1920 Hopkins County, Kentucky, Magesterial District One, Nortonville(?); ED#89, SD#2, Sheet 16A, printed page #16. Enumerated 21 January. HH#308, Family#315 (street named; can't read - looks like North Num.....) Name was spelled "Wilbern":
1930 U.S. Census, Muhlenburg Co. Ky., :"Wilbur, L. F." , age 37, occupation - Post Mistress
Death certif. shows cause of death as carcinoma metastases, generalized.
Her elopement to begin her marriage was rather humourously romanticized in a newspaper article preserved for us by her daughter, Georgia (Wilburn) Dockery, as follows, from Sept, 1909.
"A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE" "Capt. N. J. Wilburn and a Lassie from Todd County Elope and Are Married in Tennessee" "The Trenton Progress Says:" 'Sunday morning Mr. William Wren, a farmer residing a few miles from this city, came to town with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Miss Lula Wren, to attend the revival services at the Baptist Church. While papa was putting away the vehicle Miss Lula met the" (illegible) "Flyer going south, on board of which was her lover, Capt. J. N. Wilburn, city marshal of Sturgis, who stepped up on the platfrorm, received his bride-to-be, and on to Springfield, Tenn., they sped, where in as quick a time as a nuptial knot could be tied, Miss Wren was made Mrs. Wilburn. We learn that this is the groom's second venture in matrimony, while the bride is a sixteen-year-old school girl, being in the 7th grade of the Trenton public schools. There is as we learn, a romance connected with this wedding. Capt. Wilburn commanded a squad of soldiers in this county during the recent night rider troubles and it was at this time that he and Miss Wren became sweethearts.'" "Capt. Wilburn will be remembered as one of the bravest of the soldiers encamped here during the night rider troubles. He was a member of the Middlesboro Company, a first lieutenant, and distinguished himself when it took courage to go on raids that he made in this and adjoining counties searching for lawbreakers. His numerous friends of Hopkinsville wish him a long and happy journey through life."
Notes in cemetery records state these plots wer purchased in 1932 for $175 by "M.L. Wren"
1930 U.S. Census, Muhlenburg Co. Ky., :"Wilbur, L. F." , age 37, occupation - Post Mistress
Death certif. shows cause of death as carcinoma metastases, generalized.
Her elopement to begin her marriage was rather humourously romanticized in a newspaper article preserved for us by her daughter, Georgia (Wilburn) Dockery, as follows, from Sept, 1909.
"A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE" "Capt. N. J. Wilburn and a Lassie from Todd County Elope and Are Married in Tennessee" "The Trenton Progress Says:" 'Sunday morning Mr. William Wren, a farmer residing a few miles from this city, came to town with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Miss Lula Wren, to attend the revival services at the Baptist Church. While papa was putting away the vehicle Miss Lula met the" (illegible) "Flyer going south, on board of which was her lover, Capt. J. N. Wilburn, city marshal of Sturgis, who stepped up on the platfrorm, received his bride-to-be, and on to Springfield, Tenn., they sped, where in as quick a time as a nuptial knot could be tied, Miss Wren was made Mrs. Wilburn. We learn that this is the groom's second venture in matrimony, while the bride is a sixteen-year-old school girl, being in the 7th grade of the Trenton public schools. There is as we learn, a romance connected with this wedding. Capt. Wilburn commanded a squad of soldiers in this county during the recent night rider troubles and it was at this time that he and Miss Wren became sweethearts.'" "Capt. Wilburn will be remembered as one of the bravest of the soldiers encamped here during the night rider troubles. He was a member of the Middlesboro Company, a first lieutenant, and distinguished himself when it took courage to go on raids that he made in this and adjoining counties searching for lawbreakers. His numerous friends of Hopkinsville wish him a long and happy journey through life."
Notes in cemetery records state these plots wer purchased in 1932 for $175 by "M.L. Wren"
1920 Hopkins County, Kentucky, Magesterial District One, Nortonville(?); ED#89, SD#2, Sheet 16A, printed page #16. Enumerated 21 January. HH#308, Family#315 (street named; can't read - looks like North Num.....) Name was spelled "Wilbern":
1930 U.S. Census, Muhlenburg Co. Ky., :"Wilbur, L. F." , age 37, occupation - Post Mistress
Death certif. shows cause of death as carcinoma metastases, generalized.
Her elopement to begin her marriage was rather humourously romanticized in a newspaper article preserved for us by her daughter, Georgia (Wilburn) Dockery, as follows, from Sept, 1909.
"A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE" "Capt. N. J. Wilburn and a Lassie from Todd County Elope and Are Married in Tennessee" "The Trenton Progress Says:" 'Sunday morning Mr. William Wren, a farmer residing a few miles from this city, came to town with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Miss Lula Wren, to attend the revival services at the Baptist Church. While papa was putting away the vehicle Miss Lula met the" (illegible) "Flyer going south, on board of which was her lover, Capt. J. N. Wilburn, city marshal of Sturgis, who stepped up on the platfrorm, received his bride-to-be, and on to Springfield, Tenn., they sped, where in as quick a time as a nuptial knot could be tied, Miss Wren was made Mrs. Wilburn. We learn that this is the groom's second venture in matrimony, while the bride is a sixteen-year-old school girl, being in the 7th grade of the Trenton public schools. There is as we learn, a romance connected with this wedding. Capt. Wilburn commanded a squad of soldiers in this county during the recent night rider troubles and it was at this time that he and Miss Wren became sweethearts.'" "Capt. Wilburn will be remembered as one of the bravest of the soldiers encamped here during the night rider troubles. He was a member of the Middlesboro Company, a first lieutenant, and distinguished himself when it took courage to go on raids that he made in this and adjoining counties searching for lawbreakers. His numerous friends of Hopkinsville wish him a long and happy journey through life."
Notes in cemetery records state these plots wer purchased in 1932 for $175 by "M.L. Wren"
1930 U.S. Census, Muhlenburg Co. Ky., :"Wilbur, L. F." , age 37, occupation - Post Mistress
Death certif. shows cause of death as carcinoma metastases, generalized.
Her elopement to begin her marriage was rather humourously romanticized in a newspaper article preserved for us by her daughter, Georgia (Wilburn) Dockery, as follows, from Sept, 1909.
"A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE" "Capt. N. J. Wilburn and a Lassie from Todd County Elope and Are Married in Tennessee" "The Trenton Progress Says:" 'Sunday morning Mr. William Wren, a farmer residing a few miles from this city, came to town with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Miss Lula Wren, to attend the revival services at the Baptist Church. While papa was putting away the vehicle Miss Lula met the" (illegible) "Flyer going south, on board of which was her lover, Capt. J. N. Wilburn, city marshal of Sturgis, who stepped up on the platfrorm, received his bride-to-be, and on to Springfield, Tenn., they sped, where in as quick a time as a nuptial knot could be tied, Miss Wren was made Mrs. Wilburn. We learn that this is the groom's second venture in matrimony, while the bride is a sixteen-year-old school girl, being in the 7th grade of the Trenton public schools. There is as we learn, a romance connected with this wedding. Capt. Wilburn commanded a squad of soldiers in this county during the recent night rider troubles and it was at this time that he and Miss Wren became sweethearts.'" "Capt. Wilburn will be remembered as one of the bravest of the soldiers encamped here during the night rider troubles. He was a member of the Middlesboro Company, a first lieutenant, and distinguished himself when it took courage to go on raids that he made in this and adjoining counties searching for lawbreakers. His numerous friends of Hopkinsville wish him a long and happy journey through life."
Notes in cemetery records state these plots wer purchased in 1932 for $175 by "M.L. Wren"
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