This is the Golden Wedding anniversary of my great-aunt and great-uncle, Willie Jessamine Brownlow Gossett and Alvia Lester Gossett. This picture was taken at their home.
They were married January 3, 1915, in Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma. My grandmother, Euna Brownlow, married Lester's brother, John Luther Gossett. Euna Brownlow was also a sister to Willie Brownlow Gossett.
People in the picture include from left to right: Mrs. Tindel, Lester Gossett, Willie Gossett, Euna Denton, Mairl Kirk, Mrs. Lee Brownlow, Guy Edward Brownlow, Grace Brownlow, Viola Brownlow, Oscar Brownlow, Alvis Rumbo and Jack Rumbo.
Euna Denton, Mairl Kirk, Guy Brownlow, Oscar Brownlow, and Alvis Rumbo were siblings of Willie Gossett.
Lester and Willie Gossett had a daughter (living) and a son, Clinton Gossett, deceased.
Date & Place:
at Home of Willie and Lester Gossett in Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma United States
Alvis Ruth Brownlow Rumbo was born to Edward Isaac Brownlow and Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow on June 6, 1906, in Athens, Texas. She married Jack Rumbo and they had 3 sons and 1 daughter.
This is a picture of my Great-Grandmother, Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow. She was married to Edward Isaac Brownlow and helped him raise his children from his first marriage after his wife died. Together in both marriages, Edward Isaac, fathered 24 children. Not all children lived to adulthood. 8 children of Elizabeth's lived to adulthood, including my grandmother, Euna Blanche Brownlow Denton.
Pictured are from left to right: Mairl Vivien Brownlow Kirk, Willie Jessamine Brownlow, Elizabeth Elvira Brownlow, Euna Brownlow Denton, Alvis Ruth Brownlow Rumbo, and unknown elderly woman.
Group Pix of Mr & Mrs Edward I Brownlow's Children
This is a group picture of the children of Edward Isaac Brownlow and Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow's children that survived to adulthood. The couple had 15 children, one set of twins. Edward Isaac Brownlow fathered a total of 24 children with his first wife and my great-grandmother, Elizabeth.
From left to right: Alvis Ruth Rumbo, Mairl Vivien Kirk, Willie Jessamine Gossett, Jack Brownlow (Baptist minister), Euna Brownlow Denton, Guy Edward Brownlow (he lived to be in his 90's and was the last surviving child alive), Oscar Lawrence Brownlow (farmed at Abernathy, Texas, very successfully - died of heart attack at age 60), and Erskin Brownlow.
The family lived in East Texas and then moved to Eldorado, Oklahoma, where they farmed for a number of years.
The parents, Edward Isaac and Elizabeth Brownlow, are buried at Antioch Cemetery, near Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
