In 1900, the Lancaster family lived on their farm in Lauderdale Town, Mississippi. They owned their farm without a mortgage. All members of the household were born in Mississippi, except as noted. The household included Louis J. Lancaster, 45, born in March 1855, a farmer, whose father was b. VA, and his mother was b. NC; his wife of eight years, Cornelia, 40, b. Alabama, in Oct 1860 (parents b. NC), who had had four children, all living; Louis’ four children from his first marriage, whose mother was b. Mississippi: Thomas, 18, b. Nov 1882; Mary, 15, b. March (?) 1885; Martha, 13, b. Aug 1887; and William, 10, b. Feb 1890; and Louis and Corneilia’s four children: Pervis, 6, b. Aug 1894; Fannie, 5, b. June 1895; Burnie, 4, b. July 1896; and Harry, 2, b. May 1898.[1]
In 1910, the Lancaster family lived on their farm in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. All members of the household were born in Mississippi, except as noted, and all could read and write. The household included Louis J. Lancaster, 55, father born in Virginia, mother b. NC, a farmer who owned their farm without a mortgage; his second wife, married 19 years, Cornelia, 50, b. Alabama (parents b. NC), had been married once, and had had four children, all living; their children, all farm laborers, and none in school, Pervis H., 16; Louis A. (J.), 14; Burnie, 12; and Harvey, 10.[2]
In 1920, the Lancaster family lived in a rented house in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Louis Lancaster, 63, worked as a butcher at a meat market. His wife Nora C. was 57. Their son Bennie, 22, was a laborer at a lumber mill. All could read and write.[3]
Louis Lancaster and Nora Frazier are mentioned as parents in the death record of their son, Henry Purvis Lancaster, who was born on 23 August 1893. He was married, a WWI veteran, a farmer, and resided two miles East of Dew, Texas when he died after a twelve day stay at the Marlin Falls, Texas VA Hospital. He died, aged 72 of pneumonia on 5 February 1966, and is buried at Dew Cemetery.[4]
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