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Ivan graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S., and in 1948 with an M.S., both degrees in Chemical Engineering. In 1954, he earned his M.D. He was on the staff of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas 1954-1957, then as Instructor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, specializing in various respiratory diseases. In 1966, he became Director of the Outpatient Clinic and Inhalation Therapy, and Consultant for Pulmonary Function Laboratory and Research Projects at East State T.B. Hospital, Tyler, Texas.
Information about Ivan and Barbara's family can be found in Warren Cushing's database "Genealogy of the Cushing Family (Online Version 2003)," and in THE GENEALOGY OF THE CUSHING FAMILY 1905 TO 1969 [op.cit.], pp. 154 and 199.

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Ocie was a teacher of elocution and art at a private school in Little Rock. She was also known as Osie Jean Allen.

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Leonard was an explosives salesman for the E.I. DuPont Company in Little Rock.
He and Ocie had no children.

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Eugene's nickname was "Big Pitch." He bought and sold real estate and used cars, and did very well doing so. In 1930 in Carthage, Missouri, he was selling Frigidaire appliances. In 1939, he moved to Austin, Texas. His home there is now the site of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.
He and Ruth adopted a son, Ben, who was born in 1922 in Carthage. They also had a daughter, Enid, born in Illinois in 1923.

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The Social Security Death Index shows Ruth's birthdate as being 25 September 1900.

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Beryl was a music teacher in Wichita Falls, Texas. Her father, Halbert D. Knickerbocker, was a minister, born in Louisiana as was her mother, Julie. They were living in Weatherford, Texas at the time of the 1900 Census, which was taken in June 1900, just one month prior to Beryl's birth.

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Clarence and Matty divorced in 1898.
He lived in Chicago, working as a salesman and collector of bad debts. In the 1910 and 1920 Censuses, he refers to himself as an "adjuster."

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Mary died while giving birth to Ralph.

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This family suffered a double tragedy in 1887 Kansas. Mary died while giving birth to their son, Ralph, on 25 March. Then, just a few months later, on 31 July, Theodore died from typhoid fever. Their daughters, Pearl and Etta, were raised by Mary's parents, David and Sarah.

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Calvin was a Master Plumber in Winfield, Kansas. He was blind in one eye.

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Theodore was a carpenter and millwright in Florence, Colorado.

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Edna was a public school teacher in Florence, Colorado (1910), and San Diego, California (1930).

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Helen is not listed in either the Social Security Death Index or the California Death Index. However, the Social Security Death Index has a listing for a Helen Watson, born the same 20 February 1896, who died in October 1987 in Great Falls, Fairfax County, Virginia. This Helen's Social Security number was issued in California before 1951.