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- From the Fortenberry Family Tree with Branches and Twigs, published 1964, complied by Mildred Childers, p. 29 and 30.
Their daughter Ida wrote in a diary in 1943 where she was born, what happened to her parents and siblings. "Granpa Mabry and Ella (sister) died of spinal minigits. As my mother lay dying three months after her husband's death, she told Ida, her daughter, to take her babies to raise. She knew that Ida planned to marry will Fortenberry soon. After her death, Mother Mabry's brother, Charles Wilkerson took the children, and all their personal and household belongings and wouldn't let Ida have them. She and will soon married and when Cherles, her brother, was about 5 or 6 years old, they got him throught the court. Viola, the sister, was also taken to her Uncle Charliey's after the death of her mother and father. To get away from him soon, she married at an early age- a short time later. Ida's husband,m will Fortenberry went to Tupelo, Oklahoma to find work, when Charles was aobut eight years old. Will sent for Ida and his family but when Uncle Charley Wilkerson heard about it he became very angry and took away the young boy, Charles. As Uncle Charles came fro him, Charles took off throught the grass like a turkey to hide. He was taken away, a very unhappy child. When Will met the train, his heart was saddened because Charles had been taken away. The law searched for them but was unable to located them. A few years later they learned he was in Arizona."
The narrative explains that the limestone gravemarkers were so worn they were not readable anymore.
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1855 - 1899 (43 years)
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