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Steven Andrew Boyer & Debra Fay Moore
Steven Andrew Boyer Need HELP...
I began doing family research about 30 years. My Daughter Debra ask if I would help her husband Steven Andrew Boyer do his family tree. He knows very little about his family. Father was Marian Lee Boyer, Born in Hagerman, Idaho, No date. Mother was Darlene Grace Stevens born in Fremont, Nebraska No date.
If you can help Steve We all would be Thankful. Bitsey McAlexander, e-mail at mbitsey@hotmail.com Thank You.
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About my family line..
BAILEY,HENSLEY,FUNDERBURK,AYERS,UNDERWOOD,McALEXANDER,
KEIFER,MOORE
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Funderburk Heritage
Several books have been written, Of the Family Funderburk.The name was changed,Tradition is told,for in the days of old,it was the noble Von-Der-Burg. And the stories tell, of brave knights that fell.For in the Crusades, it's said, some lay wounded,others slain dead. In that German land,this noble band, Our ancestors they did trod.The Cause they fought, was God. these were our kin, these fierce, fighting men. But before this came about, They were forest people of the Mount,Mountain folk, they came to be, to escape the tax man, and be free. It's even been said, in the book I read, Twas of Noah's fourth son, Our beginning came. After the great mighty rain. The story went on,told about, this certain man named Devault.Twas from him, We came to be, He left the Rhine to escape the enemy, Shipwrecked on the voyage at sea,Though rescued and took along, to pay his passage, he was in bond. Twas from this men of yesterday, came the Funderburks of today. Noble professions some have took, people of God, with the holy book,Most seemed to be humble men,ever since the race began. Wanda Funderburk .....
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Ennis & Deffie Funderburk- Married June 9 1924 Chickasha, Oklahoma
They moved a lot, in those early days, not much work and very little pay, in a touring car, with a canvas top, they followed in season, the cotton crop.
He went to Kansas to harvest wheat, to provide his family something to eat. Times were very bad, work of any kind was very scarce, and hard to find.
In Witchita Falls, he was to settle down, became a carpenter, in that Texas town. Life was good, for a little while, they bought new clothes, in the latest style.
Then things changed, the economy dropped down, depression struck the country around. Thousands of people, with nothing to eat, the unemployed, gathered in the street. Hunger spread across the land, lines were formed, with bucket in hand. A dipper of soup, and a slice of bread the goverment would see that people were fed. A Leaflet was given to him, which read. In far off California, was work to be found, And he knew as he read, he was westward bound. Though the price of travel, he had not at all, this for him was no reason to stall. He and brother O.C. caught a train of freight and rode that train to the paradise state,he went to work for the company of gas.
Those hungry days, were now to pass. In a letter he wrote, was a message to me. He could hardly wait for me to see, how the flowers bloomed, all year through. The weather so nice, he wrote of too. Then on to join him, children and wife here they would fair, a much better life. He took up welding, and did it with pride. His ability with torch, was known of wide. He could mend anything, and make it whole, but a broken heart, he often told. From pipelines to rockets, launched to the moon. Putting in over time, was now the tune. His leisure time, in later life more stable, allowed him the pleasure, of reading the Bible. He carrys it now, wherever he goes. And his love for God, He proudly shows.From 'The Family Tree' By Wanda Funderburk.
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Now there's 'TEX' Ennis Royal, What a regal name! nor was it his lot in life to know great fame. He married my mother, when just a young lad, now there are seven of us that call him 'Dad'.Then Deffie Viola'another, who never achieved great fame. But good and true, this Mother to me, I note her now
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