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Clountz Family of Grayson County

Marion Clountz, born 25 Mar 1845 in , Greene, Ohio, USA; died 03 Jun 1918 in Grayson, Texas
He was the son of William M Clountz and Anna Blair. He married Nancy Hoover 20 Feb 1872.
Nancy Hoover, born 10 Jul 1852 in Virginia; died 26 Dec 1923 in Grayson Co, Texas. She was the daughter of Thomas Nicholas Hoover and Sally Mowry.
See Hoover Family
Children of Marion Clountz and Nancy Hoover are:
  • Annie Clountz, born 16 Nov 1872 in Greene, Ohio.
  • Walter Thomas Clountz, see his family below on this page.
  • Thelopius L Clountz, born 1879; died 1950.
  • Addie Evelyn Clountz, born 28 Feb 1880; died 25 Jul 1947.
  • Myra Dollie Clountz, see her family below on this page.

  • Henry C Clountz, see his family below

Henry C Clountz (Dump), born 27 Mar 1884 in Ohio died 1934. He was the son of Marion Clountz and Nancy Hoover. He married Minnie Lee Myers 24 Oct 1905 in Grayson, TX.
Minnie Lee Myers, born 18 Aug 1890 in Ellis, Texas, USA; died 12 Oct 1975 in Pottsboro, Grayson, Texas, USA. She was the daughter of William Henderson Myers and Sarah Jane Hash.
See Myers Family              See Hash Family
Children of Henry Clountz and Minnie Myers are:
  • William Marion Clountz, see family below on this page.
  • Henry Sherman Clountz, Go to his family pages
  • Minnie Vessie Clountz, born 08 May 1910; died 05 Oct 1999; married Spencer Alfred Steadman.
  • Bertie Clountz, born 13 Mar 1914 in Twin with Gertie; died 10 May 1984 in Pottsboro, Grayson, TX
  • Gertie Clountz, born 13 Mar 1914 in Twin with Bertie.
  • Infant Clountz, born 24 Oct 1919; died 1919 in Pottsboro, Grayson, TX.
My daddy Henry Sherman Clountz as a boy with his father Henry (Dump) Clountz, and his brother William - in front of their house on the now Clountz Lane near Locust community. 
Henry E. (Dump) Clountz was a trustee of the Overton ~ Pinchum School
The older lady in the back is Nancy Hoover Clountz

More about researching the Clountz family

In the back, Grandmother Nancy Hoover Clountz, wife of Marion Clountz, mother of Henry E. (Dump) Clountz, Middle row from left to right, Henry Sherman Clountz, William Clountz, Henry E. (aka Henry C. (Dump) Clountz, Minnie (Myers) Clountz, 3 children in the front - Gertie Clountz (Smith), Bertie Clountz, Vessie Clountz (Steedman)Taken in the late teens or maybe very early 20's, before Nancy's death in 1924, the youngest children - twins - born in 1914


My daddy Henry Sherman Clountz as a boy with his father Henry (Dump) Clountz, and his brother William plowing the fields in between Locust and Willow Springs where their land was.  Daddy was born in 1908, so this was in the teens.


Myra Dollie Clountz Moser
Myra Dollie Clountz was born 03 Feb 1884 in Oak Grove, Grayson, TX, and died 1976 in Grayson, TX.  She married Alexander Lafayette Moser Sr. 30 Jun 1901 in Grayson, TX.  He died 1954.
Children of Myra Clountz and Alexander Lafayette Moser Sr. are:
                    i.    Anna Mae Moser Moon.
                    ii.    Bill Moser.
                    iii.    Jack Moser.
                   iv.    Dorothy Moser.
                    v.   Alexander L Moser Jr..
                   vi.    Ada Lee Moser Jones.


Walter Thomas Clountz
         Walter Thomas Clountz was born 26 Feb 1874 in Greene, Ohio, and died 04 Dec 1955 in Denison, Grayson, Texas.  He married Elizabeth Bradley 05 Sep 1894 in Sherman, Grayson, Tx.  She died in 1906.
Walter Thomas Clountz came to Oak Grove, Grayson County TX  in 1877 and Died at his daughter's house in Denison Tx - Mrs. Viola Sloan.
Children of Walter Clountz and Elizabeth Bradley are:
                     i.    W A Clontz.
                     ii.    Ora Clontz Naylor.
                     iii.   Viola Clontz Sloan.

This a cotton field here that Mama (Florence Cook Clountz) said was the Sultzer place in the late teens or early 20's, she  said Mr. Sultzer, Mark Roberson, Mr and Mrs. Hawkins, the Sultzer boys and my daddy and I believe his brother, Henry Sherman Clountz and William Clountz, are in this field picking cotton.  I wish I knew the dog's name! 

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