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Osia (Ocie) Orabelle Hastings was born on 6 December 1904 in Greer County, Oklahoma.^1,2 She and Jasper Jessie James Proctor were married on 29 April 1921 in Tahoka, Lynn, Texas.² She and Jasper Jessie James Proctor were divorced before 23 May 1950. She died on 20 November 1964, at age 59, in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas.² She was buried in Terry County Memorial Cemetery, Brownfield, Terry, Texas.

Lillian Francis Franklin was born on 11 August 1904 in Stigler, Haskell, Oklahoma.^1,3,4 She and Curtis Austin Hastings were married about 1924.¹ She died on 10 February 1997, at age 92, in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.^3,4 She was buried in Fairview Cemetery (Block 9, Lot 15), Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.⁴

Curtis Austin Hastings, Jr., was born on 25 February 1925 in Terry County, Texas.^1,2,3 He died on 6 March 1987, at age 62, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.^4,3 He was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.^33,5

Ruel Ray Hastings was born on 18 October 1927 in Terry County, Texas.^1,2,3 He and Helen Laverne Allen were married about 1974.⁴ He died on 17 October 1983, at age 55.^5,3 He was buried in Arlington Memory Gardens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.³³

Dixie Jannelle Hastings was born on 9 February 1930 in Brownfield, Terry, Texas.^1,3 She died on 11 July 1978, at age 48, in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.³ She was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.³

Robert (Bob) Jay Hastings was born on 16 November 1939 in Ganado, Jackson, Texas.^1,2,3,4 He died on 16 December 2011, at age 72, in Cleveland County, Oklahoma.^3,4 He was buried in Fairview Cemetery (Block 9, Lot 15), Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, Cremated.^3,5

Shawnee resident Robert "Bob" Hastings , 72, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at the V.A. Hospital.

He was born Nov. 16, 1939, in Ganado, Texas, to Curtis and Lillian Hastings.

He was retired and loved his old trucks.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Curtis and Lillian Hastings; two brothers, Curtis Jr. and Ray Hastings; and sister, Dixie Hastings.

He is survived by one son, Robert Hastings Jr. and wife, Sandy; two grandchildren, Jessica and Josh Hastings, of whom he was justly proud; one sister, Joyce Gulley; brother, Jerry and Mary Hastings; and numerous nieces and nephews.

There will be no memorial, because he was an organ donor and was cremated.

The Shawnee News-Star - Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Body donated to medical science.

William Samuel Adams was born on 28 October 1888 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,3 He and Helen Maude Cobeen were married on 21 February 1912 in Plains, Sanders, Montana.¹ He died on 23 November 1979, at age 91, in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3 He was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte, California.⁴

Autobiography, written by William Samuel Adams, original had no date.

I was born in what is now Oklahoma, between the Wasatch Red River and the Red River which at that time was in a dispute between Texas and Indian Territory over the boundary line. It was in Prairie County, and very few people lived there, and was 45 miles from the nearest railroad. The only transportation we had was a wagon team and horse back riding. My folks went from Texas to Oklahoma with a horse and ox hooked to a borrowed wagon. They built a house of cottonwood logs, and covered it with boards and dirt. There were no people in the county at that time, but they did have a little town with a store or two and a drug store and a Doctor. Trail drives drove cattle from Texas north into Kansas and Nebraska. One trail went near the town where we lived and the cowboys stopped quite often when they were going by. The town was also close to to the Indian Reservation and when the Indians would get a little money to spend, they would come across the river and stop at the town. I saw as many as 5,000 Indians camped around town at one time. In those days the Indians wore blankets. They didn't wear any other clothing other than the blanket. They would wrap the blanket around them, and roll and twist them and they would stay pretty good.

The first thing I can remember was a flood on the River at my grandmas place, where the water came up into the dugout. My Uncle and I were pulling weeds and putting them around the well and bagging it with dirt. When he came out of there the water was halfway to his knees, he backed up and started building a levy around the front door, but it soon went over that. My grandmother was moving the stuff out of the house. We got everything out but the cook stove, but it was hot so we couldn't move it. The next morning when I woke up my Father was in the house. They had already taken the boards out of the floor when the water had gone down, and when they finished with the floor they started on the roof. They used the logs and salvaged boards to build another house up the hill farther which my Uncle had already started. At that time Aunt Mal was down at Verna, Texas going to a summer school which is the best thing I can remember. I know she was away from home but she went anywhere she could get a school to teach. She would also go to those summer schools in the summer time.

I was riding horses and driving horses before I was able to get on them. They would have to pick me up and set me on, and then I could ride it. I guess that's the reason I have no use for horses today, because we have no use for them, and they are an expensive luxury. I use to have to ride them in the spring to bring in the cows with young calves. We put them in the corral for a week or ten days to keep the coyotes from getting them.

I put in about two hours each morning looking after the cattle. They ranged over about two square miles of land. We had a few head to start with and built up to where we had over 100 head, which we disposed of in 1903. We got $11.00 a head for some, $20.00 for some, and $25.00 for a few.

I spent more time with my grandmother and Aunt Mal than I did at home up until I was 12 or 13 years old. I had an attack of Minal Meningitis when I was about seven years old. I wasn't able to do a great deal after that except ride that horse around and look after the cattle, until I was about 12 or 13 years old, then I got so I could work fairly good.

In the fall of the year when the cotton was ready to pick everyone picked cotton. People in those days lived on little or nothing, but there wasn't anyone on welfare. We would take corn and grind it, and make corn meal and use it to make cornbread. If we ran out of corn we would use wheat and even milloe or capricorn. We always had something to eat and we raised 10 or 12 hogs and killed them and had enough meat to last a whole year. We always kept a few chickens and had eggs, and chicken to eat, but there wasn't any market for them. Eggs were worth a nickel a dozen.

In 1896 they settled the country up for homesteading. There were people that came in there from all parts of the country that homesteaded land. At that time my Mothers Father nearly came there to get homestead land. My Fathers folks were already there.

In about 1903 they started moving out and going to other parts of the country. Most of them went to Texas. In 1901 or 1902 Uncle Will Snell went to Old Mexico. In 1903 Uncle Rob Snell and Grandpa Snell went to Western Texas.

In those days there were lots of highway robberies and desperados that came through the country. One time I remember Aunt Mal took me with her to Atlas. There was glass all over the sidewalk. We found out that the desperados had come in there that night and made the storeman open the store. They got some grub to eat and told him to open the safe. When he went back into the office where the safe was he ducked through the back door. They shot at him, and hit him in the arm, but they didn't get the safe open.

It was ten miles to Atlas and quite often I would have to ride over there on horseback to get something or do something to keep from loosing time on the place that my father had to do.

There wasn't much wood in that country to burn, so they would go across the river into Indian territory to get wood. The federal marshall would come in once in awhile to catch them. When the Federal Marshal was around they would try to keep from going over there, but when they would catch them they would haul them around for maybe a month or six weeks before they would turn them loose, and they wouldn't do anything with them. That was the only way we had of getting anything to use in the stove, until the railroad came through in 1903, and then they brought coal.

I went to Blue Valley to school and my Aunt Mal was the teacher. We went about three months that fall and then the next spring we had another school at Besel that was a little closer to home. We stayed in Besel for 2 or 3 months , and then in the fall we went to Union school for 3 or 4 months. That was in 1896, but Blue Valley school was in the fall of 1895. In 1897 I went to Navajoe school for a couple of months. In 1897 we went down through Texas, Fort Worth and Johnson County where Aunt Rose Hastings lived, and also Uncle Charlie Snell, and then on into Boskie county where Uncle Jim Adams lived, and also Aunt Laura Deaton. We came back through Chalk Mountain Texas in Navaroe county. That is where my Grandmother Snell is buried. There we spent about 5 or 6 weeks on that trip using a wagon and team.

We made another trip up through the northern part of Oklahoma into the northern part of Texas down through Amarillo, and back through Qualla Texas, and we were gone about 5 or 6 weeks on that trip.

We used wheat and oats and cotton malimaze with sardam. We would use the sardam for feed for the cattle in the winter time and also feed them a little cotton seed when there was snow on the ground. The uplands where we lived didn't grow very good corn, so we used to rent land down near the river (sandy land) to raise Capricorn on.

In 1894 we lived on my Uncles place on the river. That was where they had the flood in 1891 and we had a crop of corn there that year. That was about 7 or 8 miles from where we lived on the uplands near the Navajoe Mountains. That fall after we harvested the crop my Uncle traded that piece of land for a piece up by where we lived. He only lived for about a year after that and he died of a heart attack about June 1895. He started to Quasta Texas with a wagon and team and had a heart attack. He met a sheriff from the county and he told him about it and the sheriff told him to turn around and go back home and I'll follow you. When they got home it was about dark. They unharnessed the horses and turned them loose in the corral and he turned to the sheriff and asked him to help him in the house and said he didn't feel very well, but he died before they got him into the house.

There wasn't very many wells in that country and we had to haul water 3/4 of a mile from grandmas well. In the summer time we would make a trip and haul a barrel of water every day, and that was to eat, wash and water for the hogs. We didn't waste any. All water that we used was poured into a pail, and was taken out and given to the hogs. That was the way they got their water to drink, and even at that we raised good hogs.

We had a piece of land about 3 or 4 acres, but it was sage and trees and the peaches were small, but we sold the peaches for 50 cents a bushel, and they came to get all we had. We never lost any or threw any away. That was the only fruit in the county. We would go down on the river and there were wild plums, and we would go up on the mountains and pick wild currents. We also had a row of currants in the peach orchard, and that was good eating for us kids anyway. We also had a few gooseberries, but they didn't do to well.

In those days we could get 8 or 9 pounds of coffee for a dollar, and anywhere from 16 to 19 pounds of sugar for a dollar, so it didn't cost much to live. We always had a garden and cabbage, potatoes, onions, and vegetables in the summer time, also okra and peas. The wild game we had in that country was Bobwhite and Partridge, and there wrnt to many of them. They were pretty well scattered, but we did have a flock that stayed around the orchard because there was some protection in there.

I was the oldest and my first brother younger than me died when he was 4 years old. Two of my sisters died when they were infants. My Mother was killed in 1910 when a horse ran away with her. It was on May 8th when she died. She was unconscious for 3 days after the buggy turned over with her and fractured her skull.

My Mothers death happened after we came to Gridley California in January 1906. We went back to Blue Valley Texas for about 3 months, but we came back to California because we liked it better than the Texas country.

The old grain growers were all broke. They had anywhere from 800 to 1500 acres of land, but still couldn't make a living. They started to irrigate, but didn't have any use for irrigation districts, and said they couldn't see how anyone could make a living on 20 or 30 acres of land when they couldn't make it on 1200 acres. They started growing alfalfa and fruit, and some of them made it through until the depression of 1932. The there was a lot of them that went broke, and were forced out. Everyone had a few cows, and milked them and sold cream. That way they had something to eat, and they also had eggs. In those days they had it fixed so you couldn't sell the eggs, and also they put the dairies all out of business, so there wasn't anything left but fruit crops where we lived.

There was different kinds of work from what we had in Oklahoma, but I always had a job on a farm somewhere, but I never saw a time when I couldn't get a job. I pitched hay, worked in the fruit. I worked in the nurseries, and worked in orchards pruning. I also had to learn to irrigate. That was quite a trick when the land wasn't leveled. In those days we didn't have any way to level the land. We had horses and scrapers which were slow, and also expensive because it took a lot of time to move a little dirt.

The first thing I did when I went to work for myself was to rent 40 acres of alfalfa and had 10 or 12 cows to milk and I'd milk cows, and put up the hay, and do the irrigation, and work outside besides. That way I managed to get by.

In 1911 after I farmed the area I went up to Plains Montana and Married Helen Maude Cobeen. They had lived down near us for several years, but her father had drawn a homestead allotment on the Flathead reservation, and they moved up there in 1910. We raised 5 children, and my wife died of a paraltie stroke in 1934.

It has been 57 years since I have been in Plains Montana, but my granddaughter Jolene Briggs who is a school teacher in Plains wants me to come up , and see them, and I couldn't resist the temptation.

This is my last long trip for travels and when I get off of this I am staying close to home because I am now past 80 years old and its hard to get around after you get to be that old. My ancestors have been in the United States for 300 or 400 years. One branch came in 1611 and another in 1712. A few of the lines I haven't been able to trace to far back, but still the grandchildren of mine have got me working on their ancestors and I found it quite interesting.

Eddie Leland Adams was born on 10 January 1891 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,2 He died on 18 January 1893, at age 2, in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,2 He was buried in Navajo Cemetery, Jackson County, Oklahoma.²

Elizabeth Louella Adams was born on 20 August 1892 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,3 She died on 19 May 1977, at age 84, in Paramount, Los Angeles, California.^1,3

Clara Annie Adams was born on 22 May 1894 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^2,3,4 She and Oscar Clarence Keifer were married on 21 June 1916 in Gridley, Butte, California.¹ She died on 3 January 1988, at age 93, in Union City, Alameda, California.^1,3,4 She was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery (Section 1, Block 1, Lot 46, Space 2), Gridley, Butte, California.⁴

Lillian Georgian Adams was born on 6 February 1896 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.² She died on 11 April 1896, at age 0, in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,2 She was buried in Navajo Cemetery, Jackson County, Oklahoma.²

Jessie Mae Adams was born on 13 March 1897 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,4 She and William Frederick Detling were married on 28 March 1920 in Los Angeles County, California.¹ She died on 4 September 1944, at age 47, in Oroville, Butte, California.^1,4 She was buried on 8 September 1944 in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte, California.⁵

Jessie Mae Adams was a Seamstress.⁶

Rose Laura Adams was born on 11 January 1899 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,2 She died on 22 March 1899, at age 0, in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,2 She was buried in Navajo Cemetery, Jackson County, Oklahoma.²

Velma Rae Adams was born on 20 August 1900 in Navajoe, Greer, Oklahoma.^1,3 She and Albert Williams Simmonds were married about 1920.⁴ She died on 7 January 1983, at age 82, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California.^1,3

Francis (Frank) Adams, Jr., was born on 10 July 1905 in Headrick, Jackson, Oklahoma.^1,3 He and Nellie Smith were married on 28 June 1926 in Gridley, Butte, California.¹ He died on 12 August 1963, at age 58, in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3 He was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery (Section 5, Block 2, Lot 115, Space 7), Gridley, Butte, California.³

Francis (Frank) Adams, Jr., was a Garage Machinist.⁴

Lauretta Adaline Adams was born on 23 October 1908 in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3 She and Ole Jens Jarvis were married on 28 July 1924 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada.¹ She died on 15 September 1993, at age 84, in San Bruno, San Mateo, California.^1,3

Helen Maude Cobeen was born on 16 April 1888 in Manly, Worth, Iowa.^1,3 She and William Samuel Adams were married on 21 February 1912 in Plains, Sanders, Montana.¹ She died on 1 July 1934, at age 46, in Oroville, Butte, California.^1,3 She was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte, California.³

Willard Edward Adams was born on 15 December 1912 in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3,4 He and Dorothy M. Hansen were married about 1938.⁵ He died on 25 November 1992, at age 79, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.^1,3,4 He was buried Cremated-Ashes Spread at Sea.

Lenora Clara Adams was born on 20 January 1915 in Sacramento, Sacramento, California.^1,3 She and Elvin Joseph Edwards were married on 15 October 1934 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada.¹ She and James L. Hambel were married on 15 September 1945.¹ She died on 8 December 1972, at age 57, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California.^1,3

Kenneth Leroy Adams was born on 8 May 1916 in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3,4 He died on 5 December 1993, at age 77, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California.^1,3,4 He was buried in Fair Oaks Cemetery (North West-Q-12 DDB), Fair Oaks, Sacramento, California.⁴

Clarence Joseph Adams was born on 13 October 1917 in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3 He and Allice Ellen Curtin were married on 4 May 1943 in Pierce County, Washington.⁴ He died on 1 November 1994, at age 77, in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,3 He was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery (Vets Section Niches), Gridley, Butte, California.⁴

CLARENCE JOE ADAMS
CMM US NAVY WWII KOREA
OCT 13 1917 - NOV 1 1994
PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR
ALICE ELLEN ADAMS
DEC 28 1920 - SEP 2 2012.

Ralph Albert Cobeen Adams was born on 23 November 1918 in Gridley, Butte, California.^1,2,4 He and Elida June Hammons were married on 23 February 1938 in Yuba City, Sutter, California.¹ He and Mette Tine were married on 17 December 1959.⁴ He died on 10 December 1994, at age 76, in Eureka, Humboldt, California.^1,2,4 He was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte, California.⁴

Ralph Albert Cobeen Adams was a Farm Laborer.⁵

Dorothy M. Hansen was born on 24 March 1915 in Sacramento County, California. She and Willard Edward Adams were married about 1938.² She died on 17 November 2009, at age 94, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.

Dorothy M. Hansen was educated in University of California BA- California History.³ She was a Medical Social Worker in San Joaquin General Hospital.³ Dorothy Adams
Mar. 24, 1915 - Nov. 17, 2009
Obituary
Stockton, CA
Published in The Record on Nov. 21, 2009

Dorothy Adams, age 94, of Stockton, CA passed away on November 17, 2009.

She was born Dorothy Hansen on March 24, 1915 in Sacramento, CA. Her paternal grandparents came from Denmark, and her maternal grandparents were from England and early settlers in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Her family moved to Alameda-Oakland area where she was raised, and also as a young girl enjoyed visiting her Grandparents home in Sacramento during the summers.

Dorothy attended Sacramento City College where she received her AA Degree, then graduated from University of California - Berkeley where she earned her BA Degree in California history. She was employed by General Motors, worked in the Accounting Dept at Pearl Harbor, and then worked at San Joaquin General Hospital as a medical social worker from 1962 - 1981. She was a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Assn and the San Joaquin County Retired Employees Assn.

Her husband of 54 years, Willard E. Adams preceded her in death on November 23, 1992. Dorothy is survived by a son, Donald E. Adams; daughters, Margaret Hill and Joyce Adams-Sievers; also 5 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, and 2 great-great grandchildren.

A private family committal service will be held. Memorial contributions may be made in Dorothy Adams memory to Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95204. Please sign the online registry and share memories at www.cherokeememorial.com Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.