William Golden VOSS

Sources:

1910 US Federal Census Justice Precinct 6,Runnels,Texas
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 (Ancestry.com)
1920 US Federal Census Justice Precinct 6,Runnels,Texas
1930 US Federal Census San Angelo,Tom Green,Texas
1940 US Federal Census San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas
Ancestry Member Trees
FindAGrave.com, Pannie
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Norman Family Bible, in posession of Dorothy Lee Davidson Houston. Paint Rock, TX
Brownwood Daily Bulletin (West Texas Digital Archives http://wtda.alc.org), 15 Jun 1907, marriage announcement
Brownwood Daily Bulletin (West Texas Digital Archives http://wtda.alc.org), 27 Jun 1907, passing through

Notes:

                   1876 - Born in Henryville, Lawrence, TN

Attended two years of college.
1904 - Manager of the Day Ranch, which comprised many thousands of acres, which stretched from Grape Creek to the north, Elm Creek to the east, and the Colorado River on the south and west.
1910 - Worked at a hardware store in Miles, TX. Two kids, owned their home.
1911 - Worked in Hardware, (Bill's birth cert)
1917 - Insurance agent. (Pannie's birth cert)
Sep 1918 - City Solicitor, Nash Hardware Company, Fort Worth, TX. Lived at 300 Hemphia St. Birthdate is wrong.
1920 - Remarried to Lillie, working as a Cotton Buyer, on own account, living on a farm. Only oldest son at school. His children and Echols children living there.
1927 - Moved to San Angelo, TX.
1930 - Living at 212 Bird, San Angelo, TX. Real Estate Agent. Owned home valued at 3500. Son William and wife's son Harlan living with them.
1940 - Living at 212 Bird, San Angelo. Reas Estate Agent. Home now valued at 2700. Worked 48 hours the past week.
1949 - Died of Coronary Occlusion.


Obituary:
Will G. Voss.
Funeral services for William G. Voss, San Angelo real estate dealer who died about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Cox Funeral Home.
The Rev. B.O. Wood will officiate and burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Ed Logan, L.Q. Sparks, J.H. Russel, Abner Perry, Ernest Farmer, Bill McManus, F.H. Mills and Jimmy Brock.
Mr. Voss would have been 73 years old May 29. He was born at Columbia, Tenn., and had moved with his mother to Waxahachie, Tex., shortly after his father's death at the old home. He attended Polytechnic College at Midlothian.
When he was 20 years old he came to Coleman County and engaged in ranching there. The town of Voss took its name from him.
He moved to Miles and was married there to Miss Pannye Norman of Paint Rock in 1907. There were five children born to them, the oldest, John Norman Voss, dying in France in 1944 while a member of the armed services. Other children include Clyde Voss and Bill Voss of this city, Helen Voss of Paint Rock and Pannye Voss of Dallas. Mrs. Voss died in 1917.
Mr Voss was subsequently married in 1920 to Mrs. Lilian Harlan Echols, and she survives at the home at 212 Bird St. here. She has two children, George Echols of Dallas and Harlan Echols of Carthage.
Mr. and Mrs. Voss moved here in 1927 and he had engaged in the real estate business. He had been a member of the Methodist Church since he was 15 years old and was a member of the Business Men's Bible Class. He was active in the affairs of the San Angelo Real Estate Board.

Notes:
Family records show marriage date at 15 Jan 1920, but the newspaper in Miles reported that the marriage occurred on Jan 7 1920 in Fort Worth.  This concurrs with the census on 14/15 of Jan in Miles which showed them living together as husband and wife at that time.
"FRIDAY  JANUARY 16, 1920 VOSS  ECHOLS  News of the marriage of Will Voss and Mrs. Lillie Echols, which occurred in Fort Worth January 7, was received with pleasure by Mr. Voss many friends here.  The ceremony was solemnized by Rev. Forrest Smith, pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church of Fort Worth. Mr. & Mrs. Voss arrived in Miles last week and will make their home in north Miles. The Messenger joins their friends in wishing them a long and happy married life.