Octa H. Hector

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Name Octa H. Hector [1, 2, 3, 4] Born 2 Oct 1895 Missouri, USA [2, 3]
Gender Female Died 8 Jan 1936 Selma, Fresno, California, USA [1, 2]
Buried 11 Jan 1936 Kingsburg, Fresno, California, USA [5]
- Kingsburg Cemetery
Person ID I5176 My Genealogy Last Modified 22 Feb 2020
Father John William Hector, b. 30 Dec 1870, Allenville, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA , d. 30 Apr 1905 (Age 34 years)
Relationship natural Mother Louella Summerlin, b. 30 Apr 1875, Allenville, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA , d. 23 Nov 1936, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
(Age 61 years)
Relationship natural Married 12 Aug 1894 Allenville, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA [6]
Notes - Marriage date comes from a newspaper clipping I personally copied. There was no identifying information on the clipping, other than a handwritten date of "Aug 21 -- 74."
80 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 16, 1894
Married at Allenville, Mo., on Sunday, August 12, 1894, Mr. John Hector and Miss Lou Summerlin, Rev. C. B. Ford, officiating.
Family ID F1809 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Linus H. Roberts, b. Abt 1891, Missouri, USA , d. 1976 (Age ~ 85 years)
Children 1. William Dorris Roberts, b. Abt 1915, Missouri, USA , d. 1983 (Age ~ 68 years)
2. Dorothy Roberts [natural] Last Modified 22 Feb 2020 Family ID F1820 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Born - 2 Oct 1895 - Missouri, USA Died - 8 Jan 1936 - Selma, Fresno, California, USA Buried - 11 Jan 1936 - Kingsburg, Fresno, California, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Tia Juana Limited
L to R: Doris Roberts, Gertrude Baker, [Dorothy Baker?], Linus Roberts, Dorothy Roberts, and Octa Hector Roberts
Catoctin Clarion (Mechanicstown, Maryland)
6 July 1905 [via Newspapers.com]
"From San Diego to Tia Juana
Every tourist that comes to San Diego devotes one day of his sojourn in this sunny clime to a trip tp Tia Juana which in spanish signifies 'Aunt Jane.'
[A 2 hour train ride took them to the Mexican border, as the company didn't have permission to lay tracks across.]
...After leaving the cars all the passengers got into two stages each drawn by four horses and rode across the valley to Tia Juana..."Octa and Linus Roberts
Two of the children are likely Doris and Dorothy Roberts.Octa and Linus Roberts
Child is either Doris or Dorothy.
Documents Family Record from the Hector Bible
Family Record from the John W. Hector Family Bible. (Received from Bonnie in January 2021. Image taken by S. Lincecum at that time.)
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Notes - *It is said, "Octa was going through the change of life so they ended up putting her in an asylum and that is where she ended up dying."
- Southeast Missourian (Missouri)
Funeral Rites Set For Selma Woman
Selma (Fresno Co) Jan 10 - Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the chapel of the Byrne Funeral Parlor here for Mrs. Octo Roberts, 40, who died Wednesday in a Selma sanitarium. Rev. Joseph H Clark of Coalinga will officiate.
Mrs Roberts was born in Missouri. She is survivved by her husband, Linus H Roberts; a son, William and a daughter, Dorothy, all of Selma.
- *It is said, "Octa was going through the change of life so they ended up putting her in an asylum and that is where she ended up dying."
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Sources - [S907] Lincecum, Charley and Georgia, Family Bible, Passed to Stephanie Lincecum (December 2016) from Michael Lincecum, grandson of Charley and Georgia Lincecum.
- [S1330] Kingsburg Cemetery (Kingsburg, Fresno County, California), Grave Markers, Image of tombstone by Romi (2016) via FindAGrave memorial #157324508 -- Octa Roberts.
- [S1332] 1900 Census of United States, Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Welch Township, population Schedule; Online Images, E. D. No. 30, sheet no. 4B, dwellings 71 & 73, families 74 & 76, John T. Hector & Wm. J. Hector households, accessed October 2019.
- [S1373] 1910 Census of United States, Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Welch Township, population Schedule; Online Images, E. D. No. 32, sheet no. 2A, dwellings 19 & 21, families 19 & 21, Lasarus J. Summerlin & Jonathan E. Jones households, accessed 2019.
- [S1329] Southeast Missourian, Missouri (online archive), "Funeral Rites Set for Selma Woman," accessed 15 October 2019, name of interest: Mrs. Octo Roberts.
- [S957] Missouri County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991, John W. Hector m. Lou Ella Summerlin 12 August 1894 at Allenville, Cape Girardeau County.
- [S907] Lincecum, Charley and Georgia, Family Bible, Passed to Stephanie Lincecum (December 2016) from Michael Lincecum, grandson of Charley and Georgia Lincecum.