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Clora Corwin “C.C.” Lucas

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Clora Corwin “C.C.” Lucas

Birth
Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Death
7 Dec 1985 (aged 91)
Dalhart, Dallam County, Texas, USA
Burial
Dalhart, Dallam County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.0655243, Longitude: -102.5297869
Plot
Section 2, Row 18, Space 22
Memorial ID
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Grandfather of "Page Pioneer" Clora "Ann" Lucas Jurajda, PHS '60.

The cremains of Zumie & C.C.'s daughter, Clora "Virginia" Lucas, were interred in 2010 in Zumie's burial space: Section 2, Row 18, Space 21. Their daughter, Florence Lucas Combs, and their youngest son, Edsel Lucas, are also buried in this cemetery.

Clora Corwin "C.C." Lucas was born in 1894 in Wichita Falls, TX. He was six feet tall and played on the high school basketball team in Texhoma, OK. He was a farmer and had a trucking business. His wife, Zumie's, family was also from Wichita Falls, TX. They didn't know each other in TX, but both families moved to Cimarron County, OK. Zumie (NMI) Enlow, was born in 1896. She was a school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in the Lone Star #2 School District from the age of 18 for three years until she met "C.C.", but she continued to put her teaching skills to good use by home schooling Tex when the time came.

Tex has a photograph of his parents in their one-horse buggy, which transported them, Tex, and his sister, Virginia, to the only church available in the area at that time. It was 2-1/2 miles away in the country. "C.C.'s" mother, Loumiza Caldonia (Tex spelled it "Loumisa Caldona") Lucas, lived across the road from the church. C.C.'s father, John James "J.J." Lucas, died of pneumonia four years before Tex was born. J.J. (Loumisa called him "Jimmy") had been moving a large herd of cattle in a snowstorm and got pneumonia. Tex spent a lot of time with his widowed grandmother. Her unmarried son, Samuel "Att" Lucas, was 3-5 years older than Tex' father, and lived with Loumisa, but he worked a lot in the community, farming for others; he was also on the church board and attended meetings for them out of town, so from the time Tex was seven years old, he would stay with his grandmother and look after her 50 head of cattle and keep up the fence, etc., until she died in 1935. Uncle Att lived in the house alone for awhile, then sold it and bought a house in town, where he lived until he died at age 85-90. C.C.'s mother's funeral procession and burial story was on the 2012 PBS Dust Bowl series by Ken Burns. She had passed away, along with a little girl in the family (Tex' cousin). They buried the little girl where they were but tried to take Loumisa's body to Texhoma when the "Black Sunday Storm" hit, so they had to turn around and bury her with the little girl. Distance of 8-10 miles away from Dalhart, TX to Boise City, OK. "It took the storm just one hour 45 minutes to travel the 105 miles from Boise City to Amarillo, Texas. The funeral procession of Mrs. Loumiza Lucas, enroute from Boise City to Texhoma, Oklahoma, was caught eight miles out and forced to turn back. Mrs. Lucas was the mother of Fred Lucas, well known Texhoma rancher, and E.W. Lucas of Boise City." --April 14, 1935 Boise City, OK newspaper reported on "Black Sunday" Dust Storm.
Grandfather of "Page Pioneer" Clora "Ann" Lucas Jurajda, PHS '60.

The cremains of Zumie & C.C.'s daughter, Clora "Virginia" Lucas, were interred in 2010 in Zumie's burial space: Section 2, Row 18, Space 21. Their daughter, Florence Lucas Combs, and their youngest son, Edsel Lucas, are also buried in this cemetery.

Clora Corwin "C.C." Lucas was born in 1894 in Wichita Falls, TX. He was six feet tall and played on the high school basketball team in Texhoma, OK. He was a farmer and had a trucking business. His wife, Zumie's, family was also from Wichita Falls, TX. They didn't know each other in TX, but both families moved to Cimarron County, OK. Zumie (NMI) Enlow, was born in 1896. She was a school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in the Lone Star #2 School District from the age of 18 for three years until she met "C.C.", but she continued to put her teaching skills to good use by home schooling Tex when the time came.

Tex has a photograph of his parents in their one-horse buggy, which transported them, Tex, and his sister, Virginia, to the only church available in the area at that time. It was 2-1/2 miles away in the country. "C.C.'s" mother, Loumiza Caldonia (Tex spelled it "Loumisa Caldona") Lucas, lived across the road from the church. C.C.'s father, John James "J.J." Lucas, died of pneumonia four years before Tex was born. J.J. (Loumisa called him "Jimmy") had been moving a large herd of cattle in a snowstorm and got pneumonia. Tex spent a lot of time with his widowed grandmother. Her unmarried son, Samuel "Att" Lucas, was 3-5 years older than Tex' father, and lived with Loumisa, but he worked a lot in the community, farming for others; he was also on the church board and attended meetings for them out of town, so from the time Tex was seven years old, he would stay with his grandmother and look after her 50 head of cattle and keep up the fence, etc., until she died in 1935. Uncle Att lived in the house alone for awhile, then sold it and bought a house in town, where he lived until he died at age 85-90. C.C.'s mother's funeral procession and burial story was on the 2012 PBS Dust Bowl series by Ken Burns. She had passed away, along with a little girl in the family (Tex' cousin). They buried the little girl where they were but tried to take Loumisa's body to Texhoma when the "Black Sunday Storm" hit, so they had to turn around and bury her with the little girl. Distance of 8-10 miles away from Dalhart, TX to Boise City, OK. "It took the storm just one hour 45 minutes to travel the 105 miles from Boise City to Amarillo, Texas. The funeral procession of Mrs. Loumiza Lucas, enroute from Boise City to Texhoma, Oklahoma, was caught eight miles out and forced to turn back. Mrs. Lucas was the mother of Fred Lucas, well known Texhoma rancher, and E.W. Lucas of Boise City." --April 14, 1935 Boise City, OK newspaper reported on "Black Sunday" Dust Storm.


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