Octa H. Hector

1895 - 1936  (40 years)

• 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

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		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.)

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.