Life History

Notes

• A census recrod in Pottawatamie County, Oklahoma, appears to be our Bill and Nannie (Terry) Madison.  The birth place and age and names match their details.  Noite that here Nannie is enumerated under her given name.  At times she is reported in records, and in at least one signature (for her husband's gravestone) as Annie Jane Madison.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Pattawatomie County, Oklahoma, 16 April, Shannon, District 63-45 Page 9B, 217 N Market St, Hse #222 Rents $22
  Madison, W C Head M W 54 Married Grade 8 b Texas  AR Enid, Garfield Co, Oklahoma in 1935 [b abt 1923]
  Madison, Nannie F W 56 Married Grade H4 b Georgia  Enid, Garfield Co, Oklahoma in 1935 Beauty Shoppe Operator [b abt 1897]
  
  Nannie's identity is further supported by the name of the contact person on Bill's WWII registration card.  He lists as his contact person his brother-in-law Edward Hill, the husband of Nannie's younger sister, Ouida Terry Hill.
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  William Clarence Madison
  Birth Date 12 Feb 1886 Denison [Grayson Co], Texas
  Residence Rt 1, 7 miles west of Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  Contact Mr Edward Hill, Rt 1, Marlow (brother-in-law)
  Unemployed (disabled veteran)
  (back)
  5'8" 130lbs, Blue Eyes, Black Hair, Light Complexion
  Scar under left jaw, scar in palm of left hand
  Registered 25 April 1942
  Signed W C Madison
  
  U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
  William C Madison
  Birth Date 12 Feb 1886
  Residence Oklahoma
  Enlistment 5 August 1918 Private, US Army, Quartermaster Corp, Capt Meigs
  Honorable Discharge 11 January 1919
  Death Date 23 Jan 1950
  Application dated 18 April 1950
  Stone ordered 24 April 1950, shipped from Columbus MS 9 August 1950
  Ship stone to (wife) Mrs Annie Jane Madison, Rt 1 Marlow, Oklahoma
  Marlow Cemetery, Marlow [Stephens Co], Oklahoma
  
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  Pvt William C. "Bill" Madison
  Birth Feb. 12, 1886 Grayson County, Texas
  Death Jan. 23, 1950 Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  
  A Poem In Memory of William C. Madison
  Titled, 'Reluctance'
  
  Out through the fields and the woods,
  And over the walls I have wended;
  I have climbed the hills of view,
  And looked at the world and descended;
  I have come by the highway home,
  And lo, it is ended.
  ~Robert Frost~
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  The Duncan Banner
  January 23, 1950
  
  "Bill" Madison, Farmer, Is Dead
  Marlow - W. C. "Bill" Madison, 63 year old farmer, who lived on Marlow route 1 died of a heart attack on his family farm shortly before noon today.  He was born on February 12, 1886 in Denison,  Texas, and was a veteran of World War I.
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  Poem and Obit Added to this memorial by Janet Milburn #47529757 on May 2012.
  
  Spouse Jane "Nannie" Madison (1884 - 1965)
  
  Inscription:  "William C. Madison, OK Pvt Quartermaster Corps WWI"
  
  Burial Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  
  Maintained by Janet Milburn, Originally Created by Jean Dec 20, 2007
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #23507390, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23507390
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. 1940 Federal Census, Pattawatomie County, Oklahoma
  • 16 April, Shannon, District 63-45 Page 9B, 217 N Market St, Hse #222 Rents $22
• 3. U.S., Headstone Applications, 1925-1963
• 4. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 5. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007