Lydia was born the second child of James Jarrett and Sarah Mae Bolinger Woods. She was born In Witter Arkansas on a trip that her parents had made to see William Jackson and Mary Woods Seals Lydia lived in Boynton near her mother and father's home place. Lydia only had one child. Not much is known about this child it wasn't until I started researching my family history that I even found out about him, he was never spoke about among the family. To her was born a son which she named James after her father, she lost it at a young age. He is buried in South Bethal Cemetery in a unmarked grave, next to Eva Woods and Willie Deaton's grave. I am not sure who the father of the child is. Rita Woods Crowe sister to Lydia claims that this child was named after their father Jim and Lydia chose never to put a stone up at South Bethel even though Rita had offered on several occasions to mark his resting place.
I sometimes wondered if there wasn't a secret or a shame of his birth the reason she never put a headstone to mark his resting place and maybe that was the reason no one ever spoke about the child. I am not sure if child was stillborn or if lived awhile and passed away. I know he was young according to what little was told.
Mom and dad would take us on visits to Boynton to see aunt Lydia and Alpha, I always thought Lydia wasn't always correct in the mind. She never did anyone any harm and she loved us and was sweet to us but when we visited she didn't act the same as aunt Alpha.
When we visited Aunt Alpha and Uncle Cecil sometimes we would walk across the ally way and visit with Lydia. Often she would just be setting around singing while rocking back and forth holding a doll. She would speak to us of the old times and about her mother and father. I was too young to really understand. We kids just didn't go around Lydia as much as we did Alpha for we truly thought she was crazy.
Joe Bolinger Uncle to Alpha and Lydia lived beside them and we was always afraid of him. It was never anything he did for we never got to really know him for he stayed a distance from us while we was at Alpha's. On visits to Boynton we kids would see him peaking around the old home place of Sarah Mae and James looking at us. He always wore an old heavy coat even when it was hot outside. I do not ever remember him visiting with my mama and father. When we kids would see him looking at us we would always mention it to dad as kids do and dad would kind a snicker at us kids. I think dad knew that he scared us a little bit. Dad would say yes that's Joe, but dad as far as I can remember never talked to Joe much. I do know that Joe had more to do with Lydia and Alpha and from the conversations that we overheard when Alpha would talk about him.
After the death of my aunt Lydia I took time to look back on the visits that we had and I seem to think that the loss of Lydia's only child affected her greatly. I look back now and remember how when we visited she would be setting in her little mobile home most the time by herself and maybe she didn't have much to dwell on but the past.
Often our outlook in life about people is shadowed by what we really don't understand. Now that the years have past I have thought a lot about Aunt Lydia's frame of mind.. As a child I thought she was crazy as kids would call it but now I believe that her mental state could have been she was seriously depressed. Back in them day's no one talked about it. I do know that she loved the Lord and even though I thought it was strange that she collected dolls and set around holding and singing to them, mumbling of days gone by. I think now that it was her only way of healing from a pain that only one would has lived in that same situation would understand . Her home was a little trailer house that sat next to her mom and father's house across the ally from Alpha and Cecil. She loved to collect dolls, talk and sing about Jesus. Lydia played an accordian and her favorite song was Old Little Town of Bethleham. She was married twice that I know of one to Carson Bailey who family said wasn't the nicest to her, and in later years she married a Wesley Fowler and they lived in Haskell. She never had any more children.. She was placed in the Haskell Nursing Home in later years when she became unable to care for herself.
Rita tells she was visiting Lydia when the family was called in because her health had taken a turn for the worse. Rita told that as she was in the room and Lydia was fading fast that she looked up and spoke to her. She told Rita that her mother was waiting for her. Rita heard Lydia say look in that corner you will see. I believe that God did send angels to carry her home that night.
Peggy Sprinkles niece to Lydia
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Muskogee MLI-1939-00351
10/17/1936 Plaintiff - BAILEY, CARSON BAILEY, CARSON and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
03/07/1960 Defendant - WOODS, LYDIA FOWLER, WESLEY and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
Lydia was born when her parents went to visit Aunt Mary (Woods) Seals who lived in Witter, Madison Co. Ark
I sometimes wondered if there wasn't a secret or a shame of his birth the reason she never put a headstone to mark his resting place and maybe that was the reason no one ever spoke about the child. I am not sure if child was stillborn or if lived awhile and passed away. I know he was young according to what little was told.
Mom and dad would take us on visits to Boynton to see aunt Lydia and Alpha, I always thought Lydia wasn't always correct in the mind. She never did anyone any harm and she loved us and was sweet to us but when we visited she didn't act the same as aunt Alpha.
When we visited Aunt Alpha and Uncle Cecil sometimes we would walk across the ally way and visit with Lydia. Often she would just be setting around singing while rocking back and forth holding a doll. She would speak to us of the old times and about her mother and father. I was too young to really understand. We kids just didn't go around Lydia as much as we did Alpha for we truly thought she was crazy.
Joe Bolinger Uncle to Alpha and Lydia lived beside them and we was always afraid of him. It was never anything he did for we never got to really know him for he stayed a distance from us while we was at Alpha's. On visits to Boynton we kids would see him peaking around the old home place of Sarah Mae and James looking at us. He always wore an old heavy coat even when it was hot outside. I do not ever remember him visiting with my mama and father. When we kids would see him looking at us we would always mention it to dad as kids do and dad would kind a snicker at us kids. I think dad knew that he scared us a little bit. Dad would say yes that's Joe, but dad as far as I can remember never talked to Joe much. I do know that Joe had more to do with Lydia and Alpha and from the conversations that we overheard when Alpha would talk about him.
After the death of my aunt Lydia I took time to look back on the visits that we had and I seem to think that the loss of Lydia's only child affected her greatly. I look back now and remember how when we visited she would be setting in her little mobile home most the time by herself and maybe she didn't have much to dwell on but the past.
Often our outlook in life about people is shadowed by what we really don't understand. Now that the years have past I have thought a lot about Aunt Lydia's frame of mind.. As a child I thought she was crazy as kids would call it but now I believe that her mental state could have been she was seriously depressed. Back in them day's no one talked about it. I do know that she loved the Lord and even though I thought it was strange that she collected dolls and set around holding and singing to them, mumbling of days gone by. I think now that it was her only way of healing from a pain that only one would has lived in that same situation would understand . Her home was a little trailer house that sat next to her mom and father's house across the ally from Alpha and Cecil. She loved to collect dolls, talk and sing about Jesus. Lydia played an accordian and her favorite song was Old Little Town of Bethleham. She was married twice that I know of one to Carson Bailey who family said wasn't the nicest to her, and in later years she married a Wesley Fowler and they lived in Haskell. She never had any more children.. She was placed in the Haskell Nursing Home in later years when she became unable to care for herself.
Rita tells she was visiting Lydia when the family was called in because her health had taken a turn for the worse. Rita told that as she was in the room and Lydia was fading fast that she looked up and spoke to her. She told Rita that her mother was waiting for her. Rita heard Lydia say look in that corner you will see. I believe that God did send angels to carry her home that night.
Peggy Sprinkles niece to Lydia
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Muskogee MLI-1939-00351
10/17/1936 Plaintiff - BAILEY, CARSON BAILEY, CARSON and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
03/07/1960 Defendant - WOODS, LYDIA FOWLER, WESLEY and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
Lydia was born when her parents went to visit Aunt Mary (Woods) Seals who lived in Witter, Madison Co. Ark
Lydia was born the second child of James Jarrett and Sarah Mae Bolinger Woods. She was born In Witter Arkansas on a trip that her parents had made to see William Jackson and Mary Woods Seals Lydia lived in Boynton near her mother and father's home place. Lydia only had one child. Not much is known about this child it wasn't until I started researching my family history that I even found out about him, he was never spoke about among the family. To her was born a son which she named James after her father, she lost it at a young age. He is buried in South Bethal Cemetery in a unmarked grave, next to Eva Woods and Willie Deaton's grave. I am not sure who the father of the child is. Rita Woods Crowe sister to Lydia claims that this child was named after their father Jim and Lydia chose never to put a stone up at South Bethel even though Rita had offered on several occasions to mark his resting place.
I sometimes wondered if there wasn't a secret or a shame of his birth the reason she never put a headstone to mark his resting place and maybe that was the reason no one ever spoke about the child. I am not sure if child was stillborn or if lived awhile and passed away. I know he was young according to what little was told.
Mom and dad would take us on visits to Boynton to see aunt Lydia and Alpha, I always thought Lydia wasn't always correct in the mind. She never did anyone any harm and she loved us and was sweet to us but when we visited she didn't act the same as aunt Alpha.
When we visited Aunt Alpha and Uncle Cecil sometimes we would walk across the ally way and visit with Lydia. Often she would just be setting around singing while rocking back and forth holding a doll. She would speak to us of the old times and about her mother and father. I was too young to really understand. We kids just didn't go around Lydia as much as we did Alpha for we truly thought she was crazy.
Joe Bolinger Uncle to Alpha and Lydia lived beside them and we was always afraid of him. It was never anything he did for we never got to really know him for he stayed a distance from us while we was at Alpha's. On visits to Boynton we kids would see him peaking around the old home place of Sarah Mae and James looking at us. He always wore an old heavy coat even when it was hot outside. I do not ever remember him visiting with my mama and father. When we kids would see him looking at us we would always mention it to dad as kids do and dad would kind a snicker at us kids. I think dad knew that he scared us a little bit. Dad would say yes that's Joe, but dad as far as I can remember never talked to Joe much. I do know that Joe had more to do with Lydia and Alpha and from the conversations that we overheard when Alpha would talk about him.
After the death of my aunt Lydia I took time to look back on the visits that we had and I seem to think that the loss of Lydia's only child affected her greatly. I look back now and remember how when we visited she would be setting in her little mobile home most the time by herself and maybe she didn't have much to dwell on but the past.
Often our outlook in life about people is shadowed by what we really don't understand. Now that the years have past I have thought a lot about Aunt Lydia's frame of mind.. As a child I thought she was crazy as kids would call it but now I believe that her mental state could have been she was seriously depressed. Back in them day's no one talked about it. I do know that she loved the Lord and even though I thought it was strange that she collected dolls and set around holding and singing to them, mumbling of days gone by. I think now that it was her only way of healing from a pain that only one would has lived in that same situation would understand . Her home was a little trailer house that sat next to her mom and father's house across the ally from Alpha and Cecil. She loved to collect dolls, talk and sing about Jesus. Lydia played an accordian and her favorite song was Old Little Town of Bethleham. She was married twice that I know of one to Carson Bailey who family said wasn't the nicest to her, and in later years she married a Wesley Fowler and they lived in Haskell. She never had any more children.. She was placed in the Haskell Nursing Home in later years when she became unable to care for herself.
Rita tells she was visiting Lydia when the family was called in because her health had taken a turn for the worse. Rita told that as she was in the room and Lydia was fading fast that she looked up and spoke to her. She told Rita that her mother was waiting for her. Rita heard Lydia say look in that corner you will see. I believe that God did send angels to carry her home that night.
Peggy Sprinkles niece to Lydia
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Muskogee MLI-1939-00351
10/17/1936 Plaintiff - BAILEY, CARSON BAILEY, CARSON and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
03/07/1960 Defendant - WOODS, LYDIA FOWLER, WESLEY and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
Lydia was born when her parents went to visit Aunt Mary (Woods) Seals who lived in Witter, Madison Co. Ark
I sometimes wondered if there wasn't a secret or a shame of his birth the reason she never put a headstone to mark his resting place and maybe that was the reason no one ever spoke about the child. I am not sure if child was stillborn or if lived awhile and passed away. I know he was young according to what little was told.
Mom and dad would take us on visits to Boynton to see aunt Lydia and Alpha, I always thought Lydia wasn't always correct in the mind. She never did anyone any harm and she loved us and was sweet to us but when we visited she didn't act the same as aunt Alpha.
When we visited Aunt Alpha and Uncle Cecil sometimes we would walk across the ally way and visit with Lydia. Often she would just be setting around singing while rocking back and forth holding a doll. She would speak to us of the old times and about her mother and father. I was too young to really understand. We kids just didn't go around Lydia as much as we did Alpha for we truly thought she was crazy.
Joe Bolinger Uncle to Alpha and Lydia lived beside them and we was always afraid of him. It was never anything he did for we never got to really know him for he stayed a distance from us while we was at Alpha's. On visits to Boynton we kids would see him peaking around the old home place of Sarah Mae and James looking at us. He always wore an old heavy coat even when it was hot outside. I do not ever remember him visiting with my mama and father. When we kids would see him looking at us we would always mention it to dad as kids do and dad would kind a snicker at us kids. I think dad knew that he scared us a little bit. Dad would say yes that's Joe, but dad as far as I can remember never talked to Joe much. I do know that Joe had more to do with Lydia and Alpha and from the conversations that we overheard when Alpha would talk about him.
After the death of my aunt Lydia I took time to look back on the visits that we had and I seem to think that the loss of Lydia's only child affected her greatly. I look back now and remember how when we visited she would be setting in her little mobile home most the time by herself and maybe she didn't have much to dwell on but the past.
Often our outlook in life about people is shadowed by what we really don't understand. Now that the years have past I have thought a lot about Aunt Lydia's frame of mind.. As a child I thought she was crazy as kids would call it but now I believe that her mental state could have been she was seriously depressed. Back in them day's no one talked about it. I do know that she loved the Lord and even though I thought it was strange that she collected dolls and set around holding and singing to them, mumbling of days gone by. I think now that it was her only way of healing from a pain that only one would has lived in that same situation would understand . Her home was a little trailer house that sat next to her mom and father's house across the ally from Alpha and Cecil. She loved to collect dolls, talk and sing about Jesus. Lydia played an accordian and her favorite song was Old Little Town of Bethleham. She was married twice that I know of one to Carson Bailey who family said wasn't the nicest to her, and in later years she married a Wesley Fowler and they lived in Haskell. She never had any more children.. She was placed in the Haskell Nursing Home in later years when she became unable to care for herself.
Rita tells she was visiting Lydia when the family was called in because her health had taken a turn for the worse. Rita told that as she was in the room and Lydia was fading fast that she looked up and spoke to her. She told Rita that her mother was waiting for her. Rita heard Lydia say look in that corner you will see. I believe that God did send angels to carry her home that night.
Peggy Sprinkles niece to Lydia
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Muskogee MLI-1939-00351
10/17/1936 Plaintiff - BAILEY, CARSON BAILEY, CARSON and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
03/07/1960 Defendant - WOODS, LYDIA FOWLER, WESLEY and WOODS, LYDIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
Lydia was born when her parents went to visit Aunt Mary (Woods) Seals who lived in Witter, Madison Co. Ark
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