Lucy was the second daughter of Oliver Granderson (Grandison) Wilson, D.D.S. (January 1856 Trenton, Tenn.-Jan 1940, Franklin, Ky.) and Belle Weisiger (Feb 1860 Danville, Ky.-Feb 1941 Franklin, Ky).
Lucy was born in Hendersonville, Sumner Co., Tennessee, on 7 August 1883 in the home of her mother's parents, Joseph & Mary Ann Kincaid Weisiger, the house called 'Belleview,' now known as 'Hazel Path.' Joseph Weisiger (1825-1901) was the son of Dr. Joseph Weisiger of Danville (1794 Frankfort, Ky.-1873 Dewitt Co., Texas) and his first wife, Susan Lewis Rochester (1799 Danville, Ky.-1834 Danville, Ky.). Mary Ann Kincaid (1826 Lincoln or Boyle Co., Ky.-1834 Sumner Co., Tennessee), Find A Grave Memorial# 94985683, was the daughter of Judge John Kincaid, U..S. Congressman (1791 nr. Danville, Mercer Co., Ky.-1873 Hendersonville, Tenn.) and Mary Garnett Waggoner (1795 Madison Co., Virginia-1862 Danville, Ky.).
Lucy was named for her grandfather Weisiger's grandmother, Lucy Price Weisiger (Sep 1774 Frederick Co., Virginia-1857 Dewitt Co., Texas), a Calmes descendant & wife of Capt. Daniel Weisiger III, one of the founders of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Lucy's parents made their home in Franklin, Ky., where "O.G." practiced dentistry in offices on the square. They lived at what she referred to in later years as "the Grey place," on the north side of West Cedar Street where it narrows past the lane. It was there that her older sister, Mary Belle (1980-1895), died as a teenager of a fever thought to have been contracted from bad well water.
Along with her best friends, the Harris sisters across the street, Lucy attended and graduated from Franklin Female College. In Nov 1904 she married James Wilson Gorin II, D. O. (named for his grandfather, a Bowling Green attorney). Jim was Valedictorian of the Southern School of Osteopathy's 1904 graduation class. Their marriage was solemnized at the Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, with friends & family from Kentucky & Tennessee present.
Dr. Gorin had contracted to represent an Atlanta practice in their Brunswick, Georgia, office so off the newlyweds went to Georgia. Jim proved a popular & successful doctor and made many friends in Brunswick, among them a David S. Atkinson. After living frugally & fulfilling his contract in Brunswick, Lucy & Jim moved to the larger city of Savannah, Georgia, so Jim could open his own practice. He took ground floor offices in the prestigious Durenne Building downtown where they also lived for some years in lovely apartments one of the upper floors. Serendipitously, his Brunswick friend David Atkinson also moved to Savannah. Now an attorney, Dave later married Catherine Candler.
Jim had a large, highly regarded practice, was in Rotary, and was an active Mason in the local lodge. One of his many well known patients was Juliet Gordon Low. Lucy and Jim bought a home in Chatham Crescent at 206 East 45th. Among their neighbors were their friends the Atkinsons (Find A Grave Memorial# 115293676) who lived across the street. Although the Gorins were quite social & happy in Savannah, Lucy did make frequent trips by train to visit her parents and her oldest daughter, Lucile, was born in Franklin. It became her custom in these pre-air conditioning days to make an extended visit along with the children each summer during the worst of Georgia's summer heat. Ann Gorin's memories of those summers always included tales of visits to her grandfather's dental office as well as trips to visit Blue Grass cousins.
Lucy's passion was collecting antiques in the low country & back woods and after being teased about the expense of her many hats she announced that henceforth she'd buy her own hats. How? To Jim's amusement she opened an antiques business in the carriage house and it proved quite profitable.
Lucy & Jim had two daughters, Lucile (b. 1905) and Ann (b. 1919). Both girls attended Pape School and both made their debuts in Savannah. Lucile, coming of age in the "flapper" days, married in South Carolina & had a son in 1930, Tommy Hughes, then divorced moving back home with her child. Ann, 14 years younger than Lucile & born in Savannah, went off to Brenau, a north Georgia prep school, in the late 1930's depression era and there met her future husband, a military school cadet from Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Gorin's health took several blows, invalided from a major heart attack he was then diagnosed with cancer of the spine, dying of the latter in an Atlanta hospital in Nov 1940. Lucy, who had a well-established life & ran a large home with a cook, a house-man, and a nurse for the children/grandchild, soon made a sea change. She sold her Georgia home after 36 years in that state & bought a large house in Franklin moving daughters, grandson, and nurse "back" to Kentucky to be near her recently widowed mother, Belle. Sadly, Belle died in February of 1941, not long after the family arrived in Franklin.
The next 30 years were filled with gardening, bird watching, neighborhood friendships, correspondence with missionaries, genealogy, trips to the Blue Grass, and family visits. A devout Christian she read her Bible daily, had an active prayer life, attended church, & supported missionaries. Very social in early widowhood, her world shrank as friends died, or when her daughters & grandchildren moved away, or as her comfort in driving lessened. In later years her older daughter Lucile moved back home permanently, retiring from a short career in Georgia, as a teacher in Gainsville and Savannah. Thus Lucy had company in the house though she was still the primary caregiver of the two. Visits from her Bowling Green family, grandson Tommy Hughes and her only great-grandchild, Amy, brightened many a day.
An inveterate walker she paid all her bills by hand until quite late in life, enjoying the time spent "downtown." Her income depended in part on rentals, apartments in several residential buildings and the Wilson Bldg. on the town square, the latter's chief tenant for many years being Gillespie Bros. Men's Store (downstairs) and Dr. J. J. Kelly upstairs in O.G.'s former dental offices. Tending to maintenance & repairs became more & more difficult as she & the properties aged until finally her son-in-law convinced her to sell the residential properties & put the proceeds in income producing investments.
A charter member of the Simpson County Historical Society, a early member of the Simpson County DAR chapter (originally joined DAR ca 1906 in Brunswick, GA), a member of the Christian Church attending the local Church Of Christ, Lucy lived at home, 302 West Cedar, until her final few days. She died 11 NOV 1972 in the Bowling Green-Warren Co. Hospital, Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky. Burial was on 13 NOV 1972 at Green Lawn Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson Co., Ky., funeral & interment services handled by Booker Funeral Home. Worried that she was so old no one would attend her funeral, she would have been pleased at the good crowd that came to send her off.
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Family note, 2016: Lucy's cook in Savannah was named Lillie Ennis. Her birthday was Jan 29, yr unknown. Her husband may have worked at the Savannah Golf Club. She & Lucy corresponded after Lucy's 1940 move back to Ky. I last saw Lillie in Savannah in 1949. She likely died before 1962. Efforts to locate her grave unsuccessful to date. Need to find burial info re Susie "Nursie" Richardson (Find A Grave Memorial # 167223578) & Susie's niece Florence also. -AGP
Lucy was born in Hendersonville, Sumner Co., Tennessee, on 7 August 1883 in the home of her mother's parents, Joseph & Mary Ann Kincaid Weisiger, the house called 'Belleview,' now known as 'Hazel Path.' Joseph Weisiger (1825-1901) was the son of Dr. Joseph Weisiger of Danville (1794 Frankfort, Ky.-1873 Dewitt Co., Texas) and his first wife, Susan Lewis Rochester (1799 Danville, Ky.-1834 Danville, Ky.). Mary Ann Kincaid (1826 Lincoln or Boyle Co., Ky.-1834 Sumner Co., Tennessee), Find A Grave Memorial# 94985683, was the daughter of Judge John Kincaid, U..S. Congressman (1791 nr. Danville, Mercer Co., Ky.-1873 Hendersonville, Tenn.) and Mary Garnett Waggoner (1795 Madison Co., Virginia-1862 Danville, Ky.).
Lucy was named for her grandfather Weisiger's grandmother, Lucy Price Weisiger (Sep 1774 Frederick Co., Virginia-1857 Dewitt Co., Texas), a Calmes descendant & wife of Capt. Daniel Weisiger III, one of the founders of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Lucy's parents made their home in Franklin, Ky., where "O.G." practiced dentistry in offices on the square. They lived at what she referred to in later years as "the Grey place," on the north side of West Cedar Street where it narrows past the lane. It was there that her older sister, Mary Belle (1980-1895), died as a teenager of a fever thought to have been contracted from bad well water.
Along with her best friends, the Harris sisters across the street, Lucy attended and graduated from Franklin Female College. In Nov 1904 she married James Wilson Gorin II, D. O. (named for his grandfather, a Bowling Green attorney). Jim was Valedictorian of the Southern School of Osteopathy's 1904 graduation class. Their marriage was solemnized at the Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, with friends & family from Kentucky & Tennessee present.
Dr. Gorin had contracted to represent an Atlanta practice in their Brunswick, Georgia, office so off the newlyweds went to Georgia. Jim proved a popular & successful doctor and made many friends in Brunswick, among them a David S. Atkinson. After living frugally & fulfilling his contract in Brunswick, Lucy & Jim moved to the larger city of Savannah, Georgia, so Jim could open his own practice. He took ground floor offices in the prestigious Durenne Building downtown where they also lived for some years in lovely apartments one of the upper floors. Serendipitously, his Brunswick friend David Atkinson also moved to Savannah. Now an attorney, Dave later married Catherine Candler.
Jim had a large, highly regarded practice, was in Rotary, and was an active Mason in the local lodge. One of his many well known patients was Juliet Gordon Low. Lucy and Jim bought a home in Chatham Crescent at 206 East 45th. Among their neighbors were their friends the Atkinsons (Find A Grave Memorial# 115293676) who lived across the street. Although the Gorins were quite social & happy in Savannah, Lucy did make frequent trips by train to visit her parents and her oldest daughter, Lucile, was born in Franklin. It became her custom in these pre-air conditioning days to make an extended visit along with the children each summer during the worst of Georgia's summer heat. Ann Gorin's memories of those summers always included tales of visits to her grandfather's dental office as well as trips to visit Blue Grass cousins.
Lucy's passion was collecting antiques in the low country & back woods and after being teased about the expense of her many hats she announced that henceforth she'd buy her own hats. How? To Jim's amusement she opened an antiques business in the carriage house and it proved quite profitable.
Lucy & Jim had two daughters, Lucile (b. 1905) and Ann (b. 1919). Both girls attended Pape School and both made their debuts in Savannah. Lucile, coming of age in the "flapper" days, married in South Carolina & had a son in 1930, Tommy Hughes, then divorced moving back home with her child. Ann, 14 years younger than Lucile & born in Savannah, went off to Brenau, a north Georgia prep school, in the late 1930's depression era and there met her future husband, a military school cadet from Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Gorin's health took several blows, invalided from a major heart attack he was then diagnosed with cancer of the spine, dying of the latter in an Atlanta hospital in Nov 1940. Lucy, who had a well-established life & ran a large home with a cook, a house-man, and a nurse for the children/grandchild, soon made a sea change. She sold her Georgia home after 36 years in that state & bought a large house in Franklin moving daughters, grandson, and nurse "back" to Kentucky to be near her recently widowed mother, Belle. Sadly, Belle died in February of 1941, not long after the family arrived in Franklin.
The next 30 years were filled with gardening, bird watching, neighborhood friendships, correspondence with missionaries, genealogy, trips to the Blue Grass, and family visits. A devout Christian she read her Bible daily, had an active prayer life, attended church, & supported missionaries. Very social in early widowhood, her world shrank as friends died, or when her daughters & grandchildren moved away, or as her comfort in driving lessened. In later years her older daughter Lucile moved back home permanently, retiring from a short career in Georgia, as a teacher in Gainsville and Savannah. Thus Lucy had company in the house though she was still the primary caregiver of the two. Visits from her Bowling Green family, grandson Tommy Hughes and her only great-grandchild, Amy, brightened many a day.
An inveterate walker she paid all her bills by hand until quite late in life, enjoying the time spent "downtown." Her income depended in part on rentals, apartments in several residential buildings and the Wilson Bldg. on the town square, the latter's chief tenant for many years being Gillespie Bros. Men's Store (downstairs) and Dr. J. J. Kelly upstairs in O.G.'s former dental offices. Tending to maintenance & repairs became more & more difficult as she & the properties aged until finally her son-in-law convinced her to sell the residential properties & put the proceeds in income producing investments.
A charter member of the Simpson County Historical Society, a early member of the Simpson County DAR chapter (originally joined DAR ca 1906 in Brunswick, GA), a member of the Christian Church attending the local Church Of Christ, Lucy lived at home, 302 West Cedar, until her final few days. She died 11 NOV 1972 in the Bowling Green-Warren Co. Hospital, Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky. Burial was on 13 NOV 1972 at Green Lawn Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson Co., Ky., funeral & interment services handled by Booker Funeral Home. Worried that she was so old no one would attend her funeral, she would have been pleased at the good crowd that came to send her off.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=agp4fams&id=I3033
Family note, 2016: Lucy's cook in Savannah was named Lillie Ennis. Her birthday was Jan 29, yr unknown. Her husband may have worked at the Savannah Golf Club. She & Lucy corresponded after Lucy's 1940 move back to Ky. I last saw Lillie in Savannah in 1949. She likely died before 1962. Efforts to locate her grave unsuccessful to date. Need to find burial info re Susie "Nursie" Richardson (Find A Grave Memorial # 167223578) & Susie's niece Florence also. -AGP
Lucy was the second daughter of Oliver Granderson (Grandison) Wilson, D.D.S. (January 1856 Trenton, Tenn.-Jan 1940, Franklin, Ky.) and Belle Weisiger (Feb 1860 Danville, Ky.-Feb 1941 Franklin, Ky).
Lucy was born in Hendersonville, Sumner Co., Tennessee, on 7 August 1883 in the home of her mother's parents, Joseph & Mary Ann Kincaid Weisiger, the house called 'Belleview,' now known as 'Hazel Path.' Joseph Weisiger (1825-1901) was the son of Dr. Joseph Weisiger of Danville (1794 Frankfort, Ky.-1873 Dewitt Co., Texas) and his first wife, Susan Lewis Rochester (1799 Danville, Ky.-1834 Danville, Ky.). Mary Ann Kincaid (1826 Lincoln or Boyle Co., Ky.-1834 Sumner Co., Tennessee), Find A Grave Memorial# 94985683, was the daughter of Judge John Kincaid, U..S. Congressman (1791 nr. Danville, Mercer Co., Ky.-1873 Hendersonville, Tenn.) and Mary Garnett Waggoner (1795 Madison Co., Virginia-1862 Danville, Ky.).
Lucy was named for her grandfather Weisiger's grandmother, Lucy Price Weisiger (Sep 1774 Frederick Co., Virginia-1857 Dewitt Co., Texas), a Calmes descendant & wife of Capt. Daniel Weisiger III, one of the founders of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Lucy's parents made their home in Franklin, Ky., where "O.G." practiced dentistry in offices on the square. They lived at what she referred to in later years as "the Grey place," on the north side of West Cedar Street where it narrows past the lane. It was there that her older sister, Mary Belle (1980-1895), died as a teenager of a fever thought to have been contracted from bad well water.
Along with her best friends, the Harris sisters across the street, Lucy attended and graduated from Franklin Female College. In Nov 1904 she married James Wilson Gorin II, D. O. (named for his grandfather, a Bowling Green attorney). Jim was Valedictorian of the Southern School of Osteopathy's 1904 graduation class. Their marriage was solemnized at the Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, with friends & family from Kentucky & Tennessee present.
Dr. Gorin had contracted to represent an Atlanta practice in their Brunswick, Georgia, office so off the newlyweds went to Georgia. Jim proved a popular & successful doctor and made many friends in Brunswick, among them a David S. Atkinson. After living frugally & fulfilling his contract in Brunswick, Lucy & Jim moved to the larger city of Savannah, Georgia, so Jim could open his own practice. He took ground floor offices in the prestigious Durenne Building downtown where they also lived for some years in lovely apartments one of the upper floors. Serendipitously, his Brunswick friend David Atkinson also moved to Savannah. Now an attorney, Dave later married Catherine Candler.
Jim had a large, highly regarded practice, was in Rotary, and was an active Mason in the local lodge. One of his many well known patients was Juliet Gordon Low. Lucy and Jim bought a home in Chatham Crescent at 206 East 45th. Among their neighbors were their friends the Atkinsons (Find A Grave Memorial# 115293676) who lived across the street. Although the Gorins were quite social & happy in Savannah, Lucy did make frequent trips by train to visit her parents and her oldest daughter, Lucile, was born in Franklin. It became her custom in these pre-air conditioning days to make an extended visit along with the children each summer during the worst of Georgia's summer heat. Ann Gorin's memories of those summers always included tales of visits to her grandfather's dental office as well as trips to visit Blue Grass cousins.
Lucy's passion was collecting antiques in the low country & back woods and after being teased about the expense of her many hats she announced that henceforth she'd buy her own hats. How? To Jim's amusement she opened an antiques business in the carriage house and it proved quite profitable.
Lucy & Jim had two daughters, Lucile (b. 1905) and Ann (b. 1919). Both girls attended Pape School and both made their debuts in Savannah. Lucile, coming of age in the "flapper" days, married in South Carolina & had a son in 1930, Tommy Hughes, then divorced moving back home with her child. Ann, 14 years younger than Lucile & born in Savannah, went off to Brenau, a north Georgia prep school, in the late 1930's depression era and there met her future husband, a military school cadet from Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Gorin's health took several blows, invalided from a major heart attack he was then diagnosed with cancer of the spine, dying of the latter in an Atlanta hospital in Nov 1940. Lucy, who had a well-established life & ran a large home with a cook, a house-man, and a nurse for the children/grandchild, soon made a sea change. She sold her Georgia home after 36 years in that state & bought a large house in Franklin moving daughters, grandson, and nurse "back" to Kentucky to be near her recently widowed mother, Belle. Sadly, Belle died in February of 1941, not long after the family arrived in Franklin.
The next 30 years were filled with gardening, bird watching, neighborhood friendships, correspondence with missionaries, genealogy, trips to the Blue Grass, and family visits. A devout Christian she read her Bible daily, had an active prayer life, attended church, & supported missionaries. Very social in early widowhood, her world shrank as friends died, or when her daughters & grandchildren moved away, or as her comfort in driving lessened. In later years her older daughter Lucile moved back home permanently, retiring from a short career in Georgia, as a teacher in Gainsville and Savannah. Thus Lucy had company in the house though she was still the primary caregiver of the two. Visits from her Bowling Green family, grandson Tommy Hughes and her only great-grandchild, Amy, brightened many a day.
An inveterate walker she paid all her bills by hand until quite late in life, enjoying the time spent "downtown." Her income depended in part on rentals, apartments in several residential buildings and the Wilson Bldg. on the town square, the latter's chief tenant for many years being Gillespie Bros. Men's Store (downstairs) and Dr. J. J. Kelly upstairs in O.G.'s former dental offices. Tending to maintenance & repairs became more & more difficult as she & the properties aged until finally her son-in-law convinced her to sell the residential properties & put the proceeds in income producing investments.
A charter member of the Simpson County Historical Society, a early member of the Simpson County DAR chapter (originally joined DAR ca 1906 in Brunswick, GA), a member of the Christian Church attending the local Church Of Christ, Lucy lived at home, 302 West Cedar, until her final few days. She died 11 NOV 1972 in the Bowling Green-Warren Co. Hospital, Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky. Burial was on 13 NOV 1972 at Green Lawn Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson Co., Ky., funeral & interment services handled by Booker Funeral Home. Worried that she was so old no one would attend her funeral, she would have been pleased at the good crowd that came to send her off.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=agp4fams&id=I3033
Family note, 2016: Lucy's cook in Savannah was named Lillie Ennis. Her birthday was Jan 29, yr unknown. Her husband may have worked at the Savannah Golf Club. She & Lucy corresponded after Lucy's 1940 move back to Ky. I last saw Lillie in Savannah in 1949. She likely died before 1962. Efforts to locate her grave unsuccessful to date. Need to find burial info re Susie "Nursie" Richardson (Find A Grave Memorial # 167223578) & Susie's niece Florence also. -AGP
Lucy was born in Hendersonville, Sumner Co., Tennessee, on 7 August 1883 in the home of her mother's parents, Joseph & Mary Ann Kincaid Weisiger, the house called 'Belleview,' now known as 'Hazel Path.' Joseph Weisiger (1825-1901) was the son of Dr. Joseph Weisiger of Danville (1794 Frankfort, Ky.-1873 Dewitt Co., Texas) and his first wife, Susan Lewis Rochester (1799 Danville, Ky.-1834 Danville, Ky.). Mary Ann Kincaid (1826 Lincoln or Boyle Co., Ky.-1834 Sumner Co., Tennessee), Find A Grave Memorial# 94985683, was the daughter of Judge John Kincaid, U..S. Congressman (1791 nr. Danville, Mercer Co., Ky.-1873 Hendersonville, Tenn.) and Mary Garnett Waggoner (1795 Madison Co., Virginia-1862 Danville, Ky.).
Lucy was named for her grandfather Weisiger's grandmother, Lucy Price Weisiger (Sep 1774 Frederick Co., Virginia-1857 Dewitt Co., Texas), a Calmes descendant & wife of Capt. Daniel Weisiger III, one of the founders of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Lucy's parents made their home in Franklin, Ky., where "O.G." practiced dentistry in offices on the square. They lived at what she referred to in later years as "the Grey place," on the north side of West Cedar Street where it narrows past the lane. It was there that her older sister, Mary Belle (1980-1895), died as a teenager of a fever thought to have been contracted from bad well water.
Along with her best friends, the Harris sisters across the street, Lucy attended and graduated from Franklin Female College. In Nov 1904 she married James Wilson Gorin II, D. O. (named for his grandfather, a Bowling Green attorney). Jim was Valedictorian of the Southern School of Osteopathy's 1904 graduation class. Their marriage was solemnized at the Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, with friends & family from Kentucky & Tennessee present.
Dr. Gorin had contracted to represent an Atlanta practice in their Brunswick, Georgia, office so off the newlyweds went to Georgia. Jim proved a popular & successful doctor and made many friends in Brunswick, among them a David S. Atkinson. After living frugally & fulfilling his contract in Brunswick, Lucy & Jim moved to the larger city of Savannah, Georgia, so Jim could open his own practice. He took ground floor offices in the prestigious Durenne Building downtown where they also lived for some years in lovely apartments one of the upper floors. Serendipitously, his Brunswick friend David Atkinson also moved to Savannah. Now an attorney, Dave later married Catherine Candler.
Jim had a large, highly regarded practice, was in Rotary, and was an active Mason in the local lodge. One of his many well known patients was Juliet Gordon Low. Lucy and Jim bought a home in Chatham Crescent at 206 East 45th. Among their neighbors were their friends the Atkinsons (Find A Grave Memorial# 115293676) who lived across the street. Although the Gorins were quite social & happy in Savannah, Lucy did make frequent trips by train to visit her parents and her oldest daughter, Lucile, was born in Franklin. It became her custom in these pre-air conditioning days to make an extended visit along with the children each summer during the worst of Georgia's summer heat. Ann Gorin's memories of those summers always included tales of visits to her grandfather's dental office as well as trips to visit Blue Grass cousins.
Lucy's passion was collecting antiques in the low country & back woods and after being teased about the expense of her many hats she announced that henceforth she'd buy her own hats. How? To Jim's amusement she opened an antiques business in the carriage house and it proved quite profitable.
Lucy & Jim had two daughters, Lucile (b. 1905) and Ann (b. 1919). Both girls attended Pape School and both made their debuts in Savannah. Lucile, coming of age in the "flapper" days, married in South Carolina & had a son in 1930, Tommy Hughes, then divorced moving back home with her child. Ann, 14 years younger than Lucile & born in Savannah, went off to Brenau, a north Georgia prep school, in the late 1930's depression era and there met her future husband, a military school cadet from Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Gorin's health took several blows, invalided from a major heart attack he was then diagnosed with cancer of the spine, dying of the latter in an Atlanta hospital in Nov 1940. Lucy, who had a well-established life & ran a large home with a cook, a house-man, and a nurse for the children/grandchild, soon made a sea change. She sold her Georgia home after 36 years in that state & bought a large house in Franklin moving daughters, grandson, and nurse "back" to Kentucky to be near her recently widowed mother, Belle. Sadly, Belle died in February of 1941, not long after the family arrived in Franklin.
The next 30 years were filled with gardening, bird watching, neighborhood friendships, correspondence with missionaries, genealogy, trips to the Blue Grass, and family visits. A devout Christian she read her Bible daily, had an active prayer life, attended church, & supported missionaries. Very social in early widowhood, her world shrank as friends died, or when her daughters & grandchildren moved away, or as her comfort in driving lessened. In later years her older daughter Lucile moved back home permanently, retiring from a short career in Georgia, as a teacher in Gainsville and Savannah. Thus Lucy had company in the house though she was still the primary caregiver of the two. Visits from her Bowling Green family, grandson Tommy Hughes and her only great-grandchild, Amy, brightened many a day.
An inveterate walker she paid all her bills by hand until quite late in life, enjoying the time spent "downtown." Her income depended in part on rentals, apartments in several residential buildings and the Wilson Bldg. on the town square, the latter's chief tenant for many years being Gillespie Bros. Men's Store (downstairs) and Dr. J. J. Kelly upstairs in O.G.'s former dental offices. Tending to maintenance & repairs became more & more difficult as she & the properties aged until finally her son-in-law convinced her to sell the residential properties & put the proceeds in income producing investments.
A charter member of the Simpson County Historical Society, a early member of the Simpson County DAR chapter (originally joined DAR ca 1906 in Brunswick, GA), a member of the Christian Church attending the local Church Of Christ, Lucy lived at home, 302 West Cedar, until her final few days. She died 11 NOV 1972 in the Bowling Green-Warren Co. Hospital, Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky. Burial was on 13 NOV 1972 at Green Lawn Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson Co., Ky., funeral & interment services handled by Booker Funeral Home. Worried that she was so old no one would attend her funeral, she would have been pleased at the good crowd that came to send her off.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=agp4fams&id=I3033
Family note, 2016: Lucy's cook in Savannah was named Lillie Ennis. Her birthday was Jan 29, yr unknown. Her husband may have worked at the Savannah Golf Club. She & Lucy corresponded after Lucy's 1940 move back to Ky. I last saw Lillie in Savannah in 1949. She likely died before 1962. Efforts to locate her grave unsuccessful to date. Need to find burial info re Susie "Nursie" Richardson (Find A Grave Memorial # 167223578) & Susie's niece Florence also. -AGP
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