Colonel Franklin Oliver and Mossie Taylor married about 1912. Mossie slipped out her bedroom, took her clothes, and they eloped. They had 17 children.

  1. Chestean (b. 11/3/1913) married Charlie Jones---3 children
  2. Iva (b. 5/9/1915 d. 3/27/1940) married James Jones
  3. Ola (b. 5/9/1916 d. 1917)
  4. Orena (b. 4/22/1918) married Odis Meadors—1 child; 2nd marriage Oswald Renfro
  5. Maude (b. 5/5/1919) married Gorman Creekmore
  6. Lela (b. 8/23/1921 d. 1928)
  7. Halie (b. 2/6/1923) married Fred Reed—4 children; 2nd marriage James Yarnwich
  8. Frank (b. 6/6/1925) married Orene Campbell—6 children
  9. Clifford (b. 8/10/1926) married Marie Hamblin—5 children
 10. Charles (b. 12/18/1927) married Mossie Bunch—1 child
 11. Mable (b. 5/12/29 d 1931)
 12. Virginia (b. 3/9/1931) married Junior Rainey—5 children
 13. Hobert (b. 9/6/1933) married Margie Neal—2 children
 14. Patsy (b. 1/6/1935) married Edward Smith—3 children
 15. Sue (b. 7/23/1936) married Herman Wells—3 children
 16. Ray (b. 7/23/1936) single
 17. Ina (b. 4/6/38) married Charlie Marsee—3 children; 2nd marriage James Kilgore.

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