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12. Purney ROACH was born
on 19 Dec 1900 in Allendale, Worth Co., Missouri. She died on 24 Nov 1971.
16) Theodore ROACH's health was failing, so he took his remaining five children
back to their home near Arnett, Oklahoma. He encouraged his daughters Gloxinia
and Purney to marry. They, therefore, married two brothers Riley Earl and Oscar
Lee NOBLITT from Durham, Oklahoma. Purney ROACH married Oscar Lee NOBLITT 4
October 1914.
17) Oscar, Purney, Theodore, and Donahue, went to New Mexico to file a claim
on land. Not long after Oscar and Purney were married. Theodore and Purney
were running a restaurant....
18) ...Gloxinia and Purney ROACH were 15 years and 14 years old when they married.
19) In Vaughn, New Mexico, 22 July 1915, Purney ROACH-NOBLITT gave birth to a
baby girl at the age of 15 years. The birth was extremely difficult, and Purney
became very ill afterwards. The Family took her by train to Higgins, Texas where
a friend was able to take her in while she recuperated. Theodore ROACH was on
his way to pick up his granddaughter, Georgia Mae NOBLITT, from a neighbor's
home when he collapsed on the streets of Higgins, Texas. He died of a lung hemorrhage
July of 1915. He is buried at the city cemetery in Higgins, Texas next to his
uncle Ezra ROACH.
20 From here the ROACH children and their families traveled around awhile. Oscar
Lee and Purney ROACH-NOBLITT went to Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas....
22) Oscar and Purney ROACH-NOBLITT left Pampa, Texas and journeyed back to New
Mexico in 1929. Oscar found work working the logging woods of Otero County near
the town of Marcia. Today, nothing remains of the town except the cemetery.
She was married to Oscar Lee NOBLITT on 4 Oct 1914. Oscar Lee NOBLITT was born on 4 Nov 1914.