MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER SARAH E. HUNSUCKER     BY BRITTIE BOATMAN      [email protected]

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The pictures of the older couple is C. L. and Sarah Dalton. She is also on the family picture with her girls. Her 2 boys aren't show n. She was Sarah Hunsucker, born in Marshall County Mississippi on November 18, 1842 and died September 19,1930. 

John Dalton and Mary McCulley Dalton lived in Tennessee and had a son named Carson Leonidas on Oct. 3,1841. In 1861 he joined the Mississippi Infantry. When tgey crossed some river they joined with the Ark. Infantry . He was captured and he and his captors almost starved. They let them goand he started walking home.During this time a lot of Daltons settled in Ark.on the North west side around Scott county.. In the Ark. events record book on page 2,055, in 1995 search there were 48 Daltons listed.  i

It is listed on those records that C.L. Dalton married Sarah E. Dalton  Dec. 13,, 1864 in Sevier County Ark..

As he was walking home from the war he stopped at a house for a drink of water. This happened to be the home of a Mr. and Mrs Hunsucker, who had a daughter named Sarah E. who was a year younger than C. L. Dalton.The family fed him and he rested there for three days and rested, This was in Marshall County Tennessee.  When he left he swore to go back and marry Sarah.  Sarah had a brother named Bose Hunsucker.

I don't know if this is a nickname. Records show that Sarah was born Nov.18,1842, in Mississippi.  Her Father was born in Tennessee.

Their first child was born in Witcherville, Scott County Ark. They had 5 girls and two boys all in that area.

1 Margaret Augusta Christiananna B Sept 22,1865 D. 19,19,1954  Buried Crowder, Okla.

2 John Dalto   Buried Red Oak, Okla.

3Eliza M . Dalton buried Wenatche Wash.

4Kate DaltonBuried in Texas

5Dora Dalton Buried Red Oak, Okla

6Fannie Dalton, Stigler Okla, I think

7Norman Dalton  Nazarine Pracher, remained in Mansfield, Ark He and his wife are buried there at Coop Prairie Cemetery. State Hiway cuts the cemetery in half..This cemetery has been listed in Guiness Book of world records because of this fact.

              Sarah and C.L. moved to Indian Territory around 1900.The house they lived in on Oak Street, still standsin Red Oak, Latimer County, Okla..He soon became Justice of the Peace. and they put in a dry goods store and also sold caskets. When they retired they saved their caskets. He died on Oct. 26, 1926.By that

time the caskets had dry rotted and they has to be thrown away. At this time Sarah Hunsucker Dalton came to Crowder to live with her oldest daughter who was living with  her youngest son. and his wife . I was born to this couple Dec.5,1929. I remember these people well. I remember her as a very sweet religious lady who by this time was bedfast.She died in our home on Sept. 19, 1938, Sarah and CL are buried in Red Oak Cemetery Red Oak ,Okla. I have their Family pictures and tombstone pictures. He lived to be 85 and she died at the age of 94.    

Parts of this are documented, other parts are from stories told to me by my Father,  Norman Wininger, my grandmother Margaret Augusta Christianna Dalton Wininger, and Great grandmother Sarah Hunsucker Dalton, and lots of personal memories of my own. 

Brittie Wininger Boatman

April 14,2000

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William Hunsucker, not real sure on this man

Mary Rebecca Dobson

John Wesley Hunsucker b. Nov. 11 9 1876 Big Cabin, Oklahoma d. Nov. 19 1953 Sardis, Oklahoma Gracie Mae Moreland b. Jan. 18 1894 Monett, Missouri d. Aug. 15 1967 Sardis, Oklahoma

John Junior Hunsucker Sardis, Oklahoma my Dad living

Patricia Jo Lamb Idaho Springs, Colorado my Mom living

Linda Bakken Sardis, Oklahoma me  

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Sardis Cemetery, Oklahoma

John Wesley Hunsucker b. Nov. 9 1876 Big Cabin, Oklahoma d. Nov. 19 1953 Sardis, Oklahoma

wife:

Gracie Mae Moreland Hunsucker b. Jan. 18 1894 Monett, Missouri d. Aug. 15 1967 Sardis, Oklahoma

Sardis Cemetery is now Sardis Lake.

The following people are buried in Elk Fall Cemetery, Elk Falls Kansas.

Goldie Merry Ellen Hunsucker (Tuddie) daughter of John Wesley Hunsucker and Gracie Mae Moreland. b. Nov. 27 1912 Big Cabin, Oklahoma d. June 20 1997 Moline, Kansas

Charlie Alexander Hunsucker son of John Wesley and Gracie Mae b. July 1 1920 at Big Cabin, Oklahoma d. April 20 1985 Longton, Kansas

Jimmie Joe Hunsucker son of John Wesley and Gracie Mae b. Dec. 5, 1936 Sardis, Oklahoma d. Oct. 28, 1988 Independence, Kansas

wife

Alma Lorene Mangrum Hunsucker b. Oct. 29 1938 Buffalo Valley, Oklahoma d. Jan. 11 1995 Wichita, Kansas

Bobby Joe Hunsucker b. Nov. 17 1974 Wichita, Kansas d. May 29, 1995 Wichita, Kansas

L. Bakken

Hunseckers of Oklahoma

Is anyone out there doing any research on Hunseckers? There must be

someone out there interested in where all the Hunseckers are coming

from. 20-30 years ago I was in the service and did a lot of

traveling. I used to check the telphone books and seldom found a

Hunsecker. Now I travel a lot just for enjoyment of it and I still

check telephone books. Almost every one I check has at least one

Hunsecker in it. My line suddenly appeared in Oklahoma in the late

1800's. My grandfather, John William Hunsecker was born in 1885

somewhere in OK. His father was a farmer and horse trader, but his

name is lost in the mists of time. They homesteaded during the

Cherokee Strip Land Grab between Edmond and Piedmont OK. John William

had a cousin living in the Broken Arrow area just outside of Tulsa OK

by the name of Tracy Hunsecker. Those where the only Hunseckers I

knew of until lately when all kinds started showing up in the

telephone books. Anyone out there knowing the name of Johns father

and earlier family please contact me at [email protected] Thanks

for letting me put a little of my family story on the net.

Ron

Hunsecker.