The Grooms Tree "John Grooms married Betsey Miller and to this union were born Lucinda, Margaret, Tom, Lonzie, Anner, Felix, Dora, Sallie, and Mary. Tom married Hester Lay and had the following children: Lucy, Dan, Ella, Elmer (Dock), and Myrtle. Lonzie married Mollie Pruitt (children: Herbert, Bill, Pearl, and Mattie); Felix Sherman married Ellen Vaughn (children: Elbert, Gilbert, John, Claude, Ovey, Elsie, and May). Of the children of Tom and Hester, Dan married Maude Chastine (children: Jesse, Lois, Mabel, Edith, Elmer, Lillie, Ruth, Leonard, and Curtis). Tom's boy Elmer (Dock), married three wives, Grace Rodgers, Fannie Allen, and Ida Emerson (children: Willie, Anna, Millard, Adell, Arthur, Mary, Otha, Virginia, everett, and Allie)."