Lillis Cheek
Lillis Cheek was born in Georgia on 2 October 1870. The 1900 census gives October 1870 and says both of her parents were Georgia born. Her gravestone reads LILLIS A., and the census of 1900 and her death record call her Lillis H. Her parents are unproven. A memorial gives her full name as Lillis Ann Hester Boss and names her parents as James J. Boss, a schoolteacher of Cains district in Gwinnett County who had been a Confederate lieutenant, and his wife Virginia Hammond.
She married Frank Cheek about 1887, at sixteen or seventeen. By 1900 she was thirty and had borne seven children, all of them living, at Dacula in Gwinnett County: James, Jennie, Arthur, Alice and Allen, both six, Lustre and the baby Mart. More came after, the last of them Lisbon about 1912, when she was past forty.
The family moved to Douglasville in Douglas County, and she was there with Frank in 1920. Frank died in 1927. In 1930 Lillis headed her own household in Douglas County, with her sons Lisbon and Lester and her daughter Eva.
She spent her widowhood in the mill community at Douglasville, among her children. Her daughter Alice, Mrs. Hubert Collins, lived nearby, her son Marty married in 1923 and stayed in town, and her youngest, Lisbon, was still at home in 1930.
Lillis died at her home at Douglasville on the night of Monday, 4 September 1939, aged sixty eight. Her daughter Jennie, Mrs. Oscar Jackson, had come to stay with her that week. The Beaver Mills column of the county paper reported the death in a few lines and named her children: six sons, Jim, Lester, Allen, Marty, Johnnie and L. C., and three daughters, Mrs. Oscar Jackson, Mrs. Hubert Collins and Mrs. George Godfrey, with "a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren." She was buried beside Frank in the Douglasville City Cemetery.
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Cite: Heirology, "Lillis Cheek (1870-1939)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/lillis-cheek-1870-1939-7894ce.