Married 10/2/1885 or 12/2/1885?
According to his daughter Ruby Proctor Johnson's 1985 recording:
Papa owned land about three miles south of Fernandina.
We lived a two-story house with a porch on the front and back.
Papa owned property on both sides of the road leading to Amelia Bluff
at the south end of Amelia Island. He had cattle, sheep, chickens,
and two horses that I know of. We had loving wonderful parents.
Papa was a tender-hearted loving husband and father.There were rumors that the pirate Captain Kidd had buried treasure on the island.
Papa on several occasions found a tree with a chain around it, going down
into the ground. But he was never able to find the tree again in order to dig
for the treasure.We moved to into town in 1906, soon after Ralph was born on June 20.
Papa was taken sick Sunday morning, October 28, 1906, and died the middle
of the afternoon. Our family doctor was out of town, and another was called in.
The cause of death was listed as congestive chill, but we were never su
whether the doctor gave him the wrong medicine by mistake. Papa was
only 48 years old.Mama was in her early forties, and was left a widow with six children,
ranging in age from four months to around 18 years.Mama decided to sell the place to her [half-]sister Mattie Dyal's husband, and move
to Tallahassee, Florida. On the trip, we spent the day in Jacksonville, and Mama's
brother, Uncle Oscar, took us to the alligator and ostrich farm. Ralph stood alone
for the first time that day. We came by train, arriving in Tallahassee January 1907.About 1917, in a house on the corner of Calhoun Street and Park Avenue in Tallahassee,
Mama took in boarders: three girls in business school, and two girls and one boy in high school.
With Ruby and Ralph also in the house, there were a lot of young people having
dates at the same time. At eleven o'clock Mama would always call time: she would
knock with a shoe on the roof of the porch, from her upstairs bedroom.In about 1922, Leila became ill and nearly died. The doctor said she had to give up
boarders, so she and Ruby and Ralph moved to an apartment at the Mickler House
Annex, on South Calhoun Street behind the Leon County Courthouse. Tilliie
Temple, Mama's sister, owned the boarding house.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From a newspaper clipping, presumably October 18, 1940, in Tallahassee, Florida:Funeral Services for Mrs. Proctor Held Here Today
Services for Mrs Lela A Proctor, widow of the late W T Proctor, sr, and
beloved church worker, were planned today for 4:30 p m at the Trinity Methodist church
with the Rev Jack Anderson officiating.Burial will be in the Oakland cemetery. Mrs Proctor died at her home on East Ingleside ave
at 8:30 last night after an intermittent illness which became serious about two weeks ago.Mrs Proctor was an active worker in the Methodist missionary society and the WCTU.
Daughter of Peter T Mickler and Elizabeth Saxon Mickler, she was born Dec 5, 1863,
in Wellborn.Mrs Proctor is survived by three sons, O Earl Proctor, W Theo Proctor and Ralph E Proctor;
three daughters, Mrs C B McKinnon, Mrs Malcolm McNeill, and Mrs Claude L Johnson, all of
Tallahassee; two sisters, Mrs A F Philps of Tallahassee and Mrs L Dyal of Jacksonville;
four brothers, P T Mickler , O O Mickler, Tallahassee; Sam Mickler, Bushnell, and the
Rev J E Mickler of DeLand.Survivors also include the following grandchildren:
Dr Earl Proctor, Julian Proctor, Marvin McKinnon, Mrs Clinton Smith, Mrs James Vaughan,
Miss Florence McKinnon, Frances Proctor, Theo Proctor, jr, Miss Mary Alice McNeill,
Miss Teresa McNeill, Miss Dot McNeill, Malcolm McNeill, Dane McNeill, Madeline Johnson,
Amelia Ann Johnson, Ralph Proctor, jr, William Stanley Proctor; and one great-grandchild,
Margery Lou McKinnon.Pallbearers asked to serve include, B A Ragsdale, W A Bass, Dr W E Van Brunt,
M C O'Berry, Dr L L Dozier, Payne H Midyette, and Frank D Moor.