Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Lillian Mae Washington
Ancestors of Lillian Mae Washington
1.Lillian Mae Washington1, born 16 February 1880 in two miles northeast of Coesfield, Cooke Co., TX2,3; died 28 December 1967 in Gainesville, Cooke Co., TX4,5.She was the daughter of 2. James Russell Washington, Sr. and 3. Emma Lucille Spence.She married (1) Charles Emmet Marshall 18 December 1899 in Coesfield, Cooke Co.,TX.He was born 29 September 1877 in two miles north of Dexter, Cooke Co.,TX6, and died 17 April 1957 in Gainesville, Cooke Co.,TX.He was the son of James Franklin Marshall and Nancy Ann Meador.
Notes for Lillian Mae Washington:
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Baba was raised in the Coesfield Community in northern Cooke County, near Dexter in the Big Bend country of the Red River. She was the baby of her family as she grew up, her little brother dying at five. She met Mr. Marshall, as she called him, in her late teens, and delighted being seen by her somewhat stern father riding in the carriage in Coesfield or Dexter with Mr. Marshall. They married when she was nineteen, and lived in Dexter before moving by the century's end to Gainesville on Summit Avenue, where Lucy was born in 1907. Later they moved to a large Victorian 'turreted' home at 212 East Pecan Street, a sign of their growing prosperity.Both Lacy and Grace were born there. The old home burned when Nancy and Grace were there in about 1934, and Mom told us how they sat at the curb and wept.
By the war years, when Mom and Nancy and I were there, we lived in the ten hundred block of South Denton Street, and every day walked the short distance to our much-loved Obba and Baba at 809 So. Denton.
Obba died when we were still quite young, and he was the first of my four grandparents to go. By the time Baba died, I had graduated at West Point and was assigned in the Republic of Viet Nam.
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Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, TX
Notes for Charles Emmet Marshall:
He was Obba to me and to my sister, although we later learned our other, older, cousins called him other names, as Grandpa.We saw a lot of him and of his sweet Baba. Our Mom Grace, his youngest daughter and last child, kept us in Gainesville during the War years and we were every day up South Denton Street to 809 to see our grandparents. Over the later years, we visited Gainesville often and saw Obba and Baba.
He was first a rancher, and as a youth kept his father's books at the Dexter store. I still have those ledgers in my collection. Later, as oil came to be found, he managed leases and combinations of rights to market to the drillers. Of course, many of the mineral rights were his own. But they did not help him in the depression years, when he had to borrow to stay afloat. Later, though, he was famous for repaying every single debt and still later, he and Baba were quite wealthy from their royalties.
He used to tell us that he attended Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he finished at the top of his class before returning home to Gainesville, as a rancher and businessman.
He was a fine and giving man, attendant to his family and his community, where he served for some years as the Chair of the Gainesville School Board.
We all miss him and love him a lot.(June 2005)
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Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, TX