I would like to let everyone know about my grandparents.
Bud Caudle
JEREMIAH "JERRY MARROW" CAUDLE
Jeremiah "Jerry Marrow" Caudle was born May 8, 1882 in Johnson County,
Kentucky, a son of Wesley Thompson and Lucinda Lemaster Caudle. About 1903
he married Victoria Adkins in Magoffin County, Kentucky. She was a daughter
of Eli Adkins. In late 1904 or early 1905, Victoria and their baby died in
childbirth. Not long after their deaths, many families in that area of
Kentucky prepared to move to the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory. The
Adkins family and Jerry Caudle decided to go with them. They settled near
Legate, then later in the Hoxbar community near Ardmore.
It has been told that Jerry Caudle missed Kentucky so much that quite often
he went to the train station in Overbrook to wait for a train going to
Kentucky. He never checked the schedule though, and when he got tired
waiting, went back home. Luckily, he never did catch that train.
On November 7, 1908 he married Dora Belle Patrick, daughter of William
Amos,Jr and Martha Jones Patrick. Jerry got the marriage license at Ardmore
in Carter County since it was closer than Marietta in Love County. At that
time, a marriage had to be performed in the county from which the license was
issued. They wanted to be married in Love County, though, not Carter County.
A scheme was finally arranged and worked out legally. The marriage was
performed in a wagon parked astraddle the county line. The minister, Joel
Franklin McGuire who was a relative and close friend, stood at the front of
the wagon in Carter County. Jerry, Dora, and their witness John Milt Vance
stood at the back of the wagon in Love County. Of course, the record shows
married in Carter County, but they were happy with the situation.
Jerry Caudle became quite a dairyman. He started very small, but by
carefully keeping, selling, and trading, within a few years, his dream was
fulfilled. By 1927 when they had to move from the Lake Murray construction,
he shipped by train one hundred milk cows to their new home at Skedee. Hard
times must have hit about 1915 because the family went by train to Des
Moines, Iowa to work in the corn harvest that year.
In 1936, Jerry and Dora and their daughter's family Dena and Cody Keeton sold
their belongings and followed other family members to California. They
didn't stay long though, and returned to Oklahoma within a few weeks. Their
daughter Thelma and family returned with them also. Their son Herbert and
family, and sons Cecil and Chester stayed in California for several more
years before returning home to Oklahoma.
Children born to Jerry and Dora Belle Caudle were:
Bonnie, b. Dec 18, 1909, Legate, OK, d. 1915, Legate, OK
Herbert Marvin, b. Jan 3, 1911, md. Edna Myrtle Rust, d. Jan 15, 1974,
Ardmore, OK
Dena, b. Mar 14, 1912, Legate, OK, md. Cody Keeton, d. Feb 20, 1991,
Stillwater, OK
Thelma Ree, b. Jul 4, 1915, Legate, OK, md Charles Rust, d. Oct 19, 1969,
Tulsa, OK
Chester B., b. Apr 3, 1919, Legate, OK, md. Margaret Wadlow, d. Sep 30, 1977,
,Tulsa, OK
Bernard Cecil, b. Oct 12, 1920, Hoxbar, OK, md. Fern Ellis, d. Dec 25, 1996,
Santa Fe, TX
Ollie Molene, b. and d. about 1924, Hoxbar, OK
Richard Fred, b. Oct 7, 1930, Blackburn, OK, md. Loretta Langley, d. Jul 4,
1986, Santa Fe, TX