Living

Living married Annie Claudine Strickland Annie (daughter of Wesley Van Dee Strickland and Zilpha Elizabeth Lott) was born on 6 Jan 1927 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; died on 17 Jan 2004 in Atascocita, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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SABINE COUNTY REPORTER
January 14, 2004

Claudine Vilches

Claudine Strickland Hamilton Vilches, 66, of Atascocita died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004. She was born Jan. 6, 1927 in Pineland as a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Van Dee Strickland and had formerly lived in the Beaumont area for several years. Survivors: her husband, Henry VILCHES of Atascocita, sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Paula Hamilton of Atascocita and John and Debbie Hamilton of Spring; granddaughter Suzanne Hamilton, a grandson, Keith Welshimer; sister, Mildred Amason of Jasper; and two brothers, Robert Strickland of Pineland and Darwin Strickland of Greenbrier, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by a husband, Robert Hamilton. Private services were conducted. Rosewood Funeral Home, Humble, directors.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong)

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"(Born February 29, 1876) on the banks of the Sabine River in old Sabinetown, where they ran a ferry. It was in hard times of reconstruction days, with lawlessness rampant, and the Stricklands early learned to fight their way through hard times and rough days...When Dee was about 7 years old, his father had trouble with a drunk who pulled him out of bed and started fighting. Following this trouble, John moved his family to Orange. Dee Strickland moved back to Sabine County and married Luvenia Walker. Two of their three children survive: Mrs. Thelma Strickland Lakey of California and Mrs. L.C. Crouch of Houston. The Stricklands moved around to sawmilling, and lived in Rusk when Mrs. Strickland died. Dee came back to Pineland and worked for a month at the mill there; became restless and spent three years in Louisiana before returning to Sabine County, where he married Miss Zilpha Lott. Dee farmed and worked for Temple Lumber Company until his retirement a few years ago. He is the father of ten children by his second marriage. They are Mrs. Gladys Stevens of Houston, J.B. Strickland who is deceased, Mrs. Miriam Amason of Pineland, Robert Strickland of Wyoming, Herbert Strickland of Kirbyville, J.D. Strickland whereabouts unknown at present, A.W. Strickland of Dallas, Mrs. Claudine Hamilton of Beaumont, Mrs. Arlene Fields of Dallas, and Darwin Strickland who is in the US Army stationed in Nebraska. There are 23 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren." Excerpted from OLD TIMERS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS by Virgie Speights (S. Malone Printer, San Augustine, Texas; 1983; original column published November 19, 1964).

VAN STRICKLAND 28 Feb 1876 Mar 1979 75968 (Pineland, Sabine, TX) 75972 (San Augustine, San Augustine, TX) 458-36-1325 Texas

Wesley married Zilpha Elizabeth Lott on 15 Dec 1912. Zilpha (daughter of Andrew Jackson Lott and Julia D. Jones) was born on 18 Sep 1888 in Texas; died on 18 Dec 1977 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Listed as Billie E. on the 1920 census. Her FindAGrave Memorial page, created by Steve Carter and maintained by Cindy Lott, shows that she was the second wife of Rudolph D. Masell, born 1861 in Germany and died 1940 in Toledo, Ohio. He is shown as buried at the Forest Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio.

John married Elizabeth "Betty" Cannon. Elizabeth (daughter of David C. Cannon and Mary Ann Cook) was born on 4 Oct 1842 in Sabine County, Texas; died about 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On his FindAGrave memorial page, created by Steve Carter and maintained by Cindy Lott it was noted that "Andrew Jackson Lott was born to Nathan Lott and Dicy Lott Lott in Covington Co., Mississippi. around 1870 they moved to Vernon Parish Louisiana, where Fort Polk Military Base presently is. Andrew and some of the Lott family then moved to Texas. Some settled in Sabine Co and some in Newton Co. Texas. Andrew married Julia D. Jones."

There is also a scan of his Texas Death Certificate. Date of birth on this certificate is shown as 8-14-1861 (vs. 1862). Father is lsited as Nathan Lott, but mother is listed as Julia Jones (sic). His wife is listed as Julia Lott. It appears that the information on wife and mother was conflated. He was shown as dying on Bronson, Texas, where he had lived for 48 years.

Andrew married Julia D. Jones. Julia was born about 1866; died about 1953 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Lott Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]