Lough Family Pictures

Surprises await around every corner! After a long search for my great-grandmother's identity, I found out that all I had to do was ask Aunt Lois. And she even had pictures! So here are a group of pictures with various people: Charles and Linnie Garrett (my great-grandmother--Jim's mother--and her husband); Jim and Susan Lough (grandparents); Dan and Lois (my Dad and Aunt); E. O. and Annie Wescott (my great-grandparents on Susan's side); and Jessie (Jim's half-sister) and Edna Garrett (Charles O's daughter).

Linnie Lough
(Unknown date)

Malinda E. Lough (don't know what the "E" stood for) was born in September 1882 somewhere in the neighborhood of Farmersville, Texas. Her father, J. R. Lough, had bought a tract of land on Pilot Grove Creek in 1878 and that is probably where Linnie was born. She was still living with her family in that area in the census of 1900.

James and Linnie Lough
(Son and Mother)

Linnie had a son (out of wedlock), James Carey Lough, on 12 March 1902. Whether she was living at home or somewhere else I don't know, but somewhere along in here she moved to Fort Worth. In 1907 she lived in a boarding house run by Miss Eugene Carroll at 205 1/2 West Weatherford (downtown Fort Worth). She worked as a cook at a sanitarium overseen by Carrie Webster, a nurse, in 1910. This sanitarium was on 8th Avenue, near where the Baylor Hospital is today. In 1908, she had given birth to a daughter named Jessie, again out of wedlock.

Jessie, Edna, James, Linnie

Charlie, James, Linnie, Edna, Jessie, Susan

(Jessie is listed in the 1910 census as "Jessie Lough". We--Aunt Lois and I--think that Jessie's last name was Robinson when she died. Jessie was listed as a "boarder"--at the age of 2--with Charley and May Denson, who I think are friends of Linnie, in 1910, Fort Worth. The Denson's also have another boarder living with them, John Thomason, Charley's 21-year-old brother-in-law, who is a laborer at the packing house in Fort Worth. I can't help but speculate on John's relation to Linnie and Jessie, although it would be completely natural for him to live with his in-laws at the same time as little Jesse needed a home. I find it interesting that Charley Denson is a carpenter at the Packing House, which is eventually what Charles Garrett will do for a living. One wonders if the Densons are the way Linnie and Charles Garrett are introduced to each other.)

Charles O. and Linnie Garrett

When she was about 34 (1917), Linnie married Charles Ora Garrett. Charlie had been married before (divorced) and had a daughter, Edna. The Garretts turn up in Morris, Oklahoma, in September 1918, according to Charlie's draft card. He is an "oil worker." Of course, there is no record of Jim being with them, but this may have been the way Jim Lough gets to Oklahoma and begins his work in the oil fields. (According to the Fort Worth Phone Directory, Jim was living with Charlie and Linnie in 1918.)

Charlie and Linnie Garrett

Annie and E. O. Wescott, Dan, Susan, Lois, Linnie

In 1930, Linnie and Charlie make their home at 2624 Gould Avenue in Fort Worth, a house that still stands at the end of Gould Ave. She died 31 May 1946 and is buried at Laurel Land Cemetery in south Fort Worth.

Charlie Garrett with unidentified children
The house on Gould avenue is in the background.