Georgia Ellen (Luttrell) McDonald (1898 - 1992)

Born 10 Jan 1898 in Savannah, Hardin, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Robert McDonald — married 1922 in Illinois, United States

Died 30 Jul 1992 at age 94 in Dawson Springs, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Georgia was born in Hardin County, TN found in the 1900 ED 28 Civil District 2 (formerly Civil District 3, Old Town Precinct), Hardin, Tennessee, United States" The family lived there and moved to Calhoun County, MS before the 1910 Miss. Census. The family stayed in Farm Houses and barns on the travels to MS. They stayed in a Barn one Christmas and she told me (Deborah Turner-10930) that they worried that Santa Clause would find them there. They were plum without, she said, but the farmer who owned the barn made sure they not only had a warm dry place to live, but made sure that they all had a pleasant Christmas surprise from Santa on Christmas morning. Georgia Luttrell was enumerated as daughter of the head of household James Herbert Luttrell at Beat 3, Calhoun County, Mississippi for the April 21, 1910.^[1] She was noted as born 1897 in Tennessee and single as seen in the image of the original census. Also included in the household are head James R Lutrell, wife Lorna (Leona) Lutrell, son Herbert Lutrell, daughter Cora Lutrell, daughter Delora Lutrell and son Willis Lutrell.^[2] Georgia married in IL, and she and her family lived in Dawson Springs KY and IL through the years, they came back to Calhoun County each year on vacation. They would stay with her parents, when they were still living, and all the family would come and visit them there. Georgia and "Mack" McDonald has a son James Robert McDonald, named after her father James Robert Luttrell. Georgia was a Happy lady, that brought laughter where ever she went. She lived a long, full life, before she died in Peoria IL, where she lived with her son and his wife Gwyn.

Lived in Cuba, Ill. and Peoria, Ill. Buried in Ilsley Cemetery, Dawson Springs, KY.

Sources

1. ↑ United States Census, 1910.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPZ1-HMM : accessed 6 May 2015), Georgia Lutrell in household of James R Lutrell, Beat 3, Calhoun, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 21, sheet 5B, family 49, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,747.

See also:

• "1900 ED 28 Civil District 2 (formerly Civil District 3, Old Town Precinct), Hardin, Tennessee, United States"

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MPZ1-HMM : 29 October 2015), Georgia Lutrell in household of James R Lutrell, Beat 3, Calhoun, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 21, sheet 5B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,747."

• "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNRK-QCZ : accessed 6 May 2015), Georgia Lutrell in household of J R Lutrell, Beat 3, Calhoun, Mississippi, United States; citing sheet 10B, family 196, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,870.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K7TD-666 : accessed 5 October 2016), Georgia E Mcdonald in household of Robert W Mcdonald, Dawson Springs, Magisterial District 6, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 54-28, sheet 3A, family 52, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1318."