Tillie's Angels Traditional Geocache
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Tillie Toliver
Nov. 10.1891 - June 19,1991
No, I didn't know Tillie, but anyone who lives almost a century needs to be remembered.
What a story her life must have been!
Someday I may do a little research and add it to this page but today just reflect on what it must have been like for Tillie and celebrate her life and be one of her Angels!
February 2019 Update (curtesy of UTtoTX) -
Her death date should be in 1981 not 1991.
She was born Tellie (early census records have Tellie) Blackburn in Alabama. Her father was George Blackburn and mother Arie (or Urie or Ara) Herrin. They moved to Texas sometime before 1900, when they are living in Williamson County. They were a black family (though later census records list her as mulatto) and her father was a barber. According to the 1900 census her mother had had 15 children, but only 5 were living; Emma, Burt, Jones, Nelson, and Tellie. She married John Chester Earl Married on 17 Oct 1914, Williamson County. In the 1920, 1930, and 1940 census, there are no children listed for them. John C. Earl is shown as owning a cafe in the 1930 and 1940 census records. He served in WWI as a 1st Sgt in the 355 Labor Battalion of the Quartermaster's Corps. He had completed 3 years of college, Tillie only completed 1 year of high school. John C. Earl died 2 Jan 1956. His headstone is somewhere in the same cemetery. I want to go back and look again. I think it might be near Tillie's. Her father (who died in 1923 is also buried there, I believe). At some point between 1950 and 1993, she lived at 305 N Lewis Street in Round Rock. In 1966, at age 74, Tillie married a 70-year old man named Edward Toliver. He died 2 years later.
Married John Chester Earl XAnd for those wondering, this cache is located in the Round Rock Cemetery.
Congratulations to DrPflug and Mh171 for the early morning Co-FTF!
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