FOURTH GENERATION

14. Oscar S. DEPUTY was born on 6 Jun 1863 in MO. He died on 12 Jul 1923 in Silver Creek, NE. One of 10 children. Farmed at Silver Creek, NE; very ill for a long time; heavy morphine use. He was married to Lillie M. LYMES on 3 Dec 1885 in ____________, __.

15. Lillie M. LYMES⁽²⁾ was born on 21 Apr 1868 in Monticello, IA. She died on 21 Feb 1948 in Council Buffs, IA. She was buried in Osceola, NE (?). "Grandma Deputy" was the 3rd born of 10 children (she had 9 sisters, Edna Nichols the oldest, Em the youngest). She had five children of her own. When her son David's wife, Salome, died giving birth to her 13th child (7 were already dec'd.), Lilly, who had been living with them on a farm near Council Bluffs, Iowa, continued to help raise the children there. She hated housework and preferred to work in the field with David. She was a hard worker. When her granddaughter Arlene was young, she spent summers there and she remembers"Grandma Deputy" used to write poems and plays. The plays were enacted each summer when all the grandchildren would perform at family reunions on July 4." She is remembered for grabbing chickens two at a time, wring their necks in preparation for a big farm meal. Great grandaughter, Peggy, has a quilt pieced by "Grandma Deputy."
Children were:

i. Harvey DEPUTY was born on 12 Feb 1887 in ____________, __. He died on 10 Dec 1908 in ____________, __. He was buried in ____________, __.
7 ii. Lucy Elizabeth DEPUTY.
iii. Mary DEPUTY⁽²⁾ was born on 26 May 1891 in Silver Creek, NE. She died __ ___ ____ in ____________, __. She was buried in ____________, __. Married H. Earl Howard who worked in the Freight Accounts Office at the Union Pacific headquarters, Omaha, NE, from 1930 to 1950. Both Mary and "uncle Earl" attended as witnesses for the marriage of Lucy to Roland B. Bartlett. Mary had 2 boys, Felix and Melvin, and 1 girl, Eva (b.1908), by a previous marriage (Whitaker)
A bit of family folk lore is as follows: On the night of her son, Melvin's fatal auto accident, it was said Mary's black hair suddenly turned all white. Mary was especially proud of Melvin as he could pick up any musical instrument and play it well; he never had a lesson.

iv. David DEPUTY⁽²⁾ was born on 6 Aug 1896 in Silver Creek, NE. He died on 6 Jul 1961 in Council Buffs, IA. Worked as brakeman for Union Pacific RR at the Council Bluffs yards from 1930 to 1940.
Married Salome ? (b. Lamoni, IA); They had 13 children in 13 years; 6 lived (Raymond who was kicked by a horse, Lily, Elizabeth, Mary Arlene, Charles Dean and Donald the youngest). Salome died giving birth to last child. Some family information indicates that David had an 80 acre farm near Council Bluffs.
v. Raymond DEPUTY was born __ ___ 1908 in ____________, __.

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