Stabbing of a Friend-Young W. Umphres (Uncle to Ethel Wall)
Young W. Umphres was born just after the Civil War on October 20, 1869 to Gaston and Arminda Umphres in North Fork, Arkansas. He was the fifth child out of nine born to this farming couple. Sometime during the 1890's Young moved with his family from Arkansas to Barry County Missouri. It was here that he met Eva Wall and they were married on October 21, 1894. Eva was the sister to Lewis M. Wall. While in Missouri the couple had four children: Lewis Gaston, Jewell Otto, Callie Florence and Amy May. Sometime between the years of 1903 and 1909 they moved their family to Lexington, Oklahoma where they had two more children, Armon Roy and Anna Marie. I was recently sent this digital picture and on the back it had the name of Young printed, so I am going to assume that this is Young and Eva with their two first born sons, Lewis and Jewell Otto. Jewell was born in 1897 and appears to be around the age of one in this pict...