Alvin Dale Lemon

Enid (Garfield), Oklahoma Newspaper

20 July 1932

Submitted by: Norman Peter Daprato

Alvin Dale Lemon was born at Campbellsburg, Indiana, June 12, 1854, and died at Enid, Oklahoma, July 19, 1932, having lived five weeks beyond his seventy-eighth birthday.

For the first twenty-eight years of his life, Mr. Lemon lived at or near the place of his birth. In his early youth he was baptized and united with the Christian church at Campbellsburg. On October 26, 1876, he was married to Margaret Frances Baxter and the wife of his youth shared life with him until the day of his passing. By this marriage there were ten children, nine of who survive.

In 1882 Mr. and Mrs. Lemon and three children journeyed to north-eastern Kansas where they settled on a farm and where they remained until a few years after the opening of the Cherokee Strip. At that time Mr. Lemon responded to the call of the new Oklahoma and moved his family to Cleo Springs where he bought land. For ten years he farmed in that locality.

To secure for his children better educational opportunities, Mr. Lemon, in 1909, sought a new location and secured a farm near Hennessey, Oklahoma. Here he lived for sixteen years, until ill-health compelled him to retire from the farm. A few years were then spent in California after which he returned to Oklahoma and for the last three years of his life was a resident of Enid.

By his passing there are left his widow, Margaret Frances Lemon, and nine children: O. B. Lemon, of Coupeville, Washington; W. A. Lemon, of Clinton; O. M. Lemon, of Wichita, Kansas; J. B. Lemon, of Hollywood, California; Mrs. Evelyn McCormick, of the home; Frank C. Lemon and Mrs. Wilfred E. Powell, both of Enid; Mrs. Joe Gibson, of Clinton; and Mrs. W. C. Schwartz, of Manhattan, Kansas.

Alvin Dale Lemon throughout all of his active life, was a farmer in the highest sense of the word - a farmer of the sort that led Emerson to say: "All historic nobility rests *** the spirit of the pioneer he gave himself to the development of new territory. He was interested in civic improvement, education and religion, and was a faithful member and supporter of the church. He needs not that many words be expended in his praise; his life itself speaks more eloquently. A loyal husband, a beloved father, an earnest Christian, a respected citizen - his memory will ever be cherished by all who knew him.

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