| #11 -Lula May OVERSTREET
d/o #22 George Washington OVERSTREET & #23 Mary M. ROBERTS |
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Children with #10 Nathan B. MACOMB Sylvia Grace
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Lula May, probably in the early 1910s. |
| b 18 Dec 1891 | Carroll Co. AR |
| m 17 Apr 1909 | Stone Co. MO |
| d 18 June 1925 | Ike, Taney Co. MO |
| bur Gretna Cemetery | Gretna (now Branson) MO |
| Hair: brown | Eyes: blue-gray |
| Height: she was short | Weight: unknown |
| Probable
Ethnicity:
Infamous Family Knowledge suggests predominantly Cherokee, with some Scottish thrown in |
| What we know: |
| Much about Lula May's family
background remains a mystery (see her parents' pages). Nathan, as
the informer for her death certificate, gave her place of birth as AR and
the date as Dec 1890. Her parents, George and Mary, were married
18 Mar 1891; my grandmother says that Lula May, her mother, was born 18
Dec 1891. That's just for starters.
She attended church at the Boston Center, located on what was called the Boston Road and is present-day Hwy 248, near the Taney-Stone Co. line. The building still stands, the occasional reunion taking place on its grounds. Grandma says that Lula May and Nathan were lovebirds; she usually left the housework to the kids, and went outside to help Nathan with the tie-hacking and the fields. Grandma remembers that she had a miscarriage shortly before she died, and had been helping Nathan cut timbers at that time. The death certificate lists 2 causes of death, one unreadable and the other "typhoid fever." Since typhoid came from bad water and no one else became sick, I wonder about that. I suppose that the other cause of death has something to do with the miscarriage. The 2 baby boys are buried down at Gretna next to Lula May and Nathan; so is Ruby. I only know of 3 pictures with Lula May in them--two of them are here; the third is a small 1" x 1" picture of Grandma Audie, Gertie, and Lois, with Lula May in the background. A clue to her Roberts' mother's family may be somewhere in the names of her children; Elmer Everette was the name of one of Lula May's brothers; Barbara the name of one of Nathan's sisters; and Lavina was the name of another of Nathan's sisters. |
| Nathan,
Lula May, and Grace in the spring of 1910
(Lula May is almost smiling!) |
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