Below is my LA connections. If interested, I have photos to go with the
biographies.
Best of luck in researching your family,
Trudy jmarlow(a)texoma.net
Genealogy Page:
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Lynch Family History
Lynch known locations: Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.
Thomas J. Lynch
Born abt 1804 in Alabama. He had one known son a George W. Lynch abt 1838.
1860 Census records indicate that he was living with a lady, Mary Reeves, in
De Soto Parish, Louisiana. His estate was valued at thirteen hundred
eighty-nine dollars. It is not known if Mary Reeves was a friend of the
family or only his employer. Mary was age 30 and had two children ages 3 and
5. She was evidently a large plantation owner, for her total estate was
valued at twenty-two thousand dollars, in 1860. By 1880, 76 year old Thomas,
was living with his granddaughter and son-in-law, Lula T. Lynch and John
Robert Long in De Soto Parish, Louisiana.
George W. Lynch and Martha A. Clay
George was born abt 1838. Martha was born abt 1843. They had two known
children, Lula T. Lynch and Fernando Lynch. Lula was born abt 1859. In 1860,
George and his family were also living with Mary Reeves. After 1880,
Fernando died in a drowning accident after going to live with his sister and
her husband in De Soto Parish.
Lula T. Lynch and John R. Long
Lula was born abt 1859 and John was born January 20, 1849 in Chickasaw
County, Mississippi. Lula and John were married in 1877, probably in De Soto
Parish, Louisiana. A son, William Tommus Long was born May 12, 1878. He died
shortly afterwards on July 28, 1879. A second son, Samuel Benton Long was
born November 20, 1879. By 1880, Thomas and Fernando were living with Lula
and John in Louisiana. A daughter, Sarah Sally Ann Long was born January
6, 1882. Sometime about 1883, John, Lula and the children moved to Wise
County, Texas. Other children were born during the following years: Charlie
Right Long born January 5, 1884; Jess Long born August 16, 1885; Hatte E.
Long born May 5, 1887; Cassie Long born December 1, 1888. Also born were Roy
E. Long, Elmer C. Long, I.R. Long, and possibly a daughter named Mattie
Long, birthdates unknown. John and Lula probably moved to Wise County, Texas
to be near John Longs family. Lula would often go along with her
father-in-law, Dr. John Henry Long, and help him to make his house calls in
the area. Typhoid hit the area about 1888, five of John and Lulas children
died in a short period of time. John Robert Long died in 1897.
Sometime between 1889 and 1901, Lula moved west to the area of Bomartin,
Texas and Shady in Baylor County, Texas. Lula met and married a man named
George Parnell . He had previously been married and had nine children.
George and Lula had only one child, Martin Anderson Parnell. Martin died at
the age of five of lyphord pneumonia on October 19, 1907. George and Lula
later separated. Lula later received a Civil War widows pension of
approximately fifteen dollars a month, George had served in the Union Army
during the Civil War. In 1918, Lula lived in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She later
lived near Davis, Oklahoma, during the 1930s. The photo on the left was
taken at Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1941 or 1942, at the grave of Sarah Ann Long
Phipps. Following a stroke in the summer of 1945, she went to live with her
daughter, Cassie in Spur, Texas. Lula died March 26, 1946 in Spur, Texax.
She was buried at Ardmore, Oklahoma in Rose Hill Cemetery.