He married in early 1928 at the First Baptist Church at Fort Gibson, OK, Jewel Mae Woods (buried at Citizens); they had the following 6 daughters: Earldean, Norman Ruth, Rosemary, Wanda Lee, Donna Jean, and Linda Carol.
Earl and Jewel moved to the house on Coppinger in 1950 where they died; Rosemary still resides there.
Earl worked pumping sand and gravel from the river; while on his way to Muskogee to work in his Model A, he was hit by a train while attempting to cross the railroad tracks on old Highway 62. His car was destroyed, but Earl only received 2 cuts. He also worked for Yahola Sand and Gravel for a few years, then as a night watchman when the Fort Gibson Dam was being constructed, and finally at OG&E on the AR River where he retired.
Earl suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in St. John's Hospital in Tulsa.
He married in early 1928 at the First Baptist Church at Fort Gibson, OK, Jewel Mae Woods (buried at Citizens); they had the following 6 daughters: Earldean, Norman Ruth, Rosemary, Wanda Lee, Donna Jean, and Linda Carol.
Earl and Jewel moved to the house on Coppinger in 1950 where they died; Rosemary still resides there.
Earl worked pumping sand and gravel from the river; while on his way to Muskogee to work in his Model A, he was hit by a train while attempting to cross the railroad tracks on old Highway 62. His car was destroyed, but Earl only received 2 cuts. He also worked for Yahola Sand and Gravel for a few years, then as a night watchman when the Fort Gibson Dam was being constructed, and finally at OG&E on the AR River where he retired.
Earl suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in St. John's Hospital in Tulsa.
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