Martin Bellany & Juanita Jeanetta

Mart traveled as a teenager from east Texas to a place in the panhandle of Texas called Haylake. There he decided to make his home and he began farming.

Juanita or Sal as she was known to her family, was the younger sister of one of his friends.

She was 14 when they married on December 31, 1924. They were married until she died 67 years later.

Be sure and read their story under the family history link.