This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Archer, Stewart, Bouldin, Eickels, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2523 Message Board Post: Thomas Jefferson Archer was born January 4, 1858 at Grapevine, Texas. He departed this life July 3, 1949 at the age of 91 years, 5 months and 30 days. He was married to Martha Jane Stewart in 1878 at Grapevine, Texas. To this union were born nine children, five boys and four girls. His wife and three children preceded him in death. Survivors include Mrs. Billie Bouldin, Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Grace Eickels, Whitmore, California; Quincy Archer, and Walter Archer, Moorwood, Oklahoma; Bert Archer, Strong City, Oklahoma and John Archer, Garden Grove, California. Twenty-nine grandchildren and fifty-six great grandchildren survive. He moved to eastern Oklahoma in 1889 then moved to Roger Mills County where he homesteaded in 1898 and lived in the vicinity of his homestead near Strong City since that time. He joined the Methodist church at the age of 33 years and preached for a number of years. He was with his son, Bert Archer at Erick, Oklahoma at the time of his death. Funeral services for Mr. Archer were conducted in Strong City, Wednesday with Rev. Combs, pastor of the Cheyenne Methodist church delivering the sermon. Committal was in the Strong City Cemetery, Strong City, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.