Zelma's Grandparents and Parents

As told by Zelma January 11, 1993....

Mother's Side of the family...
Zelma's Grandmother on her Mother's side was Marietta Heath. Marietta had a daughter out of wedlock, Mantha Jane Heath, who is Zelma's mother. Marietta later married a man named Golse Weekly.

Note about the Family Tree Charts here:: 

I have added the spouses of the children when known for convenience.

Father's Side of the family...
Zelma's Grandfather was James Monroe Doyle Sr. He married Rachel Ravmer.
They had 3 children:

Sherman, Charity Belle and James Monroe Jr.  

Rachel was kidnapped by Indians and was never seen again.

Also, on the Raymer Family Tree site, they have Lucretia Doyle (b:1858) and Calvera Doyle (b:1868) listed as Rachel's children.

Rachel was later pronounced dead, thus allowing James Monroe Sr to marry Susanne Sandifer.
They had 4 children:

Janie Lee, Bett, Albert and Oscar.

Parents
When James Monroe Jr. (Zelma's father) was a boy, he was sent to live with a family named Haines. That is how he came to be called Haines Doyle. He married Mantha Jane Heath. He and Mantha had 7 children:

Zelma, Gene, Herman, Nervie, Grace, Gradie and Olga.

Mantha Jane died on her kitchen table where she had been operated on for an appendicitis in 1914. Zelma would have been 15 at the time.

James (Haines) Doyle Jr. remarried to Dora Durbin and they had 6 children:

Marie, Dorene, Zella Mae, James, Pauline and Annabelle.

Note:

Dora proceeded James in death and James died at the age of 81 at his daughter Olga's home in Zenia, Ohio. The Raymer Family Tree site lists James Monroe Doyle Jr.'s birth at 1872 and his death as 1953.

The Raymer Family Tree also gives the full name of Mantha Jane Heath as Samantha Jane. Her birth as Dec. 15, 1879 and her death is given by Zelma as 1914, but I have found it elsewhere as April 28, 1920. Also another problem with the 1914 death date is that Olga, Mantha Jane's last child was born in 1916.
Zelma says that Olga was born July 30, 1916...
-either her mother did not die in 1914, but died in 1916 after giving birth to Olga or in 1920...,
-or Olga was born in 1914....
                                              This will have to be verified.

to be continued.....