Eva Leona Blue

1907 - 1993  (86 years)

• Name	Eva Leona Blue  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	30 Apr 1907	Van Zandt County, Texas   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Aug 1993	Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma   [1, 2]
  Burial	Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  Notes	Eva was the daughter of Thomas Fate Blue and Martha Elizabeth Baker. Thursday, August, 9, 1934 WILD HORSE CLUB The Wild Horse club met August 2nd with Mrs. Bud Gentry. Miss Louise Frazier was leader of the afternoon's lesson on parliamentary rules of the club. Miss Frazier, with several other members assisting, discussed the by-laws of our club. We voted to carry out some of the rules to a finer point in our future meetings. Another important feature of the afternoon was the planning of our County Fair budget. Mrs. Gentry served ice cream and cake to thirteen members and visitors. The club will meet with Mrs. Frank Graham August 16th. Mrs. Bud Phillips will have charge of the meeting. --Reporter In an email to Melinda Strong on 30 January 2002, Lynell Cordell wrote: My mother's name wasn't pronounced Eve-a, but I can't spell the way it was pronounced. Her siblings called her Evie, but that's not pronounced Eve-ie either. Tom Blue died in 1910, just before my mother's third birthday. There were 8 children in the family and most were sick, including Tom, but he went out on a rainy day to get some medicine and developed pneumonia and died. My mother said she remembered seeing him in the bed next to hers and I think what she remembered could have been when he died. Her mother would have cried and carried on so a 3 year old would probably remember something like that. My grandmother's life (Martha Baker) would make a good book but it sure wouldn't be very romantic. When Grandma was 15 years old her parents died within two months of each other. She had a 12 year old brother and a 3 year old sister and they were split up among relatives. We don't know which relatives. Grandma said the people who took her in only wanted help with the farm and worked her entirely too hard. Then, when she was 17 she married Tom Blue and they applied for guardianship of her brother and baby sister. But, by then the couple who took the baby apparently didn't want to give her up so they told my grandmother that the baby died. We now know that the baby had a better life than she would have had with my grandmother. Grandma married again and had her 9th child and divorced and worked her fingers to the bone raising all those kids by herself and when she was old, living with her daughter in Dallas, her baby sister came knocking on her door. Can you imagine the shock? And now I've met the baby sister's granddaughter! She's just a few years older than I am and lives in Fort Worth and we talk all the time.
  Person ID	I6315	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family	Delbert "Bud" Gentry,   b. 5 Oct 1893, Alma, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory d. 30 Jul 1974, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	5 Mar 1925	Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma   [1, 3]
  	Vol. 9, Stephens County Marriage Book:, Lic. # 60 Delbert "Bud" Gentry to Eva Blue, on 3-5-1925. Charles Strong said that Delbert and Eva spent their wedding night at the home of Bessie Payne in Duncan, Oklahoma.
  Children	1. Lloyd Harold Gentry,   b. 8 May 1928, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma d. 23 May 2012, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma (Age 84 years)   2. Betty Jean Gentry,   b. 27 Dec 1930, Velma, Stephens County, Oklahoma d. 18 Dec 1991, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma (Age 60 years)   3. Living
  Family ID	F1080	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Apr 1907 - Van Zandt County, Texas Marriage - 5 Mar 1925 - Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Death - 17 Aug 1993 - Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Burial - - Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Gentry, James Edwin Farm House, Stephens County, Oklahoma Taken at the Ed and Zada Gentry farm house sometime before 1940. Top row, left to right, Zada and Ed Gentry, Eva and Bud Gentry, Arthur Gentry, Jess Gentry. Bottom row (l to r), Ruth Gentry, Gracie (Gentry) Payne (ASSUMED), Harold Gentry, Myrtis (Burch) Gentry, Robert "Bobby" Perry Sanders III, Betty Jean Gentry, and Bessie (Gentry) Payne. PLEASE HELPS US CLARIFY THE UNKNOWN OR INCOMPLETE INFORMATION ABOVE.
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  		Gentry Women in Sundresses, Sunday at Granny's, 1947 The back of this picture was labeled, but a few of the names were cut off, apparently to fit a frame. Lynell Cordell helped fill in the blanks. The caption read "Sunday at Granny's: Little Sis (Mary Helen Gentry), Alma Gentry, Dorothy Gentry, Ruth Gentry, Betty Jean Gentry, Eva Gentry, 1947." (L to R). Ruth Gentry, who always disliked being photographed, is the only one of the cousins not looking at the camera.
  		Gentry Reunion ca 1953 L-R Delbert & Eva Gentry, Arthur & Myrtis Gentry, Hazel Truitt Gentry , and Esther & Lloyd Gentry
  		Gentry, Delbert "Bud" and wife Eva Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma circa 1950
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  		_Blue, Eva Wife of Delbert "Bud" Gentry B. 1907 Texas D. 1993 Oklahoma
  		Blue, Eva Leona ca 1957 Wife of Delbert "Bud" Gentry B. 1907 Texas D. 1993 Oklahoma

  
  

  Headstones

  Gentry, Eva Leona (Blue)

  
  

• Sources

  [S124] Harvey, Kenneth C--Family Member; Gedcom, Printed Descendants Reports of Payne and Gentry Families, Correspondence. [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.). [S532] Cordell, Lynell Gentry-Family Researcher P.O. Box 1992 Duncan OK 73534-1992 Correspondence, Gedcom, Family Group Sheets, Email.