Lillian Mae Straw

   Other names for Lillian were Lilla Mae Straw, Lilla May Straw and Lillian May Straw.

  General Notes:

1880 census Logan,Marshall County, IA
William Straw age 30; b.c1850 WI; both parents born Maine
Elizabeth age 30; b.c1850 PA; both parents born PA
Minnie age 7; b. c1873 IA
Lillie age 5; b. c1875 IA
Name: Lillie STRAW Age: 5 Estimated birth year: <1875> Birthplace: Iowa Occupation: At Home Relation: Dau Home in 1880: Logan, Marshall, Iowa Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Head of household: William STRAW
ALSO:
Mary age 4 b. c1876 IA
Ida age 2; b. c1878 IA

Genforum posting January 2006 (E. Myrick Ehistory2@aol.com)
Lillie May or Mae Straw born 8-18-1874. She married unknown Griffin between 1900 and 1902. Most likely in Oklahoma. She had a daughter name Nona or Nora who married Floyd Hedgepath or Hudgpath in Okmulgee Co, Oklahoma. Elizabeth, Lillie and the newly married Hedgepaths are listed in the 1920 Okmulgee Co., Census in the same house.

Source of info is from our old Straw family bible birth page that list dates of birth for each child.(E.Myrick dated:10 Feb 2006
Lillian (Lillie) May Straw 8-18-2-1874 Nevada, Story County, Iowa, she married William Griffin on 9-19-1900 in Polk Co. Missouri. He died between 1910 and 1920.After 1920 Lillie married Charles Cornell. Lillie died 6-15-1966 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma.Burial in Okmulgee Cemetery, Okmulgee. William and Lillie had a daughter Nora in 7-31-1903 who married Floyd Hudgpath in 1920 in Okmulgee.Nora later married Mr Stephens and had 4 children. Lillie was William's third wife.

1920 Okmulgee, Okmulgee Co OK
Lillie is a widow born IA & is HOH; her dtr Nora age 18 is married to Floyd HUDPATH age 19. Lillie's 69 year old mother, Eliuzabeth Straw, born PA is also with them

Find A Grave Memorial 22301905
Birth: Aug. 18, 1874 Nevada Story County Iowa, USDeath: Jun. 15, 1966 Okmulgee County Oklahoma, US
Lillie was the daughter of William Jackson Straw and Elizabeth Jane Kettner. She was the granddaughter of Enoch Straw and Betsey Welch and Andrew Kettner and Mary Gladfelter. Her parents and the family moved from Iowa and settled near Wishart, Polk County, Missouri after 1895. Then her parents and most of her siblings moved to the Coffeyville, Kansas area.She then to Okmulgee. Her parents and sister Clara Bell moved to Washington County, Arkansas where her father William Straw died 10-29-1917. Her mother Elizabeth took turns living with her chldren after his death. Elizabeth was living with Lillie in 1920 and died 11-3-1920, her body returned to Arkansas. William and Elizabeth Straw are buried in the Friendship Church Cemetery outside of West Fork, Washington Co. Arkansas as is William's brother John F. Straw. Lillie first married William Griffin on 9-19-1900 in Polk County, Missouri, recorded in Book 1 page 366. She was his third wife. After his death she married William J. Cornell and she lived the rest of her life in Okmulgee. Their marriage license was issued 7-18-1923 Okmulgee, Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma Case # MLI-14-00467 Lillie and William Griffin had one daughter Nora Jean Griffin on 7-31-1903. She first married Floyd Hudgpeth in 1919. Their marriage license issued 7-31-1919 Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma Case # MLI-09-00048 She later married by 1922 to Robinson Crusoe Shephens born 6-10-1893 in Scott Co. Tennessee. Nora's son R.C. (Robert C.) is also buried here in this cemetery

Lillian married William M. Griffin on 19 Sep 1900 in Bolivar, Polk County, MO. (William M. Griffin was born in 1859 in Missouri, died in 1920 and was buried in Okmulgee Cemetery in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.)

Lillian next married William J. Cornell circa 1923 in Oklahoma. (William J. Cornell was born in 1852 in Indiana, died in 1943 and was buried in Okmulgee Cemetery in Oklahoma.)