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Family: Vessie Eugene McLemore / Nina Ophelia Fuller (F11)
m. 7 Nov 1907-
Father | Male
Vessie Eugene McLemore
Born 1 Feb 1885 Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas 
Died 21 Jan 1952 San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas Buried Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas Married 7 Nov 1907 [1] Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana [1] Father John F. "Finn" McLemore | F51 Group Sheet Mother Rutha Triphene White | F51 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Nina Ophelia Fuller
Born 15 Sep 1891 Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas Died 8 Jul 1980 Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas Buried Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas Father Joseph Thomas Fuller | F52 Group Sheet Mother Viola "Ola" Fullen | F52 Group Sheet
Child 1 | Male
Infant McLemore
Born 3 Dec 1908 Sabine County, Texas Died 17 Feb 1909 Sabine County, Texas Buried Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas
Child 2 | Male
Infant McLemore
Born 10 Mar 1910 Sabine County, Texas Died 11 Mar 1910 Sabine County, Texas Buried Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas
Child 3 | Male
Infant McLemore
Born 25 May 1911 Sabine County, Texas Died 25 May 1911 Sabine County, Texas Buried Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas
Child 4 | Male
Percy Lavell McLemore
Born 11 Jan 1913 Bronson, Sabine County, Texas Died 30 Apr 1991 San Augustine County, Texas Buried Liberty Hill Cemetery, Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas Spouse Elma Callie Smith | F53 Married 19 Apr 1936 San Augustine County, Texas
Child 5 | Female
Viola Evon McLemore
Born 6 Nov 1914 Bronson, Sabine County, Texas Died 18 Oct 2008 Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas Buried Broaddus Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas Spouse Memmon Dale Tisdale | F54 Married 8 Jan 1938 Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Child 6 | Male
Vessie Earl McLemore
Born 12 Sep 1916 Bronson, Sabine County, Texas Died 30 Apr 1997 Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas Buried 2 May 1997 Thomas Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas Spouse Velta Alnettie Rawson | F55 Married 27 Aug 1938 San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas
Child 7 | Male
Ira Ray McLemore
Born 1 Dec 1918 Bronson, Sabine County, Texas Died 14 Feb 1991 Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas Buried 16 Feb 1991 Liberty Hill Memorial Garden, San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas Spouse Bernice Opal Hensarling | F56 Married 9 May 1937 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Child 9 | Male
John Lynn McLemore
Born 26 Dec 1932 San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas Died 13 Sep 2007 Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas Buried 16 Sep 2007 Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas Spouse Living | F57 Married Spouse Selma June Sparks | F58 Married Bef 1960 Spouse Living | F59 Married Spouse Living | F60 Married Spouse Bobbie Joyce Denton | F61 Married 2 Jan 1981 San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas
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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
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Notes Married:
- 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
- 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.
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