Joab or J. A. WARDEN, aka WORDEN, and wife Gatsie Caroline TROUT were the parents of Anna E., Francis Marion, Thomas Gidean, Josephine, William Alvin, Laura Edna and John Walter.  Joab & Gatsie are buried at Old Pilot Grove Cemetery.

Laura Edna was born July 31, 1870 and died July 6, 1971 at Whitewright Nursing Home (Death Certificate) and was buried July 8, 1971 in Bethel Baptist Cemetery.  She married William T. WENDELL December 29 1887, Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. She celebrated her 100th birthday July 31, 1970.

WINDALL/WINDLE/WHINDLE/WENDLE has been misspelled many times through the Census.  William’s father, Robert H., was a blacksmith in Virginia, born in Virginia, married two times.  William had a younger brother named Loyal, hence he names his son Loyal.

Wendell was born February 21, 1862 in West Virginia and died July 12, 1915 at Dallas, Dallas County, Texas (Death Certificate/Obit) and was buried July 14, 1915 in Bethel Baptist Cemetery.  Headstone was inscribed with spelling error of surname.

They were the parents of two boys:
(1) Loyal Lee, born January 21, 1889
(2) Cecil J., born December 8, 1898.  

According to the 1900 Census JPct #3, Grayson County, Texas (623),  they were living next door to Gatsey WARDEN (Surname was misspelled.)

The 1910 Census Trenton Town Pct 2, Fannin County, Texas (T624 1547 228 (7B) ~ WINDALL, Will T., 46, VA, School Teacher; Worden, 40, F, TX. 2/2; Cicil J., son, 11, TX

1920 Census ~ Laura E. is living with brother and mother

1930 Census ~ Laura E. is living with her brother Thomas G. WARDEN

Loyal married Lillian T. DUREN September 15, 1912, Post, Garza County, Texas and they had five (5) children.  Loyal died January 16/17, 1982, Savoy Nursing Home (Obit) and buried in Bethel Baptist.  Lillian was born about 1887 and died August 11, 1980, Savoy Nursing Home (Obit) and is buried in Bethel Baptist.  Their son Wendell Thomas who died of Typhoid Fever August 11, 1939 and others are buried in Bethel Baptist.  They buried an infant, age 7 days, in Post, Texas in 1915. Frances(is) was born in 1922 and is living with her parents in 1930 Trinidad City Pct #43, Las Animas, Colorado,  T626 245 90 (2B)

Loyal Lee WINDLE signed the WWI Draft and gave his place of birth as Nobility

(NOBILITY, TEXAS. Nobility is on State Highway 78 sixteen miles southwest of Bonham in extreme southwestern Fannin County. The area was settled about 1858 and was originally called Gentry, after early settler William Gentry. When the community secured a post office in 1881, another Gentry community already existed in Texas, so the name Nobility was selected as synonymous. By the early 1890s Nobility had a population of seventy-five, with four businesses, including a cotton gin and a gristmill. It also had a school and two churches. From 1936 through the mid-1960s it gave an estimated population of eighty-three; it reported four businesses in 1936 but none by 1966. From the late 1970s to 2000 the population of Nobility was estimated as twenty-one.

1940 Census finds Loyal, Lillian, Jr. and mother Laura living in JPct #3, Grayson County, Texas T624 4044 680 (2B) ED 91-40 but no Frances

1942 Loyal Lee signed the 1942 Old man Draft, spelling his Surname as WENDELL

Cecil J. died February 15 1916 and is buried in Bethel Baptist.  Surname is misspelled

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fannin County Folks and Facts (Dallas: Taylor, 1977)
Birth Certificates
Obituaries
Death Certificates
Federal Census