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247. BLANCHE5 FLEMING (James4, John3, Samuel2, John1); born 24 September 1882 in Pennsylvania, died November 1976, last residence reported as Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; married MARSHALL KISER, born 1875 in Pennsylvania, died before the 1930 federal census. Marshall was a driller in the oil fields. He was one of twelve children of Isaac and Isora (Stainbrook) Kiser of Crawford County, Pennsylvania.853
In 1910, Marshall, Blanche and family lived in Chaves County, New Mexico; also living with the family in 1910 was Blanche’s brother Ralph G. Fleming, single and a driller.854 In 1920, Marshall, Blanche and family were in Wichita, Sedwick County, Kansas, where Marshall was still listed as a driller. In 1930, Blanche, widow, and two youngest children, Dorothy and Marshall R. Kiser, Jr., were living in Alhambra Township, Los Angeles, California (page 5A).
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| 373 | i. | Lawrence6 E. Kiser; born circa 1902 in Ohio. In 1920, still single and living with his parents, Lawrence was enumerated as a tool dresser. | |
| 374 | ii. | James S. Kiser; born circa 1904 in Ohio; married Emily H. [—?—]; born circa 1908 in Ohio. In 1920, still single and living with his parents, James was enumerated as a tool dresser. In 1930, James, Emily and family were living in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California (page 5A), where James was enumerated as a rotary ?? in the oil fields. Children known from the 1930 federal census: (1) Dorothy G. Kiser, born in Texas; and (2) James S. Kiser (Jr.), born in California | |
| 375 | iii. | Ralph C. Kiser; born circa 1906 in Indiana;
married Florence [—?—]; born circa 1908 in Missouri. In 1930, the family lived in Alhambra Township, Los Angeles County, California, where Ralph C. was listed as a collector of public utilities. Child known from the 1930 federal census was (1) Lila M. Kiser, born in California.855 |
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| 376 | iv. | Dorothy Kiser; born circa 1909 in New Mexico. | |
| 377 | v. | Marshall R. Kiser (Jr.); born circa 1913 in New Mexico. | |
253. MERL5 JEROME HEALD (Lillie4, John3, Samuel2, John1); born 26 June 1886 in Venango or Crawford County, Pennsylvania; died 24 July 1964; married 19 June 1913 JEAN CONNOLLY; born 1891 in Pennsylvania; died 11 May 1963, buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1920, the family was in South Higland Township, Caddo County, Louisiana (page 26A). In 1930, Merl J. and family were living in Eastland County, Texas, where Merl was listed as a superintendent of an oil company.856 Merl Heald was the only child of Lillie and Jerome to have children.857
Merl (“M. J.”) Heald was successful in the petroleum industry.
There was a 1938 article in an unidentified Tulsa paper858
about M. J. Heald. The headline was “M. J. Heald Had to Become Oil
Man,” and beneath the title, a photograph of M. J. Heald.
Now and then one hears about a self–made man and so on, but Merl Jerome Heald, the new assistant division manager for the Kansas–Oklahoma–Kentucky division of The Texas Company, goes one better. With his grayish eyes twinkling, he remarked the other day: I was born in the oil business. Grandfather [John S. Fleming or perhaps the father of R. Jerome Heald, Sr.] was an oil man, and when father and mother (Mrs. and Mrs. R. J. Heald) at our home on a lease in Titusville, back in Pennsylvania, the elder Heald ordered that I follow in their footsteps. At least, that is what I’m told. At any rate, I spent most of my vacations while attending public and high school, and continued working with wells during college days. Therefore, it was quite natural for me to elect to carry on in the shoes of father and grandfather. My father, R. J. Heald, who passed away last October, migrated with the oil men into West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and on to Oklahoma. They resided at Marion, Ind., for some time, and much of M. J’s education was there and in schools at Toledo, and later Owe Military academy and then at Wabash College …
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| 378 | i. | Catherine6Ann
Heald; born 23 June 1915 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; died 7 August 2006 in Tulsa; buried in Calvary Cemetery, Tulsa; married 21 September 1937, Jack Staley Grosshart.
Children of Jack and Ann (Heald) Grosshart: (a) John Ross Grosshart, married Linda Theis. (b) Jean Ann Grosshart, married James Sullivan. Ann Grosshart and family provided information, and sent me a copy of the anonymously–authored “Heald Manuscript ”(see References); in the possession of the Heald family. |
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| 379 | ii. | Merl Jerome Heald, Jr.; born in Louisiana; married Loretta Burke. | |