Lulu Sutherland was the daughter of Theodore and Dolly (Bailey) Ogden. She was born May 27, 1887, in Taylor, Wayne County, Michigan. (A previously mentioned birth of 6 May 1883, Morenci, Michigan, came from passport information given by her husband, and was probably just his error). Lulu lived at least part of her life in Hamilton, Steuben County, Indiana. Her parents separated around 1895, and both remarried that same year: Theo Ogden, to Miss Irene Brown; and Dolly Bailey Ogden, to John F. Renner. Lulu married Fred Sylvester Sutherland about 1904, though no marriage record has yet been found (but the license may have been found, in Missouri). Lulu and her somewhat famous husband settled in San Bernardino, California. They were often mentioned in the San Bernardino Sun, as Fredrick was a steeplejack, called "The Human Fly." The Sutherlands had a little son, Sylvester, who died in February 1906 at the age of three months. Next, they had a daughter, Anitra, born in 1905. Anitra was known to climb steeples with her father. The Sutherlands had ties to Hamilton, Steuben County, Indiana, through Lulu, whose father lived there. The family was sometimes mentioned in the social columns of the Steuben Republican. In Hamilton, both Fredrick and his daughter famously climbed the hundred-foot Liberty Pole, a local landmark, on Liberty Day, 1916. The Sutherlands had two more daughters, Veitra, and Ariminta Margaret (later called Aileen). The family often traveled throughout the United States and to Canada, England, and France, even settling in some of those places for a time, while Fredrick did his steeplejack work.

Fred and Lulu Sutherland must have separated sometime after 1916, for Lulu remarried Walter A. Hoffman, on January 21, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois, and settled there. Fredrick's daughters took their stepfather's surname, at least for awhile; they appear in census under the name of Hoffman. Lulu had two more little girls, Beverly (born 1921), and Maravina (born October 11, 1923). Sadly, Lulu suffered from complications of childbirth, and died a month after Maravina was born. According to her death record, she is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. Although it does not give the city, my belief is that she is buried at Mount Hope in Chicago, where she lived. Her death certificate does contain an error, listing her as the daughter of Peter Ogden, though her father is always mentioned as Theo Ogden in the newspapers. Her first husband, Sutherland, may have remarried (there is some evidence that he did). Even so, on his own death certificate in 1947, he is listed as the widower of Lulu Sutherland. The current birth of 27 May 1887 given for Lulu comes from a typed (but state issued copy) of her birth record that someone posted on Ancestry.