Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Conversation with Corinne Wallingford March 1994 recorded by Joan Wallingford Mickler

Henry bought a new dining room suite for Mae, and gave the china cabinet he had made to Uncle Dorris. Corinne rescued it in the early 1960's. It had the glass broken out and was full of pots and pans. She refinished it and had Leo and Drew put new glass in. She enjoyed it for twenty years; then gave it to Joan.

[Corinne to Nick, January 2004: The house needed painting, and there wasn’t much room for all the furniture anyway, so Henry Warren told Dorris that if he were to paint the house, he could have the china cabinet. Corinne had always told Gertrude that if she ever wanted to get rid of it, to let her know. One day she got a somewhat grubby postcard from Gertrude, pretty much just saying “Come and get it”, though she says it must have had an address. It was at a rental house in Conroe. Roland, Corinne, Johnny and a friend of his Joe Angel took the Plymouth station wagon to pick it up (it had a roof rack of sorts). When they got there, there were workmen in the house. Roland reached down to ‘heft’ the cabinet to see how much it weighed and said “They’ve nailed it to the floor!”. Without the workmen to help, they would never have gotten it on the car; she can’t remember how they got it off the car. When Leo was fitting the replacement curved glass (it had to be ordered from California, after careful measurements of the size and curves) Corinne had to leave the room – with Leo leaning into the cabinet tapping with a small hammer on the tacks through the oak beading, she was sure he’d break the glass again!]

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Nick Wallingford took these notes while talking to his mother Corrine Ogg Wallingford Farrar in December 2003.

Henry Warren Ogg Jr (Corinne's father) died one day after Joan Wallingford (Corinne's daughter) turned one year old. Corinne took Joan to the funeral, and when she got there her Uncle Dorris came over and took Joan from her - Corinne didn't think anyone else could take care of her without her crying like that.

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At the time of the 1920 Census of Waller County, Dorris (then 19) and his sister Gladys (15) were living with Henry Warren Ogg Jr and Dorris' sister Sarah Elizabeth. His occupation was given as laborer, working.

Dorris, Gertrude, Thelma and Creagor were living at 624 W. 27th St, Houston, Texas for the 1930 census.

Dorris was a shipping clerk in a shade factory in 1930.

At the time of his death, he was a carpet binder.

Died after some sort of abcess under his skin ruptured, based on what I can read of the death certificate.

Living at 633 West 26th St, Houston, Texas at the time of his death.

Corinne's birth certificate gives her names as "Dorris Corine Ogg" - she claims she never spelled either name in that way - that she has always been "Doris Corinne".

Doris Corinne Ogg always believed herself to have been given her first name after her Uncle Dorris. Her birth certificate spells it as Dorris, in fact. Subsequently, we have found that her great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth had been Mary Elizabeth Dorris before marriage to Jesse Wiley Robertson.