Source: GC-Custer Co. Ok Bios Forum
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Subject: CANARY Family
Surname: CANARY, CHRISTIAN, EVANS, FULLER, WALLACE, WHITE, SALE, PARK,
WRIGHT, PHIPPS, ELWELL, TUCKER, WELLS, HOLLAND, HARMAN, DOBBINS, DEICKMAN,
PARRINGTON, ROSE, VOILES
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My 2nd Great-grandparents William Emory CANARY (b. June 27, 1848, in Monroe
Co., OH, and d. Feb. 2, 1926,in Custer Co., OK--his parents being James
Thornton CANARY and Delilah WHITE) and Martha Ann EVANS CANARY (b. Jan.
21, 1853, in Greensburg, Decatur Co., IN and d. Jan. 16, 1935 in Custer
Co., OK--her parents being Ratliff EVANS and Melissa Jane VOILES) left
Mercer Co., MO, and migrated to Custer Co., OK, where they homesteaded.
They are buried in the Thomas Cemetery in Custer Co., OK. William and Martha
CANARY's oldest son James Calvin CANARY married Nettie PARRINGTON (they
moved to New York State) and had Jesse Lavern CANARY and Alta Oris CANARY.
William and Martha CANARY's second child, Mary Genett (Nettie) CANARY,
married Willie Jackson DOBBINS, and had Ora, Lavern, Leo, and Nola. William
and Martha CANARY's third child, Edward Milton CANARY, first married Emma
CHRISTIAN [she is buried in Independence Cemetery in Custer Co., OK], the
daughter of Samuel O. CHRISTIAN and Emily SALE WALLACE, (with the children
Alma Brosia CANARY who married Orvalle FULLER and Carlos Edward CANARY
who died young and is buried in Independence, Custer Co., OK) and second
Carrie Agnes WRIGHT, the daughter of Robert Green WRIGHT and Eunice Temperance
SALE (with the children Viva Nevery [who died young], Virgil Emory [who
married Beryl Leone ROSE], Viola Eddie [who married Commodore TUCKER],
Emory Milton [who died young], and Velva Berniece [who married Amel HARMAN].
William and Martha CANARY's fourth child was Geneva Jane CANARY who died
young.