Haden Walter Greenlee was born the youngest child of Elijah and Nancy Coble Greenlee. He married late in life to Alice Mary Brown, daughter of Reuben and Linnie Brown. They married August 1, 1919; he was 35 and she was 16. They became the parents of two daughters; Elma Irene Greenlee Whitlow and Zelma Lorene Greenlee who was born six months after her father's death and died when she was two. Haden and Alice migrated to Oklahoma with his brothers and their families in search of a better life. He found work in a road crew, building roads in Tulsa County. One night, after a long day of working, he climbed in the back of an open truck with the other men for the trip back to their boarding house. As they traveled the wind caught his hat and in jerking around to catch it he fell backward, out of the truck and struck the pavement with his head.He lived only a little while after they brought him back to the boarding house. His body was sent back to Missouri by train and he was buried near his mother. His father hand-carved his tombstone which at this point is weathered and unreadable.Written and researched by Traci Crewse Bohannon.
Haden Walter Greenlee was born the youngest child of Elijah and Nancy Coble Greenlee. He married late in life to Alice Mary Brown, daughter of Reuben and Linnie Brown. They married August 1, 1919; he was 35 and she was 16. They became the parents of two daughters; Elma Irene Greenlee Whitlow and Zelma Lorene Greenlee who was born six months after her father's death and died when she was two. Haden and Alice migrated to Oklahoma with his brothers and their families in search of a better life. He found work in a road crew, building roads in Tulsa County. One night, after a long day of working, he climbed in the back of an open truck with the other men for the trip back to their boarding house. As they traveled the wind caught his hat and in jerking around to catch it he fell backward, out of the truck and struck the pavement with his head.He lived only a little while after they brought him back to the boarding house. His body was sent back to Missouri by train and he was buried near his mother. His father hand-carved his tombstone which at this point is weathered and unreadable.Written and researched by Traci Crewse Bohannon.
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