Surname Saturday: Thomas Wiley Huff and Leatha Norman Family

Thomas Wiley Huff
b. 29 Mar 1861, Alabama
d. 21 May 1931
& Leatha L. Norman
b. 3 Sep 1859, Alabama
d. 27 Sep 1909
m. 12 May 1879, Cave Springs, GA
|--Mary Emmer Huff
|----b. 10 Oct 1880, Savoy, Texas
|----d. 6 Feb 1967, Tulsa, Oklahoma
|---& John William Barrett
|----b. 17 Oct 1872
|----d. 21 Feb 1946
|----m. 26 Jan 1895, Trenton, Fannin, Texas
|--Thomas Joseph Huff
|----b. 15 Jul 1882, Texas
|----d. 9 Mar 1931, Seymour, Baylor, Texas
|---& Myrtle May Carter
|----b. 1 Sep 1888
|----d. 29 Jun 1959, Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
|----m. 29 Oct 1905
|--Charlie Wright Huff
|----b. 29 Jan 1885
|----d. 4 Mar 1895
|--William Franklin Huff
|----b. 16 Nov 1886, Trinity, Texas
|----d. 12 Mar 1919, Baylor Co., Texas
|---& Emerit Lillian Thurman
|----b. 11 Feb 1884
|----d. 5 Apr 1962, Wichita Falls, Texas
|----m. 16 Jan 1906
|--John Carl Huff
|----b. 4 Mar 1889
|----d. 30 Nov 1964, Seymour, Baylor, Texas
|--James Henry Huff
|----b. 16 Dec 1891
|----d. 3 Sep 1896
|--Benjamin Wylie Huff*
|----b. 3 Mar 1894, Trenton, Fannin, Texas
|----d. 17 May 1972, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|---& Eula May Houch
|----m. 6 Jun 1915
|--Benjamin Wylie Huff*
|----b. 3 Mar 1894, Trenton, Fannin, Texas
|----d. 17 May 1972, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|---& Cora
|----b. 6 Nov 1904
|----d. 29 Jun 1996, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|--Rebecca Valadie Huff
|----b. 19 Feb 1896, Texas
|----d. 13 Aug 1952, Jones, Texas
|---& Chester Lee Thurman
|----b. 8 Mar 1890, Sidney, Comanche, Texas
|----d. 22 Jul 1974, Anson, Jones, Texas
|----m. 1919
|--Leatha Annie Huff
|----b. 3 Jun 1898, Texas
|----d. 9 Nov 1984, Orange, California
|---& Huiet Herbert Williams
|----b. 25 May 1897, Texas
|----d. 23 Mar 1989, Los Angeles, California
|----m. 27 Aug 1916
|--Officer Harris Huff
|----b. 13 Jan 1901, Anson, Texas
|---- d. 19 Jul 1910

This is the family of Thomas Wiley Huff and Leatha Norman, who was the sister – and I believe that she was the younger sister – of my great-grandfather William Henry “Jack” Norman. Like Jack Norman, they appear to have ended up in Texas. As a matter of fact, it seems that they were the first to go out to Texas, because they appear on the 1880 census in Grayson County, Texas, whereas the rest of the family apparently came a year or two later.

I would love to share information with anyone related to/researching this family; you can contact me at my e-mail address, which can be found by going to my profile page (there is a link to that page in the About Me section to the left).

Family Newsletter Friday: 27 November 2009

Norman

Norman research has been interesting this week, and it has actually been a fairly productive week, the holiday notwithstanding. I have reached the part of the Inez Cline history where there are more gaps, but I can fill in some of these gaps.

Found Thomas Wiley Huff (finally) in the 1920 census; Ancestry family trees do not cite this census – he’s sort of hidden. He is bunched together with several of his children in Baylor County, Texas (my own home town – this is through my moms’ family, but the Normans are from my dad’s side): Thomas Joseph, Benjamin Wylie, and William Franklin’s widow Emerit Thurman Huff are all there together with their families. (I was able to use the Salt Pork to Sirloin: History of Baylor County books to help research this family.)

What I’m really enjoying is working with Texas Death Certificates (from Family Search Record Search) again – they contain so much information. Luther M. Huff appears to have been born the day after his father (William Franklin Huff) died of pneumonia and smallpox. Charlie Wylie Huff, son of Thomas Joseph Huff and Myrtle May Carter, died of tuberculosis in 1935 at the age of 28.

Some of these Norman families are in Texas – lots of information; some in California – quite a bit of information; some in Oklahoma – not so much. I wish there were more resources for Oklahoma; there are also a lot of Brinlees there.

Miscellaneous

Found out this week that Vickie Everhart of BeNotForgot and I are related! We are something like 8th cousins, with Christopher Clark, son of Sallie Ann Moorman and Micajah Clark, as our common ancestor.

Many thanks to TCasteel at Tangled Trees for the tip on the 50% savings on Footnote subscriptions for Black Friday! I took advantage and have finally subscribed!