| Father | James Canny Davault (b. 3 July 1848, d. 23 January 1924) |
| Mother | Jane Medley (b. February 1863, d. 13 December 1946) |
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| Father | James Canny Davault (b. 3 July 1848, d. 23 January 1924) |
| Mother | Jane Medley (b. February 1863, d. 13 December 1946) |
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| Son | Wilbur James Watson (b. 9 October 1909, d. 15 November 1985) |
| Son | Chester Wayne Watson (b. 27 June 1911) |
| Daughter | Eva Irene Watson (b. 18 November 1912, d. 7 December 1991) |
| Son | William Cecil Watson (b. 21 September 1914) |
| Daughter | Betty Maxine Watson (b. 15 September 1921, d. 18 March 2001) |
| Son | William Dean Watson (b. 10 July 1927, d. December 1984) |
| Daughter | Jean Watson |
| Daughter | Joann Watson |
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| Son | Wilbur James Watson (b. 9 October 1909, d. 15 November 1985) |
| Son | Chester Wayne Watson (b. 27 June 1911) |
| Daughter | Eva Irene Watson (b. 18 November 1912, d. 7 December 1991) |
| Son | William Cecil Watson (b. 21 September 1914) |
| Daughter | Betty Maxine Watson (b. 15 September 1921, d. 18 March 2001) |
| Son | William Dean Watson (b. 10 July 1927, d. December 1984) |
| Daughter | Jean Watson |
| Daughter | Joann Watson |
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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Obituary -- The Chronicle, Centralia, Washington; Tuesday, 20 MAR 2001; page A4:
Betty Maxine Laughlin
Longtime Centralia resident Betty Maxine Laughlin, 79, died Sunday, March 18.
Born Sept. 15, 1921, at Pratt, Kan., she moved with her husband, Walter B. Laughlin, to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1950s, settling in Centralia.
A homemaker, she enjoyed the visits made to her home by her family and spending time with her friends. Her survivors said she loved the Pacific Northwest.
Her husband died in 1990.
Survivors include two daughters, Sallie Jo Lawson, and Patty Laughlin, both of Centralia; two sons, Michael of Centralia, and Ted of of Tacoma; two sisters, Joann Olds and Jean Hovey, both of San Diego; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Remembrances may be donations to Visiting Nurses Foundation, 1783 N. National, Chehalis, Wash. 98532.
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A memorial service for Betty Maxine Laughlin will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Christan Church, 111 N.W. Prindle, Chehalis, with the Rev. Tom Bradshaw officiating.
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| Father | Oscar James Watson (b. 15 February 1884, d. 3 February 1965) |
| Mother | Dora Maude Davault (b. 6 June 1890, d. 21 April 1965) |
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| Last Edited | 13 June 2023 00:00:00 |
| Father | James Canny Davault (b. 3 July 1848, d. 23 January 1924) |
| Mother | Jane Medley (b. February 1863, d. 13 December 1946) |
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| Father | William Robert Davault (b. 13 April 1862, d. 4 December 1925) |
| Mother | Martha Victoria Cox (b. 7 September 1867, d. 12 December 1904) |
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| Son | Carroll Rodney Chacon-Martin-Pugh+ (b. 7 May 1927, d. 16 March 2008) |
| Son | Thomas Alfred Stengele+ (b. 18 March 1932, d. 14 April 1995) |
| Daughter | Ada Mae Lorts+ |
Per Tracy Devault's DNA and genealogy research:
What we know and what we suspect
In the mid-1920s, Harry V. Martin was in the U.S. Army and stationed in the San Francisco area. There he started a relationship with Jessie Marie Chacon. This relationship produced a son, Carroll Rodney Chacon-Martin, born 7 May 1927 in San Francisco. Not long after the birth of Carroll, Jessie married Stanley H. Pugh. She had several children with Stanley and her son Carroll adopted the Pugh surname.
At some point Jessie told Carroll that he was the son of Harry V. Martin. She also gave Carroll a photo of Harry. On the back of the photo, probably written by Jessie, is the notation: "Serg Harry V. Martin, 15 Co., Fort Mills, Philippines Islands."
About 1946, Carroll Pugh married Rosemary Sheila Pater. Carroll and Rosemary started a family that eventually included four children: Theresa Lee Pugh, Sheridan Marie Pugh, Carroll Rodney Pugh, Jr. and Howard Alan Pugh. Carroll Sr. passed away in 2008 and Rosemary passed away in 2019.
It was about that time that Sheridan Pugh decided to learn what she could about her father’s father. Her investigation started in two main areas. 1) She sent away for Harry V. Martin’s military records and 2) She had her brother Howard’s Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) tested by Family Tree DNA (FTDNA).
Summary of Harry V. Martin’s military records:
First let me say that many of Harry V. Martin’s military records were lost in the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in Saint Louis, Missouri. Below is what Sheridan gleaned from Harry’s records that are still available.
a) Harry V. Martin entered the Army about 1919 from Wichita, Kansas. He entered the service as a private.
b) During 1920 – 1921 he was assigned to the Coastal Artillery Corps and stationed at Fort Mills in the Philippine Islands. Most of the rest of the time, up until late 1926, he was stationed in the San Francisco area.
c) In late 1926 he was transferred to Chicago.
d) At one point Harry said his father was John T. Martin and that he lived in Kansas City, Missouri.
e) In 1932 he was mustered out of the service with the rank of Staff Sergeant.?He gave his last address as Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Summary of Harry V. Martin’s ancestry (via Howard Alan Pugh’s DNA tests):
Sheridan first had Howard Alan Pugh’s Y-DNA analyzed by Family Tree DNA. Y-DNA is generally transferred unchanged from father to son. As such, any two males with identical Y-DNA will have a common male ancestor. This is true even if one has to go back many generations to find that common male ancestor.
FTDNA’s Y-DNA analysis of Howard’s Y-DNA showed that he was a direct-male-line descendant of Henry Dewald (1733 – 1817). FTDNA records showed that several other individuals were also direct-male-line descendants of Henry Dewald. I was one of those individuals. Sheridan used the information on file with FTDNA to contact me. I was interested in learning about any newly discovered Dewald/Davault/DeVault descendants and decided to join Sheridan’s investigation.
I suggested to Sheridan that she have Howard’s autosomal DNA tested by Ancestry.com. Autosomal DNA is used to connect close relatives. Furthermore, Ancestry.com has a huge database of people that have had their autosomal DNA tested. The results of Howard’s test showed that he was a close relative of Aubrey Bruce Davault (1950 - ). Using that information and what we believed to be Harry V. Martin’s birth information (born about 1902 in Missouri) we determined that Harry V. Martin was a son of William Robert Davault (1862 – 1925). William Robert Davault was born and lived out his life in Maries County, Missouri. After a much more extensive analysis of Howard’s DNA Match List we came to the conclusion that Harry V. Martin was a son of William Robert Davault and his first wife, Martha Victoria “Victoria” Cox. That meant that Harry would have been born a Davault and then likely given up to a family with the Martin surname. William and Victoria already had four children. The only reason we could come up with for giving Harry up was that Victoria was dying of tuberculosis and they may have felt that William could not raise an infant son on his own.
Other information about Harry V. Martin gleaned from traditional genealogical research:
Very little additional information regarding Harry V. Martin has been uncovered. The notice of his final discharge from the military in 1932 is the most recent information we have on him.
1) The following article appeared in the May 3, 1921 issue of The Wichita Daily Eagle, Page 5 (Newspapers.com):
PRIVATE JAMES E. DEVINE, 13th company, M.B., Fort Mills, P.I., sends the Eagle a plea for letters from United States girls to the boys in foreign service. “We do get lonesome” he writes, “and would like to correspond with some nice girls. Private Horace Sumner and Private Homer M. Layton of the same company and Private Everett Gumm and Corporal Harry V. Martin of the 15th company, same station, pledge themselves to reply to all letters written them.”
2) The 1910 Census for Osage, Crawford County, Missouri, lists a Harry Martin, age 8, born in Missouri as an adopted child. He is living with Robert and Martha Jane (Oxendine) Stinnett. Also living with the couple was Martha’s brother, Jesse Oxendine. By 1920 everybody had gone their separate ways.
3) I mentioned above that in one of his military records Harry listed his contact person as his father, John T. Martin. The record gave his father’s address as 433 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. We did not find a Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri but we did find one in Kansas City, Kansas. We did not find any listing for a John T. Martin living in that area near the date that when Harry provided the information.
The above 1910 Census record was for Osage, Crawford County, Missouri. In the 1900 Census record for the same area we found a family headed by a John T. Martin. That John T. Martin died a year and a half later and the family seemed to disappear after that.
4) We have surmised, based solely on DNA evidence, that Harry may have fathered two other children: Ada Mae (Lorts) Tanner, born 2 Nov 1938 in Missouri and Baby Boy Lowe born 18 Mar 1932 in Joilet, Will County, Illinois. Baby boy Lowe was adopted at birth and grew up with the name, Thomas Alfred Stengele.
That is about the sum total of everything we know or think we know about Harry V. Martin.
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| Son | Carroll Rodney Chacon-Martin-Pugh+ (b. 7 May 1927, d. 16 March 2008) |
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| Daughter | Ada Mae Lorts+ |
From Tracy Devault's DNA and related research:
Zenoba and her husband, Henry Edward Lorts (1904 - 1983) appeared to have had a somewhat troubled marriage, having been married and divorced twice. The first marriage was on 25 Jun 1929 and the second was on 27 Jan 1937. On paper the couple had three daughters: Ada Mae Lorts (1938 - ), Hannah Imogene Lorts (1932 - 1986) and Lucille Lorts. However, research using DNA test results from Ada, Lucile and from Stephen Harris, a son of Hannah Lorts showed that the three sisters all had different fathers. Further, the DNA results from daughter Ada Mae Lorts' showed that her biological father was a descendant of William Robert Davault (1862 - 1925). Based on the amount of shared DNA between Ada Mae Lorts and Howard Alan Pugh we have surmised that Ada's biological parents were Harry V. Martin and Zenoba Jettie Thomlinson.
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| Daughter | Esther Warner Hall+ (b. 22 July 1920, d. 29 January 1972) |
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| Father | Dorsey Samuel Davault (b. 11 September 1899, d. 24 August 1959) |
| Mother | Maude Amy Charles (b. March 1900, d. 8 January 1985) |
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| Daughter | Patricia Warner Catherine Cornack (b. 8 April 1941, d. 16 October 2021) |
| Son | Richard Albert Cornack, Jr.+ |
| Daughter | Susan Seppala+ |
The Palm Beach Post; Florida; Monday, January 31, 1972; Page 34 (Newspapers.com):
Seppala, Esther, 50, of 350 South Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach. Mizell-Faville-Zern Funeral Home. Funeral in Flint, Mich.
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; Ozark News, St. Clair, Missouri; Thursday, 20 NOV 1941; Page 4 (Newspapers.com):
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Dorsey S. Davault, St. Louis; Pauline Giboney, St. Louis.
NOTE: Since Pauline was listed as next-of-kin on Dorsey's WW II draft registration, and since she was living with him as of the 1950 census, an actual marriage presumedly occurred.
Dorsey's wife was a Bertha, as of his death in 1959. DLB 2023.
OBITUARY - The Springfield News-Leader, Springfield, Missouri; Wednesday, 14 OCT 1998; Page 20 (Newspapers.com):
Pauline Giboney
Pauline Giboney, 94, Springfield, Mo., died ar 10:49 a.m. Tuesday, October 13, 1998, in St. John's Regional Health Center after a short illness.
Pauline was born Oct. 31, 1903, in Greene County to James Walter and Donna Williamson Giboney, who preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Marie Kelone, and Ama Murray.
Pauline was a bookkeeper for the Internal Revenue Service, returning to live in Springfield after her retirement.
She was a member of the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by two nieces, Eula Leidy, Nixa, and Helen White, Springfield and many great-nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, 1998, in the Klingner Mortuary chapel with the Rev. Greg Esselman officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Comfort Cemetery.
No visitation is planned, however, friends may call after 3 p.m. today in the mortuary. The casket will be closed at the beginning of services.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church.
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| Father | Harry V. Martin (b. about 1902, d. before 2002) |
| Mother | Helen Lowe |
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| Daughter | Meg A. Stengele |
| Son | Timothy A. Stengele |
| Daughter | Mary Lou Stengele |
Obituary -- Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona; Sunday, 16 APR 1995, page B4 (Newspapers.com):
Thomas A. Stengele, 63, of Scottsdate, a salesman, died April 14, 1995. He was born in Joliet, Ill. Survivors include his wife, Bonita; daughters, Meg Gilmore and Mary Lou; son, Timothy; and one grandchild. Mass: 10 a.m. Monday, St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church, 6261 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale.
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