Mertie Cynthia Ann Wilkins Fulfer
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d/o Meredith H. Wilkins and Susan Adeline "Delia" Elmore, w/o Samuel Harvey "Sam" Fulfer

Yesteryear Fulfer Family

Mertie Cynthia Ann Wilkins Fulfer

(March 28, 1887-January 05, 1974)

d/o Meredith H. Wilkins and Susan Adeline "Delia" Elmore, w/o Samuel Harvey "Sam" Fulfer

Greenville (TX) Herald Banner

Monday, January 7, 1974

Pg A-2

 

FULFER

Commerce-Funeral services for Mrs. Mertis Ann Fulfer, 86, will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at the Commerce Church of Christ. Mr. James Medford and Mr. John Franklin will officiate. Burial will be in Rosemound Cemetery under the direction of W. Y. Goff Funeral Home. The body will remain at the funeral home until time of the service.

Mrs. Fulfer was born the daughter of Meredith and Sarah Clayton Wilkins on March 28, 1887 in Hunt County near Commerce. She married Sam Fulfer near Commerce in 1903. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Submitted by Vanessa DeShazer

 
1910 Soundex Delta Co., Tx. 43/370/30 Anecestry pg 39 Pct 2
370-370
 Fulfer Samuel H  wm 27 m1 6yrs TX TX IL laborer odd jobs
Myrtle-wife-23 m1 6 yrs 3/3 TX TX TX
Boyd-son-5 TX TX TX
Bateman-son-3 TX TX TX
Vina-dau- 1 8/12 TX TX TX
376-376 1910 Delta Co., TX pct 2 page 40
Whistler , Nathan G head wm 68 m1 44 yrs TN TN TN
                 Lucinda F wife wf61  m1 44 yrs 13/8 TX TN TN
                 Martha wf 26 TX TN TX
                 ?? son wm 21 TX TN TX
                 Bessie E wf 17 TX TN TX
 Teague, Ida dau 28 widow TX TN TX
                Ada grdaugther wf 7 TX TX TX
               Jewell grdaughter wf 5 TX TX TX
Fulfer, Samie H 
  Age: 47 Year: 1930
  Birthplace: Texas Roll:  T626_2331
  Race: White Page:  11A
   State: Texas ED:  26
   County: Fannin Image:  0347
   Township: Precinct 5
  Relationship: Head
242-2242
Fulfer, Samie H head owns 20, 000  wm 47 married at 23 TX TX TX farmer gen farm
            Mertie wife=h wf 43 married at 19  TX TX TX
            Author son wm 19 TX TX TX laboer farm
            William son wm 17 TX TX TX laborer farm
            Beull son wm 9 TX TX TX
            Virginia dau wf 7 TX TX TX
            Mertie dau wf 2 6/12 TX TX TX

395
look at George W Hamilton living close to Samuel Fulfer in Delta Co. TX 1910
had daughter Annie 4 yrs old mother alma m age 22

go to page 44
422-422
Moreland, Jefferson D 46 m1 1yr ARK SC ARK
                  Annie wf 19 m1 1 yr TX TX TX
                  Bennie R wm son 4/12 wm TX TX TX
                

                 
Sam and Mertie had nine children.
Living in Ladonia, Tx in 1938.
{Sam} rode the Chisholm Trail once.  He related the experience to me for a
> report that I made in my Texas History class--one of the few A's I ever
made on  a History report!) Told by Garey Fulfer.