Doyel Newberry Family History - Leflore County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Paula Doyle-Bicket 18 Jun 2006 Return to Leflore County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/leflore/leflore.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== MARIES COUNTY MISSOURI – HISTORY CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE DOYEL NEWBERRY FAMILIES The first recorded appearance of either the Doyel or Newberry families in Maries County affairs in on October 6, 1826, on which date Farmer Doyel and Mary (Polly) Newberry were married by William Coppedge, Justice of the Peace of Gasconade County (Coppedge's seat of Jus­tice was on Little Piney, between present Newburg and its mouth). Neither of the parties was yet of age, the groom having been born April 24, 1806, and the bride on September 16 of the same year. Both were no doubt born in Tennessee, and the exact date of their coming here, and whether or not the families came together, is not known. Farmer Doyel and James Newberry, probably the father of Polly, are the sole members of the families of those names on the Gasconade County tax list for 1828. Farmer Doyel was a millwright. When the government surveyed that township in 1834, he was living on land in Spring Creek Township at or very near the present home of L. A. Hodge on a 'Trace' that led from Lanes Prairie southwesterly across Spring Creek to the settlements near present Newburg. The survey shows that he had a field of considerable extent, so he must have lived therefor some years before the survey was made, in fact, it may have been his first home here. His millsite on the creek near the Hodge place is not known exactly, but he had one there, giving the name Mill Creek to the stream. It may be that after this he improved the site later known as Spencer's Mill on Spring Creek, for the Spencers bought the place after they came to this county from some one whose name has not been preserved. We know that Doyel lived on Mill Creek and in that vicinity until some time in the early fifties, when he moved to the west side of the river and settled on the Smallwood Branch of Indian Creek, just east of Vienna and about a half a mile from Indian Ford. Here he built another mill on the main fork of the creek just south of his house, which stood on the little point of land just north of the Indian Ford road, and here he died in the middle fifties. He had filed claim on the lands where his last mill stood, probably the only land he ever owned, but never completed proving up on it. The entry was later completed in the name of his son, Robert Doyel. His widow survived him many years, dying at the home of her son Thomas on Prairie Creek, something like thirty years after the death of her husband. In common with all the other early settlers, Farmer Doyel did about as much hunting as anything else, and it was while so engaged that he located the lead deposit on Mill Creek from which he thereafter got his supply for bullets, but which has never been found since his death. Some of his children accompanied him to it while they were small, but all efforts to locate it since his death have failed. It is known to have been not far from his home. His discovery takes its place with the Weldon Mine in the Barnwell settlement as one of the lost mines of this section, The children who went with him, being small and chiefly interested in the product of the mine rather than its location, remembered it as a solid body of ore as far as it was exposed, a distance of several feet. As the same general description applied to the Newberry Mine, it is generally believed they were one and the same. Farmer Doyel and his wife were the parents of ten children living to maturity; Robert the oldest, born December 24, 1828, married Elizabeth Payne and was the father of three children at the time his father died. Shortly after that event he moved to Texas, after which nothing of a definite nature was ever heard of him. The report most generally credited is that he enlisted in the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the war and was killed in action. Another report is that after his death an epidemic of measles carried off his widow and two of their children. All connections have been brokenbetween any of his descendants and the remaining members of the family for at least seventy-five years. Elizabeth Doyel, the second child, born November 29, 1830, married Bert Dill. She was the mother of one child, Mary Elizabeth, later the wife of 'Lum' Sneed, whose three sons by this marriage, Lafayette, William, and Perry, are all living. Thomas Doyel, the third child and the best known of the family, was born June 28, 1832, and died June 18, 1902. He was married about 1854 to Susan D. Everett, who was born in Tennessee May 21, 1835, and diedhere December 29, 1922. She came to Missouri a few years before her marriage with her mother, Jane Everett, her sister, the wife of Crittenden Roach, and her half-brother and sister, John and Eliza Ann Bilyeu, the children of her mother's first marriage. Eliza Ann later married Nicholas (Bully K) Cox Senior. Thomas Doyel and his family lived here until about 1859, when they, too, moved to Texas, but only stayed a little over a year. Starting back to Missouri, they were caught behind the Confederate lines in Arkansas, and the dangers encountered in crossing the No Man's Land of south Missouri were so great that the family lived in Arkansas until the close of the war. Returning to this county after the conflict, they settled on Prairie Creek, where they made their home the balance of their lives. Of the ten children born of their marriage, one, Eliza A„ died in infancy; Susan P., widow of H, W. Perkins, born February 25, 1863, lives on the home place at the mouth of Clifty; and John C. Doyel, born March 1, 1973, who spent most of his life on Prairie Creek, now lives in Dixon. The other seven who lived to maturity and have passed away are: William F. Doyel, born November 15, 1855, who died December 8, 1915; his wife who was Lottie J. Minzes, is also dead, as is James Doyel, one of the seven children born to them. The latter married Mary, daughter of Perry Wilson, who survives, as do their five children, LeRoy, James, Alvin, and Shelby, of this county, and Mary, now Mrs. St. Cyr of St. Louis County. The six living children of William F. and Lottie Doyel are: Thomas, Henderson, and Paralee, wife of William Bull, of this county; Glenn of Phelps County; Minnie, wife of William Pleasantof St. Louis; and Mary, widow of Albert Ballard and now wife of Henry Ousley of Orange, Texas. Mary J. Doyel, daughter of Thomas, born November 4, 1857, married Joseph N. Grempczynski and spent all her married life in the High Point neighborhood in Pulaski County where she died in 1939, and where her son, Thomas, still lives. Her daughter, Amanda, wife of Arch Branson, lives in Dixon, and the remaining son, John, in St. Louis. Rebecca E. Doyel, born October 20, 1860, married J. R. Evans. She died March 24, 1932, survived by her widower, who still lives in Maries County, and by seven of the nine children born to them who lived to maturity: Clinton and Mary, wife of J. C. Copeland on Dry Creek; James H. and Clay in St. Louis; Ellsworth and Simon in Colorado, and Anna, now Mrs. Turner, near Columbia. Two children, Charles and George, are dead. Charles first married Bessie Helton who bore him two children, Clay of this county and Floyd of St. Louis. His second wife and widow was Lizzie Vaughan, who lives in this )County near Dixon with their three children, Mary Ellen, Martha Lucille, and Charles Hood Evans. George Evans married Isabelle Freese, now Mrs. Stefani, of St. Louis, and left three children, Grace, Virginia, and LeRoy, all of St. Louis. All are married, but the girls' married names are not at hand. Joseph H. Doyel, born December 10, 1865, married Mary, daughter of Thomas E, Wilson; he served as Sheriff of Maries County in the nineties. Soon afterwards he moved to St. Louis where he spent many years on the police force. He had retired some years prior to his death in St. Louis November 6, 1934. His widow and their six children, Aubrey, Dorsey, Loyd, Austin, Ross, and Dorothy, wife of John Rule, all live in St. Louis and St. Louis County. Amanda D. Doyel, born May 24, 1868, married George Mosby, who was born February 23, 1865. They lived the first part of their married life in this county, afterwards moving to Dixon where Mrs. Mosby died January 19, 1933, and where her widower and one of their children, Mrs. Hattie McFirr, still live. The other children are: Mrs. Georgia Schiefelbein of Scott City, Kansas; Joe and Fred Mosby of St. Louis or Granite City; and Dora who died single. George T. Doyel, son of Thomas, born August 1, 1870, died March 22, 1936. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas A, Wilson, who survives him at the home place on the upper Maries where they lived most of their married life. The three living children of this marriage are Thomas of Botna, Iowa, and Mrs. Lillie Jones and Mrs. Charles Nelson both of St. Louis. The remaining child, James Everett Doyel, born July 20, 1899, was killed in an auto wreck near Detroit April 2, 1937; he was married December 26, 1933, to Lillie E. Drewer, who survives and now lives near on in Seymour with the one daughter born of their marriage. James P. Doyel, the youngest son and with the exception of Eliza A. the youngest child of Thomas Doyel, was born February 17, 1876, and died June 29, 1922. He married Anna, daughter of Simon Hankey, also now deceased, as is Orville Doyel, one of the six children born of their marriage. The five living are Edith, wife of William Edgar, and Augusta, wife of Corbett McCommis of St. Louis; and Lee, Ancel, and Gaynell, wife of Francis O'Halloran, of this county. John Doyel, the fourth son of Farmer, whose birth and death dates have not been preserved, died not many years ago at Bloodland, Pulaski County, where the family has lived forty years or more. His wife was Lucinda, daughter of William Martin, and they were the parents of five children, Jay, Henry, Benjamin, Amanda, and David, all of whom live in the Bloodland vicinity. James Doyel, the fifth child of Farmer, married here, but his wife's maiden name is not known to the present generation. The family moved to Nebraska a great many years ago, and both parents are now dead. Mrs. Stella Benton and Mrs. Nora Jones,of Eureka, Kansas, and Mrs. Lucy Partridge of Paola, Kansas, are listed among his descendants, but whether children or grandchildren is not known, nor has any complete list of their descendants been received. Nancy Doyel, the sixth child of Farmer, born May 17, 1837, married a Cowan. Her only child, Amanda, now widow Barnhart, lives near Lawson's Store. Rebecca Doyel, the seventh child, born January 4, 1840, died March 20, 1910. She married David, son of William Martin, and her descendants will be found under that name. Samuel Doyel, the eighth child, born January 23, 1841, married Anna Ezell. Two children were born to them prior to their moving to Arkansas a great many years ago, and it is known that other children were born to them there, but some years later the family moved to the Indian Territory and all connection with them has been broken. Mary Doyel, the ninth child, born May 3, 1843, married George Scott; her family will be found under that name. Joseph Doyel, the tenth and remaining child of Farmer Doyel, was born May 13, 1847, and was killed about 1867 in the lawless times following the Civil War. He was married and is thought to have had a child, but there are no details as to what became of the family. Very little is known of the early history of James Newberry, the father of Polly. As has been said, he was the only one of the name assessed in Gasconade County in 1828. Six years later when the land was sectionized he lived a couple miles northwest of Farmer Doyel on land now owned by Guy Duncan. The surveyor records that he had a field about the size of Doyel's field, so they likely settled in that section about the same time. Aside from Pony Doyel, James Newberry had at least two more daughters: Susan Rebecca, who was married to Sanford Ammerman May 23, 1839, by William Henderson, Justice of the Peace of Gasconade County, and Lydia, who married Sanford's brother, William Ammerman. Both families moved to Polk County about seventy years ago, and their family records have not been obtained, but it is known that children were born to both families and their descendants still live in that part of the state. We have a record of at least five sons of James Newberry: Harmon H. who married Lutitia, daughter of James Bailey, and disappears from the record; Jesse, Joseph, Henry, and another whose name is not certainly known but is believed to have been either James of William (there may have been two); Jesse moved to Hickory County nearly a hundred years ago and spent the rest of his life and died there. Henry moved there about the same time, but later moved to and spent the balance of his life in Montana. Joseph was killed in Portuguese Bendin Pulaski County by a man named Southerland some time before 1850. Nothing is known of the descendants of these three sons. The other son whose name is not surely known, likely lived most of his life and may have died in this county. His wife's name is not known, They were the parents of five children, Caroline, Jane, William, George, and Marion, of whom Caroline died single and no record remains of Marion. Jane (who may have been a widow Blackwell at the time) was the second wife of William Latham and moved with him to Marble Falls, Texas, in the seventies; her descendants will be found under that name in the chapter on Early Physicians. William Newberry married a daughter of William Martin, who may have been related, but not closely, to our Martin family. Both are long since dead, leaving four sons, George, Andy, and James in Pulaski County, and Joseph in St. Louis County. George Newberry married Levina Martin, who was related to, but not a sister of, William's wife. After leaving this county they moved to near Crocker, andthen to near Richland, where Mrs. Newberry died. Her widower later moved to and spent the balance of his life at Iola, Kansas, where his son, James, still lives. An incomplete list of his children includes Jesse at Richland and Samuel who died in Springfield leaving two sons, Eugene and Sylvester, one of whom was killed in the World War. 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