Life History

Notes

• Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969
  Samantha G Nixon
  Spouse: Samuel L Strange
  Marriage Date: 24 Feb 1892 Dekalb County, Alabama
  Performed by D L Cunningham, Justice of the Peace
  
  1900 Federal Census, Marshall County, Alabama, 9 June, Precinct 18 Thompson, District 94, Page 5A, House #76, Family #77
  Strange, Samuel L  Head W M Feb 1872 28  Married 8 years  AL AL AL Farmer  Owns Farm
  Strange, Samantha G  Wife W F May 1872 28  Married 8 years  4 children/4 living AL AL AL
  Strange, Leona Dau  W F May 1893  7  Single AL AL AL
  Strange, Other E  Dau W F Sept 1894  5  Single AL AL AL
  Strange, Ama (Anna?) J  Dau W F Dec 1896  3  Single AL AL AL
  Strange, Otis W  Son W M Dec 1899  5mos  Single AL AL AL
  
  1910 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas, 12 May, Justice Precinct 4, District 232, Sheet 11B, Hse #152, Fam #154
  Strange, Samuel L  Head M W 35 Married 18 years AL SC GA Farmer Rents
  Strange, Samantha G  Wife F W 37 Married 18 years 7 children/7 living AL GA AL
  Strange, Leona Dau F W 17 AL AL AL
  Strange, Other A Son M W 15 AL AL AL
  Strange, Annie J Dau F W 12 AL AL AL
  Strange, Otis W Son M W 10 AL AL AL
  Strange, Annis E Dau F W 7 AL AL AL
  Strange, William G Son M W 4 AL AL AL
  Strange, Arlie S Son M W 1 TX AL AL
  
  William G's birth place should have been Texas, according to family information provided to me by Elisa J Strange-Von Rice.  Note also that now Other has the middle initial of A and is reported now as a son and male.
  
  The name of the daughter before William G here seems to be Annis, but that seems oddly close to Annie.  One genealogy reports her name as Ammie Jane.  This is closer to the 1900 census which had Ama.
  
  Family information reports Willam was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, after the family arrived there in 1906.  But he is reported here as born in Alabama, and only his younger brother as born in Texas.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas, 19 January, Justice Precinct 4, District 132, page 8A, Hse #139, Fam #152
  Strange, Sam  Head  Rents M W 47 AL GA GA Farmer (abt 1872)
  Strange, Gabriel  Wife F W 47 AL AL AL No occupation (abt 1872)
  Strange, Odes  Son M W 20 Single AL AL AL Laborer, Farm (abt 1899)
  Strange, Garlow  Son M W 13 Single AL AL AL No Occupation (abt 1906)
  Strange, Arlin  Son M W 11 Single TX AL AL No Occupation (abt 1908)
  Strange, Onie Dau F W 7 Single TX AL AL No Occupation (abt 1912)
  Strange, Nonie M  Dau F W 5 Single TX AL AL No Occupation (abt 1914)
  Strange, Joe L G  Dau F W 4mos Single TX AL AL No Occupation (abt Aug 1919)
  
  1930 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, 12 April, Grayson Township, District 8, page 6A, Hse #95, Family #97
  Strange, Samuel  Head Rents W M 58  Married at age 20 AL SC GA Farmer [b abt 1872]
  Strange, Samantha Wife W F 57 Married at age 18 AL AL AL [b abt 1873]
  Strange, Nona F Daughter  W F 15 Single TX AL AL [b abt 1915]
  Strange, Joly Daughter W F 10 Single TX AL AL [b abt 1920]
  Linley, Lenord Grandson W M 16 Single TX AL TX [b abt 1914]
  
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  ... William Berry Strange, d: Alabama 1906 then through his son, Samuel Lurs Strange, steamboat pilot on the Tenn. River before moving to Wichita Co, Texas in 1906.
  ...
  My father Bert William Garland Strange b: 6-03-1906 in Wichita Co, Texas was the 6th child born to Samuel L. And wife Samantha Gabriel Nixon-Strange and the first child born to them in Texas.
  
  Samantha was the daughter of John B. Nixon  b: Georgia, moved to Alabama and married Hincy Childress daughter of Isaac Childress a Methodist minister in Dekalb Co., Al.  John b. Nixon and son John B. Nixon, Jr and William Berry Strange were all Baptist ministers.......
  
  Bert William Garland Strange was a veterinarian for the King Ranches in his young years in Texas, then went into private practice.
  
  In WWII he was a building contractor, building the barracks and hangers for Edwards A.F.B. In Calif.
  
  When that was finished, in 9-1945 relocated to Casa Grande, Arizona and began building house after house, street after street of houses for soldiers coming home with no place to live.  In 1951 he also ventured into the custom farming operation and had state wide hauling permits in Arizona and Colorado where his men cut grain in the valleys of Arizona and the grain growing counties of Colorado.
  
  By chance in 1958 he went on vacation to Oklahoma to visit a friend and fell in love with a registered running quarterhorse ranch.  Which he bought.
  
  Returning to Arizona he retired from building contracting and moved to his ranch in Shawnee, Oklahoma.  There he began breeding, training, & racing his horses at Louisiana Downs, Ruidoso N.M. And Turf Paradise in Phoenix, plus many other horse racing tracks.
  
  He also went back to his veterinarian past and was even offered a teaching job at the veterinarian college at Stillwater, OK.
  --  Elisa J Strange-Von Rice, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 16 December 2008
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Sources

• 1. Email Sources
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas
  • 19 January, Justice Precinct 4, District 132, page 8A, Hse #139, Fam #152
• 3. 1930 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Oklahoma
  • 12 April, Grayson Township, District 8, page 6A, Hse #95, Family #97
• 4. 1900 Federal Census, Marshall County, Alabama
  • 9 June, Precinct 18 Thompson, District 94, Page 5A, House #76, Family #77
• 5. 1910 Federal Census, Wichita County, Texas
  • 12 May, Justice Precinct 4, District 232, Sheet 11B, Hse #152, Fam #154
• 6. Ancestry Trees
  • Fullerton-Laird, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1929901/person/-1319040551
• 7. Social Security Death Index
• 8. Ancestry Trees
  • Fullerton-Laird, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1929901/person/-1319040541?ssrc=&ftm=1
• 9. Ancestry Trees
  • Fullerton-Laird, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1929901/person/-1319040538?ssrc=&ftm=1
• 10. Ancestry Trees
  • Palyrma Remington, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63555/person/-2130110698?ftm=1
• 11. Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969