What I do know:

1. Family record: Family record transcribed by my mother in the 1970′s from a source labeled “Family Bible” says that John Keener’s first wife and the mother of my Great Grandfather Robert Lee McCall was named Martha Olive “Ollie” Johnson. The rough chart says:

OLIVE ? JOHNSON
BORN 1872? MESSOUR?
WHERE Stark City (Newton) <-- Monet, Missouri?
Misouri
DIED ? 1916
WHERE gravelly (yell) ARKANSAS

and for her parents are listed:
Father: Van(?) Johnson - Misouri Greene Springfield
Mother: SHEPARD Missouri

This is the image:

Family Pedigree focused on Olive Johnson and missing parents. Record says Family Bible as source.

2. Marriage record: In a marriage index for Yell County included in the Yell County Historical & Genealogical Association Bulletin by Mary V. Humphrey it shows her as Johnson, Olive – age 19.

(Husband) McCall, J. K. (age) 21 Yell (County, AR)
(Wife) Johnson, Olive (age) 19 Yell (County, AR)
(Marriage Date) 11-30-1893

This is the record:

Marriage Index record for J.K. McCall and Olive Johnson dated 11-30-1893. Also notice in the index is his marriage with his second wife Azle Mercer.

3. Census Records: After marrying J.K. McCall they lived in Yell County, Arkansas and the couple was included in 2 census before Olive died.

In the 1900 Census they are located in Danville, Yell County, Arkansas.
Name: Ollie
Relationship: Wife
Color: White
Gender: Female
Birthdate: Apr 1874
Age: 26
Status: Married, 6 years
How many living children? 2 out of 2 born are living
Birthplace: Missouri
Father’s Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother’s Birthplace: Tennessee

This is the record:

J.K. McCall and Ollie (Johnson) McCall in the 1900 U.S. Census.

In the 1910 Census they are located in Herring, Yell County, Arkansas.
Name: Olive
Relationship: Wife
Gender: Female
Color: White
Age: 35
Status: 1st Marriage, 16 years
How many living children? 6 out of 7 born are living
Birthplace: Arkansas
Father’s Birthplace: Georgia
Mother’s Birthplace: Georgia

This is the record:

J.K. McCall and Olive (Johnson) McCall in the 1910 U.S. Census.

5. Facts: Olive McCall could have not been born in Stark City, Missouri. It didn’t exist until after the year she died. Wikipedia article on Stark City. Family memory could place her there at a later date, so Newton County is a reasonable option to still explore.

6. Photographic Evidence: I have a picture of her and J.K. McCall taken after her first two children were born. It is located on another post entitles John Keener “J.K.” & Martha Olive “Ollie” McCall – A Family Photo

So what’s next?

I’ve done many searches through Ancestry.com on many combinations of names for Olive with different locations. I’ve looked through all of Newton County Johnson families to see if there was some names that were similar. None. I don’t quite know where “Martha” came from, as it wasn’t included in any of my records that I listed above. J.K.’s second wife was Martha, but went by Azle her whole life. Perhaps that was a mistake as well?

I’m a bit stumped at where to look next on this one. I had hoped to find her with her parents in the 1880 census, but “Van?” born in either Georgia or Tennessee is much less than what I’d like to go on. She would be 6 in the census, and probably called Ollie or Olive. I did follow one path where a grandmother was named Olive and perhaps it was passed down, but I found another dead end.

Her parents are my only 3rd Great Grandparents I do not know the information for, and so I’m going to try a few other things. I keep going back to those original notes of my mothers thinking that there is a clue there that I’m missing. I’ll keep you updated on what I find.

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The links that are located below their names are to the individual blog posts I’ve made. Since I’ve been focusing primarily on the paternal sides of every family, you’ll typically only find links for them.

If you’re related to this family or have more information about them including stories, pictures and dates and family member names, I’d love to hear from you. Please leave a comment below or email me directly from the About Us page.

The links that are located below their names are to the individual blog posts I’ve made. Since I’ve been focusing primarily on the paternal sides of every family, you’ll typically only find links for them.

The biggest hole in the ancestors of my Great Grandpa McCall are his mother’s parents. I only have sparse records of who they may be or where they may have come from. I hope to focus on this mystery again in the near future and document what I find. (Which hopefully is a lot!)

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While working on this timeline I discovered something I didn’t know before, and thus the reason to create the timelines in the first place. While looking to see the exact location where Charles Crawley’s wife Martha Jane (Aubry) Crawley was buried, I thought to look at Find A Grave’s website. Luckily, they had a photo of her grave. I also noticed that they had quite a bit of information included for people buried in this cemetery along-side the grave photos, so I thought to see if there were other Crawleys buried there. I ended up finding her daughter (Which gave me exact birth, death dates and marriage). I also found another possible relative – a daughter of a Crawley who married a Lofland – that I’ll have to figure out who it is.

Here is the timeline I’ve put together for Charles C. Crawley as it stands now:

Historical Timeline: Charles C. Crawley (1830-1884)

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When Rick forwarded the pictures to me, I touched them up a bit and sent them back, and kept thinking that the picture of Charles looked quite familiar. I looked back through the old photocopies that my mother had made from my Great Grandparents collection, and there it was staring me in the face… the unlabeled match to the picture I had just received by email. It was slightly different, as though it had been taken a moment before or after the previous one, but it was surely a match. A little miracle.

And for future reference, it was a not a cigar at all. As I retouched the photo, what appeared to be a cigar between Martha’s fingers was actually the spine of the family bible. In one of my other family photos of this time-period I’ve noticed the wife with the family bible in hand. Perhaps this was a traditional thing? It sure does change your perception on Martha versus the cigar, doesn’t it?

Charles C. Crawley
Birth – 13 May 1830, Georgia
Death – 28 Nov 1884, Yell, Arkansas
Burial – Parks Cem., Gravelly, Yell, Arkansas

Martha Jane Aubrey
Birth – 1 Jan 1838, Arkansas
Death – 6 Mar 1926, Texas
Burial – Fairview Cemetery

Charles C. Crawley and his wife Martha Jane Aubrey Crawley

The photocopy of the unlabeled photograph of Charles C. Crawley that came from my Great Grandparents in the 1970's.

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Charles C. Crawley
Birth – 13 May 1830, Georgia
Death – 28 Nov 1884, Yell, Arkansas
Burial – Parks Cem., Gravelly, Yell, Arkansas

Father – George Hughs Crawley (1804-)
Mother – Elizabeth Green (1809-1877)

Married:

Martha Jane Aubrey
Birth – 1 Jan 1838, Arkansas
Death – 6 Mar 1926, Texas
Burial – Fairview Cemetery, Memphis, Hall Co., Texas

Father – John Chapman Aubry (1811-1879)
Mother – Mary Ann Harris (1815-1864)

Their Children:

1 F – Mary Ann Elizabeth Crawley
Birth – 1 Oct 1854, Randolph Co., Alabama
Death – 12 Oct 1932, Memphis, Hall Co., Texas
Spouse – Jonathan Cruse Lofland
Marriage – ?

2 M – George H. Crawley
Birth – Sep 1856, Alabama
Death – ?
Spouse – Lucinda A. Yates
Marriage – ?

3 F – Frances Crawley
Birth – 23 Jan 1857 or 20 Dec 1859, Louisiana
Death – 22 Jun 1945
Spouse – John Warren Weems
Marriage – ?

4 F – Temperance “Tempe” J. Crawley
Birth – 1 Dec 1860, Arkansas
Death – 5 Aug 1931, Yell, Arkansas
Spouse – Joseph Soloman Lofland
Marriage – 1 Feb 1877

5 F – Nancy Anne Missouri Crawley
Birth – 2 Apr 1863, Arkansas
Death – 22 Nov 1904, Yell, Arkansas
Spouse – Alexander Peter Yates Jr/Jr
Marriage – 29 Dec 1880, Yell, Arkansas

6 M – John C. Crawley
Birth – Mar 1866, Arkansas
Death – ?
Spouse – Verliter?
Marriage – ?

7 F M. L. Crawley
Birth 1871, Arkansas
Death – ?
Spouse – ?
Marriage – ?

8 F – Levicia Ellen Crawley
Birth – 9 Mar 1874, Gravelly, Yell, Arkansas
Death – 8 Jan 1961, Stayton, Marion, Oregon
Spouse – Thomas Marion Montgomery Dr./Dr.
Marriage – 22 Nov 1892, Gravelly Hill, Yell County, Arkansas

9 M – C. W. Crawley
Birth – 1877, Arkansas
Death – ?
Spouse – ?
Marriage – ?

10 F - Ida B. Crawley
Birth – 28 Jul 1879, Arkansas
Death – 28 May 1882, Yell, Arkansas
Spouse – ?
Marriage – ?

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Rick took this photo in Parks Cemetery, Nola, Scott County, Arkansas and sent it to me by mail. I’ve cropped in a close-up to see the name better in the second photo. Here’s what he said about finding the grave: “I began searching the Crawley line in 1999. I had no idea who they were, where they were buried, etc. Many of the Yates’ are buried in Scott County at Parks Cemetery, a mile from the Yell County line. In May 2000, I was down there for Decoration Day and was searching for some unmarked graves of my Yates ancestors (which I found!!!). Nancy Crawley Yates is buried there as well. I surmised that since the Yates’ and the Crawleys were basically neighbors, that Chas and Martha must be in that cemetery as well. However, I never searched for them as I was busy with the Yates search. I was standing amongst a group of headstones looking around the cemetery when i looked down at the stone I was next to…and lo and behold it was Chas. C. Crawley! His daughter Ida was one space over from him. I now decorate his and Ida’s grave on Decoration Day…probably the first to do so in over 50 years.” – Rick “Guns” Lawrence

Charles C. Crawley
Birth – 15 May 1838, Georgia
Death – 28 Nov 1884, Yell Co., Arkansas

CHARLES C. CRAWLEY MAY 15, 1830 NOV 28, 1884

Close-up of the grave of Charles C. Crawley