Montague Co., TX - Newspapers - Saint Jo Tribune: Friday, May 26, 1939

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The Saint Jo Tribune
Saint Jo, Montague County, Texas

Friday, Mary 26, 1939

Program for Homecoming
The following program will be presented at the annual Homecoming for the Center
Point Baptist Church Sunday, May 28. On the program: Rev. PAUL THOMPSON, GLOVER
THOMPSON, Rev. H. C. PENNINGTON, MRS. C. F. MORGAN, BETTY JO COOPER, ERNEST
O’NEAL, MRS. LUKE GRANT, MRS. CLIFFORD C. WARE, MISS MARTHA JO WILSON, MISS
CAROLYN ADMIRE, BILL PARSONS, Rev. JOHN NOTHALF, Rev. L. E. RAMBO, PRESTON
STAPLES.

Pioneer Citizen of Forestburg Passes Away
MRS. CHARLES VOLKMAN
Funeral services were held in the KEENAN cemetery Sunday afternoon for MRS.
CHARLES VOLKMAN, 76, who died suddenly Saturday morning May 20 in the home of
her daughter MRS. BERT THURMAN in Forestburg. Officiating ministers were Elder
JOHN RAYMOND of Dye Mound and Elder LOGAN BUCHANNAN of Sanger. Interment,
arranged by E. N. Dunbar, was at the Keenan cemetery.

Survivors are four daughters MRS. ROE SLEDGE, MRS. THURMAN, MRS. ROXIE FOSTER
and MRS. CLARA MANN all of Forestburg; two sons WILLIE VOLKMAN and GEORGE
VOLKMAN of Forestburg; one sister MRS. MILLIE LATHAM of Mangum, Oklahoma, one
half-sister MRS. CLARA MOLLER of Oklahoma City, a twin brother, GARRETT KEENAN
of Mangum, Oklahoma, 11 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. VOLKMAN, who before her marriage was MISS CYNTHIA KEENAN, was born on the
Keenan homestead near the Keenan cemetery, on July 18, 1862. She married CHARLES
VOLKMAN in the Uz community in 1882. Mr. Volkman died in 1993. She lived her
entire life in and near Forestburg.

When a child of three, and while her father was in Arkansas where he had gone to
purchased a supply of apples for his family, the Indians raided her home. Her
mother was killed and scalped. Cynthia’s head was beaten against the wall and
she was thrown into the yard, left for dead. The range hogs were in the yard and
would have killed the child except for the constant care of her small pet dog.
Her twin brother GARRETT KEENAN was hidden beneath the feather bed by his mother
and was undiscovered by the Indians.

Pallbearers were five grandsons, RAYMOND VOLKMAN, ERNEST and JAMES THURMAN,
CECIL and GROVER FOSTER and WILBUR DEBORD. The flower group, all grandchildren,
were CHARLENE VOLKMAN, ORA and ALMA THURMAN, EDWARD KING, WILLIE WAYNE VOLKMAN
and HOYT MANN.

MRS. PRESTON TEMPLE
Mrs. Preston Temple died in the hospital at Wichita Falls Tuesday, May 23 after
an illness of several months. Funeral services were held in Nocona Wednesday
afternoon in the Christian Church with Rev. C. E. COGSWELL of Knox City and Rev.
A. MCFARREN of Saint Jo officiating. Interment was in the Nocona cemetery.

Mrs. Temple, the former MISS MARY CLARK, was born in Nocona Dec. 7, 1919. She
married PRESTON TEMPLE in 1931. She was an active member of the Christian Church
and a leader of the Girl Scouts in Nocona. Survivors include her husband, her
mother, her sister MISS DORIS CLARK of Saint Jo, two brothers JAMES CLARK of San
Antonio and BILL CLARK of Washington and her grandmother MRS. W. N. BELLAH of
Nocona.

Friends attending the funeral were Mesdames LUKE GRANT, GEORGE A. WRIGHT, C. P.
MORGAN, GEORGE D. PEDIGO, S. D. MEADOR, BOYD WINDER, K. R. DORT, PAUL THOMPSON,
C. L. BAILEY, R. T. BUCK, MISSES ISLA BELLAH, VIRGINIA LAUDERDALE, RUTH SCOTT,
Rev. A. MCFARREN and Mr. and Mrs. FOYE WOOD.

Pioneer Citizen of Tyler Bluff Is Dead
GEORGE W. STONE
Another pioneer citizen of this section of Texas has been called to his reward.
GEORGE W. STONE, 82, died at his home in the Tyler Bluff community, following an
illness of a few weeks, on Wednesday, May 24. Funeral services were held in the
home that same afternoon by Rev. CALVIN DENNIS of Bulcher, assisted by Rev. G.
N. STOEN of Nocona. Interment was in the Coker cemetery directed by E. N.
Dunbar. The service in song was given by a sextet, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
CUNNINGHAM, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. EMBRY, MISS DOROTHY RAE BUCK and Rev. LEON
MILNER. Pallbearers were S. C. ROACH, BILL HARRIS, GEORGE ROACH, RICHARD HARRIS,
EARL HUTSON, AL HUTSON, and JOE STONE of Rosston.

Survivors include his wife, two daughters MRS. CONNIE WILLIAMSON of Saint Jo and
MRS. MARTHA SEWELL of Waurika, Oklahoma; one son LINDSAY STONE of Saint Jo; two
sister MRS. AMANDA CLOYSE of Fulton, Oklahoma and MRS. JEANETTE LEACH of
Holdenville, Oklahoma, 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

GEORGE WASHINGTON STONE was born in Kentucky on January 14, 1857, came to Texas
in 1879 and settled in Cooke County in the same neighborhood where he lived for
almost 60 years. He married MISS JULIA ROACH on October 24, 1881. He was one of
the most prosperous farmers and fruit growers in the northern part of Cooke
County. “UNCLE GEORGE” has been coming to Saint Jo through the years of his long
and useful life, well known, respected and loved by all who knew him here.