Leamon Evans has quite an inscription on his grave marker.
Was that a phrase he often used, or had he a wicked sense of humor? I found a little background on Leamon. A justice of the peace married "Winnifred Reed" and Leamon on February 26, 1929 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was 21, she--19. Both were residents of Gore, Oklahoma. He was actually 20. So he either inflated his age, or it was incorrectly recorded.
Sadly, in three years young Leamon was gone. What was his cause of death? A last record found was the 1930 census. He was working as a farmer, and living in rural Muskogee County with Winnie and their six month old daughter, Camelia (written as "Amelia"). Their next door neighbors? Leamon's father, Richard, and his two siblings, Otis and Fern. His mother, born Jessie Belle Brock, had died in March of 1928. Her grave marker reads: She was the sunshine of our home. Sweet!
Seven years after Leamon's death, Winnie married James Cordell McClain on November 16, 1940. That license is recorded with the Washington County court clerk in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It doesn't specify where the marriage occurred.
Leamon's father, Richard Augustus Clark Evans, was thankfully called "Gus." Click on the images in this gallery below to see a few newspaper items about Gus and/or his son Leamon:
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Sources:
- Thanks to Lonnie Hoover for photographing Leamon's grave and allowing free non-commercial use of it.
- See Leamon's mom's grave on Findagrave: http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37016150
- 1930 Fed. Census for Moore, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Roll: 1915; Pg,: 3A; E.D. 21; Image: 1010.0.
- 1929 marriage record on ODCR.com/ http://www1.odcr.com/detail?court=051-&casekey=051-MLI+3000558
- Location of White Cemetery: Two & 1/2 miles west of Gore on Hwy. 10, & just west of White Chapel Church.
- Transporting liquor into Indian Territory, from the Muskogee Times-Democrat, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Saturday, November 29, 1913, page 3.