Alvin C. Sires

1905-1959 · Oklahoma

Born 1905, Washington County, Oklahoma

Died 1959

Father: Lindsey Carson Sires

Mother: Ollie Bozarth

Children include Billy

Alvin C. Sires, called Chick, was born on 22 December 1905 in what became Washington County, Oklahoma. It was then still the Cherokee Nation of the Indian Territory, two years before statehood. He was a son of Lindsey Carson Sires, a Missouri-born farmer, and Ollie Bozarth. In the census of 1910 he was Alvin, 4, in his parents' house in Madison Township with his sisters Edna and Ida and his brother Herbert.

On 16 May 1927, at 21, he married Ada Brown, 19, at Bartlesville. Their son John Wesley was born on 10 May 1928 and died thirteen days later. In 1930 the young couple were living in Madison Township with their son Donald. In 1940 they were in Madison Township outside Ramona with Donald, 10, W. C., 7, Wanda, 5, Billie Joe, 3, and a baby girl. When he registered for the draft of the Second World War he gave his birth as 22 December 1905, Washington County, and he was registered at Camden, Arkansas.

By 1950 the family was in Washington Township, Garfield County, with seven children at home. Ten children were born in all: Donald "Spud", John Wesley, Alvin Carson Jr. "Handy", Wanda Faye, Billy Joe, Phyllis, Joyce, June, Sherry and Colleen.

He died on 17 January 1959, aged 53, and was buried in Ochelata Cemetery among his parents and brothers. Ada outlived him by thirty-five years.

Parents

Ollie Bozarth (1880-1932)

Lindsey Carson Sires 1869-1955

Children

Billy Joe Sires 1937-2021

Sources

1910 United States census, Madison, Washington County, Oklahoma, sheet 12B, NARA T624 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MLW7-LFN).

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); 1910 United States census, Madison, Washington County, Oklahoma, sheet 12B (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MLW7-LF2); Washington County marriage record, 16 May 1927, p. 501 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVPX-CVBD); 1930 census, Madison, Washington County (ark:/61903/1:1:XCH9-FGZ); 1940 census, Madison Township, ED 74-18, sheet 1A (ark:/61903/1:1:VBKB-YBT); Oklahoma World War II draft registration (ark:/61903/1:1:Q2B8-1566); 1950 census, Washington Township, Garfield County (ark:/61903/1:1:6FSW-93W6); Find a Grave memorial 10928191; gravestone photograph, okcemeteries.net, Ochelata Cemetery.

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