The Black Tree: In search of Bernard Wilson

Thursday, December 19, 2013

In search of Bernard Wilson - Permer Bernard Payne

Note to self - it reminds me that I am waiting on a reply and other things...

I am searching for my uncle Permer Bernard Payne - b. Bernard Wilson about 1938. I have search up and down for him using the different name variations including the cities he had lived in (Fort Worth, Texas and Longview, Texas as far as I know). Since he has seemed to have fallen of he face of he earth between 1940 and 1968 when he married Irma J. S. in the Tarrant County area. From looking at the City Directories that ancestry.com provided on their site, he seemed to have moved from Longview to Fort Worth, Texas.

Letter to the Dallas National Cemetery

As I mentioned he was b. Bernard Wilson. I searched for "Bernard Wilson" in Longview, Texas and Marshall, Texas. So, at this point I am not sure if "Payne" was given to him by Great Grandmother, Maggie Womack Payne because the 1940 Census show that he resided with her or if he was my Grandmother's biological child by a different Father.

According to the family and where he was buried it is believed that he served time in the military (searched by "permer bernard payne"). I can not find any record of that other than the place in which he was buried. Only those that served in the military is buried there.

Pictures that were copied from the findagrave.com website.

Unfortunately, I can not contact his last wife, Dorothy Robinson (Payne) of Fort Worth, Texas. She passed on in 2009. I attempted searching for children and to was unsuccessful. The things my Auntie shared with me were some of the same things that was noted on ancestry.com. It was well appreciated because I never would have put the two names together (Wilson/Payne). I have always thought it was 'Payne' growing as a child.

Another stumbling block, but only for know. Persistence surely pays off.

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About Me

Hello Family Tree Researcher, my name is Jacqueline Joyce Thomas (born to Gene E. Thomas and Brendel Joyce Lewis) of Texas in '67 . I began doing my family tree search when my son (C. Hicks) was born. He was unfortunately born with Nephrogenic Insipidus Diabetes. When he was two weeks old I could not get him to take his formula, the only thing he would drink was water. We took him to the local emergency room, where the hospital staff spent hours doing test after test and the end result were "we are still uncertain of what is wrong with your son". My heart fell to pieces. The next few days, still nothing. Finally on the forty-fifth day of his prolonged stay , they decided to care flight him to a Children's Hospital where it still took nineteen days for the final results and even then they were not sure. The doctor came into the room with his long white doctor's coat and his glasses hanging from his nose with the final thought (not answer). Ms. Hicks (at the time), "could you have a seat?" My thought was, okay then comes "is you son mixed with Caucasian?" My reply with anger and confusion in my heart was, mixed, with who?...not what but who! And not that I was cared or anything, I have mixed nieces and nephews. Then he went on to explain to me that "that type of diabetes was uncommon, and that it only occurred in every three thousand children" annnnndddd'ah-Rah...here is the killer..."that it only occurred in Caucasian males." Gathering my thoughts and physical seemed to be out of the question. It was not until he turned four years old that I begin getting more and more curious. So next to my son being born with a rare type of diabetes that only (according the doctor) in Caucasian males and me being adopted, I became one curious Sista'. The search began.