Family Chart No:  0680-0370
 
 
 
Husband: LeRoy Masters, Sr. 
Born: 9 June 1896 Place: Dardanelle, Yell County, AR 
Died: 7 Aug. 1962  Burial: Brearley Cemetery, Dardanelle, AR
Father: Samuel Alexander Masters
Mother: Mary Jane Smith
 
 
1st Married: 1m. 15 Nov. 1919 Place: Dardanelle, Yell Co. AR 
Divorced: 15 June, 1925 Place: Dardanelle, Yell Co. AR
 
 
1st Wife: Pearl Willis, nfi---
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Died:  Burial: 
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Children:
 
Child 1:  LeRoy Masters, Jr. Sex:  M  Born:  1 Nov. 1921, Dardanelle, AR 
 
2nd Married: 12 Dec. 1927 Place: Dardanelle, Yell Co. AR 
  
2nd Wife: Mary Ettajane Manes
Born: 27 Nov..1899  Place: St.Joe, Searcy Co. AR 
Died: 20 Feb. 1958  Burial: Brearley Cem. Dardanelle, AR
Father: William McNair Manes
Mother: Mary Ann Shipman 
 
 
Child 2:   Harell Glendon Masters Sex:   M Born:   5 May, 1929, Dardanelle, AR
Child 3:   Everett Lonell Masters Sex:  M  Born:  1 Sept. 1930, Dardanelle, AR
Child 4:   Stepson, Odell (Jack)    Manes Sex:   M Born:   13 Feb. 1922,  Dardanelle, AR
 
 
Biography:
 
Roy lived all of his life in Dardanelle and attended schools there.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dardanelle.  He worked as a fireman on steam broilers [ dried the lumber ] for two lumber companies, McClure Lumber Company and Nebo Lumber Company.  His hobby was fishing.  After retirement he took up commercial fishing.  He made fishing nets for fishing on the Arkansas River, at Dardanelle, and sold them.  He walked and sold fish because he never owned a car.  He served in World War I.  Roy and 2nd wife Mary owned two homes in Dardanelle.  The first was on North Front Street on the bank of the Arkansas River, he built it during the depression and lost it because times was so bad, he only paid 700.00 for it when he built it, then just owed 200.00 on it , but couldn't pay it. The next home they bought on Quay St. where they lived the rest of their lived. Their son Harell Glendon still ownes the property, and his wife has operated her Beauty Profession on that street, for 36 years,[This date June 1998]
 
 
Credits & Sources:
 
LeRoy Masters, Sr. War records.
and his personal word of family history.
Marriage and divorce records.
US census records
Wrote by his daughter-in-law Erma Lee Masters
 
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