William Montgomery James ¹⁷²⁸

  General Notes:

"He could not read or write. He met his third wife at church while visiting near her home. She said he told her later that when he saw her he said to himself, there goes my wife. She seemed to find that embarrassing as she always said if she had know he was thinking such things, she wouldn't have had anything to do with him. [I never could understand why.] Anyway they met and he went back home to Waurika, OK and he courted her by mail. She said they never kissed until after they were married. Since he could not read and write he had a friend named Robert Atterberry help him." ¹⁶³⁷

William married Ida M. Runnells on 3 Sep 1885 in Texas, USA.¹⁷²⁸ (Ida M. Runnells was born on 6 Nov 1862 ¹⁷²⁸.)

William next married Lula Eva Cook on 23 Dec 1905 in Texas, USA.¹⁷²⁸ (Lula Eva Cook was born on 4 Jul 1889 in Laclede, Linn, Missouri, USA ¹⁷²⁸ and died on 28 Jun 1909 in Castle, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA ¹⁷²⁸.)

William next married Helen Lucille Davis, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Jarnigan Davis and Margaret Lucinda Ray, on 12 Mar 1918 in Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, USA.¹⁷²⁸ (Helen Lucille Davis was born on 7 Oct 1890 in Salado, Bell, Texas, USA,¹⁷²⁸ died on 6 Dec 1986 in Waurika, Jefferson, Oklahoma, USA ¹⁷²⁸ and was buried in Waurika Cemetery (Waurika, Jefferson, Oklahoma, USA) ¹⁶³⁷.)