Person:Isla Rutherford (3)

1910 Young Co., TX, census, p.310A, Precinct 4, April 15, 1910, Henry Francis: Dee Osborn, work hand, M W 19, single, AR TN AR, work hand, on farm; with 1/1, William T. McBee and family.

A World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918, was not located for Dee Osborn in Texas or in Arkansas. (Ancestry.com)

1920 Washington Co., AR, census, p.119B, Stan Hill Twp., Lincoln Town, Jan. 10, 1920, Cicero A. Parker: 177/190, DEE OSBORN, head, owns farm free of mortgage, M W 29, AR MS AR, farmer; Isla, wife, F W 24, TX TX IL.

1930 Washington Co., AR, census, p.216B, Stan Hill Twp., April 10, 1930, Joseph P. Reed: 91/91, DEE OSBORN, head, owns home, does not own a radio set, M W 40, age 24 when first md., AR TN AR, farmer; Isla, wife, F W 34, age 18 when first md., TX TX IA; Tommy H., son adpt, M W 6, AR -- --; Billie Dee, son, M W 2-2/12, AR AR TX.

Bird and Tom HELM had no children; her will dated April 6, 1932, Young Co., TX, was filed for probate in Denton Co., TX, January 7, 1938 (Book 51, p.488); beneficiaries were Carl, Clifford, and Roy RUTHERFORD [nephews], Mrs. Isla OSBORN [niece], Mrs. Virginia DAVIS [gr-niece; gr-dau of brother Clifford], Dorothy Louise WILKINSON [gr-niece; gr-dau of brother Clifford], Mrs. Effie BARCLAY [niece], Mrs. Neva GARVEY [niece], Pearl GREGG [nephew], and Mrs. Bell RUTHERFORD [sister]; executor, nephew Carl RUTHERFORD. --Abstracted by the Denton Co. Genealogical Society; photocopy courtesy Anita Robeson.

1937 December 26. Justin Pioneer Dies in Arkansas / Mrs. Bird HELM, 84, former resident of Justin, died Tuesday morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. Isia [Isla] OSBURN, in Lincoln, Ark. Funeral services will be at the Justin Church of Christ Wednesay at 10 a.m. She died as the result of a stroke of paralysis, the second in the last few months. She had no children of her own but at various times in her life had given a home to 40 orphan boys and girls. / She came to Texas from Davis County, Iowa, by way of California in 1871, traveling by wagon train. The family settled five miles southwest of Justin. Shortly after her arrival she had a narrow escape from marauding Indians. She had been a member of the Church of Christ for over 50 years, and was active in church work. --Denton Record Chronicle, Jan. 4, 1938; typescript courtesy Anita Robeson, e-mail, Sept. 21, 2000

1942: Dee Osborn, Star Route, Lincoln, Washington Co., AR, age 55, b. Prairie Co., AR, Jan. 9, 1885 [he was b. in 1889; see 1900 census], name and address of person who will always know your address, Mrs. Isla Osborn, Star Route, Lincoln, AR; [signed] Dee Osborn. --U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, for men born on or after April 28, 1877, and on or before February 16, 1897 (Ancestry.com)

Beaty Cemetery, Lincoln, AR OSBORN, Dee ~ 1888--1967 http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwashin/cemetery/Beaty.html