My great grandparents Vina Mowery (mowry or Mowrey) and Orin (or Oren)
F. Claborn (or Clayborn)were married in Muskogee Oklahoma in 1907...I have the marriage certificate. They are listed with their two children Monta and Aubrey in Waldron Twp., Grady County, Oklahoma in the 1910 census. Vina died between 1910 and 1912 I believe and is possibly
buried with a third child. Orin F. Claborn is buried next to his second wife in Latimer County, Oklahoma near or in Wilburton with his parents and other siblings can also be found. His ancestry is fairly easy to trace...but not for Vina. I have a photo of her as a very young girl..
sitting, with her older brother Monroe standing behind her
and her father
Jeff Mowery sitting...no mother is pictured. I found Monroe in Wilburton at age 17 as a border working as a Miner there...and later with his wife
Stella and several children in Muskogee. The census for Monroe place his birth in Texas as well as his father. The 1910 Census for Vina lists her birth and father's birth in Texas as well. The only Jeff Mowery that makes sense to me is the youngest child of Matthias Mowery and Malinda Giddens, Jeff Davis Mowery. There is a Monroe who is found as the son of
the oldest son of Matthias and Malinda Giddens...James Richard Mowery..not the youngest...and I can't find Vina in the family at all..even though I feel certain she is there. I would appreciate help in
making this family connection. Thanks, Carmen Arn