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Mary Loula Virginia “Lula or Miss Lulu” <I>Nelson</I> Felder

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Mary Loula Virginia “Lula or Miss Lulu” Nelson Felder

Birth
Cass, Cass County, Texas, USA
Death
16 Aug 1942 (aged 77)
Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas, USA
Burial
Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 30.3893159, Longitude: -96.1010836
Plot
Sect A, Block A, Lot 10, Grave 2
Memorial ID
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Daughter: Ethel Felder Webster
Daughter: Nettie Mae Felder
Daughter: Helen Nelson Felder
Son: Robert Lee Felder

Also had 8 step-children from her husband's first marriage to
Margaret Eliza Matthews.

Name: Lula Nelson Felder
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 18 Aug 1942
Burial Place: Navasota, Texas
Death Date: 16 Aug 1942
Death Place: Chapel Hill, Washington, Texas
Age: 77
Birth Date: 02 Mar 1865
Birthplace: Cass County, Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Nelson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: M. A. S. Meriwether
Mother's Birthplace: Raines
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00014-7
System Origin: Texas-EASy
Source Film Number: 1769411
Reference Number: cn 1452
Collection: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973

FamilySearch.org Pedigree Resource File Compact Disc #113 Pin #690371 incorrectly has her birth year as being about 1846.

Applied for her husband Rufus King Felder's Confederate Pension 1 Apr 1931. Approved 1 May 1931. Application # 49577 in Washington County, Texas under the name Felder, Lula N.

The following is from: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cmillergv&id=I3371

Robert L. was living with her at the time of her death in 1942. Coronary disease. Buried in Navasota by side of her daughter, Helen Felder, w/o Dr. Robert Chappell, Veterinarian.

Regarding her husband Rufus:

5TH TEX. VOL. INF. REGT. COMPANY E - DIXIE BLUES Original Roster: Company was organized in Washington County, Texas, July 19, 1861 and was mustered into the Confederate service in that county "for the war," Aug. 8, 1861.

FELDER, RUFUS K. Private - Original member of Company.
Sick, Spring & Summer, 1862: Present for all battles: Paroled, Appomattox (Apr.12, 1865).
From: http://www.5thtexascoe.com/originalroster.html

At the close of the war returned to texas and settled in washington county, where he met with moderate success as a plnte. Politically, he is a Democrat, and religiously, a Methodist, having long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

From: "A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 4" By Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler, pg 1782
http://books.google.com/books?id=vVoUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA1782&ots=Bjxms0AhUW&dq=rufus%20king
%20felder&pg=PA1782#v=onepage&q=rufus%20king%20felder&f=
false
Daughter: Ethel Felder Webster
Daughter: Nettie Mae Felder
Daughter: Helen Nelson Felder
Son: Robert Lee Felder

Also had 8 step-children from her husband's first marriage to
Margaret Eliza Matthews.

Name: Lula Nelson Felder
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 18 Aug 1942
Burial Place: Navasota, Texas
Death Date: 16 Aug 1942
Death Place: Chapel Hill, Washington, Texas
Age: 77
Birth Date: 02 Mar 1865
Birthplace: Cass County, Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Nelson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: M. A. S. Meriwether
Mother's Birthplace: Raines
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00014-7
System Origin: Texas-EASy
Source Film Number: 1769411
Reference Number: cn 1452
Collection: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973

FamilySearch.org Pedigree Resource File Compact Disc #113 Pin #690371 incorrectly has her birth year as being about 1846.

Applied for her husband Rufus King Felder's Confederate Pension 1 Apr 1931. Approved 1 May 1931. Application # 49577 in Washington County, Texas under the name Felder, Lula N.

The following is from: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cmillergv&id=I3371

Robert L. was living with her at the time of her death in 1942. Coronary disease. Buried in Navasota by side of her daughter, Helen Felder, w/o Dr. Robert Chappell, Veterinarian.

Regarding her husband Rufus:

5TH TEX. VOL. INF. REGT. COMPANY E - DIXIE BLUES Original Roster: Company was organized in Washington County, Texas, July 19, 1861 and was mustered into the Confederate service in that county "for the war," Aug. 8, 1861.

FELDER, RUFUS K. Private - Original member of Company.
Sick, Spring & Summer, 1862: Present for all battles: Paroled, Appomattox (Apr.12, 1865).
From: http://www.5thtexascoe.com/originalroster.html

At the close of the war returned to texas and settled in washington county, where he met with moderate success as a plnte. Politically, he is a Democrat, and religiously, a Methodist, having long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

From: "A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 4" By Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler, pg 1782
http://books.google.com/books?id=vVoUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA1782&ots=Bjxms0AhUW&dq=rufus%20king
%20felder&pg=PA1782#v=onepage&q=rufus%20king%20felder&f=
false


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