Includes collateral Families:
Beck,Burdine,Ethridge,Flood,Jones,Pierce,Reddell,Reeves
Upton
James Anderson "Little Jim" Brasel was born 30 October 1871/72 in
Newton County,Arkansas.He died 15 Oct 1944.Burial Haskell Cemetery,
Haskell,Muskogee County, Oklahoma
His parents were John Brasel and Jane Reddell (James Anderson Reddell
and Mariah Ethridge Reddell family).
His brothers and sisters were: John Calvin; Jasper, GFM "Frank";
U.S.Grant"Lis"; Mathew; Louisiana; Alabama; Nancy; Permelia; Nettie;
Louvina and Mary Brasel.
Jim married EMELINE FLOOD (twin)on 2 November 1892 in Newton County.
Emeline was daughter of George W Flood 1843 and Rachel Caroline Harris
Emeline was the twin to John Flood who died when an infant
Twin John Flood is buried in Smith Cemetery.
His grave has ivy growing around the edge and is to the left of
the Smith Cemetery gate, best I remember.
Emeline only weighed about 3 pounds at birth, while John weighed
about 7 pounds. Their mother Rachel Harris Flood was afraid Emeline
would get cold so she slept with Emeline closer to her.
Twin John caught cold and died when very young....apparently the
bedcovers did not keep him covered and he caught what was probably
pneumonia.
James and Emeline Flood Brasel had the following children:
1. VERNIE MITCHELL BRASEL, born 20 August 1894.
He married IRIS GAYLE STONE on 23 June 1928 in Sacramento, California
Vernie died on 14 September 1936 in San Francisco, California
Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery,Sacramento,California
Vernie Mitchell Brasel known children were:
i:Vernie Lee Brasel,born 16June1929 Sacramento,California
He married ROSE MARIE CIHELKA (born Elmhurst,New York)
known children:
1)Kenneth Lee Brasel,born 14Sep1955 Key West Florida
2)Daniel Brasel,born 22Mar1958, Jacksonville,Florida
ii:Thomas James Brasel born 5Sep1930 Sacramento,California
He married DELORES J PETERS on 14June1951
iii:Donald Ray Brasel,born 25June1932 Sacramento,California
He married LA VINA OLSON on 22Aug1954
Known children:
1)Karen Rae Brasel,born 26Mar1956 Sacramento,California
2)Janet Renee Brasel,born 5Apr1959 Sacramento,California
3)Ronald Ray Brasel,born 14Oct1960 Sacramento,California
I was supposed to meet Thomas Brasel in Sacramento several years ago
but was not able to.
Hope some of the Brasel family contacts me by E-mail.
(continuing with children of James Brasel
2.EVA LOU BRASEL, born 24 April 1896 in Newton County.
She married WILLIAM JONES(11Oct1892-10July1964 Jasper Cemetery)
on 11 October 1914 at Stringtown.
Will was the son of Will H Jones(b:1862) and second wife
MARY LIZZIE LUCAS.Married 7Jan1892,Newton County,Arkansas
Will H Jones had married (1)HULDA ARMSTRONG on 1Dec1879
Will Jones siblings were:
Daisy Jones,Laura,Willis,James,Mary,Jarvis Jones and Ted Upton
Eva and Will Jones children were:
i:James Darwin"Darwin" Jones Sr.,born 4 May 1916,Jasper,Arkansas
He died 28 JAN 2002
He married HELEN ROSE(1916-2009) on 6June1936
JAMES DARWIN JONES
Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) � Thursday, January 31, 2002
JONES, JAMES DARWIN, SR. - age 85, of West Knoxville, died Monday,
January 28, 2002. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Concord
and former member of Washington Pike Baptist Church, where he served
as Deacon and coached the basketball team for many years.
He was a retired longtime Knoxville Optician.
Preceded in death by son, William David Jones; brothers, Harold and
Don Jones.
Survivors: wife of 65 years, Helen Rose Jones; son and daughter-in
law,
James "Jim" Darwin Jones, Jr., and Linda Jones of Hudson,Fla;
daughter, Jane Bean of Knoxville; grand children, James D. "Chip"
Jones III, Timothy Scott Jones and wife Penny; Elyse Profitt and
husband Darrell, Staff Sgt.David Bean and wife Donna, Jill Carter and
husband Sgt. Mike Carter, and Jennifer Jones; great-grand
children,Josh, Jesse, Matthew, Jessica, Kyler, Joe, Zack,Sean, Liam,
Bryce,Taylor;brothers,Joe Kenneth Jones and wife Joyce of Santa Anna,
Texas, and Brasel Jones and wife Drucilla of Jasper, Ark., brother-
in-law and sister-in-law, Sam and Sue Rose of Chattanooga,and several
nieces and nephews, and special friend and caregiver, Penny Gardner.
Funeral service will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Rose Mortuary
Mann Heritage Chapel with Rev. Steve Peek officiating. Family and
friends will meet at Edgewood Cemetery at 1:45 p.m. Friday for an 2
p.m.interment service. The family requests, memorial donations may be
made to Home Bound Ministry, First Baptist Church, Concord, 11704
Kingston
Pike, Knoxville, TN 37922.
The family will receive friends 5:30-7:30 p.m.Thursday at Rose
Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel.
Burial:Edgewood Cemetery,Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee
James Darwin Jones Sr.children:
1)James Darwin Jones,Jr.,born 5Apr1941 Knoxville,Tenessee
He married LINDA WOLFE on 9Jul1967
2)William David Jones,born 1942 Knoxville,Tennessee
3)Charlotte Jane Jones,born Jan1945 Knoxville,Tennessee
ii:William Harold Jones,born 2 Apr 1923 Jasper,Arkansas
He died 24 Oct 1991;Jasper Cemetery, Newton County,Arkansas
He married HELEN PEARL SWALLOW(1928-1992) on 22Nov1950
William Harold Jones known children:
1)Evelyn Kay Jones,born 23Jul1952 Harrison,Arkansas
She married MARK POYNTER
children:
1.Michael Thadeus Poynter
2.Mathas Todd Poynter
iii: Don Charles Jones,born 18May1927 Jasper,Arkansas
He married MARGURETTE A. STEVENSON on 2Aug1954
Children:
1.Don Charles Jones Jr.,born 1956 Carlsbad,New Mexico
2.Mary Elizabeth Jones,born 1958 Harrison,Arkansas
3.Kathryn Gayle Jones,born 1960 Harrison,Arkansas
4.Scott Jones,born 1970
iv:Joe Kenneth Jones,born 3 Dec 1931,Jasper,Arkansas
He died 4 Sep 2010 Santa Anna,Texas
Joe married MARGARETTE A LOWE(born Deming,New Mexico) on 31May1953
Known Child:
Kenna Jan Jones,born 1954 Phoenix,Arizona
Joe Kenneth Jones married (2)JOYCE JOYNER on 13Dec1969
JOE KENNETH JONES
Joe K. Jones, 78 of Santa Anna passed away Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010,
at a local nursing facility. Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday at First
Presbyterian Church, 1100 Austin Ave., Waco, the Rev.Dr. Jimmie
Johnson and Dr. David Mosser officiating. A private family burial
will take place in Stewardson Cemetery in Coleman County.
Visitation: The family will receive visitors in the parlor of First
Presbyterian immediately following the service on Wednesday. There
will be visitation 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Henderson Funeral Home in
Santa Anna. Memorials: May be made to First Christian Church in
Jasper, Ark., and the Santa Anna library in Santa Anna.
Joe was born Dec. 3, 1931, in Jasper, Ark., to Eva and Will Jones.
He was the fourth of five sons and was baptized in the Christian Church at
Little Buffalo River in Jasper, Ark.
He married JOYCE JOYNER on Dec. 13, 1969. He graduated from Jasper
High School in 1950.After high school he attended Arkansas Teachers
College (University of Central Arkansas) on a basketball scholarship.
He joined the Air Force in 1952 and was stationed at Luke Air Force
Base in Phoenix, Ariz.,until his discharge as a staff sergeant in 1955.
He moved to Dallas and owned and operated several Exxon service
stations in Oak Cliff and Duncanville. He was an Exxon distributor
in Brownwood for five years.Following his retirement in 1994 he moved
to his beloved 1116 Ranch in Coleman County where he enjoyed raising
his cattle, hunting, fishing and playing cards.
He was preceded in death by his brothers, Darwin, Harold and
Don Charles.
The family would like to express a special thanks to the staff
members of Providence Hospice for their loving care.
Survivors: His wife of 42 years, Joyce Joyner Jones; son, Will and
his wife, Meryl, of Waco; daughter, Pamela Eddleman and her husband,
Don, of Santa Anna;brother, Brasel and his wife, Drucilla, of Jasper,
Ark.; and the true love and joy of his life, his three grandsons,
Will Eddleman, Grant and Reid Jones.
Published in Star-Telegram on September 6, 2010
(Will Jones children continued
v:Brasel Jones,born 11Aug1936 Omieda,Tennessee.
He married DRUCELLA GREGORY(born 3Dec1943 Fort Smith,Arkansas.
Married on 17June1964
children:
1.Kelly Rae Jones,born 1967 Harrison,Arkansas
2.William Teddy Jones,born 1969 Harrison,Arkansas
Eva Brasel Jones died 24 March 1988 and is buried in Jasper Cemetery
in Newton County. William Jones died in 1964 and is also buried in the Jasper cemetery.
3.TESSIE MALISSA BRASEL, born 3 June 1898 in Newton County
Tessie married DAVE LAFAYETTE BURDINE(3Dec1889 Vendor,Arkansas--
7Oct1951 McIntosh Co.OK)Married on 4 May 1922 in Newton County.
Their children were:
i:Edith Emogene Burdine Dowling (1924-2002)
ii: Rex Dave Burdine
iii:Pat Burdine
Tessie Melissa Brasel Burdine died in 1996 at Eufaula, Oklahoma with
burial Greenwood Cemetery,McIntosh County,Oklahoma
David Lafayette Burdine's father was William Henry Burdine(1868-1949)
Dave's siblings:
Walter T. Burdine (1893 - 1951)
Elmer M. Burdine (1895 - 1975)
Infant Burdine (1897 - 1897)
Beecher Claude Burdine (1898 - 1985)
Infant Burdine (1901 - 1901)
Infant Burdine (1902 - 1902)
Helen Olivette Burdine Casey (1905 - 1971)
4.MARY "Jo"CAROLINE BRASEL,born 29 January 1900 in Newton County
She married TED REEVES on 18 August 1926.
Ted Reeves died in 1976 and is buried in Jasper Cemetery.
They had no children.
I corresponded with Mary Joe Brasel Reeves up until 1989.
She lived in Harrison, Arkansas (Boone County,Arkansas)
She told me that her mother Emeline Flood Brasel died of "remitten
fever.
The Reeves lived in Salinas, California from 1943 to 1973.
Mary Jo told me that granny Rachel was very religious.
Grandpa Wash Flood was grandest person in the world.
Uncle Hoyle Flood taught at Atkinson school.
Mary Jo would rise early in the morning and fix Hoyle's breakfast.
Hoyle walked to teach school
Mary Jo last wrote me in February of that year.
Want to share this letter with you
Dear Evelyn
Feb 1989
I am sorry I couldn't be of more help to you, but I just wanted you
to know, that I enjoyed hearing from you.
I lived with my granny Flood 2 or 3 years, after my father married
the second time, and Uncle Simon and Aunt Hester lived just about
one-fourth mile from granny.
I loved them dearly, and Lee, Howard and Obie and I played together
a lot. I was little older than they, but we had good times together.
Uncle Sime, we called him "Sime", was my favorite uncle.
I would like to see you and talk to you about old times, but you
probably would not appreciate it, as you are younger, and wouldn't
know the old time Big Creekers.
Well good luck with your genealogy, and God bless you and your family
From your far distant cousin,
Love
Mary Joe Reeves
I will be 89 March 29th"
Time slipped by so fast and I wanted to visit with Mary Jo when I
visited in Newton County, but did not meet her in person.
Have always liked to visit with older folks.....even when I was a
young girl. Older folks are so interesting to talk to and full of
so many interesting facts and stories
Always tried to be with my maternal Grandpa John E Koons when he
went to visit his old friends "Muskrat Dan" and others.
Mary Jo Brasel Reeves died on 30 July 1996 and is buried in Jasper
Cemetery,Newton County.
Ted Reeves (1Mar1901-15Mar1976 Jasper Cemetery
He was son of Isom J Reeves and Martha Lee
5.CLARA JOHN BRASEL, born 5 December 1901 in Arkansas
She died 4 Nov 1991 Oklahoma.Buried Palestine Cemetery,Russellville,
Pittsburg County,Oklahoma.
Clara married WILLIAM HENRY BECK(1909-1967) on 8 March 1925 in
Durant,Oklahoma.
Beck known Children:
i:Teddy Ray Beck (1928 - 2007)
ii:Verna Eugenia Beck Davis
iii:Virginia Faye Beck Egbert
iv:Gwenda Marylin Beck Shulanberber
v:Billie Anna Beck Adcock
vi:Peggy Delorah Beck Hunter
vii:Bonnie Lou Beck Giles
Emeline Flood Brasel, born 6 January 1868 in Newton County, died on
9 October 1912 in the Roy Reynolds home in Newton County.
She is buried in Union Hill Cemetery, Newton County,Arkansas
James Anderson Brasel married a second time to:
SARAH HEFLEY JONES on 9 September 1915 in Newton County.
Sarah was the daughter of Maddy Jim Hefley and Elizabeth Tennison
Sarah had been married to JAMES MONROE JONES(1879-1912)
They had two sons; Custer and Sanford Jones who are buried in
Red Rock Cemetery,Newton County, with their father James M Jones
Custer Jones (1905 - 1905)
Sanford Jones (1908-1910)
Jimmie Lee Jones (2Feb1913 - 30Sep1996 Shaddox Cemetery,
Pruitt,Newton County,Arkansas)
She married JAMES T SHADDOX (1908-1991)
James and Sarah Hefley Jones Brasel had the following children:
6.CLARENCE DEVOE BRASEL(25 July 1916 AR-13Jan1998 Bremerton,
Kitsap County,Washington. In 1988 lived Belleview,Washington
He married VIVIAN STRADFORD on 11June1940 Ft.Smith,Arkansas
C.DEVOE BRASEL
Courtesy of Puget Sound Genealogical Society:
C. Devoe Brasel, 81, of Silverdale died Jan. 13, 1998, at Harrison
Memorial Hospital.
He was born July 25, 1916, in Newton Co., Ark. He graduated from
high school and completed two years of college.
On June 11, 1940, he married Vivian Stradford in Fort Smith, Ark.
Mr. Brasel served in the Army during World War II.
He worked for Seafirst Bank as an auditor for 23 years,retiring in
1981
Survivors include his wife; four daughters, Patricia Carpenter and
Sharon Brasel, both of Poulsbo, Joan Brasel of Silverdale and
Margaret Clark;a brother,Ed of Tulsa, Okla.;a sister,
Elizabeth Barron of Muskogee, Okla.; seven grandchildren; and seven
great-grandchildren
Burial:Cherry Grove Memorial Park, Poulsbo,Kitsap County,Washington
(James and Sarah Hefley Jones Brasel children continued)
7.BOYD QUINTON BRASEL(29Aug1918-1Oct1960 Haskell,OK
Buried Haskell Cemetery,Haskell,Muskogee County,Oklahoma
8.Willie Jo Brasel(f)(Nov. 29, 1922--May 12, 1987)
Emil David "Ed" Brasel was born on February 16, 1925 in Mt. Judy,
10.Sarah Elizabeth Ann "Tommie" Brasel Barron(New Mexico or Texas)
James Anderson Brasel died on 15 October 1944 and is buried in
Do hope some of the Brasel family contacts me
Evelyn Flood
Buried Malakoff Cemetery,Malakoff,Henderson County,Texas
Buried Haskell Cemetery,Haskell,Muskogee County,Oklahoma
He married BILLIE C BENTON (1926-2014)
Arkansas to James A. & Sarah E. (Hefley) Brasel. He passed from this
life on March 4, 2008 at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma 17 days after
his 83rd birthday.
Ed received his formal education from Haskell High School and The
University of OK, and was an avid OU football fan.He served in the
Navy from 1943 - 1947 reaching the rank of LT JG. He was in the
insurance business from 1964 - 2005 and was member of Crosstown
Church of Christ.
Is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 58 years Billie Brasel;
whom he married on January 28, 1950 in Tulsa, 1 son; Eddie & wife,
Kay Brasel of Collinsville; 1 daughter; Debra Ann Brasel of the home;
a grandson; Matt & wife Carrie, of Oologah; a precious great grand-
daughter;Brooke Lynn Brasel;1 sister; Sarah Elizabeth "Tommie" Barron
of Keller, TX; a sister-in law; Vivian Brasel of San Antonio, TX
and a brother-in-law; Bill McKissick of Athens, TX. Although Matt was
his only grandson,he considered Mark & Chad Plaster as his grandsons
as well. There are also numerous nieces, nephews & friends including
a loving and caring church family.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to Hope Harbor
Children's Home, PO Box 1047, Claremore, Oklahoma 74018.
Children:
Debra Ann Brasel (1957 - 2012)
Do not have birth date or death date or place of burial
She may have lived in Oklahoma.
Haskell Cemetery,Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
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20 Dec 2016