Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Civilian registration cards completed in 1917-1918"

Some men do not have birth locations listed because they registered on the final draft registration day in 1918 when this information was not recorded.

Name - Birth date - Ethnic Group - Birth Location - Location of Registration

Locklin, Dee 18 Jan 1896 W Sherwood TX Irion TX

Research by Jerry Tyson Barton:

Texas Death Certificate # 026484.

Social Security Number 454-56-1439.

Post-em Note on Texas Death Record - Sarah Locklin Taylor SLocklinT@tex1.net 2001-06-24 20:57:02

"The William Locklin Family Home Page"

Dee Locklin was born 1/18/1896, Irion Co., TX to Alvah Donald and Jennie Smith Locklin.

Dee married Nora Bernice Gentry on 19 Apr 1919 in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas. Nora (daughter of David Simon Gentry and Maude Mae Tyson) was born on 3 Aug 1897 in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas; died on 19 Dec 1998 in McCarney, Upton County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Texas Highways, October 1994, Speaking of Texas

In the early 1920's Frank Pickrell, vice president and general manager of Texon Oil and Land Company, found that nobody wanted to buy an oil lease in Reagan County. Though there was no sign of oil in the county, Pickrell and others were convinced it was there for the taking. The plan was to drill a "wildcat" oil well in hopes of making the venture more attractive to investors. Pickrell traveled to New York to try to raise money for his scheme. The potential backers included a Catholic women's society. Hesitant about investing, the women consulted their priest, who suggested they ask Santa Rita, patron saint of the impossible and hopeless, for guidance. They did so, decided to invest, and gave the priest an envelope full of dried rose petals. The priest blessed the petals, then gave them to Pickrell with instructions from the women to sprinkle them over the proposed drilling site. When Pickrell returned to the site, on University of Texas land between Big Lake and Rankin, he climbed to the top of the derrick as directed, crumbled the rose petals into the breeze, and declared, "I christen thee Santa Rita." The Santa Rita gusher blew in on May 28, 1923, providing the University of Texas with unexpected wealth. Of the adults who watched the liquid gold begin to flow, 96-year-old Nora Locklin of Knickerbocker, whose husband, Dee, worked for the driller, is the only living witness. --- Barbara Barton, Knickerbocker.

Furnished by Jerry Tyson BARTON, 21 October 1994

December 21, 1998 Permian Basin Death Notices

Nora Locklin

MCCAMEY - Nora Bernice Locklin, 101, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 1998, in a McCamey nursing home. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the First Christian Church with the Revs. David Gentry and Paul Evans officiating. Graveside services will follow at 2 p.m. in the Sherwood Cemetery in Sherwood. Arrangements made by Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home. She was born in Goldthwaite and had lived in McCamey since 1931. She was a member of First Church Church. SURVIVORS: Sons, Ronnie Locklin of Denver City and Billy Dee Locklin of McCamey; five grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

(Research):Census Information:

1920 census Pecos Co. TX ED 161 Pg. 253A
Ft. Stockton
51/51 Locklin, Dee, head, MW, 23, TX TX TX
Nora B., wife, FW, 22, TX TX TX

1930 census Crockett Co. TX ED 53-1 Pg. 23A
542/601 Locklin, Dee, head, MW, 33, M, age first married 22
, TX TX TX
Nora, wife, FW, 32, M, age first married 21, TX TX TX