Thomas Joseph WELCH Harvey Coleman WELCH Manuel Loranza WELCH Minnie Frances WELCH Menus H WELCH James D WELCH Hollie Myrtle WELCH Ann Elizabeth WELCH Thomas Joseph WELCH Pearl Irene WELCH Berl Roy WELCH Living WELCH Living WELCH Living WELCH Treasure MCELHANON Margaret Druscilla CRENSHAW Mini tree diagram
Berley Jackson WELCH

Berley Jackson WELCH11,3,2,4,12,5,6,7,7,8,1

29th Oct 19192,3,4,5,6,7,7,8,9 - 13th Feb 200611,5,8

Life History

29th Oct 1919

Born in Bailey, Grady, Oklahoma.2,3,4,5,6,7,7,8,9

30th Dec 1939

Married Treasure MCELHANON in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.8,8

23rd Jul 1947

Birth of son Berl Roy WELCH in Duncan, Stephens, Oklahoma.13,6,14,15

1974

Resident in Tifton, Georgia.10

1989

Residence2 in Hartsburg, Missouri.1

13th Feb 2006

Died in Glen Rose, Somervell, Texas.11,5,8

16th Feb 2006

Buried in Squaw Creek Cemetery, Rainbow, Somervell County, Texas.8

Other facts

 

Birth of son Living WELCH

 

Birth of daughter Living WELCH

 

Birth of daughter Living WELCH

Notes

  • Our family did not have info on Berley's birth place.  Berley's obituary says he was born 29 October 1919 in Bailey, Oklahoma.  This town was in Grady County, whose county seat is Chickasha.

    "Bailey is a ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. It was 12 miles northeast of Marlow, Oklahoma and had a post office from June 25, 1892, until September 30, 1932. It was named after J. J. Bailey, a wagon master on a stage line to Fort Sill."
    --  "Bailey, Okahoma," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey,_Oklahoma

    1920 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 20 February, Rush Springs, District 186, page 13A, Hse #220, Fam #223
    Welch, Maggie D Head Owns F W  37 Widow TN AR AL Farmer
    Welch, Burley J  Son M W  4mos OK NC TN

    After Berley's father died, his mother married widower Toliver Jorile (Joe T) Green.  Their blended family is enumerated in the 1930 census.

    1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 23 April, Richland Township, District 22, page 12A-B, Hse #226, Family #227
    Green, Joe T  Head  Owns M W 56 TX GA IL Farmer
    Green, Maggie D  Wife F W 56 TX AR AL
    Green, Homer B  Son M W 23 OK TX GA Farm Laborer
    Green, Paul D  Son M W 2yrs 8mos OK TX GA
    Welch, Annie StepDaughter F W 17 OK US TX
    Welch, Thomas J  StepSon M W 15 OK NC TX
    Welch, Berley J  StepSon M W 10 OK NC TX
    Welch, Pearl I  StepDaughter M W 10 OK NC TX

    By 1940, Berley has married and is enumerated in his own home in the same area.

    1940 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 18 April, Richland Township, District 69-24, page 6B, Hse #119, Rents $2
    Welch, Berley J  Head M W 20 Grade 8 b Oklahoma Stephens County OK in 1935 Truck Driver, Milk Route
    - page 7A -
    Green, Treasure Wife F W 18 Grade H-3 b Arkansas Altus, Jackson Co OK in 1935 Sales Clerk, Variety Store

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    I knew Berley and his family as a child when I was growing up in Quanah, Texas.  Berley and his family lived about 80 miles east of us at Wichita Falls, Texas.  He was a Primitive Baptist pastor.  I remember visiting them on occasion, and we could see the church from Highway 287.  I remember being in a service in the church in Wichita Falls, on at least one occasion.

    Berley and his wife Treasure had twin sons and a daughter.  The sons were called "Burl" and "Jurl."  I never knew how they spelled the names, but I saw the names when I found Berley's obituary on Find a Grave 20 June 2014.  They were Berl and Jerl.  I remember only one daughter, but the obit reports two, Betty Fern Welch and Linda Trey Bowers.
    --  OBJ
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    "You are invited to the wedding of Sherri Marchbank and Berl Welch.  The wedding will be held at the church Saturday night, January 26 [no year stated].  A reception will be held in the fellowship hall.
    "Elder and Mrs B J Welch."
    Berl Welch is the son of Berley Jackson Welch and Treasure McElhannon Welch.  The format and fragments on the reverse indicate this announcement was cut out of the bulletin of Elder B J (Berley) Welch's church, First Primitive Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas.  The date would have been on the header of this issue, but is not in the cutout segment.  Probably about 1960.
    --  Cutout was found among other similar papers and articles in the home of Lou Ila Jenkins, cousin of Berley Welch, in Lindsay, Olklahoma, after she had moved to Arlington, Texas in May 2019

    At the time of his mother's death in 1974, Berley was living in Tifton, Georgia.

    U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
    Berley Jackson Welch
    Birth 29 Oct 1919
    Phone 386-4960
    Address 413 Connecticut Dr, Tifton, GA, 31794-4209 (1996)

    U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
    Berley J Welch
    Birth 29 Oct 1919
    Address 101-A RR 1 Box, Hartsburg, MO, 65039

    He moved to Glen Rose, Texas, in 1991 and was a pastor there at the time of his death.

    U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
    Berley J Welch
    Birth 29 Oct 1919
    Address 916 S Barnard St, Glen Rose, TX, 76043
    PO Box 1952, Glen Rose, TX, 76043-1952 (1995)

    U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
    Berley Jackson Welch
    Born 29 Oct 1919
    Died 13 Feb 2006
    Last Residence  Glen Rose, Somervell, Texas 76043
    SSN issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)

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    Elder Berley Jackson Welch
    Birth Oct. 29, 1919
    Death Feb. 13, 2006

    GLEN ROSE, Texas - Elder Berley Jackson Welch, 86, passed away Monday, Feb. 13, 2006, in Glen Rose. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Wiley Funeral Home in Glen Rose. Burial will be in Squaw Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Mr. Welch was born Oct. 29, 1919, in Bailey, Okla., to Thomas and Martha Crenshaw Welch. He married Treasure McElhanon, Dec. 30, 1939, in Marlow, Okla. He had lived in Glen Rose since 1991 and was currently serving as Elder of the Primitive Mineral Springs Baptist Church in Glen Rose. He had pastored churches in Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Missouri.

    Survivors include his wife, Treasure Welch of Glen Rose; daughters, Betty Fern Welch of San Antonio, Linda Trey Bowers and husband, Joe, of Fort Worth; sons, Berl Roy Welch of Fort Worth, Jerl Ross Welch and wife, Anne, of Rockwall, Texas; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and half-brother, Don Green of Marlow, Okla.

    Burial Squaw Creek Cemetery, Rainbow, Somervell County, Texas
    Created by Kenneth D. Bogard Feb 15, 2006
    --  Find A Grave Memorial #13350569, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13350569
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