Michael Huckabee
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William Thomas Elder was born 12 Jul 1868 in Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky to [[#Granville Elder|Granville Elder]] and his wife Sarah J Unknown. He served during the Spanish-American War. He married firstly to Mary Unknown, sometime between 1900 and 1904. They had two known children: Garvin Elder (1904-1968) and Earl Elder (1904/5-). (Earl was in the US Coast Guard in Baltimore in 1945). | William Thomas Elder was born 12 Jul 1868 in Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky to [[#Granville Elder|Granville Elder]] and his wife Sarah J Unknown. He served during the Spanish-American War. He married firstly to Mary Unknown, sometime between 1900 and 1904. They had two known children: Garvin Elder (1904-1968) and Earl Elder (1904/5-). (Earl was in the US Coast Guard in Baltimore in 1945). | ||
− | He married his second wife [[#Eva Lorene Whitney|Eva Lorene Whitney]] (1904-1989) | + | He married his second wife [[#Eva Lorene Whitney|Eva Lorene Whitney]] (1904-1989) about 1925 ("when she was 21", see 1930 census), either in Illinois or Arkansas. The family lived in Hope, Arkansas by 1925 when their daughter [[#May E Elder|May]] was born there. William and May had at least or exactly seven children: (in birth order) May, Neal (who died in a swimming accident), Louise (who married Jack Casey), Elsie who married Alvin Wilson Huckabee (the son of Sidney Carl "Tobe" Huckabee and Parie Betts), Vena (who married Roger Pletcher), Emilie (who married Leon Prescott, and William Thomas Jr.(who married Gloria) |
William Thomas Elder died 8 Mar 1945 in Springhill Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas. He is buried in Huckabee Cemetery in Springhill. | William Thomas Elder died 8 Mar 1945 in Springhill Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas. He is buried in Huckabee Cemetery in Springhill. |