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- Submitted via GEDCOM by Daniel Frederick Montgomery, CMS 2419, on 14 Jul 2004.
Lutullus Enos Gilcrease was born in April of 1875 or 1876 in WinnParish, Louisiana. (Lutullus is spelled differently in almost everywritten record yet found.) He was the sixth recorded child of BartleyEnos Gilcrease and Mary Elizabeth Terrell Bean Gilcrease. He is listedas a boy in his parents' family in the 1880 Census of Winn Parish.Living next door to the Bartley Enos family in 1880 was the family ofThomas J. and Barbara D. Gilcrease Howell. Barbara and Bartley EnosGilcrease were 1st cousins. Among the Howell children was a girl named"Zulie". Zula Ann Howell was born 7 March in 1873 or 1874 in Robeline,Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Lutullus and Zula Ann grew up next doorto each other and were married in 1897 or 1898 in Vowells Mill,Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. They were 2nd cousins.
Shortly after their marriage Lutullus and Zula joined Bartley Enosand his wife, Lutullus oldest sister Delia's widowed husband and hissurviving children, older brother Henry's family and the sister whomarried Dennis C. Burleson in a move to Texas. In the 1900 Census,Lutullus and Zula and their oldest son Benson were enumerated in MadisonCounty, Texas in the same household as Bartley Enos and Elizabeth, Henry,Dennis and their respective surviving families. Sometime between 1900and 1910 the clan moved to Anderson County, near Elkhart, Texas.
In the 1910 Census of Anderson County, Texas, Lutullus, Zula, Bensonand three more children were living on a farm. Bartley Enos andElizabeth Gilcrease lived on one side of them. R.W. Corley's familylived on the other side of them. R.W. and his wife Mattie were theparents of Henry Gilcrease's wife Carrie. Henry and Carrie CorleyGilcrease and their children lived five houses away. According toLutullus' descendants, Lutullus moved his family to the Lufkin area inAngelina County, Texas about 1915.
In the 1920 Census Henry and Zula lived on their farm in AngelinaCounty, Texas with six children. Henry Gilcrease and his growing familycontinued to live in Anderson County near Elkhart, Texas in 1920. In the1930 Census Lutullus and Zula lived on their farm in Angelina County.Their fourth and fifth children, daughters Vera and Viola, lived nextdoor. Vera had married Frank Rhodes. Viola had married a man namedHightower and she was living with Vera and Frank Rhodes.
Lutullus and Zula lived out their lives in Angelina County. Zuladied on 1 December 1941 and is buried in the Glendale Cemetery inLufkin. The grandchildren born after their deaths know their grandfatheras Enos but his name was recorded as variations of Lutullus in all of theCensus records.
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