Surname	Shook
Given Name	Artie Belle
Gender	Female
Born	13-MAR-1883 in Texas
Died	10-NOV-1932 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas (Certificate 48221)
Buried	Campbell-Elrod Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas
Father	Theodrick SHOOK (08-OCT-1853 - 05-OCT-1935)
Mother	Mary Honora "Mollie" FURR (29-AUG-1864 - 16-SEP-1938)

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Family Line

Artie Belle Shook-> Theodrick Shook (f)-> Josiah Webster Shook (gf)-> Abraham Shook (g-gf)-> Johanne Jacob Shook (gg-gf)-> Johanne Hans George Shook (Schuck) (ggg-gf)-> Johannes Shook (Schuck) (gggg-gf).

Marriages

Marriage 1

Andrew Jackson WHITNEY (14-FEB-1880 LA - 20-AUG-1963 TX).

Children

• Joseph Lee WHITNEY (07-SEP-1900 TX - 10-DEC-1967 TX)
• Pearl A. "Paul" WHITNEY (19-SEP-1904 TX - 29-JUL-1972 CA)
• Oliver Namon WHITNEY (22-AUG-1907 TX - 03-JUL-1973 TX)
• Elvera Elizabeth WHITNEY (19-NOV-1910 LA - 10-JUL-2005 TX)
• Rena WHITNEY; born: ~1913 in Texas; died: after 1932

Marriage 2

George Walter SPANN (05-JAN-1862 TX - 03-MAY-1925 TX).

Children

• Baby Belle SPANN; gender: Female; born: ~1914 in Texas; died: [Assumed] Bef. 1920
• Charlie Page SPANN (20-OCT-1917 OK - 20-JAN-1973 TX)
• Carl Carlow SPANN (17-NOV-1918 OK - 29-JAN-1979 CA)
• James Ferguson SPANN (06-APR-1920 TX - 20-APR-1958 CA)
• Douglas L. SPANN (04-FEB-1922 TX - 13-APR-1976 CA)
• Clara Belle SPANN (06-APR-1923 TX - 26-APR-1976 CA)

Marriage 3

Walter Thomas "Tom" DYCUS (30-MAY-1869 TN - 16-JAN-1941 TX)

Children

• Mary Magdalene DYCUS (02-JAN-1929 TX - )

Death Notice

Mrs. W. T. Dycus Dies

CORSICANA, Texas, Nov. 10. - Mrs. Artie Belle Dycus, 49, died at the family home in the Drane community Thursday morning and the funeral will be held at the family home Friday afternoon. The body will be forwarded to Humble late Friday night for burial. Surviving are her husband, W. T. Dycus, Drane; four daughters, Mary Magdalene Dycus, Drane; Clara Belle Whitney, Corsicana; Rena Whitney, Tullos, and Mrs. B. M. Mitchell, Houston; seven sons, Oliver Whitney, Conroe; J. L. Whitney, Thompson; P. A. Whitney, Corsicana; Charles Spann, Carl Spann, Ferguson Spann and Douglas Spann, all of Corsicana.

Notes

I discovered Artie Belle somewhat accidentally. I have been using Texas Death Certificates to research Shook families in Texas. Sometimes I'll find an individual that is within my family tree. More often, the individual is unrelated. Either way, this has been a particularly useful method to identify females that have changed names. Artie stumped me for quite some time, as her father was only identified as "Bud" Shook. No mother was identified. Driving home from work one day, I started thinking about Bud Shook. I had never heard of a Bud Shook. Then I thought about a Buddy Shook. My great-great grandfather, Theodrick Shook, was possibly a Buddy Shook. I have never been sure about that, as the only reference for "Buddy" was a photocopy of a family data sheet for Josiah Shook that recorded Theodrick as Buddy. With that thought, I started looking at Theodrick's family a bit more. I had an Artie recorded as a placehold from someone's Shook family tree on Ancestry.com. I had no idea whether Artie was male or female, and for years I have assumed Artie was male. Once I started piecing Artie's profile together, however, things began snapping into place. In the 1920 census, Pearl and Oliver Whitney are recorded as the grandsons of Mary Honora (Furr) Shook Charpiot. That is probably the most best evidence tying Artie to Mary and Theodrick. The connection to the Etie family is also a strong tie, as Artie's sister, Ada, married an Etie.