Atkins, Charles Lough (Charlie)^[1]

1904 - 1988  (84 years)

• Name	Atkins, Charles Lough (Charlie)
  Born	12 Feb 1904	Spring Creek, Throckmorton County, Texas, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Feb 1988	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
  Buried	Highland Cemetery - Lawton, Comache County, Oklahoma, USA
  Person ID	I10110	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Adkins, Gould Berry,   b. Abt Mar 1852, Kentucky, USA ,   d. Between Abt Apr 1910 and Abt Apr 1920, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Mother	King, Nancy Melvina,   b. 6 Dec 1858, Texas, USA ,   d. 21 Jan 1944, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA  (Age 85 years)
  Married	26 Nov 1874	Coryell County, Texas, USA
  Family ID	F500128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Obit: Graveside services for Charlie L. Adkins, 84, Laton, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Highland Cenetery with thebRev. Robert M. Nordeen Jr., officiating. Mr. Adkins died Monday in local hospital of a sudden illness. Burial will be under the direction of Lawton Ritter Dalton Funeral Home. He was born February 12, 1904, in Spring Creek, Texas, and moved to Lawton in 1930.  He worked as a butcher in a local meat market until 1945 when he went to work at Fort Sill, where he worked with post engineers until his retirement in 1962.  He married Mae Cornett, Oct. 20, 1937, in Duncan.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife Mae, of the home. (The Lawton Moring Press Constitution, Tuesday Fe., 16, 1988, page 6A, Col.2. ) Charlie was 24 and Oleta 16 when he had to marry her. He lived in Burkburnett as did Oleta.  Dove was with Oleta all night the night Mary Jo was born.   They drove to Lawton, Oklahoma to marry in Oleta's fathers car.  They never lived together, but he did want to keep Mary Jo.  His mother Nancy M. said no to him because the Salyers were just too nice of people and very respected. Unsure, but maybe that is why he NEVER had anything to do with Mary Jo her entire life.  They stayed married until Mary Jo was born. Charlie met Mary Jo once.  He and his 2nd wife lived in Lawton, Okla.  Mary Jo took pictures of her children with her and Jean Salyer Riddle drove with her.  Mary Jo was loved by the entire Adkins family except by her father who deserted her. He invited them in to his home, but his wife was not sociable to them.  He promised to keep in touch, but that never happened.  The family assumes his second wife refused to allow it to happen even though there were no other children involved.  His 2 sisters Dovie and Jesse

  
  

• Sources

  [S59] S. Leach Family Website, Sandra Spencer, Charlie Lough Adkins (Reliability: 3), 3 Dec 2018. Added by confirming a Smart Match