Family: Raymond Thomas Francis / Lillie May Neil (F6956)

• Male Raymond Thomas Francis

  
  

  Birth	9 Sep 1895	Sherman, Grayson County, Texas
  Death	30 Dec 1967
  Burial		Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma
  Marriage	20 Mar 1924  [1]
  Father	James Thomas Francis | F6970 Group Sheet
  Mother	Beulah Lee Cole | F6970 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lillie May Neil

  
  

  Birth	10 Aug 1896	Farmersville, Collin County, Texas
  Death	Abt 1994
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  Father	Hamilton Neil | F6348 Group Sheet
  Mother	Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall | F6348 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male Raymond Wayne Francis

  
  

  Birth	1925
  Death	1933
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• Notes

  Married: VINSON MEMORIES (Published by VINSON HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995) contains a biographical sketch, along with a picture, of the family of Raymond Thomas Francis and Lillie May Neil. His family moved to Oklahoma, three and one half miles from Vinson, when he was an infant. During World War I, he served in the Navy and was based in San Diego. Upon returning, he resumed farming and ranching with his father. After Lillie and Ray married, they first lived with his parents, later moving to Blair in Jackson County. Ray, along with his brothers Forrest and Henry, opened a Ford auto agency and a general store. They later moved back to Vinson, and resumed farming and ranching with Ray's father. After his father died, they bought a motel in Elk City.

  
  

• Sources

  [S449] Vinson History Book Committee VINSON MEMORIES (Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995), p 190 (Reliability: 3).