Emma,
Thanks for the reply.
John W. and Sarah Lula also had two daughters who died in infancy. I do not
know their names. James died in Feb 21 1925 from tuberculosis. (source: John
W. obit) I don't have the date of Clyde's death but it was about 1933 from a
heart attack. He was editor of the Desha County Democrat. Clyde's only child
was Francis Neil who was born in 1924 and died in 1967. I am Francis's
daughter. He was editor of the Eudora Enterprise, Eudora, AR.
An unverified family story is that Sarah Lula died just a few weeks after I
was born in 1947. Since her daughters died in infancy and she had only one
grandchild, a boy, she was, I was told, excited about having a ggranddaughter and
was looking forward to all the fun we were going to have. However the one
time she saw me, she had a cold and didn't get near me for fear of giving it to
me. That illness, I was told, was her fatal illness. Since I am fairly new
to genealogy, I have not yet taken the time to verify this story.
I would be interested in any information you have about my ancestry.