Darthula married John David Locke on 30 August 1898, Darthula and John are the parents of seven children, Blanche, Dolphia, Audie, Ollie, Jesse, Modest, and Eugene. These children are born over a span of thirteen years. Their time as a family here on earth would be short for both Darthula and John died in or before 1920, Parents for a short 21 years. Their oldest daughter Blanche was 21 and the youngest, Eugene was only 8.
The 1920 Census shows the Locke children living with their uncle, John Bayless Tucker who was Darthula's only brother. It is unclear why the Locke children are living with their Uncle John Tucker in 1920. I recently spoke to a Locke cousin who told me that he remembered hearing that Darthula and John David Locke both had Tuberculosis. If this is true they may have been in a local Tuberculosis hospital. The census record that John Tucker and the Locke children appear on was taken in January 1920. Just days after that census record was enumerated Darthula, Dolphia, and Eugene appear living with Darthula's sister Lola Lorene and her husband Charles Pope in New Mexico. Darthula states that she is a widow at this time. Darthula died on 9 May 1920.
DECENDANCY
John David Locke (1878 - 1920) & Dorthula Locke (1880 - 1920)
Blanche Beatrice Locke (1899 - 1940)
Leon Cecil Lumsden
Lori Eileen Lumsden
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