Lindsey Carson Sires

1869-1955 · Missouri

Born 1869, Missouri

Died 1955

Father: James A. Sires

Mother: Mary C. Sires

Children include Alvin

Lindsey Carson Sires was born in Missouri on 17 May 1869. His father was born in Virginia. In 1880 a Sires family was farming in Painterhood Township, Elk County, Kansas, with a son L. C., 11, born in Missouri.

He married Ollie Bozarth, a Missouri girl eleven years younger. By the census of 1910 they were farming in Madison Township, Washington County, Oklahoma, near Ochelata. He gave his name to the enumerator as Linzay, 40. Ollie was 30, and the children were Edna, 8, Herbert, 6, Alvin, 4, and Ida, 2. Five more followed: James, Joe, Mary Ruth, Jack Edward and John.

In 1930 he and Ollie were still in Madison, with Herbert, Jim, Joe, John and Jack at home and their married daughter Edna with them. Ollie died on 21 February 1932, at 51. Their son Joe died in October 1936 at 23, and Herbert in May 1945 at 41. In 1940 Lindsey, 70, was living in Madison Township with his son Jack.

He died on 26 September 1955, aged 86, and was buried in Ochelata Cemetery beside Ollie and their sons.

Parents

Mary C. Sires (1832-1882)

James A. Sires (1822-1886)

Children

Alvin C. Sires 1905-1959

Sources

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

1880 United States census, Painterhood Township, Elk County, Kansas, ED 84, sheet 336A, NARA T9 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MFPB-SC8).

1910 United States census, Madison, Washington County, Oklahoma, sheet 12B (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MLW7-LFN); 1880 United States census, Painterhood Township, Elk County, Kansas, ED 84, sheet 336A (ark:/61903/1:1:MFPB-SC8); 1930 census, Madison, Washington County; 1940 census, Madison Township (ark:/61903/1:1:VBKB-YB5); Texas death certificate of Ida Bell Ickelbury (Texas Deaths, 1890-1977); Social Security records of Jack Edward and John R. Sires; Find a Grave memorial 10928175; gravestone photograph, okcemeteries.net, Ochelata Cemetery.

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