OTHAL LENORA DAVIS GILL

The following bio was taken from page 211 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Shirley Koym

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of TX

My grandparents, William Franklin Gross (1861-1912) and Sarah Ann Wylie (1863-1945), lived in Rusk County according to the 1900 census. They had seven children at this time: Myrtle, Lola, Belle, Margaret, Frank, Robert, and Leona. Also living in their household was William’s mother-in-law, Mary Jane Carter.

Willie Belle Gross was my mother (October 3, 1890). She and my father, Alfred E. Davis, were married September 24, 1905. I was born December 7, 1906. My parents separated and each remarried. From my father’s second marriage to Charlie Belle Walters there was a son, Charles Monroe Davis, born January 26, 1925.

I married J. E. Carminati, January 22, 1929. We had no children. He died November 9, 1945. I then married Jasper Martin Williams, May 31, 1947. My husband died March 15, 1955. I later married Dwight G. Gill, January 28, 1958. He died March 19, 1973.

Submitted by Othal Lenora Davis Gill