Name |
Lucy May Sparks |
Birth |
18 Jan 1886 |
Jefferson Co, Texas |
Gender |
Female |
Residence |
1943 |
3925 Howard, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
mother's d.c. |
Death |
27 May 1975 |
Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
- d.c., Lucy Mae Echels, age 85, retired schoolteacher, 8635 Chateau Circle, Beaumont, widowed, died Milam Nursing Home #1,
father, W.C. Sparks, mother Bertha A Kline
informant, son: J.C. Echels
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Burial |
30 May 1975 |
Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
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Magnolia Cemetery, Main Entrance 2291 Pine Street; Beaumont, Texas
Magnolia Cemetery History webpage
http://www.magnoliacemetery.org/index.asp?page=history
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Notes |
- Source: "History of the Sparks Family" Yellowed Pages, Vol XIX, No. 4, 1989
Teacher in South Park schools for 44 years, leaving only for a two-year period to have her only child, Crindon. Also during that time her husband (name unknown) was killed in an accident on Highland Avenue, as he was returning home from work at Spindletop oilfield on his motorcycle, which collided with a wagon team that carried no light.
Crindon married Christine Stidham and build a new home in Amelia in Beaumont around 1967, at which time Lucy sold the old homestead on Howard St, and lived with them after her father died in 1946 and until her death in 1975.
Before her death, she wrote a brief account of what she remembered about her family's move to Beaumont" It was in the month of Febuary 1890 and even then the mosquitoes were very bad. The oxen had broken out from the pen, and it was about n before the could be rounded up. The furniture was loaded in the ox-cart, and we traveled in another wagon pulled by the horses. We stopped overnight at the home of my papa's sister, Mrs. Fred Gentz, which was about half-way to Beaumont."
She also recalled some of the experiences she had at the lakeshore house: "I remember our house there. It has an open hallway with two rooms on either side, and at the back end there was a kind of porch around an underground cistern - it helhe rainwater, but the water was as cool as well water. We had a young Negro man (his name was George Lazenby) who lived with us. His mother had lived with us, too, but she died before I could remember. He moved with us to Beaumont but soon made friends in town and moved in with them. For two or three years he would come and visit us -- to get some of "Miss Bertie's cooking."
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Person ID |
I438 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |
Family |
Joseph Howard Echels, b. 27 Jul 1883, Texas d. 10 Jul 1911, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 27 years) |
Marriage |
7 Jul 1909 |
Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas [2] |
Children |
+ | 1. Joe Crindon Echels, b. 18 Jul 1910, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 22 Oct 2001, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 91 years) |
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Family ID |
F210 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |