Verlene "Lynn" Wilburn

Notes:

Obituary, copied from her Find A Grave Memorial Page:

Verlene "Lynn" Oliver, 84, of Buna, Texas, died Monday, June 29, 2015.

She was born on June 24, 1931, in Pineland, Texas to Maggie Strickland Wilburn and Lihue Tandy Wilburn.

Verlene worked as a beautician at Lynn's Beauty Shop and Higgonbotham Drug in Buna. She also loved to portray Minnie Pearl on the Charlie Pruitt Show at the Jefferson Theatre in Beaumont.

Survivors include her daughters, Becky Wilkinson and her husband, Joe and Debra Hoose; four grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents; and husband, Allen Oliver.

Interment: Antioch Cemetery, Buna, Texas

Broussard's Mortuary, Silsbee, Texas

Verlene married Andrew Dewitt Moody before 1953. Andrew was born on 25 Feb 1930 in Urania, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana; died on 2 Nov 2012 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Buna, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Verlene married Allen Joseph Oliver after 1956. Allen was born on 14 Mar 1933 in Crowley, Acadia Parish, Louisiana; died on 23 Aug 2013; was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Buna, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His FindAGrave memorial page links him to his parents, Lihue Tandy Wilburn (1808-1880) and Cynthia Jane Roberts Wilburn Denby (1847-1908)

His Texas Death Certificate shows his parents as Tandy Wilburn and Elizabeth Robbins. His name was shown as Ligh Hugh Tandy Wilburn. His usual occupation was Farming, Truck Farm. Information was Mrs. Maggie Wilburn, his wife.

FindAGrave also has a link to an older daughter, Nettie Mae Wilburn Simmons (5 Apr 1904-9 Sept 1964), buried at Antioch Cemetery as well.

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 1, District 003
Enumerated 20 Apr 1930
ED 202-2 SD 19th Sheet 9A Stamped 31
Lower Hemphill and Bronson Graded Public Road
127-131
Augustus Strickland Head M 60 Tx
Ida Strickland Wf F 50 Tx
Barney Strickland Son M 17 Tx
Meedy Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
Maudie Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
128-132
Wilburn, Tandy Head M W M W 48 M 46 Tx Tx Tx Laborer General Farm
Wilburn, Maggie L Wf F W 21 M 19 Tx Tx Tx

Lihue married Maggie L. Strickland about 1928 in Texas. Maggie (daughter of Augustus Strickland and Ida Eldora Holt) was born on 1 Jan 1909 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 21 Nov 2000 in Buna, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Buna, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary, copied from her FindAGrave Memorial page:
Maggie Wilburn, 91, of Buna died Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000, at Buna Nursing Home.

Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at E. E. Stringer Funeral Home in Buna with burial at Antioch Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

A native of Hemphill, she lived in Buna 43 years and was a retired grocery clerk.

Survivors include her daughter, ?? "Lynn?? Oliver of Buna; sisters, Nannie Watson and Meadie Williams, both of Kirbyville; two grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two great great-grandchildren.

Notes:

The informant on his death certificate was son, Bill Strickland.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 27 Jan 1920
SD 386 ED 168 Sheet 21B
Bronson Pineland Road
420-442
Jack and Addie Boyle Family
Strickland, Bill Laborer M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
421-443
Luther and Lila Huff family
422-444
Strickland, Augustus Head M W 48 M Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Strickland, Pinkie A Dtr F W 18 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Strickland, Minnie E Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, George W Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Maggie L Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Nannie M Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Samuel B Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Meadie S Dtr F W 2 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Strickland, Maudie E Dtr F W 2 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx


1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 1, District 003
Enumerated 20 Apr 1930
ED 202-2 SD 19th Sheet 9A Stamped 31
Lower Hemphill and Bronson Graded Public Road
127-131
Augustus Strickland Head M 60 Tx
Ida Strickland Wf F 50 Tx
Barney Strickland Son M 17 Tx
Meedy Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
Maudie Strickland Dtr F 12 Tx
128-132
Wilburn, Tandy Head M W M W 48 M 46 Tx Tx Tx Laborer General Farm
Wilburn, Maggie L Wf F W 21 M 19 Tx Tx Tx

Augustus married Ida Eldora Holt about 1900. Ida was born on 15 Feb 1880 in Newton County, Texas; died on 27 Jul 1959 in Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As of the 1910 Sabine County Census, she was listed as the mother of 6 children, all of whom were still living.

Her Texas Death Certificate shows that her parents were Bill HOLT and Margaret FARRIS. The informant was Mrs. W. D. Curl, her daughter, Maudie Strickland Curl. She was widowed, and a 13 year resident of Kirbyville at the time of her death.

Notes:

Shown as William H. Strickland on the death certificate of his son, Augustus.



(Research):

Census Listings:

1880 Census - (for the only William Strickland in Sabine County that was born in 1869)
Texas, Sabine County, Justice Prect No. 1
Page 23 SD 1 ED 84 Stamped 219
5 and 6 July 1880
202-211
Henry and Laura Carlton
203-212
Strickland, William WM 38 Farmer LA NC Miss
Strickland, Nancy W F 34 Wife Miss Miss Miss
Strickland, Jane W F 15 dau Tx La Miss
Strickland, Nancy W F 14 dau Tx La Miss
Strickland, James W M 13 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Augustus W M 10 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Redman W M 6 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Henry W M 2 son Tx La Miss
Strickland, Wm W M 11 Son Tx La Miss

In 1910, William and Nancy were living with their son James.

William married Nancy Caroline Travis before 1865. Nancy (daughter of Richard "Dick" Henry Travis and Rutha Caroline White) was born about 1845 in Amite County, Mississippi; died after 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Enrolled in the District 6 School in Sabine County in 1854.