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Lula Mae Grant 

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Charles Pomroy Grant
2/14/1871 - 3/9/1933

Bessie Mae Etheridge
7/11/1882 - 2/26/1952
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Lula Mae Grant
2/1900 - 7/27/1929
(Shown at age 42)
Lula Mae Grant was born on an unknown day in February 1900 in Bascom, Florida and died on July 27, 1929 in Altha, Florida. She lived to be 29 years old.

Occupation: Teacher, Educator. She married on 10/14/1920.
Records
Census6/19/1900 Precint 11 FL (Jackson County) about 4 months old 
Recorded as family #154: Charles Grant (age 28, born Feb 1872), Bessy Grant (age 17, born Jul 1883) and Lula M Grant (age 3 months, born Feb 1900). Bessie was born in GA and the others in FL. Charles' father was born in NC and mother in GA. Bessie's father was born in SC and mother in NC. Charles is a farmer working the family farm. Charles and Bessie can read, write and speak English.  
Additional information about Jackson County, FL around 1900: Click here to see a map from this timeperiod.  
Census4/22/1910 Bascom FL (Jackson County) 10 yrs old 
Recorded as family #96: Charley P Grant (age 39), Bessie M (age 27), Lula M (11), Gadfry G (8), Ray W (7), Ruth A (daughter, age 3), and Mary E (age 2). Bessie has given birth to five children and all are still living. Charley and Bessie have been married for 11 years. All were born in FL as were their parents. Charley is a farmer working a general farm. Charley and Bessie and the oldest children can read and write. All of the older children have been attending school.  
Census1/30/1920 Bascom FL (Jackson County) 20 yrs old 
Recorded as family #92: Charlie P Grant (age 48), Bessie (age 38), Lula M (age 19), Gray (18), Roy V (16), Adline (14), Mary L (12), Ollie (9), Ada M (6), and Benjiman Grant (age 2 yrs and 11 months). Charles, Bessie and the older children can read and write. The younger children (ages 9-16) have been attending school. All say they were born in FL, except Bessie who was born in GA. Both of Charles parents and Bessie's mother were born in SC and Bessie's father was born in NC. Charles is a farmer working a general farm. Lula M. is a teacher working in the public school. Gray and Roy are helping on the family farm.  
Death Certificate1/1/1929 FL (Jackson County) 28 yrs old 
Lula May Musgrove -Gender: F, race: white, Book 427, #10952  
Graveyard/Tombstone7/27/1929 Chipola Cem. Altha FL (Calhoun County) 29 yrs old 
Lula Mae MUSGROVE - Feb.1, 1900 - July 27, 1929   Source:  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flcalhou/Cemeteries/chipolawnc.htm

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6 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
17 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
28 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
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1 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
2 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
3 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
4 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
6 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
6 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
6 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
12 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
13 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
14 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
23 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
23 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
24 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
26 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
27 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
28 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
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8 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
12 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
13 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
17 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
19 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
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9 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
10 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
27 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
29 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
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9 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
14 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
17 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
19 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
20 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.


Marriages
Jasper Musgrove
Born on September 2, 1896 and died on April 1, 1962.
They were married 10/14/1920.

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The Children of Lula Mae Grant

Estelle Elizabeth Musgrove
Born in Blountstown, Calhoun County, Florida on September 6, 1921 and died in Panama City, Bay County, Florida on July 4, 1992. She was 70 years old.

Married (7/25/1938) to Erby Millard Nixon (9/4/1909 Whiton, AL -3/24/2010 Panama City,FL)
Children: Millard Grant Nixon....
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