Dear Cousins,

My name is Glenda Rae Martindale King, my daughter Julianne McCracken forwarded me your e-mail inquiries about my grandmother Helen Agnes Civilla Lewis Martindale. I will try to answer some of your questions, although grandmother passed around 2 years before I was born. So I will start at the beginning.

What I know about William Lyman Lewis and Helen Agnes Civilla is from conversations with my mother Verla Martindale and genealogy papers and journal I received after mother’s death.

In mother’s journal she stated that Grandpa and Grandma lived in Oakley, Idaho when my father David Ruland Martindale was born in 1898. He was the fourth child and was only 5 years old when Grandpa died. I have also heard different stories of his death. Mother stated that he died of a heart attack while working on the Milner Dam, which is located north of Twin Falls, Idaho in January of 1905. I had also, heard a number of years ago, that it was thought to have been murder. The only newspaper clipping I have simply states “Lime Martindale of Oakley, died at Milner last Friday. He was brought home Sunday and Monday was laid to rest in the town cemetery. Lime was a good and big hearted man.”

Mother states Grandmother was left with 6 children and Aunt Bea was born in March. They lived in Oakley for a while but Grandmother was unable to provide for the children there. I don’t know what year, but Grandmother moved to Jerome, Idaho to work in a laundry. She was unable to keep all the children.

I’ll divert a little here. I’m not sure what information you have on the children so I will provide what information I have.

1. Lewis Addington Martindale born 1 Mar 1893 in Albion, Id-married Grace Pugh in 1917 and died on Jan 5 1940.

2. Dora Ufrasia Martindale born 28 Jan 1895 in Oakley, Id -married Ray Kennison , Henry O’Malley in 1915 and also Earl E. Marriott- she died 3 Jun 1939 I have a new paper article which reads “ Last Rites for Mrs. Marriott- Funeral services will be conducted at 11 am tomorrow in the chapel of the Dudley Mortuary for Mrs. Dorothy E. Marriott 44 wife of Earl E. Marriott, She died Saturday night in a local hospital after an illness of several weeks. The Reverend Horace Campbell pastor of the Christian church, will officiate at the rites, which will be followed by interment in Santa Maria cemetery. Mrs. Marriott was born Jan 28, 1895 in Oakley, Idaho. She has lived in California 11 years and in Santa Maria for five years. Surviving besides her mother, Mrs. Agnes Martindale of San Bernardino; two sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Munford and Mrs. Zina Pennington both of San Bernardino, and four brothers Lewis and Rodney Martindale of Wenatchee, Washington: David Martindale of Oakley, Idaho, and Archie Martindale of Longview, Washington.”

3. Lyman Rodney Martindale born 3 Dec 1896 in Oakley, Idaho married Kate Kross in 1918 died 30 Nov 1963.

4. David Ruland Martindale born 10 Aug 1898 in Oakley Idaho, married Leone Wilson 4 Oct 1922 she died 9 July 1938, married Verla Hale 7 Nov 1941 died 28 May 1953

5. Frederick D. Martindale born 8 Aug 1900 in Oakley, died Feb 1901

6. Zina Elizabeth Martindale born 24 Dec 1901 in Oakley, married Pennington died Apr 1942

  1. Archie Lewis Martindale born 17 Aug 1903 in Oakley, Idaho married Lila Burt in 1923 died 29 April 1965.
  2. Weatie Beatrice Martindale born 11 Mar 1905 in Oakley, Idaho married George Munford in 1923 died 18 Jun 1978

As far as I know my father was the only one to have children.

Now back to grandma- She took my father , David to Albion, Id to live with his Grandpa Lewis. Uncle Rod went to live with Aunt Hellie Gorringe and her husband. Dad lived with them for awhile and Grandpa took him up the hill to an old bachelor who had goats. Dad didn’t like it there and ran away, spent the night in Grandpa’s haystack and headed out for Jerome the next day. Mother doesn’t state in her journal how old he was but I remember hearing he was about 11. He walked most of the way to Jerome. When he got there Grandmother had taken the girls and gone to Gooding where she and Aunt Dorothy worked in a laundry. The house they had been living in was empty , but the lady next door took Dad in to help her with a mentally retarded boy. So he helped with the boy and turned the hand washer for her all summer. Grandmother came and got him in the fall and took him to Oakley to Uncle Athan Martindale’s. He lived with them through high school. When he was 17 he went to Washington State to see Grandmother and joined the navy. He served during WWI. That is all the information mother wrote in her journal. I remember mother telling me that Grandmother had died of breast cancer. It is my speculation that Grandmother had gone to Eureka where Her youngest daughter Bea was living and she must have died there and they brought her back to San Bernardino where she lived to bury her. I have a picture of her and Aunt Bea, I don’t know when it was taken.

I guess now I can tell you a little about my brother’s and sisters.

Dad and his first wife Leone had the following children.

  1. Norine –born 27 Sep 1923 in Oakley married Merrill Robinson had 10 children 7 living. She lives in Burley, Id and would be the one with the most knowledge of Grandmother, her address is 2666 Brentwood Dr. Burley, Id 83318 phone # 208-678-7768.
  2. Bernice (Bonnie) B born 8 Sep 1925 in Kelso, Wash married Lewis Bruce Young- had 3 children were divorced she lives in Buena Park, Ca.
  3. David Ruland Martindale Jr. born 29 Jan 1930 in Long Beach, Ca married Doris Johnson had 5 children 4 living- divorced, married Judy Valentine had 1 daughter- divorced, married Jan White. no children The only e-mail address I have for them was from Jan’s work and she has retired but their address is 708 E. Center, Orem, Ut 84057.
  4. Marica Leone born 18 Jun 1938 married Edward Lewis Coombs have 3 children and live in Evanston, Wyo

Leone died from euremic poisoning on 8 Jul 1938 leaving Dad with four children to raise. He married my mother Verla Hale 7 Nov 1941. They had

  1. Rodney Hale born 12 Aug 1943 in Oakley, Id married Patricia Mitchell adopted 1 child live in Heber City, Utah
  2. Mark Wayne born 29 Nov 1944 in Oakley Id, married Janice Goodwin have 3 children and live in Caldwell, Idaho .
  3. Glenda Ray born 14 Jan 1950 in Twin Falls Id, married David King have 5 children and live in The Dalles, Or
  4. Kim Hale born 8 Oct 1951 in Twin Falls, Id married Collen Kunz have 5

children and live in Clinton, Ut.

Most of the information that I have on the Lewis line I got from a copy of research called

“From Monarchs to Mormons by Clara Lewis Hall. It was written about 1959. Clara was the only living grandchild of James Stapleton Lewis and Anna Jones. The research starts in Virginia 1650. If you don’t have a copy of this and would like one I would love to share it with you.