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Bessie Lee (?) was born on 26 June 1926.¹ She died on 24 August 2003, at age 77.¹ She was buried in Crescent Cemetery, Crescent, Logan, Oklahoma.¹

Zelma Estelle Holmes was born on 16 August 1911 in Oklahoma.¹ She and Walter Ray Denton were married about 1928.² She died on 27 January 1971, at age 59, in Sonoma, Sonoma, California.

Bobby Ray Denton was born on 5 March 1932 in Oklahoma.¹ He died about 1942 in Arizona.

Betty Joyce Denton was born on 6 December 1935 in Howard, Ellis, Texas.¹ She died on 19 December 1998, at age 63, in Westwood, Lassen, California.

Docia Ione (?) was born on 31 August 1911 in Oklahoma.¹ She and Thomas Parker Denton were married before 1937. She died on 5 March 2000, at age 88, in Taylor County, Texas.¹ She was buried in Arlington Memory Gardens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.¹

John Joseph Carney was born on 21 April 1867 in Orlando, Braxton, West Virginia.² He died on 15 January 1954, at age 86, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.² He was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.²

John Joseph Carney was educated in Virginia State University.³ He was a Lawyer/Judge.³ Died of Cerebral Hemorrhage following a 30day illness. Carney was a native of Weston, West Virginia, and was graduated from West Virginia State University in 1893. He came to Oklahoma that year, at the opening of the Cherokee strip. Later he practiced law at El Reno untill 1899, when he was elected county attorney and re-elected the next term. In 1906 he was named a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Guthrie. He was appointed district Judge in Oklahoma County by Gov. Haskell in 1910.
Carney was nominee of the Democratic party for congress in 1912 in the old second district and was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at Baltimore, Maryland. He retired here in 1949 from his offices in the Fidelity National Bank Building where he had practiced many years.
A member of the Catholic Church, he is survived by his wife Ida May, four sons Lee, Joe, J.B., & John Jr. Two step sons Jack Tellegen & Rue Clyde Bell. A step daughter Beulah Lee Simpson and 16 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

John Bryan Carney was born on 1 November 1896 in El Reno, Canadian, Oklahoma.¹ He died in September 1970, at age 73, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.¹