Life History

Notes

• Oklahoma County Marriage Records 1889-1951 Book 86, Pg 172
  Gladys Lahoma Jenkins
  Spouse James Elmer McCall
  Marriage 28 Dec 1934
  
  Lahoma and James were reported in the 1935 Oklahoma City City Directory.
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1935, p 475
  McCall Jas E (Gladys L) r 3016 N Robinson av
  
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  The following WWII draft registration is for a James Elmer McCall Bastrop, Louisiana, McCall could be a different person of the same name as the husband of Gladys Lahoma Jenkins.
  
  World War II Draft Registration
  James Elmer McCall
  Birth 8 Jan 1910 Edward, Hines [Hinds] County, Mississippi
  Contact person Mr J E McCall, Father, Rt 2, Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana (also James' residence)
  Employer United Carbon Co, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
  (back)
  Gray Eyes, Red Hair, Light Complexion
  Registered 16 October 1940 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
  
  Theough they are so simlar, ir now appears that these two records are for different persons.  The 1935 Oklahoma City directory has James Elmer McCall in Oklahoma City.  We do know that Elmer and Lahoma were not married very long, and no divorce recrod has been found.  A James Elmer McCall is enumerated in the 1940 census in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana (not far from Monroe).  He was 20 years old, so is a match for Lahoma, born in 1914.
  
  His wife in that census was named Crystal and they had two children.  The oldest was 5-year old Sidney Day McCall, at age 5.  If Sindney is age 5, then Elmer and Crystal were married before 1835, when James Elmer McCall was reported as the husband of G Lahoma (Jenkins) in Oklahoma City.  Further the 1940 census reports that Elmer was living in Morehouse Parish, Lousiana, in 1935.
  
  James Elmer McCall Jr's father is living next door to him in 1940, enumerated as James Elmer McCall Sr.
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Sources

• 1. Oklahoma County Marriage Records 1889-1951
• 2. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1935, p 475
• 3. California Death Records, RootsWeb
  • http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014