Noah Lee Thacker

Notes:

Funeral services for Noah Lee Clay, 78, of Lufkin will be held November 11, 2017 in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel. Graveside services with military honors will follow in the Whitehouse Cemetery.

Mrs. Clay was born July 25, 1939 in Kirbyville, Texas to the late Minnie Elizabeth (Strickland) and Noah Lee Thacker, and died Friday, November 3, 2017 in Huntington.

Mrs. Clay had resided in Lufkin for 34 years. She served in the U.S. Navy and taught math at Jasper High School and Angelina College for a combined 21 years. Mrs. Clay loved her great-grandchildren the most and enjoyed spending time with her family. She attended the First Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include her husband, Eugene Clay; daughter, Karla Clay; granddaughter, Abby Cla; great-grandchildren, Mason Arnold and Emma Villarreal; sister, Bonnie King; nieces, nephews and other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Audie Ray Smith.

Edited - full obit may be obtained from Carroway Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors - Nov 8, 2017.

(Copied from her Find A Grave Memorial page)

Notes:

There are pdf's of both his military marker and Texas Death Certificate on his Find A Grave Memorial page. His military marker is engraved with a cross, and "Noah Thacker, Texas PFC Co L 141 Infantry World War I PH March 6, 1999 Jan 7 1965."

His Texas Death certificate shows his usual occupation as Farmer, Truck Farm. He was shown as married, and veteran of World War I. His parents were listed as John Thacker and Virginia Bullock. Informant was Mrs. Ferrell Smith, relationship not indicated, but presumably his step daugher Audie Rae Smith.

Noah married Minnie Elizabeth Strickland after 1930. Minnie (daughter of Augustus Strickland and Ida Eldora Holt) was born on 22 Jan 1905 in Texas; died on 12 Aug 1992 in Angelina County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She married first B. L. Matchett, and later Noah Thacker.


August 12, 1992

Minnie Elizabeth Thacker, 87, of Lufkin died Wednesday, August 12, at her daughter's residence in Lufkin.

Funeral was at 2 p.m. Friday, August 14, at E. E. Stringer Funeral Home in Kirbyville with burial at Zion Hill Cemetery near Jasper.

(Transcribed from an undated, unreferenced clipping posted on her Find A Grave Memorial page.

Notes:

The informant on his death certificate was son, Bill Strickland.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 27 Jan 1920
SD 386 ED 168 Sheet 21B
Bronson Pineland Road
420-442
Jack and Addie Boyle Family
Strickland, Bill Laborer M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
421-443
Luther and Lila Huff family
422-444
Strickland, Augustus Head M W 48 M Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Strickland, Pinkie A Dtr F W 18 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Strickland, Minnie E Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, George W Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Maggie L Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Nannie M Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Samuel B Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Meadie S Dtr F W 2 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Maudie E Dtr F W 2 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx


1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 1, District 003
Enumerated 20 Apr 1930
ED 202-2 SD 19th Sheet 9A Stamped 31
Lower Hemphill and Bronson Graded Public Road
127-131
Augustus Strickland Head M 60 Tx
Ida Strickland Wf F 50 Tx
Barney Strickland Son M 17 Tx
Meedy Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
Maudie Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
128-132
Wilburn, Tandy Head M W M W 48 M 46 Tx Tx Tx Laborer General Farm
Wilburn, Maggie L Wf F W 21 M 19 Tx Tx Tx

Augustus married Ida Eldora Holt about 1900. Ida was born on 15 Feb 1880 in Newton County, Texas; died on 27 Jul 1959 in Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As of the 1910 Sabine County Census, she was listed as the mother of 6 children, all of whom were still living.

Her Texas Death Certificate shows that her parents were Bill HOLT and Margaret FARRIS. The informant was Mrs. W. D. Curl, her daughter, Maudie Strickland Curl. She was widowed, and a 13 year resident of Kirbyville at the time of her death.

Notes:

Shown as William H. Strickland on the death certificate of his son, Augustus.



(Research):

Census Listings:

1880 Census - (for the only William Strickland in Sabine County that was born in 1869)
Texas, Sabine County, Justice Prect No. 1
Page 23 SD 1 ED 84 Stamped 219
5 and 6 July 1880
202-211
Henry and Laura Carlton
203-212
Strickland, William WM 38 Farmer LA NC Miss
Strickland, Nancy W F 34 Wife Miss Miss Miss
Strickland, Jane W F 15 dau Tx La Miss
Strickland, Nancy W F 14 dau Tx La Miss
Strickland, James W M 13 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Augustus W M 10 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Redman W M 6 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Henry W M 2 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Wm W M 11 Son Tx La Miss

In 1910, William and Nancy were living with their son James.

William married Nancy Caroline Travis before 1865. Nancy (daughter of Richard "Dick" Henry Travis and Rutha Caroline White) was born about 1845 in Amite County, Mississippi; died after 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Enrolled in the District 6 School in Sabine County in 1854.