Thelma Runyon

no children with Herbert: Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014 for Herbert Glenn Runyon 1965 08000-08499 : grounds for divorce= desertion : Herbert had left her in May of 1960

@ age six she was being brought up by her grandparents: Sam (66) and Crosby (sic) (67) Watson in Browns Creek, McDowell, West Virginia

• Name: Samuel Watson
• Birth Date: 18 Mar 1873
• Birth Place: Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Death Date: 7 Oct 1948
• Death Place: Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, United States of America
• Cemetery: Iaeger Memorial Cemetery
• Burial or Cremation Place: Roderfield, McDowell County, West Virginia, United States of America
• Has Bio?: N
• Spouse: Cosby Ethel Shearl - Watson
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126409289/samuel-watson
    • two known children of Cosby (nut not Samuel Watson are: Children:

1. Jarva Okie Shearl
2. Ora S. Shearl
3. Bessie Shearl tough coal-mining family: see story at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167190245/ora-s.-shearl