Lucy's name is of some discussion. Her middle name is shown in some records as "Myron" or "Marion," but per Wilson family Bible, her name was "Miriam Lucy Caldwell Wilson." Her children remembered her as "Lulu" and "Lulla."

Lucy Marian Caldwell was born into a family with means and name in the Dallas area. Her father was Hugh C. Caldwell, a signer of the original Trinity River Navigation Project. Her mother was Widow Browder (maiden name Lucy Ann Penick Breeze), before she married Caldwell. The Browder ranch supplied the first fresh water to what was then the small village of Dallas. Part of the Browder property became the first zoo in Dallas, and now remains preserved as Old City Park. Mr. Browder was grandnephew of Pres. James Monroe.

From daughter, Birdie Wilson, memoirs: "My mother was a wonderful hard working woman, gentle and kind and long suffering. She was always willing to help. After Papa died, she was with me a lot for which I will always be thankful..." When living in Stella, Oklahoma, Lulu & Joe had a big farm with a big lumber building - where the daughters, Edna, Celia, Callie, Birdie & May slept - and a dugout where the boys, Hugh & Robert and Mother and Dad slept. Joe, Fred & Ben were born here.

When moving to Rocky Ford, Colorado, she was 8 months pregnant with Elmer. She had to sell everything they owned except the sewing machine. Husband Joe and son Hugh had gone ahead in a covered wagon. She and the rest of the children (8+ living at the time) traveled by train. Lucy was a hard worker - raised big gardens and worked in the cotton fields right alongwith the men & children. An example of her strength in mind & body was an occasion when there was a young man who regularly courted one of her daughters on Sundays: Lucy was pregnant with one of the last boys at the time: The young man came to call one Sunday - when he came the next Sunday, Lucy had had the baby and was working out in the field again already!

Lucy died in Chama, NM visiting at the home of grown daughter, Callie. The family story is that she stopped to see her daughter & to share her story of the trip she was returning from - Starting in Pagosa Springs, Colorado going to Mesquite, Texas, by way of the KATY railroad line. It was her only trip back to her home state of Texas, after leaving it some 30 + years earlier.