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James Asa Gatlin born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee January 28th, 1865 to John Anderson Gatlin and Sarah Minafee King.
James and Lenora married December 12, 1897 at Dallas, Polk County, Arkansas. On a farm in Mena, Polk County Arkansas they had nine children, five girls and 4 boys.It was in Mena, Arkansas that James Asa met his future bride, Lenora Lebitha Barton, the daughter of Benjamin F. and Martha Morgan Barton. Lenora Lebitha Barton born in Egger County, Arkansas August 20th, 1879 to Benjamin Franklin Barton and Martha Elizabeth Morgan. James Asa and Lenora were married on December 12, 1897 in Polk County Arkansas. During the following 23 years, their nine children (five girls and four boys) were all born in Mena, Polk County, Arkansas.
In 1925 James Asa and Lenora decided to sell the small farm near Mena, and with six of their nine children who were still at home, headed for West Texas. After a delay of some 42 years, one of John and Sarah's children were finally making their dream a reality. They hired two trucks with drivers to move them. Leaving behind the pine trees, streams and rivers, they headed for the windmills, cactus, mesquite, sand storms and prairie. It took them five days to make the 600 mile trip to their destination in McAdoo, Texas where they lived in Uncle Jack Barton's [Lenora's brother] granary until James Asa could find a place of their own. Lenora passed away April 17, 1931 from cirrhosis of the liver. After the harvest that year James Asa had a farm sale and moved to Ennis Creek, north of Snyder. He never quite recovered from her death. James Asa went blind from cataracts before 1940.
Ina Ester GATLIN March 5, 1898 to August 1927
Ivan Lee GATLIN November 1, 1900 to July 12, 1965
Mary Ethel GATLIN March 11, 1903 to February 7, 1943
Bert GATLIN February 11, 1906 to July 24, 1974
Marvin William GATLIN May 25, 1908 to June 18, 1992
John Franklin GATLIN February 21, 1910 to April 22, 1992
Opal Alene GATLIN July !8, 1913 to July 25, 2001
Irma Pauline GATLIN June 23, 1915 to April 11, 2001
Edna Mae GATLIN August 6, 1921 to
Submitted by John W. Gatlin
Graveside services for James Asa Gatlin were held at the McAdoo Cemetery Tuesday, January 20, at 4 p.m. with Rev. James Patterson officiating.
Gatlin was born in Pulaska County, Tennessee, January 28, 1886, and passed away January 19. He was married to Lenora Barton December 10, 1897, at Mena, Arkansas. She preceded him in death in 1931. Gatlin and his family had resided in McAdoo from 1924 until 1931. He then moved to Snyder in 1932, where he lived until his death. He became a Christian early in life, and was an active church worker, and was a member of the Church of the Nazarene.
Survivors include four sons, Ivan of Snyder, Rev. J. B. of Prescott, Arizona, Marvin of Lynwood, California. Frank of Eunice, New Mexico; three daughters, Mrs. Bunyon Evans of Fluvanna, Mrs. Raymond House and Mrs. Cecil Mearse of Snyder; a sister, Mrs. Lavelle Crisp of Liberty, Missiouri; 25 grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, January 22, 1953
Scurry County Man, 88 Dies
Snyder January 19, 1953
James Asa Gatlin, nearly 88, a resident of Scurry County since 1932, died at 12:45 a.m. Monday in Battenfield Hospital, Sweetwater, Texas after an illness of 10 days.
Funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the First Methodist Church here. The Rev. W.W. Hadcock, pastor, will officiate assisted by the Rev. R.L. Dillard, Church of the Nazarene minister. Mr. Gatlin had been a resident of Snyder and Scurry County for 23 years.
Born January 28, 1865, in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, he moved to Arkansas at the age of 17 and was married December 12, 1897 in Mena, Polk County, Arkansas to the former Lenora Barton.
Pallbearers will be Melvin Newton, Cecil Casswell, Jimmy Dyess, Marvin Rogers, Nolan von Roeder and Charles Bly. Burial will be in McAdoo cemetery.
Mr. Gatlin is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Bunyon Evans, Fluvanna; Mrs Raymond House and Mrs. Cecil Mearse, Snyder; four sons, the rev. J.B. Gatlin, Fresco, AR; Ivan Gatlin, Snyder; Marvin Gatlin, Lynnwood, Calif.; Frank Gatlin, Eunice, New Mexico: one sister Mrs. Louella Crisp, Liberty City, Missouri.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Bolger Funeral Home.
Submitted by John W. Gatlin
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