Leonidis "Lon" Polk Tatum & Elizabeth Lucretia Billings
Leonidis "Lon" Polk Tatum was born in 1860/61 in Nashville, Dickson County, Tennessee.
Elizabeth Lucretia Billings was born in 1875 in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas to John Riley Billings (age 28) and Rebecca Benson (age 22).
Together they had four children: Jewel, Lonnie, Mary and Charles Edward Tatum (1902). There son, Charles, was born on September 3, 1902 in Del Rio, Texas.
There is a family rumor that Lon was a deputy somewhere in southwest Texas. He liked to gamble, and one night gambled away his family's telephone insulator company, the Whitall Tatum Company (named after Edward Tatum and John Whitall - whose spouse was Mary Tatum, daughter of John and Hannah Tatum, of Woodbury, NJ). None of these rumors have been confirmed, and are probably exaggerations.
Leonidis passed away in 1945 in Sutherland Springs, Wilson County, Texas.
Elizabeth passed away in 1946 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Elizabeth Lucretia Billings was born in 1875 in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas to John Riley Billings (age 28) and Rebecca Benson (age 22).
Together they had four children: Jewel, Lonnie, Mary and Charles Edward Tatum (1902). There son, Charles, was born on September 3, 1902 in Del Rio, Texas.
There is a family rumor that Lon was a deputy somewhere in southwest Texas. He liked to gamble, and one night gambled away his family's telephone insulator company, the Whitall Tatum Company (named after Edward Tatum and John Whitall - whose spouse was Mary Tatum, daughter of John and Hannah Tatum, of Woodbury, NJ). None of these rumors have been confirmed, and are probably exaggerations.
Leonidis passed away in 1945 in Sutherland Springs, Wilson County, Texas.
Elizabeth passed away in 1946 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Do you have a picture of Elizabeth? She is my great, great grandmother. jmorton822@yahoo.com
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