Caledonia Hawthorne, Granddaughter of Caledonia Lincecum (Virtual Graves)

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Born	25 July 1896	Louisiana, USA
Died	29 March 1966	Jena, La Salle, Louisiana, USA
Buried	Hawthorne Cemetery	Little Creek, La Salle, Louisiana, USA

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Caledonia Nancy Lincecum was born about August 1849 in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, to Lucinda Hawthorn and Harmon R. Lincecum. At about the age of 18, Caledonia married Newton P. Hawthorne, son of Martha Mecom and Albert Hawthorn. Both Caledonia and Newton were grandchildren of William Hawthorn (1777-1841) of South Carolina.

Records suggest the young couple of Caledonia and Newton had as many as eleven children, though I can only account for eight. One son was Daniel P. Hawthorne, born 1 January 1871 in La Salle Parish, Louisiana. Daniel married Della Doughty on 18 April 1895 in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Their first child was Caledonia "Callie" Hawthorne, the actual subject of this short sketch.

Callie married Charles F. "Charlie" Howard about 1914. He was a son of Hardy Harrison Howard (1851-1922) of Mississippi. I know of three children born to Callie and Charlie: a set of twins born and died 27 April 1922, and daughter Era J. (d. 2012).

Interestingly, I found a Divorce Petition Coupon dated 31 March 1930 in Green County, Arkansas pertaining to the Howard couple. Callie was the plaintiff, and Chas. the defendant. Nothing has been found, however, to suggest the couple ever officially divorced. They were listed in the same household for both the 1940 and 1950 census.

Mrs. Callie Howard of Little Creek, Louisiana died "after a lengthy illness" in the early afternoon on 29 March 1966 in a local hospital. She, Charlie, the twins, and Era were all, after their respective deaths, laid to rest in Hawthorne Cemetery.

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Barbara Lucille Lincecum Musholt Adams Thurman (Virtual Graves)

 

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Born	18 February 1930	Sacramento, California, USA
Died	23 February 1997	Auburn, Placer, California, USA
Cremated	Ashes to be Spread	Trinidad, Humboldt, California, USA

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Barbara Lucille Lincecum was a daughter of Grayce Ophelia Kingrey (1901-1943) and Earl Luke Lincecum (1897-1946). Both Grayce and Earl died in their 40s, so Barbara was orphaned by the age of 16.

Barbara was married at least three times: first to John Michael "Mike" Musholt (div. 1968), second to George A. Adams (div. 1973), and third to Warren H. Thurman. Per her obituary, Barbara was survived by two sons and a daughter, eight grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild.

"2007 view of the coastline south of Trinidad overlooking Trinidad Bay with offshore rocks;
part of the California Coastal National Monument."
Image cropped and enhanced. Original by TrinidadMike. (Public Domain.)

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Aaron and Bertha Lincecum Craig (Virtual Graves)

 

Aaron Craig was born 10 December 1896 in Central City, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

He died 21 July 1943 in Christian County, Kentucky.

Burial was at Sikeston Memorial Park in New Madrid County, Missouri.

Bertha May Lincecum Craig was born 11 November 1899 in Allenville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

She died 14 January 1979 in Delta, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

Burial was at Sikeston Memorial Park in New Madrid County, Missouri.

Aaron, son of Azro Thomas Craig (d. 1932) and his second wife Mary Etta Hurst, was a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I. About six months before his 23rd birthday, Aaron and Bertha were married in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. This couple would have 8 children:

• Lucille (1920-1935)
• Marvin A. (1922-1984)
• Howard C. (1923-1996)
• Glen A. (1926-1980)
• Alene E. (1929-2018)
• Richard Lee (1932-1932)
• Calvan (1937-1937)
• Alvin (1937-1937)

The Southern Graves blog has a short write-up about the four children who did not live to adulthood: Blodgett Cemetery Holds Four Craig Children.

Aaron actually died at a pretty young age himself -- just 46 years. Immediate cause of death was noted on his final vital record as Tb. pul. chr. far adv. active. I translate that as "active advanced chronic pulmonary tuberculosis." Aaron took his last breath not long after noon on a summer day at the Veterans Administration Facility in Outwood, Kentucky. He had been a patient there for a little over a month.

Andrew Lincecum, Free Born

Andrew Lincecum was born 1853-1860, likely in Louisiana.  This 3rd cousin of mine was a son of Rezin Bowie Lincecum and Annise (Annis, Annisa) Bowie.

I have seen Andrew's surname spelled many ways:  Lincecum, Linceycum, Lynscum, Lincecom, and Linscomb.  And though I've seen him referred to as Andrew most often, Andy and André are also noted.

My family and family history (so far as I know) is very caucasian white.  So it was a mild surprise to see R. Lincecum, a white planter, married to Annise, noted as Black in the 1860 Catahoula Parish, Louisiana Federal census.  These were the parents of Andrew, so his "color" was given as mulatto.  A notation was added to the census for the children of this union:  Free Borne --

What might that mean? Per Wikipedia:

The term free people of color…in the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, at first specifically referred to persons of mixed African and European descent who were not enslaved.  The term was especially used in the French colonies, including La Louisiane…  In these territories and major cities, particularly New Orleans, and those cities held by the Spanish, a substantial…class of primarily mixed-race, free people developed.  These colonial societies classified mixed-race people in a variety of ways, generally related to visible features and to the proportion of African ancestry…

In the Thirteen Colonies, settled by the British, and later in the United States, the term free negro was often used to cover the same class of people – those who were legally free and visibly of ethnic African descent.  It included persons of mixed race…

On the flip side, Christophe Landry of Louisiana Historic & Cultural Vistas, notes the following:

From 1699 to 1868, mixed color marriages were expressly forbidden.

So I wonder, were Rezin and Annise "officially" married? I just don't know the answer to that yet.

Returning to Andrew, specifically, his race was noted in a fairly consistent way across the census records taken throughout his life:  1880 – mulatto; 1900 – black; 1910 – black; 1920 – mulatto; and 1930 – negro.

Andrew was occupied as a farmer for the majority, if not all, of his adult life.  About 1887-1889, he married Minerva Maxwell, possibly a daughter of Jackson and Mary Jane M(c?)axwell.  Census takers considered her to be black, Indian, mulatto, and negro.  The couple had five children:  Wallace, Mary Ann (Anise), Roley, Otta (Ida), and Edward.

An interesting note might be that Andrew's son Roley (Rollo, Raleigh, Rolle, Rawlins) lived to be 100 years old.

By the time the 1940 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Federal census was taken, Minerva was a widow.  She later died on 22 September 1956.

Family Report for Altus Gideon Lincecum (1909-1979)

Altus Gideon Lincecum was born on 6 September 1909 in Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma. He was a son of Luke Anderson Lincecum (1859-1944) and Ida A. Bynum (1876-1952), and a great-grandson of famed naturalist Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874).

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As a young person, Altus moved with his family from Oklahoma to Curry County, New Mexico, before settling in Sacramento County, California.

Altus held many jobs during his twenties and early thirties: chauffeur, "special police officer," watchman, and brakeman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. By 1943, however, he seemed to settle into being a motion picture operator. Altus held that job until at least 1960, working at the Liberty and Tower theaters in Sacramento. The Tower Theatre was built in 1938, and per Wikipedia, it is "the oldest remaining, continuously running picture palace."

Sometime between 1930 and 1934, Altus married Idaho-born Elayne Arlene Abramson (1916-1995). She was a daughter of Dave W. Abramson and Mary Smith. The young couple had two daughters, one being Gail Alyce Lincecum.

Altus appeared on a Sacramento County, California voter registration roll for the years 1934 and 1940. In both instances, his party affiliation was Democrat. Elayne was on the same list in 1940 with the same party affiliation.

Altus Gideon Lincecum died on 30 October 1979 in Sacramento County. Burial was in East Lawn Memorial Park.

Gail Alyce Lincecum was born on Christmas Eve in 1936. She spent most, if not all, of her life in Sacramento, California. According to her obituary, Gail was a 39-year employee of Aerojet, an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer founded in 1942. She was also a member and Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Gail died on 11 May 1999. Memorial services were held for her at the Eastern Star Temple at 2719 K Street in Sacramento. This building dates back to 1928 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a rare example of a building devoted to a women's organization.

Order of the Eastern Star Emblem
Gravestone of Mrs. Nettie C. Hall
Evergreen Cemetery at Fitzgerald, Georgia

The Dixie Overland Highway (An American History Tidbit)

When I'm down in the minutiae of researching someone's life, it's easy to miss the bigger picture. The history around them, even though it most definitely shaped them to some degree. I have to make a conscious effort to widen the lens -- work to put meat on the bones, so to speak.

Other times, little things just jump right out. Hop in the car with me. 🚗 

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In May of 1930, Oscar Lee Pike, son of Alma Rosalie Lincecum Pike, was living just two doors down from his future sister-in-law, Ella Mae McGuire. Both families were in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and both families were residing along the Dixie Overland Highway.

The Dixie Overland Highway was conceived in 1914 by the Automobile Club of Savannah, Georgia, with the goal of charting a path through the southern States "for the purpose of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific."

Following from the March 1917 Better Roads and Streets magazine:

An association was formed, officers elected, and a plan of operation agreed upon. The object of the association being to promote the construction and use of a highway through the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

...It was then developed that the Dixie Overland Highway when constructed will be the shortest, straightest, and only year round, ocean to ocean highway, in the United States. All highways east of the Mississippi and the most of those west of the river, are laid out for north and south travel. The Dixie Overland connects them all, is a trunk line through the heart of the 'black belt,' crossing the rivers at the head of navigation, and forming what the promoters believe to be the most useful and important highway in the South.

[Source]

In 1926, the American Association of State Highway Officials designated and unveiled the official description of U.S. Route 80, which largely followed the Dixie Overland Highway. The entire route was 2,726 miles, with the following being the portion through Louisiana:

Beginning at the Mississippi-Louisiana State line at Delta via Tallulah, Royville, Monroe, Ruston, Arcadia, Minden, Shreveport to the Louisiana-Texas State line east of Waskom.

Here is a present-day map of the Dixie Overland Highway / U.S. 80 through Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, where Oscar Lee Pike and Ella Mae McGuire resided in 1930.

It didn't take long for tourism to be promoted along these auto trails and highway routes. Even today, Louisiana's Historic US 80 Byway is said to be where "drivers...can drink in vistas of verdant farms and forested landscapes."

Alma Rosalie Lincecum Pike (1874-1926) and Family

Alma Rosalie "Rose" Lincecum was born 12 July 1874 in Grant Parish, Louisiana to Harmon R. Lincecum and Margaret Frances "Fanny" Turnley (b. 1843). There was an age difference of about twenty years between Alma's parents, and it's quite possible her father died when she was very young.

On 16 September 1894 in Grant Parish, when Alma was twenty, she married Georgia native Luther F. Pike (d. 1944). He was a son of James D. and Malinda A. Pike.

The 1900 federal census taker visited Luther F. Pike's household just fifteen days after Alma gave birth to twins. By that time, though, Alma had already given birth to five children with only the twins still living. All told, Alma gave birth to at least eight children. Four died in infancy, and four survived to adulthood. The latter were twins Oscar Lee and Luther Franklin, son Johnnie Reynolds, and daughter Carrie M.

Alma and Luther raised their children primarily in the north-central part of Louisiana. Aside from being a fireman on a log train once, Luther was usually occupied with farming.

Oscar Lee Pike was born 5 June 1900 in Selma, Grant Parish, Louisiana. For his 1918 World War I draft registration, Oscar was described as slender, with blue eyes and light hair. Like his father, Oscar spent most of his time in the business of farming.

About 1927, Oscar married Ora Belle, daughter of Oscar and Carrie Belle Goodwin. The young couple had at least three children. Two were a son, Oliver Cortez "Pete" Pike (1927-2015), and a daughter Joyce E. (1940-1990).

Oscar Lee Pike died 1 November 1951 in Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Luther Franklin Pike was born 5 June 1900 in Selma, Grant Parish, Louisiana. For his 1918 World War I draft registration, Luther was described as slender, with blue eyes and sandy hair. An interesting addition to his 1942 World War II draft registration was the notation that Luther had a scar on his right temple and a scar on his right wrist.

It seems Luther did spend time in California from the late 1950s to at least the mid-1960s. He might've even gotten married there during that time. However, I am still determining since I have found no mention of a wife after the supposed marriage.

Luther died 3 February 1971 in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Johnnie Reynolds Pike was born 9 April 1903 in Grant Parish, Louisiana. He married Ella Mae (1910-1984), daughter of Willie and Hattie McGuire.

Johnnie and Ella had at least three children: Harold Lloyd (1934-2010), Claude Edward (1936-2010), and Johny Reynolds Jr. (1937-2003).

Johnnie Reynolds Pike, Sr. died in January 1981, aged 77 years.

Carrie M. Pike was born 15 November 1907 in Selma, Grant Parish, Louisiana. About 1926, she married Joseph C. Madere (1895-1977), and the couple had at least two children. One was a son, Joseph C. Madere, Jr. (1926-1996).

Joseph and Carrie spent some time residing in the port city of New Orleans, where Joseph worked as a machine feeder for a lumber company. He also was an employee of Lane Cotton Mills.

The couple returned to central Louisiana before Carrie died in Alexandria, Rapides Parish on 3 June 1966. Burial was at Liberty Chapel Cemetery in Grant Parish.

Original image by lcgates (2021) via FindAGrave.
Permission for use granted in bio.

Alma Rosalie Lincecum Pike was just 52 years old when she died on 26 December 1926 in Rochelle, Grant Parish, Louisiana. Burial was at Lincecum Cemetery.