Me: Barbara McBride

Barbara McBride: I was raised on a farm in Oklahoma. We raised chiefly peanuts and cotton. 

Barney B. McBride: My dad, Barney B. McBride, born 25 Mar 1914, Falls Co, TX, was left an orphan boy at the age of 11.  His father, Thomas Pleas McBride died of a heart attack in 1925 while picking cotton in Texas where they lived. Barney's mother, Ora Dawson McBride took the 3 girls to Oklahoma to live near her sister, Zora Dawson Blakley near Eakly, Oklahoma.  Barney hired out with farmers in Texas.  This was at the beginning of the Great Depression.  Sometime between 1925 and 1930, Barney followed his mother to Oklahoma and worked on farms in the area.  With merely an elementary school education, he could do little else.  Many children were put out on their own during the depression because of lack of jobs and their parents could not afford to keep them.  Barney's sisters, Mattie, Jesse and Dora were no exception.  They were placed in the orphanage at Helena, OK and when that closed, they were moved to Whitaker State Orphanage in eastern Oklahoma.  Barney became a farmer, preacher and auctioneer. He died in an auto accident Apr 2, 1976 near Anadarko, OK.

Ora Dawson McBride: Barney's mother, (my grandmother) Ora, was born 24 Apr 1894 in TX. Her parents were Alvin Dawson and Laura Rissie DOBBS Dawson. When she was 18 (marriage license states 18 but according to calculations she was 16), she married Thomas Pleas McBride in Arkansas. Tom had been married once before but his wife, Julia McBride was put in an insane asylum in Texas for unknown reasons.  She was still living and it is not known if they were divorced when he married Ora.   He had a son around the same age as his new wife, Ora.  He also had six other children. Tom and Ora together had Dennis born abt. 1912, who died in infancy, Barney, Mattie; b.

Laura Rissie (Larissa) DOBBS Dawson: Laura was Ora's mother. Laura was born 6 Mar 1876 or 1877 in Jack County, Texas to James A. DOBBS and Sarah J. Boatright. Her siblings were: Zora Ellen, b. 6 May 1891, Leon Co, TX; d. 1 Mar 1974, Tonkawa, Kay Co, Oklahoma. buried: Weatherford, OK****Ora was next, born 24 Apr 1894, Falls Co, TX, d. 5 Apr 1962, Weatherford, OK., buried Sickles Cemetery, Sickles, OK. 

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  Laura died 4 Nov 1960, Houston, TX.

DOBBS NAMES AND DATES

What's My Line????    Me, Barney McBride, Ora Dawson, Laura Rissie (Larissa) DOBBS, James A. DOBBS, Jonathan Lee DOBBS, Joe DOBBS, John DOBBS.

I have posted all my info on http://www.ancestry.com/ , "Barb's Family Tree", but if you don't have a subscription to that, perhaps you can find helpful information here if you are interested in your DOBBS line.

DOBBS

This blog will be for my Dobbs and related Dawson line.