| PART 7.3 OKLAHOMA CONTINUED |
| 7.3 Back to Hall, Continued Nick and Ann moved back to Hall Community in July, 1936, but there was not enough room in the Booker home. They built a two-room cabin on Hall Corner and lived there until 1938. They then bought Clyde and Ethel Booker’s store in Warner and mover there. The Hall Corner cabin would then be home for Ray L. and Geneva until after World War II. Susan had lived three more years after returning to Hall. She had led an active life and raised a bumper crop of children in spite of her ill health. She was extremely efficient. Geneva says that every turn of her hand produced something. She managed to cook, keep house, wash and mend clothes for the large family, even while raising babies and moving to a new farm every few years. She was a very religious woman who participated in all-church activities. She was never able to bring any of her family into the church. Susan appreciated and grew close to Geneva when she joined the family. After so many years with so many sons, Geneva became Susan’s daughter. To Geneva, Susan was the mother she could never have during her childhood. Geneva shared Susan’s love for the Church as none of the rest of the family did. Susan died of complications related to her asthma on August 20, 1938, while visiting Clyde at Warner. She was buried at Hall Cemetery. In 1947, Will’s health began to fail. In 1949, D. Ray walked into Will’s living room and found him looking at his bare foot. It was blue and cold. He was taken to the Paris, Texas hospital and found to have a blood clot. Gangrene had set in, so his leg was amputated just below his knee. He whittled a peg leg out of the trunk of an ask tree, and managed to walk on it, but not well or for very long at a time. One morning in August, 1951, Will was found unconscious in bed. He was taken back to the Paris, Texas hospital and found to have had a stroke. He died on August 17, 1951 at the age of 90. He was buried at Hall Cemetery beside Susan and near other members of his family who had gone before him. The next section of web pages contain this Booker family tree that I have developed from a lot of different sources. One of the most informative sources has been a booklet titled "Family History of William Thornburgh Booker 1590-1951" by D. Ray Booker, dated December 21, 1988. This was a brother of my greatgrand father, John Millican Booker. D. Ray was a grandson of William T. Booker. His booklet was a great joy for me to read, and also to get a lot of historical information from. I had no idea that my family went back so far. It has helped me to get a better idea of how some of the Booker families here in the United States are connected. It has also broken down a few brick walls I have come against while I was trying to research on my own. If you find any data that is different from what you have different source material on, please drop me a line...I would be happy to share what I know, and update this site as needed. There are so many surnames now tied with the Booker surname that this site will be a work in progress for some time. I will keep the date of last update on the HOME page. If you would like me to sent you an E-Mail whenever there is a new page added, just drop me a line and I will send you a notice. (I will never give out or sell E-Mail addressess) |
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