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Vida Cookman (d/o Melburn Cookman and
2nd wife Barbara Ann Cookman) b. Jan 27, 1893, d. Mar 2, 1962, m. 1st 1908
John Edward Lovell, b. Mar3, 1887, d. 1939, m. 2nd 1953 Otis Valentine.
Vida was born the same day that her stepsister Clara and Luther Clyde Cheuvront
were married, and Claget told the story that Luther was so excited that
he forgot to pay the preacher for the ceremony. Claget, aged 22,
had to run the preacher down on horseback two miles to pay him, and he'd
just returned when he had to ride out again to Winterville, 8 miles away,
to collect a Dr. Jones to deliver his new stepniece Vida. The night,
he said, was awfully cold, and it was near morning by the time he got the
Doctor to Melburn's house. Exhausted, he said there was no room for
him there, and far too much excitement for sleeping anyway, so he rode
another four miles to his sister Arminta's house to sleep.
Vida was born in Melburn's house in MO and moved with the family to Oklahoma
in 1902 when she was nine. She married John Edward Lovell and they
lived on Melburn's Oklahoma farm until John's death in 1939. They
had one son, Howard (b. Jan 15, 1910), who lived on the farm with them
himself until his own death in 1951.
After her husband's death in 1939 Vida remained on the farm with her son
Howard, and after his death continued to run the farm still. She
married Otis Valentine about 1953, and stayed on the farm until her own
death in 1962.
the
family of Melburn Cookman and Olive Edmonds,
cont'd
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-from A Brief History of the Melburn Cookman
Family in America, J. Howard Cheuvront, 1972
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