Obit of Northcut, Nancy Essie (n632) - Cleveland County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 10 Sep 2003 Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html +========================================================================+ USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm +========================================================================+ Transcriber Notice: Please note that I am only transcribing this information and do not have any affiliation with this family. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 12, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat Nancy Essie Northcutt, 107 Nancy Essie Northcutt, Lexington, passed away Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003. She was preceded in death by her husband of 72 years, sons O.V. Northcutt, Whiteplains, N.Y., and Bernus Northcutt, who lost his life in World War II. She was also preceded in death by grandson John Northcutt, Ponca City, and infant granddaughter Elizabeth Northcutt, daughter of Paul and Sally Northcutt, Ponca City. Of her 103 descendants, 99 survive her. Nancy Essie Homer and Walter G. Northcutt were married in October, 1915, in Alabama. They and their infant son, C.D. Northcutt, left the worn-out soil of Alabama and the boll weevils in 1916, for the black loam soil of Lexington. Walter was a sharecropper-cotton farmer, and the couple were biblical. God said ‘Go forth and replenish the earth’ and they did. The had 10 children, seven boys and three girls. It has been said the soil around Lexington had a high vitamin content. The first six children were boys and the neighbors would say to Walter he almost had enough boys for a baseball team. All six of the boys served in World War II, one in the Army, one in the Navy, one in the Marines and three in the Air Corps. Her children in order of birth were C.D. Northcutt, Ponca City, O.V. Northcutt (deceased), Col. Carol Northcutt, Hernando, Fla., Bernus Northcutt (deceased), N.B. Northcutt, Durant, Paul Northcutt, Ponca City, Rubye Scull, Oklahoma City, Evelyn Hull, Bixby, Jonni York, Norman, and Walter Northcutt Jr., Oklahoma City. Some people think it strange they named the tenth child Jr. Walter Northcutt taught his children hard work and garden-variety honesty. Essie Northcutt never left the place except to go to church on Sunday. She believed in her children, and told them so. She wanted them to have a good education, since the only education she ever had was to the eight grade in Alabama. All of them went to the University of Oklahoma. They had to work their way, since the family was large and the only support they could get from home was love and encouragement. She told them someday they would amount to something, and be somebody. Of her ten children, she had two lawyers, a printer-engraver, and Air Force Colonel, a Marine Lieutenant who lost his life in World War II, a pharmacist, a missionary to Indonesia, two beautiful mothers and homemakers who had careers of their own, and a C.P.A. Essie Northcutt was 107 years old. She was born July 7, 1896, and lived in three separate centuries. In Alabama, she saw an automobile coming through the woods and had no idea what it was. She had problems with motion sickness when riding in an automobile, and when she and her husband Walter went to an R.E.A. Convention in Atlantic City, she took a Dramamine before she got on the jet, and said later she really enjoyed the flight, had no trouble, but she got there before the Dramamine took effect. When her oldest son C.D. asked her one day how she felt about being in the nursing home, which she entered at age 99, she answered him, ‘Clarence (that was his name from birth), I’ve always adjusted to whatever is necessary, and this is necessary. However, I never dreamed it would happen this soon.’ Her family has celebrated her birthdays for the last 15 years. These celebrations started with dinner Friday night in Norman, a golf tournament Saturday (usually 8-12 foursomes), and lunch Sunday at the Stateroom at the Northwest Hilton Hotel, Oklahoma City. At her 100th birthday party, there were 160 for lunch. At her 107th birthday party, July 7, 2003, there were 108. At the dinner and luncheon, she was swarmed by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren. She was the most revered one in the family. There will be a visitation 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church, Lexington. Arrangements are with Little Funeral Home, Purcell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html