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Routon Walter Anderson  Share Photo / Document 1859 - 1939

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• Birth	21 Nov 1859	Kentucky, USA
  Gender	Male
  Land Purchase	26 Nov 1884	Delta, Texas, USA
  	With brother, Jesse Routon
  Land Sale	04 Jan 1886	Delta, Texas, USA
  	with Jesse & Cornelia Routon sold 7 acres to HH Jones
  Land Sale	02 Aug 1886	Delta, Texas, USA
  	With brother Jesse & Cornelia Routon sold to FM Kebow
  Census	1900	Oakes, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  Census	1900	Choctaw Indian Territory, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  	T5, S R 15 East
  Census	1910	Oakes, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  Census	1920	Oakes, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  Census	1930	Oakes, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  Census	1930
  	Walter & Mary E living with Henry & Beatric Routon
  Died	20 Mar 1939	Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  Buried	21 Mar 1939	Sugar Creek Cemetery, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
  		Routon, Walter Anderson and Maryann Elizajane Pope Routon Photo Courtesy of The Routon and Riddle Genealogy Collection
  Age	79 years
  Person ID	I00035	Routon and Riddle
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Routon Benjamin,   b. 1818, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA ,   d. Aft 1880, Kentucky, USA    (> 63 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Anderson Eliza Ann,   b. 1821, Garrard, Kentucky, USA ,   d. Between 1870 and 1880, Kentucky, USA    (49 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	05 Sep 1841	Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
  Family ID	F00034	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Pope Maryann Elizajane,   b. 18 Oct 1866, LA or Texas ,   d. 19 May 1948, Soper, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA    (81 years)
  Married	18 Dec 1888	Paris, Lamar, Texas, USA
  Children	> 1. Routon Henry Lafayette,  b. 03 Nov 1889, Paris, Lamar, Texas, USA ,  d. 19 May 1977, Hugo, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA   (87 years) > 2. Routon Mittie Elner,  b. 13 Jun 1891, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 02 Apr 1972, Hugo, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA   (80 years) > 3. Routon Jesse Hays,  b. 29 Dec 1892, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 22 Mar 1976, Albany, Linn, Oregon, USA   (83 years) > 4. Routon Retter,  b. 20 Sep 1895, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 27 Dec 1960, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   (65 years) > 5. Routon Arthur Dewey,  b. 08 Aug 1898, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 14 Mar 1952, Hugo, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA   (53 years) > 6. Routon John Newton,  b. 04 Mar 1901, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 18 Jul 1923, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA   (22 years) > 7. Routon Walter Anderson, Jr.,  b. 21 Mar 1903, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 11 Dec 1992, Duncan, Stephens, Oklahoma, USA   (89 years) > 8. Routon Mary Frances,  b. 18 Jun 1906, Nelson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA ,  d. 29 Jan 1959, Antlers, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, USA   (52 years)
  Family ID	F00033	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Routon, Walter Anderson and Maryanne Elizajane Pope Routon Family abt 1933 Photo Courtesy of The Henry Harrison Family Photo Collection
  		Routon, Walter Anderson (r) and sons, (l-r) Walter, Jr., Arthur Dewey, Jesse Hays, and Henry Lafayette Routon Photo Courtesy of The Nancy Routon Abraham Family Photo Collection
  		Routon, Walter Anderson & Maryanna Elizajane Pope Routon Family Photo Courtesy of The Inez Alexander Hedgecock Family Photo Collection. Inez is daughter of only child not shown in photo made before she (Mary Frances) was born
  		Routon, Walter Anderson and Maryann Elizajane Pope Routon Photo Courtesy of Minnie Riddle Routon and The Routon and Riddle Genealogy Collection

  
  

  Documents

  Routon, Walter Anderson and Maryann Elizajane Pope Marriage Certificate Original Held by Nancy Routon Abraham

  
  

• Notes

  In May, 1996, while I was in Soper, Oklahoma visiting my father's brother, Arthur Harlan Routon, we talked a bit about Grandpa and Grandma Routon. I had read in an article written by Alexander Joseph in 1990 about William Barney Powers (whose mother was Anna Pope Powers -- a sister of Grandma Routon). On Page 9 of an article entitled "Fishin' With the Devil's Shoestring", the following is said of Walter Anderson Routon (Grandpa Routon): " `Good morning, Barney', " his uncle (Walter Anderson Routon) replied in that ponderous tone that always made the boy wonder if he had just swallowed a toad. His ever-present pipe was between his teeth. Tom said he should have it glued there permanent so folks would always know Walter Routon smoked his own homegrown tobacco. When Tom said `Walter Routon' and `homegrown tobacco,' he would open his mouth wide and draw out the vowels in an exaggerated imitation of Anna's children's uncle that made them hoot with laughter and drew token looks of disapproval from their parents. Routon was the only farmer in the countryside who grew tobacco. Barney and his friends maintained a great reservoir of pity for Jesse Routon and his brothers [La]Fayette, Matty [a female], and Arthur, Walter and their sister Retta. Because of their father's frugal nature, the Routon children never got to eat wheat biscuits for breakfast and were served up cornbread three times a day. No one grew wheat at Roebuck's Corner so it had to be bought. But it always was bought, no matter how tight the cash, by everyone except Walter Routon, because no one could imagine either breakfast without biscuits or three meals a day with cornbread. Barney liked Walter Routon but thought he was too quick with a switch which made him always afraid. Although Barney was long used to seeing cornbread on his dinner and supper plates, he couldn't fathom not having his biscuits every morning. But poor Jesse Routon didn't know about biscuits in the morning, and whenever Barney got the chance, he would invite the boy over early enough so that he could sit down at the Powers' biscuit-laden breakfast table." What Mr. Joseph does not tell or maybe did not know was that Walter Routon owned a corn mill so he always had plenty of corn. This was told to me by Uncle Harlan. I also asked him if Grandpa Routon was tight with money, and he "Yeh Boy, was he!" He said that if Grandpa ever forgot and left his wallet lying on the bed after changing clothes, when you would take it to him, he would quickly grab the wallet from you. Uncle Harlan said Grandma Routon was worse than Grandpa. My Papa Routon (Arthur) would buy fruit, apples and bananas, for his mother, and she would take all the fruit and put it in a drawer and not offer any to the kids and would let it stay in the drawer until it was rotten. Harlan did say that when Mittie's kids came to visit, Grandma would share it with them. I asked Uncle Harlan if Grandma was a nice grandma and he said, "No, she was grouchy and stingy!"