Ada Brown

1907-1994 · Oklahoma

Born 1907, Oklahoma

Died 1994

Children include Billy

Ada Brown was born on 7 July 1907, in the last months of the Indian Territory, four months before Oklahoma became a state. On 16 May 1927, at 19, she married Alvin C. "Chick" Sires, 21, at Bartlesville.

The couple lived in Madison Township, Washington County, the Sires family's home ground near Ochelata and Ramona. A son, John Wesley, born on 10 May 1928, lived thirteen days. In 1930 they had their son Donald. In 1940 she was Ada E. Sires, 33, with Donald, W. C., Wanda, Billie Joe and a baby girl. In 1950 the family was in Washington Township, Garfield County, and seven children were still at home. She bore ten in all: four sons, one of whom died as a baby, and six daughters.

Chick died in January 1959, and she was a widow for thirty-five years. She died at Ochelata on 12 March 1994, aged 86, and was buried in Ochelata Cemetery. Her stone reads "Our Mother", and under her name, in parentheses, "Aw Thaw Wacee".

Children

Billy Joe Sires 1937-2021

Sources

Washington County, Oklahoma, marriage record, p. 501 (Oklahoma County Marriages, 1890-1995, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVPX-CVBD).

1940 United States census, Madison Township, Washington County, Oklahoma, ED 74-18, sheet 1A, line 6, NARA T627 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:VBKB-YBT).

Obituary of Billy Joe Sires, Stumpff Funeral Home, Bartlesville, September 2021 (stumpff.org/obituaries/billy-sires; transcribed at okcemeteries.net/ok-obits/s/sires-bj.htm; FamilySearch obituary record ark:/61903/1:1:XMZ3-KK5B); Washington County marriage record, 16 May 1927, p. 501 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVPX-CVBD); 1930 census (ark:/61903/1:1:XCH9-FG8); 1940 census, Madison Township, ED 74-18 (ark:/61903/1:1:VBKB-YBY); 1950 census (ark:/61903/1:1:6FSW-93WK); Social Security numerical identification file (ark:/61903/1:1:6K76-1PSH); Find a Grave memorial 10928176; gravestone photograph, okcemeteries.net, Ochelata Cemetery.

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