Blanche Beatrice Locke 1899 - 1940

BLANCHE BEATRICE LOCKE, was born 3 August 1899 in Charleston, Franklin County, Arkansas. She was the oldest of seven children born to John David Locke and Darthula Tucker.
By the time the 1910 Census was taken the Locke family had moved to McDaniels, McIntosh, County, Oklahoma. It was there that her siblings were born.

Lee and Blanche

Blanche married Lee Latimore Lumsden on
24 January 1921. They made their home in LeFlore County, Oklahoma and it was there that their eight children were born; Beatrice, Jodie, Bob, Billie Joe Carmelita, Dolores, Leon and Jimmy Dale. Sometime during the years that the Lumsden family lived in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Blanche contracted a serious infection known as Tuberculosis which affected her lungs. The disease was highly infectious and was spread from one person to another through tiny droplets released into the air via coughs and sneezes. For this reason Blanche was admitted into the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Talihini Oklahoma. The sanatorium was used prior to the discovery of antibotics. It was believed that the only effective treatment for tuberculosis was bed rest, good food, and fresh air, which could take years to achieve.
Blanche gave birth to her last child, Jimmie Dale on 19 October 1940 while in the Sanatorium. She died seven days later on 26 October 1940. Lee's sister Jennie took the young child and raised him as her own.

Blanche Beatrice Locke

Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Blanche's death created a large void in her young family. While Lee tried to take care of their monitory needs, it left little time for nurturing. Lee was a coal minor and his job took him away from home. While he was gone Bea (Beatrice) and her husband Charles took the children in. Bea would have been only 18 at the time. Bill was 11, Carmelita 9, Dolores 7, Leon was only 5. The oldest boys Joe and Bob soon joined the army, The loss of their mother at such an early age had a profound impact on the Lumsden children. Blanche Beatrice Locke Lumsden is buried in the Old Bokoshe Cemetery in Bokoshe, Leflore County, Oklahoma.

Blanche (sixth person from left) N. W. Porch of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Talihina Oklahoma

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Lee Latimore Lumsden (1896 - 1957) & Blanche Beatrice Locke (1899 - 1940)
Leon Cecil Lumsden

Lori Eileen Lumsden 

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Why this Blog?

Hello! It is my hope that if your are here visiting my blog that your purpose is to find out more about YOUR Lumsden or Locke relative.
For over 25 years I have been researching my Lumsden and Locke. In an effort to collaborate with others who are searching these same family names I have created this blog. I'd like to say that in the last 25 years I've found a lot of information on these lines but the truth of the matter is that I haven't. Due to the circumstance (particularly on my Lumsden line) and dynamics that existed in Ireland at the time my Lumsden family lived there little is know about them. The records are scant and I have made little progress to expand my pedigree and find my of my ancestors. With the advances in digital records that are no being made I am hopeful that more records will be made available to me.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints I have been involved in helping to make those records more accessable to those who are searching for their ancestors. The church has the largest records holding in the world. Records stored include genealogical and family history information contained in over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and 1 million microfiche, housed at a facility call the Granite Mountian Records Vault or more simply known as "the vault". This equals about 3 billion pages of family history records. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year. Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the genealogical records stored in the vault. The church makes the records publicly available through its Family History Centers, as well as online at its FamilySearch website and all of this information is made available free for those who wish to acquire it.
This blog will contain images of the records to the families I have spent countless hours to revealing. As others gain the desire to know about their kindred dead it is my hope that I may facilitate in their search and at the same time gain more knowledge as well.
So go ahead, have a look around. You may also visit my family tree at www.familysearchtrees.org.