Lou Bertha Roberts
(1881-1915)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Horace Charles Cruze

Lou Bertha Roberts 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 26 Jul 1881, , , TN 2 6 7
  • Marriage (1): Horace Charles Cruze on 31 Mar 1900 in Knoxville, Knox, TN 1
  • Died: 2 Nov 1915, Knoxville, Knox, TN at age 34 6 7
  • Buried: 3 Nov 1915, Knoxville: Woodlawn Cemetery, Knox, TN, USA 6 7

   FamilySearch ID: KZDV-QNF.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Knoxville, Knox, TN. 8 The 1900 census recorded Horace Cruse, day laborer, 24, born Jan 1876, living with wife L. B., 19, Jul 1880. They were married for 2 months and had no children. They were boarders in the household of A. F. Devenport, 29, Nov 1870, and his wife S. C., 26, Feb 1874. Next door is Horace's mother, Selena Cruse, widowed, 55, Mar 1845, and his brothers L. A., 25, Jul 1874, and John B., 18, Jul 1881. Selena had birthed 4 children, all alive in 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Tennessee.

2. Census in 1910 in Knoxville, Knox, TN. 9 The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 130 Main Street: Horace Cruze, liveryman in stable, 34, living with wife Bertha, 29; daughter Zella, 6; son Carl, 4; and son Clarence, 1. Everyone and their parents were born in Tennessee. They were married for 10 years and Bertha had birthed 5 children, 3 alive in 1910.

3. Cause of Death: cancer of uterus, 2 Nov 1915, Knoxville, Knox, TN. 6


Lou married Horace Charles Cruze on 31 Mar 1900 in Knoxville, Knox, TN.1 (Horace Charles Cruze was born in Jan 1876 in , Knox, TN.)


Sources


1 FamilySearch.org, Tennessee, Marriages, 1796-1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8TQ-YLX Horace Cruze and Bertha Roberts, 31 Mar 1900; citing Knox Co., Tennessee, reference 186; FHL microfilm 1,020,964.

2 FamilySearch.org, California, County Marriages, 1850-1952, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8FN-3PN Clarence Allen Roberts and Mary Ellen Beecher, 1936.

3 FamilySearch.org, California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.), https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VP7N-CWX Clarence Allen Roberts, 1952.

4 Ancestry.com, Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909 (Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.), Certificate D-94824. Clarence Allen Cruze. Online image 732.

5 Ancestry.com, Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909 (Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.), Certificate D-132238 Zella Layman Cruze, Father Horace C. Cruze, Mother Bertha Lou Roberts.

6 Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955 (FamilySearch.org), https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9PF-7LB Bertha Cruze, 02 Nov 1915; citing Woodlawn Cemetery Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, v 30 cn 615, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,299,640.

7 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134567850.

8 1900 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSDW-3C1 Horace Cruse in household of A F Devenport, Civil District 14 (south, west part) South Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing sheet 1B, family 19.

9 1910 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MGFS-H98 Horace Cruze, Knoxville Ward 1, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79, sheet 13B, family 291.



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