[basham.ged] 1900 Census Crawford County Arkansas E D 59/10/33 Viola Cathey Info Basham Document No 32 Info From Gerald F Basham Correspondence Social Security Death Index = S S ## 452-09-1150 Texas Death Index - Certificate No 079983 Anderson Oliver, the baby of the family, I thought was the handsome st m an I ever knew. I think he thought so, too. I remember the long st ri ng of neckties in his room. He was about 28 when the rest of us left E lec tra. He drank too much I am told and really became a drunkard after U nc le Tom left. His landlady was Aunt Hortense's mother. He was defaul ti ng in his rent and Aunt Hortense was sent to tell him he h ad to p ay up or get out. She had been away for some time and had not m et him. Th is meeting according to Aunt Hortense was the beginning of the ir courtshi p. Uncle told us he had seen her picture hanging in her mothe r's home a nd had said that is the girl I am going to marry. Accordi ng to Grandpa w ho visited them and met the mother, there were five siste rs and the moth er expected all of them to marry WELL which meant money a nd she had just a bout got Aunt, the last, although not the youngest, marr ied to a rich fell ow when she came home and her plans fell through. She g rew to love Uncle O liver. (She lived to be very old, nearly 100). Unc le O gave up his drink ing and I always thought they were a very happy cou ple. They claim to ha ve never quarreled. (?) They had only one child, T homas Dexter, who marri ed and soon went into the Marines in WW II. One s on was born to this wi fe Evelyn. His name is Daniel Dexter. He and E we re divorced soon aft er his discharge. Later he married Lillian and th ey have one son, Dicki e, who is now in the Marines. Sonny, as they alwa ys called him, was suffe ring from cancer and every- body was concerned ab out him when Lillian di ed very suddenly. Uncle O. died less than two mont hs after Mama. The Magn olia Company still has Thomas D on the payroll al though he has not been ab le to carry on his job full time because of t he cancer damage. Writt en in 1972 by Lillian (Thornton) Collings Nie ce of Anderson Oliver Basham