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Welch Genealogy
by William R. Welch

Elvin Boyd Cathey ¹ ¹ ² ³ ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁵ ⁶ ⁶ ⁶ ⁷

Birth:	23 Nov 1916 in Dublin, Erath Co, TX ¹ ⁵ ⁵ ⁶ ⁶
Death:	21 Jul 1993 in Mesquite, Dallas, Texas, United States of America; Died in his sleep; pancreatic cancer ¹ ³ ⁶ ⁶ ⁶ ⁶ ⁸
Sex:	M
Father:
Mother:

Cause of Death: Pancreatic cancer

Burial: 24 Jul 1993 Willow Cemetery, Haskell, Haskell Co, TX ⁸ ⁶

Occupation: Bet 1952 and 1978 Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas; Occupation: Worked primariily for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co. as an accountant ⁸ ⁶

Religion: New World UMC ⁸ ⁶

Residence: 1930 Precinct 2, Erath, Texas ⁵ ⁵ ⁶

Residence: Mesquite, Dallas, Texas ⁴ ⁶

Residence: 1943 Van Nuys, CA ⁸ ⁶

Residence: Bet 1946 and 1990 Grand Prairie, Dallas Co., TX ⁸ ⁶

Residence: Bet 1990 and 1993 Mesquite, Dallas Co., TX ⁸ ⁶

SSN issued: Texas ¹ ⁶

Social Security Number: 457-10-3212 ¹ ⁶

Education: 1938 Abilene, Taylor Co., TX; Education: Graduated from Draughn's Business School ⁸ ⁶

Medical: Boyd was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 1993. ⁸ ⁶

Spouses & Children

Evelyn Beryl Montgomery (Wife) b. 25 Jul 1916 in Haskell Co, TX; Born at home
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Marriage:	2 JUL 1938 in Bride's home, Paint Creek Community, Haskell Co, TX
Children:
Frances Elizabeth Cathey

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Notes

Individual:
[DavidAlexanderWelch.Sr.FTW]

See notes for Evelyn Beryl Montgomery

Boyd had been diagnosed in 1987 with breast cancer and was treated with a radical mastectomy. Later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, for which he also had surgery. Then, in May 1993, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given less than 1 year to live. He died in his sleep at their apartment in Mesquite, TX on July 21, 1993 at the age of 76.

What was going on in the world in 1938, the year Boyd and Beryl married? Here's an article from Ancestry Weekly Journal, week of August 13, 2007:

The Year Was 1938
The year was 1938 and many countries were still engulfed in the Great Depression. Rumblings of World War II were heard as Hitler and the Nazis grew in power. In Germany, laws were passed disenfranchising the Jewish population and in October an estimated 15,000 Jewish people, originally from Poland, were sent to the Polish border. Enraged by his parents' deportation, a seventeen-year-old assassinated the Third Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris. This gave the Nazis the excuse they needed and on the night of 9 November, Nazis stormed through cities burning synagogues and breaking windows in Jewish homes and businesses. 30,000 Jewish men were imprisoned in concentration camps. The sounds of breaking glass gave the infamous night its name--Kristallnacht.

On 21 September, disaster struck New York and New England in the form of a category three hurricane, nicknamed the Long Island Express. Only one weather forecaster saw it coming and he was overruled by others in the Weather Bureau who believed it would turn back out to sea before posing a threat. At 3:30 p.m. just before an astronomical high tide, the storm struck Long Island with fourteen to eighteen foot tides and moved across to New England, hitting Rhode Island particularly hard. In the end, it was estimated that the storm was responsible for 700 deaths and another 700 injured. It destroyed 4,500 homes and farms and damaged another 15,000. Cars, electrical and telephone lines, livestock, produce, boats, and shoreline commerce were also devastated.

On what is referred to as "Black Sunday" the seas also claimed five lives in Australia that year. It seemed to be just a day at the shore when three waves in quick succession flooded the beach. As the water receded beachgoers were pulled out to sea and three hundred people had to be rescued.

Another disaster that year was of the fictional variety, but it brought panic nonetheless, as mass hysteria gripped thousands of radio listeners when the Mercury Theater broadcasted its dramatization of the H.G. Wells science fiction work, War of the Worlds.

In other entertainment news that year, Superman made his first appearance in Action Comics, and a wily rabbit named Bugs Bunny debuted in the cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt."

A Depression-weary America embraced an unlikely hero in the form of a long-shot racehorse named Seabiscuit. His story and that of his owner, trainer, and the jockeys who rode him to victory has been immortalized in books and movies.

Movies from 1938 include The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Errol Flynn; Boys Town; and one of Juliana's favorites, Bringing Up Baby, with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Favorite tunes of the year included A-Tisket, A Tasket, Jeepers Creepers, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, and Whistle While You Work, which had been introduced the previous year in the Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

In an e-mail dated 5-2-07, cousin Cathey Pendleton of Dublin, TX wrote:

Hi ? Yesterday was my afternoon to volunteer at the Dublin Museum (open every afternoon and most mornings also which is rare among small town museums). On one of the tables, there was a large bound volume of 1944 issues of The Dublin Progress. In the August 11, 1944 Carlton News article: Yeoman 2C and Mrs. Boyd Cathey and baby of Phoenix, Arizona visited this past week with his parents Mr. & Mrs. Hendrix Cathey.

Thought you might get a kick outa that! I really enjoy reading those old newspapers ? there is always something about some member of our family.

Have a good day,
Cathey

Notes from daughter, Elizabeth Maxson, May 5, 2007:

My father was born on November 23, 1916 in Dublin, Erath Co., TX, and lived there until he left home after high school graduation at about age 17. He took a job in Abilene, which his best friend was supposed to have taken. However, his friend's father died, and he had to stay home to help his mother on the farm. Daddy eventually enrolled in Draughn's Business School in Abilene, TX, and was living at a boarding house, which turned out to be the same boarding house where my mother lived, as she attended beauty school. They married at my mother's parents' home in the Paint Creek Community of Haskell County, TX on July 2, 1938, and moved into another apartment in the same boarding house. Sometime during their first year of marriage, they moved to Anson, TX where they ran a sandwich shop. Later they moved to Monahans, TX, but my father was unable to find work. By the early 1940's they moved to California, where Daddy went to work for the Bendix Company. They rented a small servant's quarters house from Mr. & Mrs. Marshall See in Van Nuys, Los Angeles Co., CA, and that is where they lived when I was born. When WWII began, my father wanted to be in the Navy, but he figured they would reject him, since he was unable to be in the water (burst eardrums) and also because he was colorblind, unable to do the signal flags. When he went down to sign up, he just assumed they'd put him in the Army, but he actually got to be in the Navy. He was sent to Naval school, and Mother and I (6 mos. old) took the train to Texas to be with my grandparents (Montgomery, in Haskell Co., TX). Apparently Daddy rode with us to El Paso and then went back to California before going to the Naval school. When he finished his training, he was not to say where he would be stationed, but he did send Mother a wire saying that she might want to deposit their next pay check in the bank in Phoenix, AZ. (He was sneaky, wasn't he?) They were there from the time I was about 9 mos. old until I was about 3 (1946), when they moved to Dallas, TX. Daddy was unable to find work there, so he re-enlisted in the Navy, they bought a small frame 2-bedroom, 1 bath home in Grand Prairie, Dallas, Co., TX. When my father got out of the Navy in the early 1950's he finally went to work as an accountant for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co. (fire sprinklers). He worked there until he retired at age 62 in 1978. We lived there until I was in the 10th grade. (about 1958) At that point we moved from 1514 Oak Street to 1825 Maple Street, where they lived until November 1964. At that point they moved into a new home they had built at 1718 Esquire Place, Grand Prairie, TX. That was their home until they sold it in 1990 to move closer to me and to my husband Robert. At first they lived in a 2-BR cottage at Twelve Oaks, a retirement village in Dallas. After about 1-1/2 years, they moved to The Place Apartments in Mesquite, TX, to be closer yet to Robert and me. That is where they lived when my father passed away on July 21, 1993 of pancreatic cancer. Through the years he attended Arlington State College, but found that his hearing loss was a great impediment to learning (before the days of special services, obviously!!), so he dropped out and did not pursue a college degree any further. He was able to take shorthand, use the steno-type machine (like those used in court reporting), and excelled in math. He was the treasurer of Prairie Heights Methodist Church for many years, and also served as the Evening Lions Club (Grand Prairie) treasurer for many years. He had always wanted me to teach him how to play the piano, but I really had no patience to do that, but when I moved back to the Dallas area from Lubbock in 1970, he had the piano sent to me and purchased a double keyboard, full pedal electric organ. He was given 6 months of free lessons, and continued to take lessons for about 3 years. His instructor told him after that time, she thought it was time for him to be in a recital, so he began to practice memorizing his piece. One day, he called me and said, "I need to apologize to you." I asked him why, and he said, "Well, all those years you were taking piano lessons (13 years) and you never memorized your pieces, I just thought you were goofing off, but I can't memorize this stuff either!" That actually made me feel much better....after all, if you can blame it on heredity, you don't have to take responsibility for it!! HA!

I must say that I never heard my father say a bad word, except once, when he cut himself really badly. He said, "Damn!" That was the ONLY time I ever heard him say anything like that. He was a very mild mannered, loving man, who was totally devoted to Mother and me. I did not know until after I was grown that he really held his father responsible for my grandmother's death. Daddy felt my grandfather literally ran Grandma Cathey into the ground because he expected her to wait on him, hand and foot. She was constantly at his beck and call, and when she died in 1969, I learned that was how my father felt about the situation. Apparently it was not a new thing, as one of the reasons in left home in 1933, was because he felt my grandmother (his mother) was verbally abused regularly, and he just couldn't stand to see what was happening to her even then.

Sources

Title: Social Security Death Index
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;
Text: Name: Elvin B. Cathey SSN: 457-10-3212 Last Residence: 75150 Mesquite, Dallas, Texas, United States of America Born: 23 Nov 1916 Died: 21 Jul 1993 State (Year) SSN issued: Tex
as (Before 1951 )
Title: Texas Deaths, 1964-1998
Text: Name: Elvin Boyd Cathey Death Date: 21 July 1993 Death County: DALLAS Gender: M
Title: Texas Deaths, 1964-98
Text: Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Index, 1964-1998. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original electronic data from:Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1964-1998. A
ustin, TX. Texas Department of Health. State Vital Statistics Unit, 19xx-.
Title: U.S. Public Records Index
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;
Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.Original data - Compiled from various U.S. public records.
Title: 1930 United States Federal Census
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
Page: Database Online. Precinct 2, Erath, Texas, ED 12, roll 2326, page , image 292.0.
Text: Record for Hendrix Cathey
Title: DavidAlexanderWelch.Sr.FTW
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Mar 4, 2008
Title: Family Archive #110, Social Security Death Index: U.S. Ed. 9, Social Security Death Index
Author: Genealogy.com
Publication: Name: Release date: April 10, 2000;
Title: Elizabeth Maxson
Title: Evelyn Beryl Montgomery Cathey