Lucille (Freeman) Moore (1893 - 1913)

Born 25 Dec 1893 in Texas, USA

Ancestors

Wife of William M Moore — married 7 Mar 1909 (to 1913) in Perry County, Alabama, USA

Died 2 Aug 1913 at age 19 in Waycross, Ware, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Lucille aka Lucy was born in Texas in 1893 to Milton Freeman and Sarah Wilhite . After her mother died, Milton placed Lucy and her two sisters, Addie Bell and Carrie (Caroline Elizabeth) in a children's home called the Mercy Home in Birmingham, AL They were listed there in the 1900 census.^[1] The girls were retrieved a few years later by their father, Milton, after he remarried. The home is now called Gateway and still exists as of 2015. Lucy's stepmother, Margaret, and Milton had five children from their marriage.

Lucy appears to have married William M Moore in 1909 in Hamburg, Perry County, Alabama.^[2]

By 1910, she was living with her sister, Addie, and her family in Grassy Point, Washington County, Florida. She was transcribed as Lucy Moon, but on the original census it clearly says Moore. Her husband was not with them. Nor was her marital status listed - neither single or married.^[3]

In Oct 1912, there was a notice in the Waycross Journal which announced a divorce proceeding for Lucy Moore vs W M Moore to take place on the first Monday in Dec 1912 court docket in Ware County, Georgia.^[4]

According to the newspaper account, she was in the process of divorcing when she was shot and killed by her brother-in-law, Robert Smythe, in 1913, when she rebuffed his advances. Robert was married to Lucy's older sister Addie Bell (Freeman) Smythe. The family apparently was living in Waycross, Georgia at the time. Lucy was walking home with her father one night when Robert approached and shot her then tried to shoot her father, Milton. The gun jammed and Robert ran off. They found him a little later shot to death by his own hand.^[5][6]

Lucy had worked at the Mutual Grocery Company in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia. The photo shown was taken 4 months prior to her death. She is the woman standing in the right foreground of the photo.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9DM-K1T : accessed 16 March 2015), Lucy Freeman in household of Margarett Ramsay, Precinct 21 Birmingham city Ward 4, Jefferson, Alabama, United States; citing sheet 4B, family 73, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,023.
2. ↑ "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRJT-BNJ : accessed 16 October 2015), Wm M Moore and Lucy Freeman, 1909.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVK5-VYK : accessed 16 March 2017), Lucy Moon in household of Robert F Smyth, Grassy Point, Washington, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 120, sheet 12B, family 229, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 169; FHL microfilm 1,374,182.
4. ↑ Digital Library of Georgia, Georgia Historic Newspapers, The Waycross journal. (Waycross, Ga.) 1895-1914, October 18, 1912, Image 7
5. ↑ The Atlanta Constitution, (Atlanta, Georgia), 4 Aug 1913, Mon • Page 12 [[1]]
6. ↑ Atlanta Constitution 6 Aug 1913, p 12, Freeman Lucille Murder [[2]]