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Broughton's Kids
John William Broughton
William David's first-born son, John William, married the daughter of Joe & Emmalie Powell Chaison, Leachie Chaisson, on April 20, 1898. The couple made Palestine, Texas their home where they raised their three sons and two daughters.
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d:06-19-1918 |
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John William worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad until he retired in 1946 after thirty-one years of service. His wife, Leachie, passed away that same year, on October 10, 1946. She is buried at New Addition Cemetery, Palestine, Texas. After his wife's death John William went to live with his daughter, Oleta Devers on Link Street Road in Palestine.
At the Missouri Pacific Hospital in Palestine, John William Broughton died at 3:15AM Thursday November 16, 1950. He was 81. JW was given a Masonic Funeral Service since he had been a long-time member of the Masonic Lodge No. 31. According to his obituary, published on pg 12 of the Palestine Texas Herald-Press, JW's three sons and one daughter were still living at the time of his death. His son Joseph Otto ("O.J." in the article) was living in Beaumont; Rodney was in Waterloo Iowa; William M. was in Mexia; and Oleta Devers was in still in Palestine. JW also had 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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Born May 18, 1873 near Fort Jesup, Louisiana, Z Broughton, the second-son of William David Broughton and his wife "Lydia" would often joke about his one-letter name. In a 1956 newspaper article, he's quoted as saying,
"That's all the name I have. I tell people my parents named their children after every letter in the alphabet, and that four after me were named And So Forth."
In reality, only one of Z's siblings - his younger brother V - shared Z's uniqueness in a name.
Z grew up as the son of a farmer, but like his father, he had an affinity for learning. A practical joking young Z grew up to become a true public servant. As a child, he attended Fort Jesup Masonic Institute, chartered in 1887 and later named Sabine Parish High School. As an adult, he taught school for 24 years, served four years in the Texas State Legislature, and held various state and federal jobs.
Z's accomplishments are noted in an article titled "Public Career of Z Broughton Ends" which appeared in the Palestine Herald-Press Thursday, April 19, 1956 when Z announced he would be retiring in May.
A portion of it reads:
"Z Broughton closes out 63 years of public
service when he retires from the Anderson County school board....
In 1940, he was appointed as social secretary to then Gov. W.Lee
O'Daniel.... During World War I, he worked for the federal government's
secret service."
Family Life
Z married Laura Ella Camp, the daughter of Josiah Jackson Camp and Leona Isabel Ferguson Camp on September 17, 1902. Their first of seven children came on Independence Day the following year. They named the boy Herbert George Broughton.
B. Hubert Broughton was born next on April 2, 1905. Although family legend has it that Z joked with the doctor that he was naming his children "Pete, Peter, Re-Pete and She-Peter," he did not pass along his unique name to any of his offspring. He did name his third child after his brother V though. V Humbert Broughton was born in Palestine, Texas on December 19, 1908. The last four children were daughters: Ann (born in Palestine March 26, 1910), Celeste (born January 9, 1912), Leona, better known by family and friends as "Tiny", and Eloise.
Z lived another three years after his retirement. He passed away June 22, 1959 at the age of 86. He was laid to rest at Strong Memorial Park Cemetery in Slocum, Texas.
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V married Patsie Leola "Ola" James on June 21, 1899. To them were born four children.
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b:12-31-1902, d:6-6-1979, married Carl G Reichert |
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b: 3-6-1908, d:12-8-1984, married Thelma Steel in 1927 |
In 1903, V joined with his father, William David Broughton, to purchase 200 acres located on the Old Navaro Road (later known as South Sycamore Street) approximately three miles south of Palestine, Texas. There V and his family lived and worked on 161 acres, while WD maintained the remaining 40 acres which were later passed on to become V's brother Oscar's home.
On July 23, 1908, just four months after the birth of his fourth child (a son who would later grow up to become a doctor), V died at the age of 33. He is buried at Ferguson Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.
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On November 5, 1902, a 25-year-old Pearl married Lubbock Texas-native David Franklin Hinson, better known as "Dock". The wedding was just 20 days before Dock's 27th birthday. The newlyweds lived for three years as sharecroppers before buying a home of their own in Texas.
Their first born, twin girls, died at birth. But on Valentine's day in 1905, Pearl gave birth to another daughter. William David Broughton was given the honor of naming his granddaughter which he gladly did by proclaiming her Leni (pronounced La-ni). Leni's dad, however, called her "Lil' Sweet," and as the years passed, the nickname changed to "Sweetie" which is what most of her friends and relatives called her.
On the last day of the year 1911, the couple had a baby boy, named L. Lloyd Hinson.
Ten years later, tragedy struck the family when Dock was killed by an accidental gunshot wound received while the Hinson family was visiting Pearl's sister and brother-in-law, Ida and Joshua Carroll, in Lubbock, Texas.
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On
January 12, 1908, Walter Broughton, the twin son of William
David Broughton, married Viola A. Walston, (pictured
at right) the daughter of John Henry Walston and his wife Mary
Ada Carroll Walston, a well-known Anderson County family. Except
for one year, the couple lived in the Palestine area. During
that one year, Walter and his family moved by train to Idalou
near Lubbock, Texas to farm and live close to his twin sister
Ida who was married to Joshua Carroll. But after a year, Walter
and his family returned to Anderson County where they lived on
a farm on Elkhart Road.
Walter and Viola Broughton had a total of five children, but only four lived to adulthood. The eldest was Ada Naomi Broughton. She was born on November 16, 1908 and was named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Ada Carroll, John Henry Walston’s wife. Two years later on January 10, 1911, the second child, named Walter LaRoy Broughton, was born. Most of his family and friends would later refer to him simply as LaRoy or "W. L." The third child was another boy who was born on December 30, 1913. His name was Henry Viola Broughton. Family members say since he apparently didn’t like being named after his mother, Henry Viola became known as simply "H. V." Later on, his nieces and nephews would come to know him as "Uncle Buck," a name that originated during his childhood when his father called him a "young buck." The last two children were daughters. Ida Mozelle Broughton was born on October 28, 1915. Iris Elizabeth Broughton was born in Palestine on January 23, 1918.
Walter Broughton eventually gave up farming. For a short time, he was part-owner of a sawmill along with his brother V. Walter’s eldest son remembers how he used to play on the shavings at the mill while his father and uncle worked. In 1928, Walter sold the farm and bought 20 acres on the new Elkhart highway where he built a service station and became a self-employeed auto-mechanic.
One day, his eldest son Walter LaRoy was helping him dig a well when they hit an underground spring about 13 feet down. The spring supplied the service station with water for years to come. (By 1995, the service station would be gone, but the stone well remains.)
DEATH
On June 27, 1948, the family suffered another tragedy when they lost their mother, Viola. As she requested prior to her death, Viola was laid to rest next to her parents at the Land of Memories Cemetery in Elkhart, Anderson County, Texas. Walter lived with his children and continued to operate the gas station until the summer of 1961. For a short time, he lived with his daughter Naomi in Nacogdoches, Texas but returned to Anderson County where he died on September 8, 1965. His family buried him next his wife, Viola in Elkhart.
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On
May 14, 1915, Oscar Broughton, son of William David Broughton,
married Maybell Elizabeth Wilkie (born April 17,
1890) and settled in the Palestine TX area. The two apparently
met while Maybell was living with Oscar's mother "Lydia"
and teaching at a school in Pleasant Springs. [Note Some documents
have Maybell's first name spelled Mable and some May Belle.]
CHILDREN
Oscar and Maybell raised five children altogether. The eldest Oscar Oehler Broughton married Wanda Woodard from Elkhart, Texas. They had two daughters and a son: Kay Broughton, Dianne Broughton and Tommy Broughton.
Oscar's second son, Guy Morris Broughton (born August 11, 1919) would serve in World War II and earned the rank of captain. He married Florida-native Betty Wallace. Betty lost their first child during labor and shortly thereafter was diagnosed with cancer. Still the couple adopted a baby boy from a San Antonio adoption agency and named him Steve Broughton. After Betty's death in 1952, Guy took his son with him to Bermuda where he flew weather reconnaissance missions over the Atlantic. According to Guy's brother Ted, the planes were evacuated to the U. S. in 1953 because of a hurricane headed toward the island. On Sept 18, 1953, Guy was lost at sea when his plane crashed into the ocean during the return flight to Bermuda. Guy is buried next to his paternal grandparents in Pleasant Springs Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. His son, Steve, was adopted by Guy's sister, Helen Lois and her husband Dale Wilkinson.
Oscar's third child, Ted Broughton, also served in World War II. Shortly after the war ended he married. The wedding date was November 25, 1945 and the bride was Edna Mae Cook from Neches, Texas. The couple settled in Palestine where they had three children: Larry Broughton, born in 1948, a divorced businessman living in Houston, Texas; Dennis W. Broughton, born in 1950, a plant manager in Victoria, Texas; and Beverly Jean Broughton, born in 1952, who is living and working in Pasadena, Texas. In 1972, both Dennis and his sister got married. Dennis wed Jamie Terrell from Amarillo. Beverly wed Steve Spence from Sioux City, Iowa. Dennis and Jamie adopted a son in 1980 in Kansas City and named him Tyler Clay Broughton. Then in 1981, they had a son named Benjamin Broughton while in Pennsylvania, and in 1984, their daughter Katherine Broughton was born in Orange, Texas. Dennis' sister, Beverly divorced Steve in 1979 and later married Hubert Hancock of Uvalde, Texas. Hubert had an adopted son, Ryan from a previous marriage, but together he and Beverly had a son on May 24, 1985, named Lance Nathan Hancock.
Oscar's eldest daughter, Rubye Elizabeth Broughton, married Hayden Trigg in 1941. Two years later on August 25th, she gave birth to a daughter named Sharon Jane Trigg in Palestine, Texas. On June 21, 1948, Randy Eugene Trigg was born, and on January 29, 1952, Rubye had another baby girl whom she named Rebecca Lynn Trigg.
Helen Lois Broughton, Oscar and Maybell's youngest child, married Dale Wilkinson from Muncie, Indiana whom she met while he was stationed with the U. S. Air Force in Houston, Texas. In 1952, the couple adopted a 2-year-old girl, named Linda, from an adoption agency in San Antonio. A year later, they adopted their nephew, Steve, after the boy's father, Helen's brother Guy, was killed in a plane crash.
Oscar and Maybell Broughton enjoyed a long-life together. They were married for 55 years. Oscar died on September 5, 1970. He was 84. Maybell passed away on April 23, 1980, just six days after her 90th birthday. The couple is buried side-by-side near their son, Guy's grave, at Pleasant Springs Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
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