Paul L. 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.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Mary St John. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Christine (Chrissy) DOTY

Family/Spouse: Jean BREETZKE. Jean (daughter of LaRue) was born on 23 Jun 1926 in Beemer, Cuming County, Nebraska; died on 17 Dec 2009 in Omaha, Douglas Co, Nebraska; was buried in Westlawn-Hillcrest Memorial park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chester married Living [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.

Notes:

Tillie Deats Biggs said that Deatsville was named after Richard William Deats.

This information was posted on GenWeb by Anne Livingston. It appears that RW Deats left Bullitt Co. and moved to Nelson Co. in 1967:

LIST OF PATRONS for the ATLAS OF NELSON AND SPENCER COS., KY.

PUBLISHED BY D.J.LAKE & CO. 1882

NELSON COUNTY
SAMUELS' DEPOT PRECINCT No.5

Name:Deats, R.W.
Occupation: Farmer & Ex-Sheriff, & J.P. of Bullitt Co.
Nativity: Bullitt Co., KY
Date of Settlement: 1867


New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Deatsville, Kentucky
10 miles N.W. of Bardstown on Hwy 523

Richard married Mary Ann SHAWLER on 11 Apr 1850 in Bullitt Co, KY. Mary (daughter of Anthony SHAWLER and Elizabeth JOHNSON) was born on 13 Feb 1829 in Lebanon Junction, Bullitt Co., Kentucky; died on 5 Nov 1906 in Deatsville, Kentucky; was buried in New Salem Baptist Church, Deatsville, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Dona Wilson Johnson, Sally, Richard's stepmother who raised him, left him the family farm when she died in 1900. In 1904, he sold the farm and moved the family to Nebraska. Stella remembered that when Richard moved the family ,he sold all of her grandmother's beautiful Haviland China among other things. Stella always refered to the farm as her grandmother's plantation. She said they had slaves who stayed with them even after they were freed in 1865.

Richard married Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN on 16 Feb 1871. Nancy (daughter of Moses STRAUGHAN and Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART) was born on 2 Aug 1852 in Jefferson Co., KY; died on 10 Sep 1937 in Martinez, CA; was buried in Stamford Cemetery plot 258; Stamford, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She lived with her daughter Ora (Younger) Johnson in Martinez, CA after her husband Richard died.

Dona Wilson Johnson remembers her grandmother Stella pronouncing Nancy's maiden name as "Strong". I remember their marriage record from Kentucky actually had her name recorded as "Strong".

Her body was cremated in Berkeley according to her death certificate. Funeral Director, Brunscher & Connolly, Martinez, CA