Delia's Granddaughter, Melba Hansard, has said that she was a kind and patient mother. She only punished two of her children once. The story goes that she asked her oldest children, Frank and Thelma-Irene (Melba's mother) to walk to the Cannon General Store and put a sack of sugar on the family tab. On the way home, Frank had a brilliant idea to climb on top of the chicken barn and feed the sugar to the animals. Melba said both children were punished, but at the same time, Delia was extremely disappointed in them. She supposedly wrote them a letter detailing her frustration. Melba believes she has the letter somewhere.
Unfortunately, a murder took place in the family, and from 1926-1931, she was called to testify as a character witness for her son, Otto Frank, who was killed by an irate police officer (Albert E. Lary). She never spoke of the trial, but she once yelled at Melba in the 1950's because she had bought her son, Doug Winham a toy gun.
She spent the last few years of her life living at the Calera, Oklahoma nursing home with her husband. She is buried at Cannon Cemetery next to her son (Frank), husband (James), and 2nd Great-Granddaughter (Katrina Dawn Miller).
Her parents (Henry Elbert Hensley and Martha Jane Davis Hensley), as well as several siblings are buried west of her.
Fact--Her sister, Rillia Hensley, married James Miller's uncle, John Bunyan Dicken in 1901.
Delia's Granddaughter, Melba Hansard, has said that she was a kind and patient mother. She only punished two of her children once. The story goes that she asked her oldest children, Frank and Thelma-Irene (Melba's mother) to walk to the Cannon General Store and put a sack of sugar on the family tab. On the way home, Frank had a brilliant idea to climb on top of the chicken barn and feed the sugar to the animals. Melba said both children were punished, but at the same time, Delia was extremely disappointed in them. She supposedly wrote them a letter detailing her frustration. Melba believes she has the letter somewhere.
Unfortunately, a murder took place in the family, and from 1926-1931, she was called to testify as a character witness for her son, Otto Frank, who was killed by an irate police officer (Albert E. Lary). She never spoke of the trial, but she once yelled at Melba in the 1950's because she had bought her son, Doug Winham a toy gun.
She spent the last few years of her life living at the Calera, Oklahoma nursing home with her husband. She is buried at Cannon Cemetery next to her son (Frank), husband (James), and 2nd Great-Granddaughter (Katrina Dawn Miller).
Her parents (Henry Elbert Hensley and Martha Jane Davis Hensley), as well as several siblings are buried west of her.
Fact--Her sister, Rillia Hensley, married James Miller's uncle, John Bunyan Dicken in 1901.
Family Members
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James Porter Hensley
1867–1958
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Christopher Columbus "Lum" Hensley
1869–1947
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Elvena Louisa "Venie" Hensley McCarley
1871–1962
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Parillia Hensley Dicken
1875–1970
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Mary Elizabeth Hensley Woods
1879–1915
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Sallie Elizabeth Hensley Sells
1880–1967
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Grover Cleveland Hensley
1885–1969
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Clothilda Almeda "Lona" Hensley Davis
1886–1977