Daughter: Nettie Mae Felder
Daughter: Helen Nelson Felder
Son: Robert Lee Felder
Also had 8 step-children from her husband's first marriage to
Margaret Eliza Matthews.
Name: Lula Nelson Felder
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 18 Aug 1942
Burial Place: Navasota, Texas
Death Date: 16 Aug 1942
Death Place: Chapel Hill, Washington, Texas
Age: 77
Birth Date: 02 Mar 1865
Birthplace: Cass County, Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Nelson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: M. A. S. Meriwether
Mother's Birthplace: Raines
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00014-7
System Origin: Texas-EASy
Source Film Number: 1769411
Reference Number: cn 1452
Collection: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973
FamilySearch.org Pedigree Resource File Compact Disc #113 Pin #690371 incorrectly has her birth year as being about 1846.
Applied for her husband Rufus King Felder's Confederate Pension 1 Apr 1931. Approved 1 May 1931. Application # 49577 in Washington County, Texas under the name Felder, Lula N.
The following is from: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cmillergv&id=I3371
Robert L. was living with her at the time of her death in 1942. Coronary disease. Buried in Navasota by side of her daughter, Helen Felder, w/o Dr. Robert Chappell, Veterinarian.
Regarding her husband Rufus:
5TH TEX. VOL. INF. REGT. COMPANY E - DIXIE BLUES Original Roster: Company was organized in Washington County, Texas, July 19, 1861 and was mustered into the Confederate service in that county "for the war," Aug. 8, 1861.
FELDER, RUFUS K. Private - Original member of Company.
Sick, Spring & Summer, 1862: Present for all battles: Paroled, Appomattox (Apr.12, 1865).
From: http://www.5thtexascoe.com/originalroster.html
At the close of the war returned to texas and settled in washington county, where he met with moderate success as a plnte. Politically, he is a Democrat, and religiously, a Methodist, having long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
From: "A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 4" By Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler, pg 1782
http://books.google.com/books?id=vVoUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA1782&ots=Bjxms0AhUW&dq=rufus%20king
%20felder&pg=PA1782#v=onepage&q=rufus%20king%20felder&f=
false
Daughter: Nettie Mae Felder
Daughter: Helen Nelson Felder
Son: Robert Lee Felder
Also had 8 step-children from her husband's first marriage to
Margaret Eliza Matthews.
Name: Lula Nelson Felder
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 18 Aug 1942
Burial Place: Navasota, Texas
Death Date: 16 Aug 1942
Death Place: Chapel Hill, Washington, Texas
Age: 77
Birth Date: 02 Mar 1865
Birthplace: Cass County, Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Nelson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: M. A. S. Meriwether
Mother's Birthplace: Raines
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00014-7
System Origin: Texas-EASy
Source Film Number: 1769411
Reference Number: cn 1452
Collection: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973
FamilySearch.org Pedigree Resource File Compact Disc #113 Pin #690371 incorrectly has her birth year as being about 1846.
Applied for her husband Rufus King Felder's Confederate Pension 1 Apr 1931. Approved 1 May 1931. Application # 49577 in Washington County, Texas under the name Felder, Lula N.
The following is from: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cmillergv&id=I3371
Robert L. was living with her at the time of her death in 1942. Coronary disease. Buried in Navasota by side of her daughter, Helen Felder, w/o Dr. Robert Chappell, Veterinarian.
Regarding her husband Rufus:
5TH TEX. VOL. INF. REGT. COMPANY E - DIXIE BLUES Original Roster: Company was organized in Washington County, Texas, July 19, 1861 and was mustered into the Confederate service in that county "for the war," Aug. 8, 1861.
FELDER, RUFUS K. Private - Original member of Company.
Sick, Spring & Summer, 1862: Present for all battles: Paroled, Appomattox (Apr.12, 1865).
From: http://www.5thtexascoe.com/originalroster.html
At the close of the war returned to texas and settled in washington county, where he met with moderate success as a plnte. Politically, he is a Democrat, and religiously, a Methodist, having long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
From: "A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 4" By Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler, pg 1782
http://books.google.com/books?id=vVoUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA1782&ots=Bjxms0AhUW&dq=rufus%20king
%20felder&pg=PA1782#v=onepage&q=rufus%20king%20felder&f=
false
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