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William Franklin Gloden

Our great grandfather, William Franklin Gloden, was born May 7, 1869, at Decatur, in Macon County, Illinois, the son of Michael Gloden and Lucinda Adaline Branham.

One-year old William Franklin appears with his parents and older brother, John Michael, on the 1870 Macon County census, Decatur Township. William Franklin's mother died in 1878 and his father married again in 1880. The 1880 Macon County census, Decatur Township, shows William Franklin with his father, step-mother, and siblings, John, Margaret, Mary and James.

William Franklin married our great grandmother, Etta Melvina "Ettie" Taylor, about 1891, probably in Illinois. Ettie Taylor was born August 10, 1875, in Illinois, the daughter of Oral Taylor, who was said to be 3/4 Cherokee Indian.

Census records indicate William and Ettie's first child was born in Illinois in November 1892. William Franklin and Ettie moved to Tennessee soon after the birth of their first child. Their second child was born in 1894 in Tipton County, Tennessee. At least two of their children were born at Covington, in Tipton County, Tennessee.

The 1900 Haywood County, Tennessee, census shows William Franklin, Ettie, and their children, four-year old Gertie and one-year old Jesse, living in Civil District #3. The census shows they had been married 9 years, and Ettie had given birth to three children, but only two of them were still living. William was working as a day laborer at the time.

William and Ettie divorced between 1902 and 1906. We are not sure when they moved to Arkansas, so do not know if they divorced prior to or after moving to Arkansas.

William Franklin married his cousin, Mrs. Mandy Jane Branham Daley on July 31, 1906, at Memphis, Tennessee. Mandy Branham was born August 27, 1876, at Leslie, in Searcy County, Arkansas, the daughter of James Lacey Branham and Eliza Jane Ausburn. She was the widow of Andrew Daley. Mandy and Frank were first cousins and had to go to Tennessee to marry because the State of Arkansas would not allow first cousins to marry. Franks's mother, Lucinda, and Mandy's father, James Lacey, were brother and sister.

Frank and Mandy appear on the 1910 Searcy County census at Leslie, in Wiley's Cove Township. The census shows that Frank and Mandy had both been married twice, and been married to each other for three years. It also showed Frank working as a day laborer. Mandy was shown to have given birth to four children and three of them were still living. On the census with Frank and Mandy and their 8-month old daughter, Grace, were two of Frank's children from his first marriage; Gertie, age 14, and Jesse, age 11; and Mandy's son from her first marriage; John Daley, age 12. Living not far from Frank and Mandy was Frank D. Gloden and his wife, Jane H. (Branham) Gloden. Jane was Frank and Mandy's aunt, being a sister to Lucinda and James Lacey. We believe Frank D. Gloden was Frank's uncle, and that Frank was named after his uncle.

The 1920 Searcy County, Wiley's Cove Township, census shows Frank, age 50, working as a laborer in a barrel factory at Leslie. The census says he owned his property. On the census with Frank and Mandy were their children Grace and Frank, Frank's son, Jesse, and Mandy's son John Daley. Also living in the house with them at that time was Frank's daughter, Gertie, her husband Will Branham and their children Roy, Velma, and Della.

We do not know where Ettie lived after she and William Franklin divorced in the early 1900's. We have been told that she lived around the Leslie area after the divorce. The children lived with William.

Ettie married David White on March 25, 1921, in Searcy County, Arkansas. David White was born about 1881, in Arkansas. He was first married to Mary Jane Daley, who was a cousin to William Franklin Gloden, and the daughter of Mandy Jane Branham, who William Franklin married after he and Ettie divorced.

The 1930 Van Buren County, Arkansas census, Washington Township, shows Dave White, 47, a farmer who rented his farm; and his wife, Hettie L., 49, first married at 21, born in Illinois, father born in Iowa and mother born in Virginia. This agrees with the 1900 census which also shows Ettie's father born in Iowa and her mother born in Virginia.

The 1930 Searcy County census, Wiley's Cove Township, shows William F. Gloden, 60, a farmer; Manda J., 48; and Frank, 16 years old. Living with the family was daughter Lillian Campbell, 20, married at 19.

Funeral records from Coffman Funeral Home in Searcy County show that Etta Taylor Gloden White died at Leslie, Arkansas, on May 1, 1945 at the age of 70 years. She is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Searcy County.

Frank died April 25, 1934, at Leslie, and is buried at Leslie. Mandy died April 15, 1967, at Marshall, in Searcy County, and is buried in the Mainord (Rambo) Cemetery near Leslie.

1. William Penn Gloden, b. Nov 8, 1892, probably in Macon Co, IL; d. Sept 7, 1894, probably in Covington, Tipton Co, TN

3. Jesse Michael Gloden, b. June 10, 1898, Covington, Tipton Co, TN; d. probably in Harrison, AR