today.) Of course, when daddy cut my hair off (of which I don't remember it being cut) it didn't bother me because I always wanted to be one of the boys. I started calling myself "Jack" and ran around without a shirt just like the boys, but I always got into trouble because I didn't have a shirt on. Well that made me very angry because I could not understand why. The explanations I was getting didn't make any sense to me at all.
Anyway getting back to school, we rode the bus to our little school in McAdoo. I remember standing outside on the edge of the highway up there at ma's house waiting for the bus. I remember the highway being slanted in a steep slope. I remember when the bus pulled up I was wearing a dress and slippers. It was a very cold day and the road had ice on it and it was very slippery. I stepped out onto the highway and fell; slid all the way across to the other side. Of course my dress went up over my head. I was very embarrassed, but I didn't say anything. I got up and got on the bus and all the kids were laughing. I felt real bad inside, but never said anything that I can remember and sat down in one of the seats on the bus. We rode buses that had a medal bar running across the top of the seat. No one even thought about safety on buses back then. But now days, because of safety reasons the bar has been removed.
A story about Tom biting his tongue after hitting that bar when we hit a bump at Swenson will come later.

Other stories to write about:
Tricycle hitting icebox at McAdoo -rode tricycle out the door and hurt head on rocks /books to train Cody/ The day Jenk busted his lips and had to drink from a straw /Tom got hurt -crain fell on him -legs at McAdoo /David -rat poison -McAdoo -Aunt Grace gave Dave egg
Jumping on the bed at McAdoo and hitting the bed rail and busting my nose-Mom thought it was broken -story will come later- using lamps at McAdoo to do home work-can still see the darkness in the house at night and see the lamp burning and smell of coal-0il or kerosene. Dust storms that would put chickens to roost during the day. The day Henry jumped of the well house at Sumac and broke his ankle . The day the tornado hit Lubbock while Jenk was in Korea. Tom setting a mouse trap under the wash table at Swenson and showed me where it was -----he told me he was going to catch me…. I forgot the next morning and caught my toe in it -of course he got a big laugh. Dave and his skunk ordeal at Swenson and the day Linda got raked off Cody's back at Swenson when Cody walked under the tractor shed. Many more….if I can remember…..

The following is what Mom told me as I wrote it down in my book….
1945-1958- During these years-Mom and Daddy lived with "Ma" and "Pa" Stephenson from 1945-1949 and in a two room house one mile southeast of "Ma" and "Pa" 's house. In 1949, they moved to a one - room house under the caprock northeast of McAdoo until 1950. Later they moved into a four-room house ½ mile south of "Ma" and "Pa" from January 1950-December 1950, when house burned. While new house was being built they stayed with "Ma" and "Pa". In April 1951 they moved into the new house that had black-tar paper on the outside. It was about ¾ of a mile from "Ma" and "Pa" until 1958. We then moved to Lubbock to 30th street.

67 M iv. Tommy Garrett Stephenson was born on 12 Sep 1952 in Spur, Texas and died on 26 Sep 2009 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at age 57.

General Notes: Tommie is on his birth certificate, but Mom said it was misspelled.

Tommy married Terri Ann Jones on 29 Jun 1991 in Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma. Terri was born on 17 Sep 1969 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.

+ 69 M vi. David Lee Stephenson was born on 8 Dec 1958 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas, USA.

42. Joseph (Joe) L. Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 11 Nov 1928 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas, USA, died on 31 Jan 2000 in Lubbock, Texas at age 71, and was buried on 4 Feb 2000 in Afton, Texas.

General Notes: Info from Our Kin, book by Patsy Rich Fuchs, 2003, pages 79 - 80.

Uncle Joe died from heart disease. He married Louise Davis on 8 November 1949 in Rotan, Fisher County, Texas. Louise was born in Texas. Joe moved to Roswell, New Mexico in the late 1950s. He worked for the city of Roswell until he retired. Louise has been blind for many years. She still makes her home in Roswell.

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I originally had his birthday as 8 November 1928 and I don't know where that date came from, but his brith record indicates it should be 11 November 1928.

Joseph married Louise Davis on 8 Nov 1949 in Rotan, Fisher County, Texas. Louise died on 3 Feb 2012 in Roswell, New Mexico and was buried on 6 Feb 2012 in Afton Cemetery, Afton, Texas.

+ 71 F ii. Belinda Rich was born on 6 Aug 1949 in Rotan, Fisher County, Texas, USA, died on 26 Aug 2011 in Lubbock, Texas at age 62, and was buried in Afton Cemetery, Afton, Texas.

43. William Franklin (Pots) Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 4 Nov 1932 in McAdoo, Texas, died on 10 Jun 2012 at age 79, and was buried in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA.

General Notes: My mother, Jewel Rich Stephenson, told me that when my Uncle Pots was a small boy he would often get into the pots and pans and play with them--that is how he acquired the nickname of Pots. It stuck and that is what all of the family called him during my life time.

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William Franklin "Bill" Rich, age 79, of Odessa, passed away on Sunday, June 10, 2012, at his residence. He was born in Dickens County, Texas on November 4, 1932 to the late Joseph Benjamin Rich and Lydia Mae (Bradford) Rich. He was an oilfield superintendent for V & B Drilling for 44 years. Those left to cherish his memory are his son: Glenn Franklin Rich and wife Mary Ann of Seguin; four daughters: Debbie Dunagin and husband Buddy, Kay Carroll and husband Curtis, Kim Bailey and husband Roy Don Bohannon and Gail Mauck and husband Floyd, all of Odessa; two sisters: Bernie Tull and Laverne Cox, both of Odessa; fourteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents, his son: Larry Douglas Rich; two brothers: Bill and Joe Rich; sister: Jewell Stephenson; and three nephews. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday evening, June 13, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Graveside services will be at Los Angeles Garden of Ector County Cemetery at 9:00 AM Thursday, June 14, 2012, Pastor Mark McDonald officiating. Arrangements are entrusted to Acres West Funeral Chapel.

William married Peggy Jo Burleson about 1954. The marriage ended in divorce. Peggy was born on 13 Dec 1938 in Jones, Texas and died on 21 Feb 2000 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA at age 61.

+ 72 M i. Glenn Franklin Rich was born on 15 Feb 1955 in Snyder, Scurry County, Texas.

73 F ii. Deborah Jo Rich was born on 11 Apr 1957 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas.

William next married Janie Caldonia Smiley, daughter of Robert Thomas Smiley and Alice Jocelyn Mahurin, on 19 Dec 1960 in Odessa, Texas, USA. The marriage ended in divorce. Janie was born on 22 Sep 1942 in Athens, Henderson County, Texas, USA and died on 2 Aug 2011 at age 68.

+ 74 F i. Lydia Kay Rich was born on 31 Oct 1963 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas.

William next married Phyllis Sue Warden on 12 Jul 1968 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA. The marriage ended in divorce. Phyllis was born on 13 Jul 1945.

+ 76 F ii. Veronica Gail Rich was born on 12 Aug 1969 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA and died on 9 Sep 2013 at age 44.

44. Mae Laverne Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 8 May 1936 in McAdoo, Dickens County, Texas and died on 24 Mar 2015 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA at age 78.

Mae married Joe Bailey Cox. Joe was born on 24 Aug 1929 in Texas, died on 24 Jun 1979 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas at age 49, and was buried in Odessa, Ector County, Texas.

+ 77 M i. Carter Jay Cox was born on 4 Aug 1962 and died on 31 May 2003 at age 40.

45. Bernice Syrilda (Bernie) Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 20 Sep 1938 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas.

Bernice married Charles Wesley Tull Jr., son of Charles Wesley Tull and Mary Eleanor Ziniser, on 8 Apr 1955 in Snyder, Scurry County, Texas. Charles was born on 21 Sep 1935 in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, died on 27 Dec 1994 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas at age 59, and was buried in Odessa, Ector County, Texas.

+ 79 M ii. Larry Don Tull Sr. was born on 9 Aug 1960 in Spur, Texas, died on 20 May 2012 in Odessa, Texas at age 51, and was buried on 24 May 2012 in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

81 M iv. Douglas Wayne Tull was born on 27 Jul 1965 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, died on 2 May 2011 in Odessa, Texas at age 45, and was buried on 6 May 2011 in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Douglas married Ruby Alice Duncan on 31 May 1985 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas. Ruby was born on 11 Feb 1948.

46. Billy Joe Rich (Joseph Benjamin²⁹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 8 Oct 1930 and died on 3 Nov 2003 in Roswell, New Mexico at age 73.

Billy married Delois Davis about 1951 in Rotan, Fisher County, Texas. Delois was born in Texas.

82 M i. Jimmy Lee Rich was born on 17 Dec 1952, died in 1991 in Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas at age 39, and was buried in Roswell, New Mexico.

Billy next married Duanita Bradford, daughter of Clad Ira Bradford and Juanita Holcomb, on 4 Jul 1961. Duanita was born on 23 Dec 1943 in Dickens County, Texas.

General Notes: Lived only five months...not fully developed "as a result of maried cousins".

+ 85 F iii. Kathern Sue Rich was born on 15 Oct 1969 in Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas.

47. Alleen Virginia Rich (Allen Edgar³¹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 24 Oct 1925 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas.

General Notes: Information taken from OUR KIN, book by Patsy Rich Fuchs, 2003, page 83.

Allene was born and raised in Dickens County. She is about 5 feet, 3 inches tall, has brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion. She graduated from Patton Springs School and wAs the salutatorian of her senior class. After graduation in 1943 Allene moved to Lubbock. She went to work ofr the Woolworth Co. and worked there until WW II was over.

She married Don Houston in 1945 and they moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico soon thereafter. Allene went to work for the General Telephone Company. She worked there for 31 years, retiring in 1984. Allene is a member of the Baptist Church. Don worked in the potash mines 37 years until his retirement in 1983. He health begai to fail in 1985. He died of a stroke and is buried in Sunsset Gardens Cemetery in Carlsbad. Allene and don raised two sons together.

Alleen married Don Aud Houston, son of Sam Houston and Effie Scultz, on 19 Oct 1945 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas. Don was born on 31 May 1921 in Tatum, Lea County, New Mexico, died on 7 Dec 1996 in Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico at age 75, and was buried on 11 Dec 1996 in Sunset Gardens, Eddy County, New Mexico.

48. Dorthy Mae Rich (Allen Edgar³¹, Robert Alvis¹⁷, William Franklin⁴, Timothy¹) was born on 19 Jan 1927 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas, died on 30 Dec 1997 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas at age 70, and was buried on 3 Jan 1998 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas.

General Notes: Information taken from OUR KIN, book by Patsy Rich Fuchs, 2003, page 83.

Dorothy was "Dot" to family and friends. She was five feet, five inches tall. She had brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion. As a young girl Dot loved the outdoors. She liked to play games and could out play most of the bosy in baseball. She liked to fish in the old stock tank, always hoping to catch a "six" inch catfish but usualy it was a our-inchy perch or a turtle. Dot sat many afternoons on the tank dam with her younger brother and sister catching grasshoppers for bait.

She graduated from Patton Springs High School in 1944. She played basketball and was considered a good player. She joined the Methodist Church in 1939, later joining the Baptist Church. Dot married Floyd ball right out of high school and moved to Lubbock where he was stationed at Reese air Force Base. When WW II was over they lived in Spur. Bothe their children were born while they were there. They were living there in 1958 when Floyd took a job with Phillips Oil Co. in Odessa. Dorothy went to work for Se3ars Roebuck & Co. and worked there until she retired in 1982. She and Floyd spent their summers in the New Mexico mountains, and always fa month on the Texas coast until Dorothy's health began to fail. She passed away in 1997 from "Supraneuclear Palsy", a disease of the central nervous system. She is buried in the Sunset Memorial Gardens, an Odessa Cemetery.

Floyd was in the Air Force from 1943 - 1945. He is a Baptist and still lives in Odessa.

Dorthy married Floyd Jack Ball, son of Wiley E. Ball and Ella Grey, on 19 Feb 1944 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas. Floyd was born on 2 Apr 1922 in Sadler, Grayson County, Texas.

88 M i. Edgar Wiley "Eddy" Ball was born on 25 Dec 1946 in Matador, Motley County, Texas.

General Notes: Information taken from OUR KIN, book by Patsy Rich Fuchs, 2003, page 83-84.

Edgar, better known to his family as "Eddie" was born on Christmas day and was taken home to Spur, Texas. He started to school in 1953. He went through the third grade at Spur and the remainder of his schooling was completed in Odessa, Texas. ge graduated from Odessa High Schjool in 1965. He attended Odessa Jr. College before going to Baylor in 1967. He earned a Bachelor degree in Journalism and went on to get a Masers degree in Early Childhood Special Educatino from the University of TexAs at Austin. Edgar lived in Austin working for Head Start and Southwest Educational Development Laboratory until 1978. He moved to Minnesota and spent one winter there. He almost froze to deat in that cold climate.

Edgar moved to Los Angelse, California in 1976. There he supervised an infant nursery program for amost three years in a Montessori school. The then worked for the Structroe of Intellect Institute in Los Angeles. He betan teaching special education for National University in Los Angeles during that same time. The continued to teach at National University and work as an educational consultant after moving to San Diego in 1987. In 1993 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he directed a montessori private school and a Montessori Charter School. He now lives in Clarkdale, Arizona near Sedona where he is a partner in IntelleQuest Education Company. His company creatred and maintains the larges Montessori educaiton web site on the internet. They also develp and sell education products through their web site.

Edgar is 5 fee, 11 linches tall. He has blonde hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. He has a big smile nd a happy dispopsition. He loves working on the computer and desiginlg graphics and web pages.

89 F ii. Nelda Kay Ball was born on 8 May 1948 in Matador, Motley County, Texas, USA and died on 12 Jun 2004 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA at age 56.

General Notes: Find a Grave --
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8943181
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