Ocie Ola Moore Huston, 1894-1967

St. Joseph News-Press - 6 October 1967

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Mrs. Ira Huston

  Mrs. Ocie Ola Huston, 72, 1010 Ellsworth avenue, died at 10:35 a.m. at a hospital here, where she had been a patient since Sept. 22.

  A native of Jerome, Iowa, Mrs. Huston had lived her 40 years. She was a member of the North St. Joseph Taberacle. Her husband, Ira Huston, died May 5, 1964.

  Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Anna Mae Richardson, St. Joseph; two sons, Ervin Huston, of the home, and Glen Huston,m St. Joseph; two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Hudson, St. Joseph, and Mrs. Etta Phillips, Cincinnati, Iowa; 17 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

  The body is at the Stamey mortuary.

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  Ocie Ola Moore was born August 1894 in Appanoose County, Iowa, daughter of Joel E. Moore and Mary Van Dorn and married 11 April 1909 in Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa, Ira Huston who was born 24 Jun 1883 in Appanoose County, Iowa, son of Jamison Huston and Ada Hunt, and died 5 May 1964.  In 1918 Ira and Ocie Huston lived in Jerome and Ira was employed at the Harkes Coal Company in Jerome.

  To this union was born four sons and three daughters, including: (1) Ansel Otis Huston, son, born 7 May 1910 in Appanoose County, Iowa, died 20 December 1910 in Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa, and was buried 21 December 1910 in the Jerome Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa  (2) Virgie V. Huston, daughter, born c1912; (3) Anna Mae Huston, daughter, born c1915, married to Everett Richardson; (4) Ira Verl Huston, son, born c1919; (5) George Irvin Huston, son, born 10 June 1924 in Appanoose County, Iowa, and died 14 September 2010 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri; and (6) Glenn W. Huston, son, born c1927. 

Sources for Information

--Calvin Lyman Smith Family Tree owned by sdgrange on Ancestry.com.

--Census Records on Ancestry.com:  

   1895-IA Census-Appanoose-Mystic-Image 73.

   1900-US Census-IA-Appanoose-Mystic-District 24-Image 1.

   1905-IA Census-Appanoose-Mystic-Image 7.

   1910-US Census-IA-Appanoose-Lincoln-District 21-Image 10.

   1920-US Census-IA-Wapello-Ottumwa Ward 5-District 157-Image 40.

   1925-IA Census-Wapello-Ottumwa Ward 6-Image 187-188-189.

   1930-US Census-MO-Buchanan-St Joseph-District 20-Image 19.

--Ocie Ola Moore's and Ira Huston's marriage record on Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992 on FamilySearch.org.

--Ira Huston's registration card on World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 on Ancestry.com.

--Ira Huston's birth and death dates and Social Security number on Social Security Death Records on Ancestry.com.

--Ansel Otis Huston's death record on Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990 on FamilySearch.org.

--Ansel Otis Huston's gravestone record in Jerome Cemetery in Appanoose County, Iowa, Cemeteries: Lincoln Township published by the Appanoose County Genealogical Society.