Infant McLemore

1908 - 1909  (0 years)

• Name	Infant McLemore  [1]
  Birth	3 Dec 1908	Sabine County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Feb 1909	Sabine County, Texas   [1]
  Burial	Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas
  Person ID	I51	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Vessie Eugene McLemore,   b. 1 Feb 1885, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas d. 21 Jan 1952, San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Nina Ophelia Fuller,   b. 15 Sep 1891, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas d. 8 Jul 1980, Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	7 Nov 1907	Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana   [2]
  	Nina's mother died six months after Nina's Fifteenth birthday. As the oldest girl, and second of eight children, all the day to day household tasks of caring for their large family immediately fell to her. To make matters worse, Nina's father had relatives who had moved to the fertile lower Rio Grande Valley to farm. They encouraged him to move down there as well. He had made several trips down to visit them, and to inspect land. Nina was desperately afraid of leaving her beloved east Texas. About this same time, Nina met Vessie McLemore met at a church revival. They enjoyed each other's company, and began secretly corresponding with each other. Vessie soon proposed, and in November 1907, they snuck across the river to Many, Louisiana and eloped. Nina had turned sixteen years old not quite two months earlier. Nina told her granddaughter, Melinda, that she and Vessie had only seen each other twice in person before their marriage. A photo exists that appears to be their wedding picture. Vessie is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and white bow tie, and Nina in a white dress, with a large flower in her hair. Witnesses at their wedding were, H. E. White, presumably Henry Ernest White--Vessie's first cousin-- and A. McGown [likely either Albert or Andrew McGown, brothers who lived nearby the young couple in Geneva, Texas]. The license was filed for record on 14 July 1908 in Volume 3, Page 272 of the Marriage Records of Sabine Parish, Louisiana by W. E. McNuly, clerk, oper J. J. McNuly, Deputy. Joe Fuller was not pleased with his daughters elopement. For at least several months after their wedding, the young couple avoided him. Rumors abounded that he might shoot Vessie on sight. Jan Tisdale, another granddaughter, remembers similar stories. Jan said that Nina's younger sisters were especially saddened by the hasty marriage. They lost both their mother and older sister in less than a year. Written by Melinda McLemore Strong, granddaughter, circa 1995 and revised periodically
  Documents		Fuller, Nina Ophelia marriage to Vessie E. McLemore, Many, Louisiana, 1907 Nina and Vessie eloped in Many, Louisiana, just across the state line from Sabine County, Texas, where they both grew up
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 3 Dec 1908 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 17 Feb 1909 - Sabine County, Texas Burial - - Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones		McLemore, Infant of Vessie and Nina
  		McLemore, Infant Children of Vessie and Nina Vessie and Nina's first three children all died as infants. The couple later had six children that survived into adulthood.

  
  

• Sources

  [S346] Sanders, J.B. "Index to Cemeteries of Sabine County, Texas 1836-1964", 1964, Nacogdoches, Texas. [S382] State of Louisiana, Parish of Sabine, Marriage License.