Melissa Lurani Tillman

Notes:

Jack Peters shows her as a daughter of Thomas Tillman and Mary Elizabeth Ellis. He also shows that she died on 29 Apr 1892 in Timpson, Shelby County, Texas. Blanche Green Phillips shows this same information.

Melissa Lurani, however, appears to have been listed on the 1900 census in the household of Thomas Jefferson Cammack (Mal???? Cammack, wife, age 59, mother of 4 children), but her name was also lined through on the census, perhaps to indicate she was deceased?

Melissa married Thomas Jefferson Cammack on 23 Jul 1873 in Copiah County, Mississippi. Thomas (son of James Douglas Cammack and Lucretia Ann Corley) was born on 1 Nov 1839 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 26 Nov 1918 in Shelby County, Texas; was buried in Ramah Cemetery, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He married Della May THOMAS. At the time of the 1910 Federal Census he was still single, and was living with his older half brother, William Cammack and family in the JP 5 of Shelby County. He was listed as a farm laborer. Cousin Willie N. Cammack was also listed in the family group.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Shelby County, JP 7
Enumerated April 14, 1930
ED 210-22 SD 12 Sheet 4A Stamped 283
66-67
Cammack, Robert L Head M W 48 M 29 Miss Miss Miss Farmer
Cammack, Della Wf F W 39 M 27 Tx Ala Ark
Cammack, Robert F. Son m W 17 S Tx Miss Tx
Cammack, Hazel Dtr F W 16 S Tx Miss Tx
Cammack, Thomas J. Son M W 11 S Tx Miss Tx

Robert married Della May Thomas about 1908. Della was born about 1891 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: Martha Steel Hairgrove
Death Date: 05 Oct 1966
Death Place: Carthage, Panola, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 82 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1883
Birthplace: New Caney, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Thomas J. Cammack
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Malissa Tillman
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Tenaha Prec.7, Shelby, Texas
Cemetery: Buina Vista Cem.
Burial Place: Shelby Co., Texas
Burial Date: 06 Oct 1966
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2118410
Digital Film Number: 4030073
Image Number: 2508
Reference Number: cn 75693
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Martha married David Alvis Hairgrove on 11 Feb 1906 in Paxton, Shelby County, Texas. David was born on 29 Mar 1873 in Shelby County, Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was said to have married Sam Betts GRACE.

Name: Katherine Cornelia Grace
Death Date: 22 Oct 1973
Death Place: Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 87 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1886
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Thomas Jefferson Cammack
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Malissa Tillman
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2242915
Digital Film Number: 4168752
Image Number: 1190
Reference Number: 1193
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

Not able to locate a copy of her death certificate in the "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976" database at FamilySearch.org.

Nettie married Ralph Eugene Green on 14 Feb 1909 in Shelby County, Texas. Ralph was born on 10 Feb 1881 in Panola County, Texas; died in Mar 1964 in Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas; was buried in Ramah Cemetery, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

FindAGrave notes he was a "Teacher Ph. D."

Julian married Hildegarde Gertrude "Kay" Mueller on 28 Nov 1935. Hildegarde was born on 29 Sep 1913 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; died on 9 Jan 2009 in Nacogdoches County, Texas; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name Blanche Maurie Green
Event Type Birth
Event Date 12 Jan 1913
Event Place Paxton, Shelby, Texas, United States
Gender Female
Father's Name R E Green
Mother's Name Nettie A Cammack
Certificate Number 2325
Digital Folder Number 004136864
Image Number 00214

Citing this Record:
"Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X213-SN5 : accessed 15 Aug 2013), Blanche Maurie Green, 1913.

Obituary, copied from FindAGrave:

Blanche Maurie Green Phillips, 97, of Woodville, Texas, passed away, Friday, July 16, 2010 at The Orchard Assisted Living Center in Woodville, Texas.

Blanche was born in Panola County, Texas on January 12, 1913 to Ralph Eugene and Nettie Ann Green. In 1918, the family built a home near Paxton, Texas where she spent her early years living and working on the family farm.

After graduating from Tenaha High School, she became a first grade teacher at Paxton School where she taught her brother, Ralph and sister, Nelwyn. She, after three years of teaching and saving, enrolled in CIA, now Texas Women's University.

After graduation, she became the first Home Economics teacher in Burkeville, Texas and it was there that she met and married fellow teacher and coach, Bob Phillips. Over the next few years they had two sons and built a home in Bob's hometown of Woodville where he supervised the Vocational Education programs for returning WWII veterans.

Bob's untimely death in 1948 began a new and challenging chapter in the lives of Blanche and her sons. After a year of teaching in Woodville, she returned to TSCW/TWU to finish her master's degree and taught in Nacogdoches and Woodville until 1955 when she became an assistant professor at Sam Houston State College.

In 1957 she entered Ohio State University, eventually earning a PhD. The now, Dr. Blanche Phillips accepted her longtime position as Dean of the School of Home Economics at Stephen F. Austin College, now SFASU. Her final years before retirement were spent at the University of Houston.

Over the course of her life and career, Dr. Phillips touched, enriched and inspired the lives of countless people, many of whom are still close friends and adopted extended family to this day.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph Eugene and Nettie Ann Green; brothers, Dr. Clarence Green and James Harold (Buck) Green; and sisters, Allene Green and Nelwyn Phillips.

She is survived by a brother, Dr. Ralph Green and a sister, Esther Adams. Also sons, Ralph Phillips and Bob Phillips, daughter-in-law, Dorothy Phillips; grandchildren, Stacy McCoy & husband, Chris McCoy, Joan Phillips & her fianc?e , Will Patterson; great grandchildren, Brenden Phillips and Bailey McCoy.


Funeral services will be Monday, July 19th at 10:30 a.m. at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Magnolia Cemetery all in Woodville.


Obituary - Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home, Woodville, Texas; July 17, 2010

Blanche married Bob Floyd "Bobby" Phillips on 29 Oct 1938. Bob was born on 30 Jan 1909 in Woodville, Tyler County, Texas; died on 3 Nov 1948 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Loma Lloyd Pearl on 23 Dec 1966 in Midland County, Texas. Loma was born on 10 May 1916 in Menard County, Texas; died on 19 Dec 1999 in La Salle County, Texas; was buried in Little Saline Cemetery, Menard, Menard County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Warren Briley Adams. Warren was born on 3 Jan 1918 in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Texas; died on 22 Jun 1989 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Ramah Cemetery, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dr Ralph Tillman Green
April 10, 1922 - July 18, 2010

Dr. Ralph Tillman Green, 88, passed away on July 18th, 2010 in Dallas. Born in Paxton, Texas on April 10, 1922, he graduated from Texas A&M in 1942. After serving in the Navy in WWII, he married Mary Lou Malone on June 20, 1945, and they celebrated 50 years together before her passing in 1996.

After earning his masters degree at A&M and PhD in Economics from Duke University, he came to work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 1949. Following a year as chairman of the economics department at Baylor, he was appointed by Governor Alan Shivers to serve as the first Director of the Texas Commission on Higher Education, now the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. He returned to the Federal Reserve in 1962 as Vice President of Research, retiring in 1977 as Vice President and Senior Economic Advisor. From 1983 to 1996, he enjoyed a second career as Assistant Professor of Business at TWU.

Ralph was a loving husband and devoted father and grandfather. He had a lifelong dedication to learning and enjoyed travel, golf, and computers. He is survived by his daughters, Melissa Farris (Jack) Susan Lambert (John) and Nancy Lunceford (Michael), 7 grandchildren, one sister, and many nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m, Thursday July 22, 2010 at Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park. Memorial service for Dr. Green will be held at Ellis Chapel, Park Cities Baptist Church at 1:00 p.m. on July 22, 2010 with a reception following. Memorials may be made to the Shelby County Historical Society.

Ralph married Mary Lou Malone on 20 Jun 1945. Mary was born on 2 Oct 1924 in Healdton, Carter County, Oklahoma; died on 10 Apr 1996 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nettie Allene Green, 83, of Woodville Texas, formerly of Ann Arbor, MI, passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at the Woodville Health & Rehab Center in Woodville, Texas.

Funeral services were held Saturday, January 3rd at 2:00 p.m. at the Ramah Baptist Church with burial in Ramah Cemetery in Tenaha, Texas. Officiating was Brother Jerry Phillips.

Nettie was born April 13, 1925 to Ralph Eugene & Nettie Ann Cammack Green in Paxton, Texas. After graduation from Tenaha High School, she received her BS degree from Texas State College for Women in 1949 and her MA in 1960. Her long and distinguished career in education took her to Germany, Texas, Nebraska, and finally Ann Arbor, Michigan. While in Germany, she served as the principal of a U.S. Army School in Straubing, a beautiful historic town on the Danube River. She took advantage of the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. One of her favorite memories was being baptized in the Jordan River.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Clarence Green and James H. Green; and sister, Nelwyn Phillips.

She is survived by two sisters, Blanche Phillips of Woodville, TX and Esther Adams of Houston, TX; one brother, Ralph Green of Dallas, TX and fourteen nieces and nephews. She is also survived by special friends, William Malcolm, Penny Garthwaite and countless students whose lives she inspired over her long career.

Allene "Gigi" was a lifelong educator who taught elementary, middle and high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan starting in 1962. She was known as a very loving, caring, and giving person who was highly involved with her students. She had a gift of being able to help others work through any difficult decisions. She was always able to focus on the positive in people.

Services were under the direction of Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home of Woodville.

Notes:

Nelwyn Green Phillips, 79, went to be with the Lord on Friday, June 6, 2008, in Baytown, Texas.

Born on December 26, 1928, in Paxton, Texas, she was the daughter of Ralph Eugene Green and Nettie Ann Cammack Green. A retired teacher, Nelwyn earned both an undergraduate degree in home economics from Texas Woman's University and a master's from Lamar University.

She was happily married to Bobby Maurice Phillips for 41 years. During their time together, the couple made their home in Baytown, Sherman, Palestine, San Antonio and Silsbee, Texas. Nelwyn moved to Huntsville, Texas, following the death of her husband and later returned to Baytown where the couple had once resided. There she was a resident of St. James House for over five years.

Nelwyn is survived by daughters, Denise Morgan and husband David, and June Waggener; son, Jerry Phillips and wife Judy; sisters, Blanche Phillips, Esther Adams and Allene Green; and brother, Ralph Green. Her grandchildren include: Noel Waggener and wife Charisse, Sarah Waggener, Leah Morgan, Natalie Morgan, Cara Morgan, Haley Phillips and Rachel Phillips Nalle and husband Jordan. She was preceded in death by both her parents and brothers, Clarence and James (Buck) Green.

Nelwyn was active in several Baptist churches during her lifetime and was currently a member of First Baptist Church in Huntsville.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home. The visitation for Nelwyn Phillips will be 5-8 p.m., Monday, June 9. Services will be Tuesday, June 10 at 10 a.m. in the chapel of Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home. Graveside services to follow in Woodville at 2 p.m. in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be Noel Waggener, David Morgan, Scott Bennett, Truett Bennett, Dirk Lorimier, and Bob Phillips. Honorary pallbearers will be Ralph Green, Cecil Morgan, Armender Hayes, Jerry Nobles, Ralph Phillips and Frank Green.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Box 281, Huntsville, TX 77342.

Memorial condolences may be made online at www.shmfh.com.

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Nelwyn married Bobby Maurice Phillips on 18 Feb 1950. Bobby was born on 8 Oct 1926 in Pasedena, Harris County, Texas; died on 25 Jul 1993 in Silsbee, Hardin County, Texas; was buried in Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]