Kinfolks
by Evelyn Flood

Daniel Jeptha "Jep"Hefley married on 5 Feb 1877 (pg329) in Newton
County,Arkansas to MARY JANE HOLT, daughter of Charles K Holt and
Mary Campbell.
Mary Campbell's mother was JULIA C (MNU)GRANGEENE CAMPBELL and her
father was George W CAMPBELL.
Have much more information on George W CAMPBELL family before his
life in Arkansas.

Daniel Jeptha Hefley was son of John Bailey Hefley and Mary Jane Byrd(Bird)
(See below for more JOHN BAILEY HEFLEY information)

Daniel Jeptha "Jep" and Mary Jane Holt Hefley had the following
children:
(1) Mary Jane Hefley born 17Dec1878 , married HARLEY NICHOLS
in Newton County, Arkansas on 11 June 1896 (page 328)
Harley was son of Martin W. Nichols and Mary L. Adams.

Harley Nichols died 23 April 1904 with burial in Sexton Cemetery at
Mt. Judea, Arkansas. Mary Jane Holt Nichols died 8Dec1907 and is
also buried in Sexton Cemetery. Jep and Mary J. Holt Hefley raised
the three boys to adulthood.

(2)Columbus Alexander Hefley born 1880 who married
MAUDIE PARLEE JONES on 4 Feb 1904,Newton County, Arkansas.
Maudie was the daughter of Dave C Jones and Laura Davis.
Columbus Alexander Hefley died in 1965 in Coalgate,Oklahoma.

Columbus Alexander Hefley's children I have record of are:
i:Edna Earl Hefley(see photos below)

EDNA EARL HEFLEY MESSNER KIMMEL
Birth: Oct. 13, 1907,Mt Judea,Newton County,Arkansas
Death: Jun. 20, 2009,Oklahoma City,Oklahoma County,Oklahoma
Burial: Coalgate Cemetery, Coalgate, Coal Co.Oklahoma
She was the daughter of Columbus Alexander Hefley (1880-1965)and
Maudie Parlee Jones (1886-1979).Granddaughter of David C Jones and
Laura Davis. She graduated from Coalgate High School and married
(1)ALFRED PAUL MESSNER(1904-1982)
She later married (2)WILLIAM H. KIMMEL.
She was the owner of Edna's Cafe in Coalgate and Edna's Beauty Shop
in Oklahoma City. She also ran a grocery store and Kimmel Amusement
in Oklahoma City. She was a member of the Coalgate Church of Christ.
Survivors include a daughter,Betty Jean Messner of Oklahoma City,OK;
a son, Alfred Carl Messner of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
grandchildren, Terry Crow, Gary Crow, Warren Crow, Patricia Swain and
Ronnie Kimmel;great grandson, Reese Tanner Hale along with numerous
other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by husbands Alfred Paul Messner and
William H. Kimmel; her parents; sisters, Tressie Hefley(1912-1942)
and Jessie Hefley; and a special niece, Catherine Becker.
Services will be Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at the Coalgate Church of
Christ with Mr. Lloyd McElhaney officiating.
Interment will be at Coalgate Cemetery.Brown's Funeral Home
Note: No headstone as of Sept. 2011.

ii:Nima Hefley

iii:Tressie Hefley(1912 AR - 1942

Note: Family plot marker only - no individual headstone
Burial:Coalgate Cemetery,Coalgate,Coal County,Oklahoma
Plot: Section 122

(Daniel Jeptha Hefley children continued)

(3)John Bailey Hefley born 25Jan1882 Arkansas, who married
IDA LEORA GARNER(1889-1924) on 31 Aug 1905 in Newton County, daughter
of William Simon Garner and Malissie Hale
John Bailey Hefley married (2)LAURA BELLE HEARRELL MILLER(1889-1968)
in 1925 Johnston County,Oklahoma

John Bailey Hefley died 16Aug1967, Ida Leora Garner Hefley and
Laura Belle Hearrell Miller Hefley are buried in Moore Cemetery,
Clarita,Coal County,Oklahoma

John Bailey Hefley 1882 Children:
1. William Jeptha "Jep" Hefley
Birth: Aug. 14, 1906,Mount Judea,Arkansas
Death: Aug. 19, 1984,Clarita,Coal County,Oklahoma
Moore Cemetery,Clarita,Coal County,Oklahoma

William Jeptha Hefley married:
HAZEL HESTER LEE (1903 - 2007)
His known Children:
Jep Howard Hefley (1927 - 2001)
Hugh Lee Hefley (1929 - 1990)

2.Hugh Frank Hefley

3.Hazel May Hefley

Hazel May Hefley Sims
Birth: Jun. 6, 1919,Arkansas
Death: Oct. 24, 2004,Seagoville,Dallas County,Texas
Buried:Moore Cemetery,Clarita,Coal County,Oklahoma
She married WELDON ROBERT SIMS (1915-1972)

John Bailey Hefley 1882 Siblings:
Mary Jane Hefley Nichols (1878 - 1907)
Columbus Alexander Hefley (1880 - 1965)
Martha Alice Hefley Hamilton (1885 - 1974)
Charles Kindrell Hefley (1889 - 1951)
Bonnie May Hefley Taylor (1892 - 1961)
Myrtle L. Hefley Payne (1895 - 1997)

(4)Martha Alice Hefley born 29 Mar 1885 who married
JOHN ALVA HAMILTON, son of Joe and Mary Frances Greenhaw Hamilton.
Married on 29 Dec 1905 (pg 132)Newton County.
(See John Jack Hamilton Story on my website)

i:Roy Lee Hamilton;
ii:Harley Joe Hamilton
iii:Eldon Jeptha Hamilton,
iv:Lester Charles Hamilton,
v:Martha Darlene Hamilton,
vi:William S Hamilton, and
Vii:Mary Frances Juanita Hamilton Gilmore Macdonald.
(Mary Macdonald sent me many photos of Hefley/Hamilton family)

The Floods are related to this branch of the Hefley family through
the Hamiltons

(5) Charles K "Charley"Hefley born 14 Feb 1889 who married
DAISY LEE GREENHAW,(daughter of Andrew Jackson Greenhaw and
Caroline Shuler)on 14 May 1911 (page 63)in Newton County, Arkansas.

Charley and Daisy had five daughters.
Their daughters were:
i:Ardith Norene Hefley Norton(1912--2002)
ii:Wilda Hefley;
iii:Jessie Hefley,born 1915
iv:Helen Hefley, and
v:Mildred C Hefley Mullins

born: 8Aug1921 Arkansas.Died 26Mar1963 Winslow,Navajo County,Arizona
Mildred married PAUL MULLINS (1915--1996)
buried Payson Pioneer Cemetery,Gila County,Arizona

Daisy Lee Greenhaw Hefley died on 26 January 1922 of breast cancer
and is buried in Mt.Judea Cemetery, Newton County, Arkansas.
Charlie Hefley died 6 February 1951 in Coalgate,Oklahoma.

(6) Bonnie May Hefley born 14 February 1892 in Newton County,
married GENERAL A TAYLOR(1889-1935).

They had two known children:
G.A. and Jack Taylor.
Bonnie Hefley Taylor died on 24 December 1961 with burial at Haskell,
Cemetery in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

(7) Myrtle L Hefley born 31 July 1895 in Newton
County, Arkansas.She died 31Mar1997 with burial Haskell Cemetery
Muskogee County,Oklahoma. Plot:Block 7

Myrtle married:
(1)WILL SPRAGUE (2894--1926)on 19 Oct 1916 and (2) ALFRED PAYNE.
Myrtle and Will Sprague had two children:
i:Violet Sprague (1918-1920) ii:William Sprague (1927-2014

Alfred R Payne, born 23 December 1881, died 23 December 1964
(tombstone)and is buried in Haskell Cemetery, Muskogee County,
Oklahoma.

recapping Daniel Jeptha Hefley family:
Daniel Jeptha Hefley (1855 - 1936)
Mary Jane Holt Hefley (1857 - 1948)

their children:
Mary Jane Hefley Nichols (1878 - 1907)
Columbus Alexander Hefley (1880 - 1965)
John Bailey Hefley (1882 - 1967)
Martha Alice Hefley Hamilton (1885 - 1974)
Charles Kindrell Hefley (1889 - 1951)
Bonnie May Hefley Taylor (1892 - 1961)
Myrtle L. Hefley Sprague Payne (1895 - 1997)

1940 Murray Twp.,Coal County,Oklahoma
J A Hamilton,.......Head.......M........59......Arkansas
Alice Hamilton......Wife.......F........55......Arkansas
Eldon Hamilton......Son........M........26......Oklahoma
Lester Hamilton.....Son........M........23......Arkansas
Billy Hamilton......Son........M........17......Oklahoma
Mary Frances.....Daughter......F........13......Oklahoma
Mary Hefley......Mother-in-law.F........82......Arkansas
C K Hefley......Brother-in-law.M........51......Arkansas(single)

Mary Frances Hamilton Gilmore Macdonald sent me xerox copy of the
picture of Jep and Mary Holt Hefley. I thank her for that.
(sadly, Mary Frances Macdonald is deceased)

Mary Frances Hamilton Gilmore Macdonald told me a story about
Daniel Jeptha and Mary Holt Hefley.
I would like to pass that story on here,as told by Mary Macdonald.
When their youngest child was three and my mother Martha Alice Hefley
was thirteen, the family loaded up in a covered wagon in 1898 and
they headed for Texas. They had folks living there in Hood County and
Meridian County.
How long they stayed,I don't know, but probably not long as they went
back to Arkansas.

In the year of 1922 they, along with four other wagons,moved to
Oklahoma. Jep and Mary bought some acres with a house, barn, smoke-
house and a spring. They were about two miles west of Coalgate,
Oklahoma.

Their children had married and they lived in Oklahoma. Bonnie and
Myrtle lived at Haskell. Bailey lived at Clarita (near Coalgate).
Lum, Charley and Alice lived about a half mile away.

Jep and Mary had some bad years of farming and due to some
technicality in the deeds, Jep and Mary lost their home.
This was a sad time in their life. They were in their seventies
and they lost their home.
Mary Macdonald's impressionable memories of them that day has stayed
with her all her life.
They were packed and ready to go when my mother and I walked in to
help them to move. They were sitting there, and Grandpa Jep was
reading. He asked us to listen to a poem in the newspaper that he
wanted to read to us. He read the poem:

"Over the Hill To the Poor House, trod a couple old and grey, nothing
left but their memories of yesterday."

It made me feel so sad for them.
That was in 1932\33 and before Social Security.
They moved north of Coalgate, over on "ole Boggey"; did some farming
there and then they moved four miles west of Coalgate to Bethel.

When Jep was eighty-one plus and Mary was seventy-nine, he took
pneumonia. So did Mary. Jep died the 13 of February 1936.
Mary survived the pneumonia. She was now a widow. Her daughter and
son-in-law John Alva Hamilton moved Mary Holt Hefley into the house
with them.She lived with them until 1942 when the Hamiltons moved to
California.
Her son Charley Hefley had also moved in with the Hamiltons, and when
they moved to California, Mary stayed there in their house, with her
son Charley.
Charley and his mother moved from there to thirty miles north of
Coalgate and Mary Holt Hefley lived there until she needed more care.
Her daughters Bonnie and Myrtle lived at Haskell, Oklahoma and moved
her in the house with them.
Mary Holt Hefley lived to be 91 years old. She died from the results
of a stroke on 27 June 1948 and is buried beside her husband at
Coalgate Cemetery, Coalgate,Oklahoma.
end of story

In the Newton County Family History Book 2 there was a story about
Charley Kindrell Hefley on page 95. In this story the author stated
that there didn't seem to be any relationship between J.P. or Jep
Hefley and any of the other Hefleys that are listed in Vol. I of
Newton County Family History Book. NOT SO.
They were related to many Newton County Arkansas Hefley families.

Have been researching the Hefley Families for a long time and have
many,many Hefley Family Group sheets and this is what my records
show:
The Jep Hefley she was talking about was Daniel Jeptha "Jep"Hefley,
born 13 June 1855 in Boone County,Arkansas, son of John Bailey Hefley
and first wife MARY JANE BYRD(BIRD)

John Bailey Hefley
Birth: Dec. 24, 1829,Marion County,Tennessee
Death: Jun. 14, 1898,Mount Judea,Newton County,Arkansas
Sexton Cemetery,Newton County,Arkansas
Son of Phillip Hefley and Hannah Sharp Hefley
Married MARY JANE BYRD(1834-1875) about 1854
11 children with Mary Jane Byrd:
1.Daniel Jeptha "D.J." or "Jep" Hefley (1855-1936)
2.Marthursie "Thessy" Ann Hefley Nichols(1857-1915)
3.John Alexander Hefley (1858-1927)
4.Mary Alice Hefley Criner(1859-1935)
5.William Bailey "Toad" Hefley (1862-1956)
6.Philip Harvey Hefley (1864-1873)
7.Hannah Caroline Hefley (1866-1873)
8.Franklin "Frank" Byrd Hefley (1869-1956)
9.David Hefley (1870-??; died young)
10.Caroline Hefley (1871-??; died young)
11.Jobie C. Hefley (1873-1952)

John Bailey Hefley married a second time to
MARTHA JANE SHULER DAVIS(1846-1923)
on 22 May 1876 in Newton County, Arkansas by D. H. McAlpin, Sr.,
Methodist Minister
(widow of Richard Davis)
Their children were(continuing with numbering)
12.Joseph "Joe"Calvin Hefley (1877-1951)
13.Robert Allison Hefley (1880-1946)
14.George Manson Hefley(1882-1954)
15.Nora Lee Hefley Boatman (1885-1903)
16.Cora Martha Jane Hefley Andrews(1890-1970)

John Bailey Hefley had a brother Daniel Hefley who lived, married
and fathered many Hefley children while living in Newton
County,Arkansas.
Daniel's wife was ELIZA JANE GREENHAW, daughter of Ephriam B Greenhaw
and his first wife Angeline Foster.
(See The Ephriam Barton Greenhaw Story)

John Bailey and Daniel Hefley also had a sister
Catherine Hefley Campbell Johnson who moved to California and raised
her children there.
See the "Catherine Hefley Campbell Johnson Story" in my
'Kinfolks Stories by Evelyn Flood"on my website.
Wrote a story about her in a past issue of my Kinfolks column in the
Newton County Times Newspaper.

The parents of James Hefley,John Bailey Hefley, Daniel Hefley and
Catherine Hefley Campbell Johnson were Phillip Hefley and
Hannah Sharp.

Found James, John, Daniel and Catherine Hefley in 1850 in Carroll
Arkansas, Crooked Creek Township,Visit #533.
Their older brother James Hefley born 1821 in Tennessee was also
listed, along with their grandmother, Elizabeth Bailey Hefley.
This James Hefley married SUSANNA PARKER and they went to Bosque
County,Texas.

1860 Bosque County, Texas, Flag Pond Postoffice No.28, Visit 114-116
Film #1289-M652
1870 Sebastian County Arkansas, Upper Township, Visit 331-328
1880 Sebastian County, Arkansas, Center Township.
Susan Parker Hefley was a widow.

James Hefley served in the Mexican War. Have him listed in the
Arkansas Mexican Soldiers List on my webpage.
Their children I have record of are: (have Family Group Sheets)
1.Martha E Hefley, born 1850.

2. Missouri Catherine Hefley, born 1851

3. Virginia A Hefley, born 1854 in Texas. (alex@oknet1.net(Jerry) wrote me in November 1999.His great grandmother was Virginia Hefley.
Virginia married WILLIAM C. MITCHELL.

4.Albert Perry Hefley. He married MATTIE CLEMENTINE PHILLPS.
Albert was living in Franklin County, Arkansas in 1920 alone.Vol 20,
ED45, S9, L72

5. Columbus Leander Hefley.

Joel Worst, son of James Louis Worst wrote me in 2003 stating:
"We only know our Hefley line as far back as Hannah, Phillip and
their son James Hefley (born 1821 in TN), his wife Susan Parker,
their son Columbus Leander Hefley (born 1859), his wife
WINNIFRED HARGROVE, their son James Marcus Hefley (born 1893), his
wife FLORA AGNES FLETCHER, and their daughter Loile Hefley(born 1912)
who married FERDIE WORST.
Ferdie and Loile Worst are my grandparents, and resided to death in
Fort Smith Arkansas. My name is Joe Worst, son of James Louis Worst
(born 1931)Jeanna May Coffey and I live in Loudoun CO, Virginia."

6. Eliza J Hefley

7. Mary Allison Hefley,

8.Allison Nelson Hefley. He married DORIE M. GARNER on 25Dec1892 at
Greenwood, Sebastian County, Arkansas.
(per Sharon Lee Garner (Leesha98765@yahoo.com)

James Hefley was in a group of Texas Rangers called "The Minute Men".
Nothing further known.
James Hefley also served in the Mexican War and I have him listed in
the Arkansas Mexican Soldiers on my website.

This story published in the Newton County Times Newspaper in my
Kinfolks Column, sent to Times on 30 August 2000.
I did research on the Hefley Families for Carri L Vance
She placed my research on her website.
She also wrote a book and included this family in that book.

Write me:
Evelyn Flood Rkinfolks@yahoo.com
7 July 2016
21 April 2017