Called "Goldia" during her growing up years.
1905 Wm J Parsons met Maybelle in the spring of 1905 while he was traveling through the eastern Kansas community with a horse and buggy. A friend, on his deathbed, had asked Parsons to deliver the buggy to his widow. Parsons stopped to water his horse at a community well near the Peck farm home at Neosho Rapids, Kansas, and asked for directions to Rantoul, near Reading, KS.
Parsons said this beautiful girl offered him a drink of well water from a gourd dipper and he was unable to forget her. The girl became his bride a few months later. The country Methodist church was decorated with wildflowers and vows read at 8 pm by Rev. Stranahan. The newlyweds left Kansas immediately for Wm J's homestead, their new home in Oklahoma Territory near the frontier town of Alva. They stopped so Maybelle could meet her new brother and sister in law, John and Sina Parsons.
1910 census Alva Twp, Woods Co, Oklahoma
Parsons, William J., age 40 born ca 1870 IN, IN, Maine, English, farmer, Owned farm 39 animals
Maybelle E., wife, 22, 1st marr, 4 yrs, 1 ch 1 liv, KS, NY, IN, english,
Leonard E. son, 13 mo, OK, IN, KS
Some 50 years later, Maybelle wrote her granddaughter a letter on her engagement. Maybelle talked about her life as a young bride on the prairie, and said she got lonesome in their frontier home and walked across the pasture to the field where her husband was working. A devil's claw caught on her ankle. She thought it was a snake biting her and was sure she would die. She almost never forgave her husband because when she finally reached him, running and crying, he saw the devil's claw and laughed.
1905 Wm J Parsons met Maybelle in the spring of 1905 while he was traveling through the eastern Kansas community with a horse and buggy. A friend, on his deathbed, had asked Parsons to deliver the buggy to his widow. Parsons stopped to water his horse at a community well near the Peck farm home at Neosho Rapids, Kansas, and asked for directions to Rantoul, near Reading, KS.
Parsons said this beautiful girl offered him a drink of well water from a gourd dipper and he was unable to forget her. The girl became his bride a few months later. The country Methodist church was decorated with wildflowers and vows read at 8 pm by Rev. Stranahan. The newlyweds left Kansas immediately for Wm J's homestead, their new home in Oklahoma Territory near the frontier town of Alva. They stopped so Maybelle could meet her new brother and sister in law, John and Sina Parsons.
1910 census Alva Twp, Woods Co, Oklahoma
Parsons, William J., age 40 born ca 1870 IN, IN, Maine, English, farmer, Owned farm 39 animals
Maybelle E., wife, 22, 1st marr, 4 yrs, 1 ch 1 liv, KS, NY, IN, english,
Leonard E. son, 13 mo, OK, IN, KS
Some 50 years later, Maybelle wrote her granddaughter a letter on her engagement. Maybelle talked about her life as a young bride on the prairie, and said she got lonesome in their frontier home and walked across the pasture to the field where her husband was working. A devil's claw caught on her ankle. She thought it was a snake biting her and was sure she would die. She almost never forgave her husband because when she finally reached him, running and crying, he saw the devil's claw and laughed.
Called "Goldia" during her growing up years.
1905 Wm J Parsons met Maybelle in the spring of 1905 while he was traveling through the eastern Kansas community with a horse and buggy. A friend, on his deathbed, had asked Parsons to deliver the buggy to his widow. Parsons stopped to water his horse at a community well near the Peck farm home at Neosho Rapids, Kansas, and asked for directions to Rantoul, near Reading, KS.
Parsons said this beautiful girl offered him a drink of well water from a gourd dipper and he was unable to forget her. The girl became his bride a few months later. The country Methodist church was decorated with wildflowers and vows read at 8 pm by Rev. Stranahan. The newlyweds left Kansas immediately for Wm J's homestead, their new home in Oklahoma Territory near the frontier town of Alva. They stopped so Maybelle could meet her new brother and sister in law, John and Sina Parsons.
1910 census Alva Twp, Woods Co, Oklahoma
Parsons, William J., age 40 born ca 1870 IN, IN, Maine, English, farmer, Owned farm 39 animals
Maybelle E., wife, 22, 1st marr, 4 yrs, 1 ch 1 liv, KS, NY, IN, english,
Leonard E. son, 13 mo, OK, IN, KS
Some 50 years later, Maybelle wrote her granddaughter a letter on her engagement. Maybelle talked about her life as a young bride on the prairie, and said she got lonesome in their frontier home and walked across the pasture to the field where her husband was working. A devil's claw caught on her ankle. She thought it was a snake biting her and was sure she would die. She almost never forgave her husband because when she finally reached him, running and crying, he saw the devil's claw and laughed.
1905 Wm J Parsons met Maybelle in the spring of 1905 while he was traveling through the eastern Kansas community with a horse and buggy. A friend, on his deathbed, had asked Parsons to deliver the buggy to his widow. Parsons stopped to water his horse at a community well near the Peck farm home at Neosho Rapids, Kansas, and asked for directions to Rantoul, near Reading, KS.
Parsons said this beautiful girl offered him a drink of well water from a gourd dipper and he was unable to forget her. The girl became his bride a few months later. The country Methodist church was decorated with wildflowers and vows read at 8 pm by Rev. Stranahan. The newlyweds left Kansas immediately for Wm J's homestead, their new home in Oklahoma Territory near the frontier town of Alva. They stopped so Maybelle could meet her new brother and sister in law, John and Sina Parsons.
1910 census Alva Twp, Woods Co, Oklahoma
Parsons, William J., age 40 born ca 1870 IN, IN, Maine, English, farmer, Owned farm 39 animals
Maybelle E., wife, 22, 1st marr, 4 yrs, 1 ch 1 liv, KS, NY, IN, english,
Leonard E. son, 13 mo, OK, IN, KS
Some 50 years later, Maybelle wrote her granddaughter a letter on her engagement. Maybelle talked about her life as a young bride on the prairie, and said she got lonesome in their frontier home and walked across the pasture to the field where her husband was working. A devil's claw caught on her ankle. She thought it was a snake biting her and was sure she would die. She almost never forgave her husband because when she finally reached him, running and crying, he saw the devil's claw and laughed.
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