Christine (Chrissy) DOTY

Notes:

died of liver disease

He worked for Service Life Insurance Company.

My Dad (Rex Owen Lewis) loved and admired his cousin so much! Paul was the coolest guy Rex knew. The Lewis family were small town hicks. Paul and his mom lived in a big city. Paul's mother (Great Aunt Elsie) worked in a fine department store and always dressed fabulously. Paul, her only child, was always dressed in expensive clothes as well. even when he went to visit his cousins in the country.

When Paul got a job in insurance, he talked some family members into getting insurance. They gave him the payment every month. Then when they needed it, they found out that Paul had just been pocketing their money and they didn't have policy to use.

Once when Dad was reminiscing fondly about Paul, I said," But Dad, Paul was a jerk and and crook." Dad so looked sad and agreed that Yes, Paul was a crook.

But he was a con man.

The extended family felt bad that they never go to see Chrissy and didn't know what happened to her. However, they understood why Marge took her away from Paul and Elsie.

Paul married Margaret Mary St John. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chester married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Mildred M. Roe. Mildred was born in Feb 1899 in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan; died after 1940 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Sarah Lillian (Lillie) YOUNGER on 14 Jan 1897 in Deatsville, KY, and was divorced about 1902. Sarah (daughter of Richard YOUNGER and Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN) was born on 2 Feb 1876; died on 13 Apr 1951; was buried in Stamford, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She left Henry Clay Deats when Effie was quite young. According to Dad (Rex Lewis) she said he was abusive, Uncle Jack remembers being told that Henry Clay was an alcoholic.

After the girls were grown she was a traveling saleswoman, selling silk scarves. E.A. Schafer was also a traveling salesman,they met since they had the same territory. They bought a car together and traveled together after that. After Henry
Clay died, Lillian and E. A. married, but it seems that Lillian still used the name Mrs Deats. Except with her grandchildren, to them she insisted on being called Mama Deats since she, like her daughter Effie didn't want to be called
"grandma".

According to Mom (Ina Wolfe Lewis), Mama Deats was so predjuced that she wouldn't even walk past a black person's house. She would go out of her way to walk down another street.

When Lillian died, E.A. Schafer had her buried in the plot with her parents.

This cemetery is one mile north of Hwy 89 in Stamford, Nebraska in Harlan County. Just turn north on Main Street in Stamford. There are no signs for at the cemetery.