Talmadge Gayle Fuller

Talmadge married Doris Jean Wilkinson on 30 Jun 1956. Doris (daughter of Rev. Johnny Eugene Wilkinson and Letha Mae Mitchell) was born after 1935; was buried in McMahan's Chapel Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Owner of Fuller's Barber Shop, Hemphill, Texas, once operated jointly with this father. (White and Toole, p 75). A digital image of his actual Texas death certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, shows that he was a Barber. The informant was Mrs. Jewel Porter, sister.

(Medical):See attached sources.

James married Marie Beckham before 1935. Marie was born on 11 Oct 1914 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 24 Nov 2010 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in McMahan's Chapel Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
December 1, 2010, page 12

Marie Beckham Welsh, 96, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at her home in the McMahan Chapel community near Geneva after an illness. Mrs. Welsh was orn in the McMahan Chapel community to Dewitt and Emma Horn Beckham and had lived in Sabine County most of her life.

During her second marriage to James Fuller (the local barber in Hemphill), Marie worked for a short period as a DJ in Corpus Christi, where she would play love songs on the local radio station. She was the owner and operator of Marie's Beauty Shop in Hemphill for many years in conjunction with B & W Hardware that she co-owned with her brother.

Later, she established and worked with her third husband, Jimmy Welsh in their lumber and rock mining companies.

Mrs. Welsh is survived by her husband, Jimmy M. Welsh of McMahan Chapel; and her three grandchildren, Jeffrey E. Fuller, Angelia Marie Fuller, and Kimberly Gail Fuller, as well as her great grandson, Jace Talmadge Fuller and nephew, Valton Gayle Beckham.

She was preceded in death by her only child and son, Talmadge Gayle Fuller, who was the most important figure in her life aside from her three grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Nov. 28, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in the McMahan Chapel Cemetery.

Services were under the direction of Starr Funerals Home in Hemphill.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, December 2010)

A nearly identical obituary was also in the San Augustine Tribune, December 2, 2010, page 9. In this obituary her date of birth was listed as October 11, 1914.

Notes:

In her weekly Sabine County Reporter column, "On the Bright Side", Mary Howell wrote that she remembered "Clyde and Annie (???) Fuller, who owned and operated a barber and beauty shop on the Hemphill square. Inside the beauty shop was an old fashioned curling apparatus resembling a metal octopus which was used to give permanent waves to ladies. The Fuller home property was located where the modern Ashley Furniture HomeStore now stands. The old water well which was used by the Fullers is now a decorative attraction inside the beautiful store." (Page 4, July 18, 2007).


Note: There appears to be another Clyde Fuller in Sabine County, Texas in 1920. The other Clyde Fuller was born ca 1878 in Illinois.

(Research):Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Precinct 1
Enumerated 10 Apr 1930
ED 203-2 SD 19 Sheet 3B
North Street
67-79
Fuller, Clyde W Hd O $3000 N W 39 M25 Tx Ga Tx Barber
Fuller, Lula B Wf F W 38 M 23 Tx Ala Ala
Fuller, James W Son M W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Fuller, Jewel M Dtr F W 8 S Tx Tx Tx

Clyde married Lulu Benia Pratt on 2 May 1915 in Sabine County, Texas. Lulu (daughter of William Hopkins Pratt and Virginia A. Hayes) was born about 1891 in Alabama; died in 1941. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On the 1880 Sabine County Census, Sarah Dewees, Hannah's mother was living with the family. So was a 20 year old niece, Rebecca Delony, born in Texas circa 1860.

Linda Fuller of Cleveland, Texas found the following deed:

Filed for record in my office January 16, 1888 W.T. Arnold Clk Co Ct Sabine Co Texas

S.H. Oliphant, Sheriff to J.E. Fuller

Know all men by these presents That whereas by virtue of a certain writ of execution issued out of the Justice Court of the County of Denton precinct No one in favor of C.L. Herbert Sr. vs. Jessee McGee on a certain judgment rendered on the 20th day of June AD 1883 and directed and delivered to me as sheriff of Sabine County Commanding me of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the said Jessee McGee to make certain moneys in said writ mentioned. I, S.H. Oliphant Sheriff as aforesaid did on the 12th day of December AD 1887 levy on and seize two hundred acres of the Jessee McGee league of land the wright and title of which was in the said Jessee McGee, on the 12th day of December 1887, and on the 3rd day of January 1888, the same being the first Tuesday in January 1888, within the hours prescribed by law sold the said two hundred acres of land as public Vendue in the County of Sabine at the door of the Court House thereof, having first given public notice of the time and place of sale, by causing an advertisement thereof to be posted up at three public places in the County aforesaid one of which was the Court House door of said County for twenty days previous to said sale. And wheras, at said sale, the said land was stricken off to J.E. Fuller for the sum of sixteen dollars, he the said J.E. Fuller being the highest bidder therefor, and that being the highest secure bid for the same. Now therefore in consideration of the premises aforesaid, and of the payment of the said sum of sixteen dollars, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I S.H. Oliphant Sheriff as afresiad have by these presents sold granted and conveyed unto the said J.E. Fuller, all of the estate, wright, title and interest which the said Jessee McGee had on the 3rd day of January 1888 or at any time afterwards, in and to the following described premises, viz: One tract or parcel of land containing two hundred acres apart of the Jessee McGee league survey in Sabine County, Texas. And bounded as floows Commencing at the S.W. corner of a seven hundred acre tract of D.J. Henderson's land sold to him by Jessee McGee, hence East with said Hendersons South line to the S.E. corner of said Henderson's ??? acre tract on the league line. Thence Sounth along said line to a supposed corner of said Henderson's. Thence West to Huntington's East line to another supposed corner. Thence North with Huntington's line to the place of beginning containing two hundred acres. To have and hold the above described land unto the said J.E. Fuller, his heirs and assigns ??? as fully and absolutely as I, Sheriff, as aforesaid can convey by virtue of the writ in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of January, 1888.

S.H. Oliphant Sheriff of Sabine Co, Texas

On the 1890 Sabine County Scholastic Census, James and Hannah's oldest daughters, Maggie, 11 and Pearl, 8 were shown as enrolled in School No. 15, Hemphill. W.T. Arnold was on of the trustees of this school.

James married Hannah Pinkney Deweese on 5 Dec 1877 in Sabine County, Texas. Hannah was born on 24 Jul 1856 in Texas; died on 24 Feb 1918 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of John T. b Oct 18, 1819, d Mar 10, 1878, and Sarah Deweese, b Aug 5, 1829, d Jan 3, 1888. (White and Toole, p 74).

On the 1900 Sabine County census, Hanna was the head of household after the death of her husband the prior year. She was running the family farm. By 1910, her oldest three children had left home. Sons James, Clyde and Thomas still lived at home, but only Clyde worked on the farm. James was a merchant, running a department store. Thomas was listed as a hack driver.

In 1900, two servant (John Duffee and Chas. Smiley) were living with the Fullers, as well as a boarder, Edward Watson, age 32 born in Texas. All three did Farm Labor.

Living with the Fuller's in 1910 was a 23 year old boarder named Moses Cole. He was a farm laborer and did odd jobs.

Her Texas Death certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, does not list her parents.

Notes:

"William H "Will" Pratt and his father were carpenters. They built the first Baptist Church in Hemphill, dressing the rough lumber by hand."

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3MZ-TGG
Name: William Hopkins Pratt
Event: Death
Event Date: 15 Jul 1939
Event Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 10 Apr 1857
Birthplace: Randolph, Alabama
Father's Name: Marshall Pratt
Mother's Name: Eliza Wimbush Cockrane
Certificate Number: 35074
Film Number: 2118257
Digital Folder Number: 005144944
Image Number: 01365
Collection: Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976

William married Virginia A. Hayes. Virginia was born about 1863; died about 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]