Samuel Wylie Alexander Wyndon Pettis Jones Glenn
Otherwise known as Samuel P. Glenn
Grandpa Samuel P. Glenn, age 50 years, filed his Applicaton for Enrollment (p. 23) dated August 20, 1896 for himself and his living legal descendants:
> John W. Glenn, a male, age 22 yrs
> Lilian E. Escue, a female, age 20
> Claude Glenn, a female, age 14
> Edward Glenn, male, 13 years
> Della Glenn, female, 11 years.
> Gr Grandpa John C. Glenn signed this application with his mark (X).
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From story told by Curtis Glenn, a descendent of Samuel P. Glenn:
Samuel P. Glenn Grandpa was a deacon in the Baptist Church, he was a Mason and involved in the Masonic Lodge, they were doing well, but got crosswise somehow with the neighbors (maybe the sheep he bought in
cattle country?), and so they sold out and went to Colorado to follow the gold rush. They crossed the Texas plains and once thought they were about to be attacked by bad men but Grandpa told Grandma to get the rifle and hold it under the blanket (to make it easier to reach if the situation warranted. )
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> Charley Tucker and his wife Minnie Lively Tucker sold to my Grandpa Sam a home in Wilburton where he was living when he died. (He died in the home of his daughter Lillian Glenn Askew.
>Samuel P., had a general store at Culley-Chaha in the 1890's. The store was also the post office, so Sam was also the postmaster. He is listed as such in the Chronicles of Okla. Sylvester Hughes, was a mail carrier (horseback) for the Cameron, Culley, Gilmore, Hill and McClure area. They most certainly
knew each other. Who would have guessed their grandchildren , John Edward and Annie Mae Howery would meet and marry some forty-odd years later?
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OUR GRANDMOTHER GLENN
A Tribute to VIRGINIA ELLEN AVERITTE GLENN (Ellen Glenn)
By her grandson HENRY DEE GLENN
One night recently, when sleep would not come, it dawned on me that there was one last chapter that should be added to the genealogy of the life of Ellen Avery Glenn, our grandmother and the mother of Lillie
Glenn Askew, Claudia Glenn Robbins, Della Glenn Wilson, Ed Glenn, John Glenn and Harry Eugene Glenn, my father.
During my restless night, Grandma Glenn came into the many thoughts that kept churning in my mind. I could not, for the life of me, keep her outside my thoughts. I realized the tug of time was slipping away and
if this story was to be told, it was up to me to tell it. You see, Grandma and Grandpa, Samuel Glenn, were separated (never divorced) when their youngest son, Harry Eugene, was a young boy. This left the two of
them to forge for themselves. This they did, including the time Harry Eugene was in the Army during World War I. Keep in mind that during this day and time there were no government programs and it was almost
impossible for a woman of any age, let alone one the age of Grandma Glenn, to find a job. I have in my possession several letters that Dad (Harry Eugene Glenn) wrote to his mother when he was overseas during World War I.
In one such letter he asked his mother if she had received the letter in which he had put two five dollar bills, asking her to give one five dollar bill to "Pa", his father (Samuel Glenn). Now in the pages of the "Big Book" there is mentioned that Samuel Glenn was thought to be educated and had done well financially. I think you can forget about him being educated except in the hard knocks of life. If he had a formal education his son Harry Eugene never mentioned it. It does appear that from time to time Samuel Glenn made some money in a few land deals. If so he did not keep any for his old age. The sending him five dollars from his measly Army pay indicates that Samuel had fallen on hard times.
My father H. E. told me just before he died that one of the hardest things that he ever did was turn his father Samuel down when he came to him during the 1930's asking if he would take him in and let him live
with his family. Dad's father Samuel told him that his daughter Lillie had told him that she could no longer keep him and he would have to go stay with some of the other children. Since Grandma Ellen was already
staying with him and since his father and mother were separated, this would not do, and since he also had three children and a wife, it just could not be done. I am not sure, but I believe that he did return to Lillie's home and she took him in and he stayed there until he died at the age of 85.
This story was to be about Grandma Glenn, so let us begin. Grandma was living with her youngest son H. E. and H. E.'s wife Lela and their three children, Curtis, Henry and Caroline. Our father H. E. had mentioned on
several occasions that Grandma Glenn and Grandma Askew (Lela's mother) delivered Curtis when the doctor, who traveled by horseback, could not get there because of high water.
Curtis, Caroline and I never knew anything different other than Grandma Ellen Glenn was just part of our family. Grandma Glenn was a tall, slender woman, who like so many women of that day kept her hair rolled
into a knot at the back of her head. I remember her as a quiet person, more or less attending to her own business. I can honestly say that I never heard a cross word between her and my mother, or father for that
matter. I am sure that two women living in the same house must have had some differences, but if so, they were kept to themselves.
Some things I remember about Grandma Ellen: She always went barefooted in the summer and she had long slender feet. She always slept with a bonnet (night cap) on her head, especially in the winter> time. She was rather picayunish in her eating habits. She would not try any new foods that she had not eaten before. I remember my dad saying, "Ma, try some of this, you might like it." Her answer was always "No, I don't like it." She always poured her coffee into her saucer to keep it cool, she would say. Her favorite dessert was Karo
syrup spread on her buttered bread. Grandma Glenn would sit for hours in her rocking chair. When it was hot
she would fan with her turkey wing fan. Someone had killed a wild turkey and made a fan out of the wings and tail feathers. She would also look out the window for what seemed like hours. I am sure she had plenty to reminisce about, both good and bad.
In my Tribute to Henry Eugene, I mentioned that he thought he was not wanted because he was the last child and that his mother was over forty years old at the time of his birth. Well, let me tell you that he was a blessing to her, especially the last 25 years of her life. He was there for her when she needed him most. He gave her a warm and loving home to live in during her aging years and most of all they gave mutual love to each other.
Our Grandmother Ellen Glenn died in 1939 at the age of 85. We lived in Wilburton, OK at the time of her death. Dad had taken a school job as principal and teacher at the small school of Center Point. This school was located about five miles north of Wilburton. There being no rent houses in Center Point, we lived in a small four room house in Wilburton. Coal stoves, no running water, or outdoor privy. We felt right at home. This was all we ever had - Sears & Roebuck catalog included.
I was 15 years old when Grandma Glenn died. I remember it well. She had been having small strokes and at night we sometimes could hear her crying and walking the floor, patting the walls as though she was trying
to find out where she was. Just before she died, Dad had Curtis, Caroline and me to go to her bedside and say goodbye. I remember she could not talk, but you could tell by the expression on her face she knew us and that she loved us.
Henry D. Glenn
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I have pondered much over Grandma and Grandpa(Samuel P. Glenn and Virginia Ellen). Actually, Henry Dee, they were separated when my mother was quite young. Grandpa obviously popped in and out, though, and probably would stay for a while sometimes. I don't know how long that had been going on. Uncle Harry came along 10 years after Mother. You will know much more than I about Grandpa's activities, but I'm sure you remember that he was the forerunner of the traveling salesman, in that he had a covered wagon full of wares and elixirs, jewelry, etc. Before that he had a traveling medicine show that featured a petrified man. I have been told some very colorful stories about him, and I think that I believe them. After they sold out in Jacksboro, Texas, Presley and others have said they moved to Colorado to the gold mines. I cannot get a handle on this. Nobody will tell me WHERE in Colorado they went and I haven't found them on my own. Of course, we do know now that they arrived in Cavanal, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory about 1886, to join the rest of the Glenns and Tuckers, and Mother was born at Cavanal in 1887. Incidentally, only this winter, at Christmastime, I located Cavanal. If y'all EVER come to visit, I'll take you there. I still haven't found out where in the Cavanal area the old Post Office was located, though. Grandpa was the first Postmaster and I think he ran a general store along with it. They may have lived in the same building, but that's just speculation on my part. That is one of the reasons I think he had some education, Henry, besides the fact that his mother, Eliza Jane Griffin, was from a long line of enterprising English ancestors. Her parents owned a cotton plantation with slaves until after the Civil War changed all that for them. After that it seems they fell on hard times. In the story that her daughter Annie Glenn Freeman (Aunt Annie) told, her dad took to preaching to help make a living. Aunt Annie was Grandpa's youngest sister.
Back to whether Grandpa had any education, I guess it's possible that Grandma was the one who could handle the store and post office and might even have managed the real estate in Texas but I still think it was Grandpa. I somehow feel that in his young years he could have done about anything he wanted but never stayed with any of it. I think maybe my brother Harry took after him. That reminds me. I haven't kept any of you cousins up to date on this part, but I have gone back five more generations in the Averitte line, all the way back to Cornwall, England. From these five new sets of grandparents, I've gotten us two more family lines: Worsham and Rudd.
If I can get thru reunion and not have to be President anymore, maybe I can really get into the research of these new lines These lines are very impressive. One branch (not sure, but I think it was Alexander Averett) started the Averett University. I wrote them and they answered me, now I need to get back into these very challenging family branches.
