Ralph Eugene Petty (seems he reverted back to the old spelling.) was born in 1892 to William Holloway and Eliza Jane (Welch) Pettey, the fifth of eight children, in Nacogdoches, TX.
He married Sudie Alice Grayson (born 1894 in Buffalo, Leon Co. TX) in 1917 in Robertson County Tx. and recieved WWI draft card 1917-1918.
He appears on the 1920 Census living with Sudie and her family in Teague, TX. He worked as a lineman for the telephone company. This was the year their first child was born dead.
Suegene Petty was born in 1922 in Teague, Texas
Son Ralph Grayson Petty.was born in 1924 in Freestone County, TX.
In 1930 they were living in Teague, Freestone County with Ralph's mother-in-law, Julia Grayson living with them. Ralph's occupation is electrician in an electrical shop.
Julie Jean was born in Buffalo, Freestone Co. Texas in 1933. I have found two copies of her birth certificate. Ralph Eugene signed on one of Julia Jean's birth certificates where the doctor or midwife signs. No signature on other BC. Wonder if he had to deliver the baby himself?
In 1935 (1940 census) they were living in Freestone County. Ralph was an electrician for the utility light company.
In 1941 he was registered for the draft for WWII.
Sudie died in 1970 and it appears that Ralph remarried Lula E in 1971. They divorced in 1979 in Freestone County.
He died in San Antonio 1985 at age of 93. His daughter, Suegene Gibson was living in San Antonio at the time so I suspect he was living with or near her. His SS death index gives his residence as San Antonio.
Ralph Eugene and Sudie are buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Teague near their infant daughter..
