Help with Sydney Hankins 2nd husband and children

Question

I've been looking at the family of Sydney M Hankins. It started as a sourcing from the Oklahoma table, then I fell down the rabbit hole... again. Sydney's 1st husband was Benjamin F Vineyard (Vineyard-48) with whom she had 2 children, Mary in 1877 and William in 1880 (possible 2 others who died in infancy). Benjamin died about 1882 (lightning strike?) and Sydney remarried to Mr. Sutton. They had 3 children, Robert, Sarah (twins) and Willie.

I was looking to try and find Mr. Sutton. He would have died before 1900 as Sydney was again a widow on the 1900 Census.

There is, on Find A Grave, Augustus A Sutton 1863 - 1898. He is buried in Peerless Cemetery, Peerless, Hopkins County, Texas. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23203421)

William Vinyard married Bettie Alice Fleming in 1900 and had 4 children with her, Willie, Cora, Ora (twins) and Escar. Cora's obituary in the Fort Worth Star Telegram indicates Cora (and Ora) was born in Peerless. Probably means the other children were too. Their 1900 Census is Precinct 8, Hopkins County, which may be Peerless.

Now... I feel that it is entirely possible that Augustus A Sutton could be the here-to-fore mentioned Mr Sutton, 2nd husband of Sydney. I cannot find a marriage record. Texas is usually good about publishing those kind of records if they exist. Augustus was born in Arkansas and was in Lamar County, Texas, in 1880.

My purpose here is to ask if anyone has the time to take a look with fresh eyes and see if something comes up to verify or disprove my theory. I, of course will not change Mr Sutton to Augustus without proof, it just seems likely to me.

Thanks to Dale Gorham (Gorham-207) for his original work on Sydney's family.

And on we go...

Answer 1

Name: Sidney Harkins [Sidney Hankins] Gender: Female Birth Place: GA Spouse: Robert Sutton Child: Lillie S Jones Source Citation Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin Texas, USA

Name: Lillie S Jones [Lillie S Sutton] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 57 Birth Date: 15 Jun 1888 Birth Place: Texas Death Date: 3 Feb 1946 Death Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, USA Father: Robert Sutton Mother: Sidney Harkins Source Citation Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin Texas, USA

Comments

Name: Lillie Sutton Jones [Lillie Sutton Sutton] Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 15 Jun 1889 Birth Place: Paris Lamar, Texas Father: John R Sutton Mother: Sidney I Hankins SSN: 457163332 Notes: Dec 1937: Name listed as LILLIE SUTTON JONES Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

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John Robert born about 1859 in Arkansas, son of Ace Sutton and Lucresia Mauser

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Ace Sutton was Ansel, born about 1835 Tennessee, son of John and Sarah.

Lucresia/Lucretia Mauser was born about 1840 in Arkansas, daughter of John and Annie.

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Thanks Eddie. The dates do seem to match. Robert was brother of Augustus. He would have died before 1900 also. The daughter, Willie, would instead be Lillie. Same birth month and year according to 1900 Census. I found Robert and Sydney Irene on Family Search with children Edd, Lucy and Nettie Lillian. Robert Edward, Sarah and Lillie? What do you think? BTW, I see that you comments are underlined as a link but when I click on them or otherwise try to open them, I get nothing. What are the URL's to these, if you don't mind?

Edit: Lillie's grave marker has birth 15 Jun 1887.

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census records support my narrative data - just internet got wobbly for copying for a while = we gots a t-storm brewing