Lula House

1875-1956 · Texas

Born 1875, Texas

Died 1956

Father: Joseph Daris House

Mother: Martha Zellner

Children include Lillian

Lula House was born in Texas on 9 January 1875. Her death certificate names her parents as Joseph House and Martha Zellner. Joseph Daris House died in 1902 and Martha in 1932, and both are buried at Salem-Wilson Cemetery near Cameron in Milam County.

On 29 December 1895, at Cameron in Milam County, she married Jesse Bryant Nisbett, a carpenter. Their first child, a son, died in infancy in October 1896. Their children included Dessie Imo, Martha Anne, Lillian Emma, Joseph Newman, Jesse Clyde and Lula Lee. Jesse died at Chillicothe in January 1933, and Lula was a widow for twenty-three years.

Her last months were spent in the Simington Rest Home at 1404 Fourth Avenue in Dallas, where she had been for six months. Her own address was Route 5, Box 595 A, Dallas. She died there on 16 March 1956, aged 81. The certificate gives senility of two years' standing, with malnutrition and myocarditis. Her son J. N. Nisbett signed as informant. She was taken back to Milam County and buried at Salem-Wilson Cemetery, near her parents, under a stone that reads "Mother. Gone to rest."

Parents

Martha Zellner 1849-1932 Joseph Daris House 1833-1902

Children

Lillian Emma Nisbett (1901-1983)

Sources

Texas Department of Health, certificate of death, Dallas County, state file no. 12330; image posted to Find a Grave memorial 8925574.

Find a Grave memorial 8925574, stone photograph.

Texas death certificate, Dallas County, state file no. 12330 (image posted to Find a Grave memorial 8925574); Find a Grave memorial 8925574 (stone photograph), with family links to memorials 8925559 and 8925561; Newton Alexander Nisbet, Nisbet Narrations (Charlotte, N.C., 1961), pages 179 to 188, archive.org nisbetnarrations00nisb

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Cite: Heirology, "Lula House (1875-1956)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/lula-house-1875-1956-8f626b.