Floyd Merble Bachman 
General Notes
Floyd Merble Bachman was born in Oklahoma Territory near what is now Broxton, Oklahoma in Caddo County on November 25, 1903. He was the son of Albert and Mary (Trekell) Bachman. He moved with his parents and brothers and sisters to Kay County, Oklahoma, when he was four years old. He attended grade school at the Red Top School of South Eddy.
He attended high school at Tonkawa in his freshman year, then went to Deer Creek two years. His last year of high school and first year of college were spent at a Christian school which was then located at Harper, Kansas. Here he met his future wife, Helene McCall of Helena, Oklahoma.
He went to business college in Wichita, Kansas and Helene went to Northwestern at Alva. In 1924 they were married at Scott City, Kansas. They settled on a farm six miles north and one east of Deer Creek, Oklahoma, where he farmed.
During the first winter of their marriage, Merble taught at the Clare School to help make ends meet. He also had a threshing machine and ran it in the summer for the first eleven years of their married life. Times were extremely difficult during the great depression of the early thirties. Merble went through the country buying cattle and hired them hauled to Wichita when he got a truckload, in hopes of making a few dollars. Another way Merble worked to provide for his family, was to fatten calves and butcher one periodically. He then peddled cuts of the carcass through the community. Not having a pickup truck, he would take out the back seat of the family car and cover the area with a clean sheet, then load the beef inside. Then he would drive until it was all sold.
During the late thirties, Merble and Helene did everything they could do to try to make some extra money. As did many other farmers, Merble filled a gasoline lantern, hung it in the henhouse each night and let it burn as long as it would. Electricity had not yet come to the farm, and since the hens laid more eggs when the days were long, the farmers stretched their production by the use of an artificial light.
In 1943, Merble and Helene bought a farm two miles east, three and a half miles north of Deer Creek, Oklahoma. This place had free natural gas for heat and lights, as opposed to the wood and coal they had used through the years for heat.
In 1964, Merble and Helene bought a home in Blackwell, Oklahoma and moved into it. On February 11, 1973, Merble passed from this life and was buried in the cemetery west of Tonkawa, Oklahoma.
The children of Merble and Helene were Edwin, Bebe Jean and Merlene.
Edwin married Mary Virginia Keney and they settled on the farm which his grandfather had owned, one mile north of Deer Creek, Oklahoma. Their children were Anita, Debra, Don and David.
Bebe Jean married Robert Montgomery. Their children were Marilyn and Robbie. Bebe Jean and her hus-band are living in Cleveland, Ohio, at this writing.
Merlene married Don Webster. Their children are Jerry, Barbara, Robert, Michael and Patricia. They make their home at Pryor, Oklahoma, and both work with the school system there.
Edwin Bachman, "History of Grant County Families, " 1980
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- b.24 May 1817 in Pennsylvania d.24 Jul 1882 in Napoleon, Ripley County, Indiana
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- b.26 Nov 1903 in Apache, Oklahoma d.11 Feb 1973 in Blackwell, Oklahoma
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- b.20 Jul 1756 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts d.30 May 1836 in West Brewster, Massachusetts
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- b.22 Oct 1757 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts d.22 Apr 1842 in Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- b.17 Oct 1821 in Howard County, Missouri d.14 Dec 1902 in Turney, Clinton County, Missouri
- b.07 Mar 1776 in Virginia d. in Scotland County, Missouri
- b.27 Dec 1800 in Howard County, Missouri d.27 Sep 1841
- b. in Virginia d.02 Jun 1841 in Scotland County, Missouri
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Details of Floyd's family with Helene Altrude McCall
Source/Citation
History of Grant County Families, 1980
History of Grant County Families, 1980