Hendrix-Whitfield-McCullar Family

by
Roger Phillip Hendrix
My maternal grandfather passed before I was born.
My paternal grandfather passed when I was 6 months old.
The only grandfather I knew was my great grandfather, William Alonzo "Lonzo" McCullar. My family line back to "Lonzo" is:

Person	Relationship
Roger Phillip Hendrix	(me)
Marie Faye (Whitfield) Hendrix	(my mother)
Clara Angeline (McCullar) Whitfield	(my maternal grandmother)
William Alonzo McCullar	(my maternal great grandfather)

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My 2nd grandfather, William Thomas Breckenridge McCullar, was born in 1856, in Louisiana. He married Sarah A. Spicer, March 14, 1877, in Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. William Thomas passed in Bokoshe, Oklahoma in 1938. Sarah passed away in Bokoshe, Oklahoma in 1927.  Both are buried in  the Old Bokoshe Memorial Cemetery. They had nine (9) children:

Name	Birth	Death
William Alonzo "Lon"	1878	1963
Ida A.	1880	1961
Sarah A.	1884	1950
Cordelia Delia	1886	1966
Walter Dee	1888	1945
Mary Lee	1893	1981
Hattie Viola	1895	1981
Shula	1897	1981
Jess	1899	1981

There is much speculation about who my 3rd McCullar grandparents were. There are several people researching and trying to resolve who they were.

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My great grandfather, William Alonzo McCullar, was born in 1878, in Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. His parents were William Thomas & Sarah A. (Spicer) McCullar. William Alonzo married Arminda Delcina Herring, August 5, 1898, in Cameron Township, Leflore County, Oklahoma (Indian Territory). They had eleven children:

Name	Birth	Death
Erie Demonia	1899	1976
Clara Angeline	1900	1978
Beulah M.	1904	2001
Mina Minerva	1906	1907
Ruth Leora	1908	2006
Oda Mae	1910	1911
Maude Naomi	1911	1994
Carrie Deletha	1914	1994
Jimmye Thelma	1916	2001
Harlen Dee	1918	1990
Opal Inez	1920	2004

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You can click on the pictures and to get a larger view.
This picture is of William Alonzo "Lonzo" & Arminta Delcina "Minnie" (Herring) McCullar's and their children.
Starting from the left: Ruth Leora, Maude Naomi, Clara Angeline, Carrie Deletha, Beulah M., Jimmye Thelma,
Erie Demonia, Opal Inez, "Minnie", "Lonzo", Harland Dee.

The picture was taken between 1935 & 1940 at the McCullar Family Home on Bokoshe Mountain.

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This picture is of William Alonzo "Lonzo" & Arminta Delcina "Minnie" (Herring) McCullar's and their son-in-laws (the outlaws & get away car).

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"Lonzo" and "Minnie" moved to Main Street (Hwy 31) McCurtain, Haskell County, Ok, before the 1950 census of McCurtain was taken on April 22, 1950.

Lonzo & Minnie at their home in McCurtain on Mother's Day, May 11, 1952.

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A picture of their home in McCurtain taken Nov. 15, 2012.

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A Memory Roger Phillip Hendrix
The most memorable thing I remember about Grandpa "Lonzo" was a fishing trip that he went on with my dad and some others. I was allowed to go along. We were on a river, not sure if it was the Poteau River below Wister Lake or another; however, we had set out trot lines. Sometime during the night we went to run the lines and Grandpa Lonzo was pulling the lines up to check them.

On one of the lines he announced that we had something big and was trying to be careful pulling it up. As it turned out the big thing was an alligator gar. Somehow this big gar managed to bite Grandpa on the arm. Needless to say, the arm was a bloody mess. It got very sore and as a result Grandpa did not help run any more of the trot lines on this fishing trip.

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The following links are to McCullar Family documents/notes that were presented at McCullar Family Reunions. The date the material was presented is in included in the link name.

McCullar Family History & Name Origin

• McCullar Clan History
• Descendants of John McCullar (1730-1804) down 6 Generations

McCullar Family Reunion 1912

• McCullar Cousins 1912-00-00 Family Reunion

McCullar Family Reunion Oct 13, 2011

• McCullar Cousins 2013-05-10 Reunion Attendees
• McCullar Cousins 2011-10-13 Alonzo & Minnie

McCullar Family Reunion May 10, 2013

• McCullar Cousins 2013-05-11 Reunion Attendees
• McCullar Cousins 2013-05-10 Ancestry
• McCullar Cousins 2013-05-10 Family Info No-2
• McCullar Cousins 2013-05-10 Lanie My Memoirs

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