Johnston, OK - Gaddis

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                                   GADDIS
                                      
   My mother, Julia Marie Gaddis, along with her brothers and sisters
   were born in Tishomingo. Their parents are William Gaddis and Bettie
   Lee Sheppard. He was born in 1883,place not verified,Tn.Ok.or Tx.),
   married Bettie Lee Sheppard in 1906 in Milburn,Ok. He moved with his
   family to Texas in 1929, and moved to a farm in 1938 where he
   purchased 35 acres of prime bottom land where he supported his large
   family with the large varity of crops, as well as the
   beef,ham,chickens, etc. usually found on the farm.
   
   William Gaddis had a brother, Benjamin "Ben" Gaddis, as well as some
   other family members.
   
   William Gaddis is found as a 12 yr. old, living with his aunt Sally,
   in a questionable "house of ill repute", and being sited for selling
   illegal whiskey. This was still in the time of the Indian Territory.
   His father, Allen C. Gaddis,married Alice Ann Rogers,Wheeler,
   Whalin,Chapman, in Lamar County, and then disappeared. Some say he
   went back north where he was killed by a train. Anyone know or heard
   of them.