The Lantrips were sandy-land farmers, growing what they called "goobers" (peanuts), sweet potatoes, peppers, cotton, and tomatoes. They were part of the Great Tomato Boom of Milano, TX. which occurred in the teens and twenties.
The Lantrips enjoyed music and singing, especially hymns they sang in the Methodist church. John Lantrip had a beautiful voice, and frequently sang at funerals of family and friends.
John Lantrip and his mother-in-law, Mary E. (Stewart) Alley, died within two days of each other of influenza during the great worldwide flu epidemic of 1918. When John Lantrip died on Oct. 26, 1918, there was no one left to sing at his funeral. John Wesley Lantrip is buried in the Liberty Community Cemetery in Milam Co., Texas.
A great deal of information has been compiled on the Lantrips in America in the book The American Genealogy of the Lantrip Family . . . including the surnames Lanthrip & Landtroop, compiled and documented by Ivolue Sanders Lantrip & James Erwin Lantrip.
The Lantrips were sandy-land farmers, growing what they called "goobers" (peanuts), sweet potatoes, peppers, cotton, and tomatoes. They were part of the Great Tomato Boom of Milano, TX. which occurred in the teens and twenties.
The Lantrips enjoyed music and singing, especially hymns they sang in the Methodist church. John Lantrip had a beautiful voice, and frequently sang at funerals of family and friends.
John Lantrip and his mother-in-law, Mary E. (Stewart) Alley, died within two days of each other of influenza during the great worldwide flu epidemic of 1918. When John Lantrip died on Oct. 26, 1918, there was no one left to sing at his funeral. John Wesley Lantrip is buried in the Liberty Community Cemetery in Milam Co., Texas.
A great deal of information has been compiled on the Lantrips in America in the book The American Genealogy of the Lantrip Family . . . including the surnames Lanthrip & Landtroop, compiled and documented by Ivolue Sanders Lantrip & James Erwin Lantrip.
Inscription
LANTRIP
MATTIE
NOV. 28, 1862
AUG. 8, 1935
LANTRIP
JOHN WESLEY
FEB. 2, 1859
OCT. 26, 1918
Family Members
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Mary "Alma" Lantrip Hildebrandt
1881–1965
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Sarah "Maud" Lantrip York
1883–1905
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Lillie Edelle Lantrip Reese
1886–1969
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Johnnie Robert Lantrip Nicholson
1888–1967
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William Wesley Lantrip
1892–1965
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Mattie Pearl Lantrip Bullock
1894–1954
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George "Alley" Lantrip
1897–1959
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Henry Bertram Lantrip
1900–1987
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Jewell "Clydelle" Lantrip Jacob
1905–2007