James William McDonald, the son of Moses Benjamin McDonald and Allethia America Jackson, was born in Hempstead County, Texas. James William's family moved to Collin County. In 1896, James Willliam married Mary Catherine "Kate" Bilderback and they were in the Farmersville area where three children were born and two died before 1900.
1900 TEXAS CENSUS, Collin Co.,Farmersville:
James W. McDonald, head, age 23, born Feb,.1877, Tx, father born Tn, mother born Tx; -Kate, wife, age 19, born Oct 1880, Tx, keeping house, 3 children, 1 living, father born Il, mother born Tx; -William, son, age 6/12, born Tx; -Edgar, brother, age 21;(George Edgar); Note: James' parents, Moses and Allethia next household.
By 1910, James William and Mary Kate joined the run for land in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). James Williams' parents went to New Mexico Territory.
1910 INDIAN TERRITORY CENSUS, Stephens County, McPherson (now Comanche, Oklahoma)
James W. McDonald, age 33, marr 13 yrs, farmer, born Tx; -Mary K., wife, age 30, 8 child, 3 living, b. Tx; -Marion W., son, age 10, farm labor, born Tx; -Thelma V., dau, age 6, born Ind Terr; -Leola, dau, age 1 6/12, born Ind Terr. Their ninth child, Moses B., was born Jan 22, 1911. In 1912, Mary Kate was stricken with spinal meningitis and their house quarantined. Eight year old Thelma Vester remembered the day her mother couldn't get out of bed. She took ingredients in to the bedside and her dying mother taught her how to make biscuits. After Kate's death, James William put his four children on the train and sent them to his parents. His father met the train in Tucumcari and took them to Plain where he was postmaster and operated a grocery store. James William put by his crop and joined his children in New Mexico. He went back in the spring, put in and harvested a crop before selling the farm. James William married Nellie L. Waterfield and they had four children. During his life time, James William saw New Mexico Territory become a state and his country engage in two World Wars. His home was in Portales, New Mexico, when he died, December of 1969. He was laid to rest among relatives and neighbors in the little Plain Cemetery between Forrest and Grady in New Mexico. The cemetery is about all that remains of a once thriving community.
-Blanche Keating Collie
Children:
By 1st spouse:
1. Charles McDonald 1897Tx-by1900Tx
2. ClaraBelle McDonald 1898Tx-by1900Tx
3. Marion William McDonald 1900Tx-af1980Tx
4. Clarence McDonald 1902Tx-by1910Ok
5. Thelma Vester McDonald 1904Ok-1998NM
6. Julian McDonald 1905Ok-by1910Ok
7. Mavis McDonald 1907Ok-by1910Ok
8. Lee Ola McDonald 1909Ok-1885NM
9. Moses Benjamin McDonald 1911Ok-1992Ca
By 2nd spouse:
1. Cora McDonald Wood (twin)
2. Ora McDonald (twin)
3. Woodrow McDonald
4. Newton McDonald
1900 TEXAS CENSUS, Collin Co.,Farmersville:
James W. McDonald, head, age 23, born Feb,.1877, Tx, father born Tn, mother born Tx; -Kate, wife, age 19, born Oct 1880, Tx, keeping house, 3 children, 1 living, father born Il, mother born Tx; -William, son, age 6/12, born Tx; -Edgar, brother, age 21;(George Edgar); Note: James' parents, Moses and Allethia next household.
By 1910, James William and Mary Kate joined the run for land in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). James Williams' parents went to New Mexico Territory.
1910 INDIAN TERRITORY CENSUS, Stephens County, McPherson (now Comanche, Oklahoma)
James W. McDonald, age 33, marr 13 yrs, farmer, born Tx; -Mary K., wife, age 30, 8 child, 3 living, b. Tx; -Marion W., son, age 10, farm labor, born Tx; -Thelma V., dau, age 6, born Ind Terr; -Leola, dau, age 1 6/12, born Ind Terr. Their ninth child, Moses B., was born Jan 22, 1911. In 1912, Mary Kate was stricken with spinal meningitis and their house quarantined. Eight year old Thelma Vester remembered the day her mother couldn't get out of bed. She took ingredients in to the bedside and her dying mother taught her how to make biscuits. After Kate's death, James William put his four children on the train and sent them to his parents. His father met the train in Tucumcari and took them to Plain where he was postmaster and operated a grocery store. James William put by his crop and joined his children in New Mexico. He went back in the spring, put in and harvested a crop before selling the farm. James William married Nellie L. Waterfield and they had four children. During his life time, James William saw New Mexico Territory become a state and his country engage in two World Wars. His home was in Portales, New Mexico, when he died, December of 1969. He was laid to rest among relatives and neighbors in the little Plain Cemetery between Forrest and Grady in New Mexico. The cemetery is about all that remains of a once thriving community.
-Blanche Keating Collie
Children:
By 1st spouse:
1. Charles McDonald 1897Tx-by1900Tx
2. ClaraBelle McDonald 1898Tx-by1900Tx
3. Marion William McDonald 1900Tx-af1980Tx
4. Clarence McDonald 1902Tx-by1910Ok
5. Thelma Vester McDonald 1904Ok-1998NM
6. Julian McDonald 1905Ok-by1910Ok
7. Mavis McDonald 1907Ok-by1910Ok
8. Lee Ola McDonald 1909Ok-1885NM
9. Moses Benjamin McDonald 1911Ok-1992Ca
By 2nd spouse:
1. Cora McDonald Wood (twin)
2. Ora McDonald (twin)
3. Woodrow McDonald
4. Newton McDonald
James William McDonald, the son of Moses Benjamin McDonald and Allethia America Jackson, was born in Hempstead County, Texas. James William's family moved to Collin County. In 1896, James Willliam married Mary Catherine "Kate" Bilderback and they were in the Farmersville area where three children were born and two died before 1900.
1900 TEXAS CENSUS, Collin Co.,Farmersville:
James W. McDonald, head, age 23, born Feb,.1877, Tx, father born Tn, mother born Tx; -Kate, wife, age 19, born Oct 1880, Tx, keeping house, 3 children, 1 living, father born Il, mother born Tx; -William, son, age 6/12, born Tx; -Edgar, brother, age 21;(George Edgar); Note: James' parents, Moses and Allethia next household.
By 1910, James William and Mary Kate joined the run for land in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). James Williams' parents went to New Mexico Territory.
1910 INDIAN TERRITORY CENSUS, Stephens County, McPherson (now Comanche, Oklahoma)
James W. McDonald, age 33, marr 13 yrs, farmer, born Tx; -Mary K., wife, age 30, 8 child, 3 living, b. Tx; -Marion W., son, age 10, farm labor, born Tx; -Thelma V., dau, age 6, born Ind Terr; -Leola, dau, age 1 6/12, born Ind Terr. Their ninth child, Moses B., was born Jan 22, 1911. In 1912, Mary Kate was stricken with spinal meningitis and their house quarantined. Eight year old Thelma Vester remembered the day her mother couldn't get out of bed. She took ingredients in to the bedside and her dying mother taught her how to make biscuits. After Kate's death, James William put his four children on the train and sent them to his parents. His father met the train in Tucumcari and took them to Plain where he was postmaster and operated a grocery store. James William put by his crop and joined his children in New Mexico. He went back in the spring, put in and harvested a crop before selling the farm. James William married Nellie L. Waterfield and they had four children. During his life time, James William saw New Mexico Territory become a state and his country engage in two World Wars. His home was in Portales, New Mexico, when he died, December of 1969. He was laid to rest among relatives and neighbors in the little Plain Cemetery between Forrest and Grady in New Mexico. The cemetery is about all that remains of a once thriving community.
-Blanche Keating Collie
Children:
By 1st spouse:
1. Charles McDonald 1897Tx-by1900Tx
2. ClaraBelle McDonald 1898Tx-by1900Tx
3. Marion William McDonald 1900Tx-af1980Tx
4. Clarence McDonald 1902Tx-by1910Ok
5. Thelma Vester McDonald 1904Ok-1998NM
6. Julian McDonald 1905Ok-by1910Ok
7. Mavis McDonald 1907Ok-by1910Ok
8. Lee Ola McDonald 1909Ok-1885NM
9. Moses Benjamin McDonald 1911Ok-1992Ca
By 2nd spouse:
1. Cora McDonald Wood (twin)
2. Ora McDonald (twin)
3. Woodrow McDonald
4. Newton McDonald
1900 TEXAS CENSUS, Collin Co.,Farmersville:
James W. McDonald, head, age 23, born Feb,.1877, Tx, father born Tn, mother born Tx; -Kate, wife, age 19, born Oct 1880, Tx, keeping house, 3 children, 1 living, father born Il, mother born Tx; -William, son, age 6/12, born Tx; -Edgar, brother, age 21;(George Edgar); Note: James' parents, Moses and Allethia next household.
By 1910, James William and Mary Kate joined the run for land in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). James Williams' parents went to New Mexico Territory.
1910 INDIAN TERRITORY CENSUS, Stephens County, McPherson (now Comanche, Oklahoma)
James W. McDonald, age 33, marr 13 yrs, farmer, born Tx; -Mary K., wife, age 30, 8 child, 3 living, b. Tx; -Marion W., son, age 10, farm labor, born Tx; -Thelma V., dau, age 6, born Ind Terr; -Leola, dau, age 1 6/12, born Ind Terr. Their ninth child, Moses B., was born Jan 22, 1911. In 1912, Mary Kate was stricken with spinal meningitis and their house quarantined. Eight year old Thelma Vester remembered the day her mother couldn't get out of bed. She took ingredients in to the bedside and her dying mother taught her how to make biscuits. After Kate's death, James William put his four children on the train and sent them to his parents. His father met the train in Tucumcari and took them to Plain where he was postmaster and operated a grocery store. James William put by his crop and joined his children in New Mexico. He went back in the spring, put in and harvested a crop before selling the farm. James William married Nellie L. Waterfield and they had four children. During his life time, James William saw New Mexico Territory become a state and his country engage in two World Wars. His home was in Portales, New Mexico, when he died, December of 1969. He was laid to rest among relatives and neighbors in the little Plain Cemetery between Forrest and Grady in New Mexico. The cemetery is about all that remains of a once thriving community.
-Blanche Keating Collie
Children:
By 1st spouse:
1. Charles McDonald 1897Tx-by1900Tx
2. ClaraBelle McDonald 1898Tx-by1900Tx
3. Marion William McDonald 1900Tx-af1980Tx
4. Clarence McDonald 1902Tx-by1910Ok
5. Thelma Vester McDonald 1904Ok-1998NM
6. Julian McDonald 1905Ok-by1910Ok
7. Mavis McDonald 1907Ok-by1910Ok
8. Lee Ola McDonald 1909Ok-1885NM
9. Moses Benjamin McDonald 1911Ok-1992Ca
By 2nd spouse:
1. Cora McDonald Wood (twin)
2. Ora McDonald (twin)
3. Woodrow McDonald
4. Newton McDonald
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