Minnie Jane Koonce b. 6 Jun 1896 Missouri, USA d. After 1940: Our Family History

1896 - 1940 (44 years)

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Name	Minnie Jane Koonce [1, 2]
Born	6 Jun 1896	Missouri, USA [1, 2]
Gender	Female
Census	27 Jan 1920	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA [3]
	1. Hale, Lawrence B., head, renting, male, white, 23, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Oklahoma, farmer, operator, farm schedule no, 117 2. _____, Jennie M., wife, female, white, 23, married, can read and write, Missouri, Iowa, Pennsylvania 3. _____, Pauline E., daughter, female, white, 4 years 4 months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Barbara G., daughter, female, white, 3, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 5. Smith, Stanford S., hand, male, white, 17, single, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm, laborer
Census	4 Apr 1930	537 SW 10th St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA [4]
	1. Hale, Lawrence B., head, renting, $35, has radio set, not a farm, male, white, 33, married first married age 17, can read and write, Missouri, Maine, Illinois, fireman, "S. Railroad," not a veteran 2. _____, Jennie, wife, female, white, 33, married, first married age 17, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 3. _____, Pauline, daughter, female white, 15, single, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Barbara, daughter, female, white, 13, single, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 5. _____, Constance, daughter, female, white, 9, attending school, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 6. _____, Lawrence, son, male, white, 6, attending school, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 7. _____, Theda A., daughter, female, white, 4 years 4 months, not attending school, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 8. _____, Robert, male, white, 4 months, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 9. Johnson, Bertha, mother, female, white, 50, widowed, can read and write, Illinois, Ohio, Illinois 10. Bay, Lloyd, roomer, male, white, 29, married, first married age 19, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, fireman, S. Railroad, not a veteran 11. _____, Roy, roomer, male, white, 20, married, first married age 19
Census	13 Apr 1940	45 SE 36th St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA [5]
	1. Hale, L. B., head, owns, value of home $3000, not a farm, male, white, 43, married, completed grade 8, born Missouri, same place in 1935, employed, locomotive fireman, steam railway, employed 10 weeks, $450 2. _____, Jane, wife female, white, 42, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same place 3. _____, Barbara, daughter, female, white, 23, single, completed 4 years high school, Oklahoma, same place, secretary, Ammement Equipment, employed 52 weeks, $1000 4. _____, Lawrence Jr., son, male, white, 16, attending school, completed 2 years high school, Oklahoma, same place 5. _____, Theda Ann daughter, female, white, 14, attending school, completed grade 8, Missouri, same place 6. _____, Robert Frederick, son, male, white, 10, attending school, completed grade 4, Oklahoma, same place 7. _____, Jack, brother, male, white, 41, married, completed 2 years high school, Missouri, same place, traffic engineer, municipal, employed 52 weeks, $1400 8. _____, Florence R., sister in law, female, white, 41, married, completed 3 years high school, Illinois, same place
Died	After 1940 [5]
	See as "Minnie" in the 1900 census, born June 1896. Seen as "Jennie M." in the 1910 census, age 12. The latter is clearly the same child, however, placed between next older sibling Effie and next younger sibling Wesley.
NEWS	23 May 1957	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA [6]
	Husband Lawrence's obit, The Daily Oklahoman: "Rail Engineer Lawrence Hale Is Dead at 60 Lawrence Benjamin Hale, 60, of SE 38 & Prospect [Prospect], died Wednesday at St. Anthony hospital. Private services for the family only will be Thursday afternoon at the Capitol Hill funeral home chapel. Interment will be in Sunny Lane cemetery. Born Sept. 7, 1896, at Butler, Mo, he married the former Jane Koonce in 1914. Hale was an engineer on the Frisco rialroad [railroad], and had been with the Frisco most of his life joining the line at Springfield, Mo. He came to Oklahoma City in 1927 and had lived here since. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist church. Surviving are his wife, Jane, of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Pauline Gerner, Oklahoma City' Mrs. Barbara Johnson, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Constance Burns, Sacramento, Calif., and Mrs. Veda A. May, of the home; two sons, Lawrence B., Jr., Sacramento, and Robert F. Hale, Oklahoma City; eight grandchildren, and two brothers, Beryl, Sacramento, and Merrill A., Oklahoma City. The family requests that no flowers be sent and suggests contributions to the heart fund instead."
Person ID	I853	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	14 Oct 2020

Father	Robert Houston Koonce, b. 18 Nov 1867, Norris City, White, Illinois, USA , d. 1928, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA (Age 60 years)
Mother	Coantha Lenora "Nora" Walker, b. 25 Jan 1868, Tennessee, USA , d. 24 Nov 1957, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA (Age 89 years)
Married	15 Aug 1891	Howell County, Missouri, USA [7, 8]
Family ID	F1180	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Lawrence Benjamin Hale, b. 1896, d. 1957 (Age 61 years)

Married 2 Jun 1914 Howell County, Missouri, USA [9, 10]

Both bride and groom were underage at the time of marriage.

Children

+	1. Pauline Evelyn Hale, b. Abt 1915, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, SUA , d. Feb 1969, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA (Age ~ 54 years)
+	2. Barbara G. Hale, b. Abt 1917, Missouri or Oklahoma, USA
+	3. Constance Hale, b. Abt 1921, Oklahoma, USA , d. After February 2001 (Age ~ 80 years)
	4. Lawrence B. "Larry" Hale, Jr
	5. Theda A. Hale
	6. Robert Hale

Last Modified 14 Oct 2020

Family ID F3135 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S7] Missouri, Howell - census 1900, (1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule), Benton township, Howell County, Missouri, ED 50, Sheet 1B, Dwelling 19, Family 19, Charles Linthicum household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).
[S339] Bonnie Compton (1014 E. 7th St, Pittsburg, KS 66762, email tcompton2@cox.net), telephone interview, spring 2007, by Janis Walker Gilmore; regarding her ancestor, Helton Alanson Walker, his siblings, and his descendants, including daughter Myrtle Annis Walker (Bonnie's mother).
[S6128] 1920 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Chandler, enumeration district (ED) 104, sheet 7B (penned), p. 43 (stamped, recto), dwelling 133, family 133, Lawrence B. Hale household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1469.
[S6130] 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Oklahoma City (537 SW 10th St.), enumeration district (ED) 127, sheet 5B, p. 191 (stamped, verso), dwelling 104, family 108, Lawrence B. Hale household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 October 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, [roll not stated].].
[S6131] 1940 U.S. census, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Oklahoma City (45 SE 36th St.), enumeration district (ED) 78-162, sheet 12A (penned), p. 2631 (stamped, recto), visited no. 288, L. B. Hale household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3347.
[S6132] "Rail Engineer Lawrence Hale Is Dead at 60" The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), 23 May 1957, p. 5, col. 1; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 14 October 2020).
[S38] Missouri, Howell - Marriage Book 3 & 4, 1889 - 1893 (book, Gen Soc'y), (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1992), Book 4, Page 7 (Reliability: 3).
Robert H. Koonce to Cautha [sic] L. Walker, on 15 August 1891, by Samuel T. Proffitt, Minister.
[S2832] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 Oct 2012), Howell County, marriage license no. 1648 [loose papers, jacket only, no return], for Robert H. Koonce-Coantha L. Walker (1891); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. .
[S6126] oceanurse2, "Knight (Koonce)/Moore/Haggeman/Jibben Tree," tree pages, Ancestry.com ((http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 October 2020), for descendants of Willis Walker Koonce and Bertha Lorene "Beanie" Meredith.
[S6129] Howell County, Missouri, marriage [1914]:150, license and return, Lawrence Hale-Jennie Koonce (1914); "Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2020); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. .