Ophelia Jane Lyle Balkcom

Birth: 2 Aug 1852
Stewart County, Georgia, USA
Death: 11 Dec 1934 (aged 82)
Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia, USA
Burial: Fairview Cemetery

Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 31.9011833, Longitude: -85.1411389
Memorial ID: 112826859 View Source

Daughter of James Pendleton Lyle (11/08/1821 - 04/29/1876) & Margaret Ann WEAVER Lyle (05/13/1826 - 06/04/1909) who married on 10/03/1844 in Newton Co., GA;

Married Henry Lunsford Balkcom (09/09/1845 - 08/22/1922) on 07/14/1870 in Stewart Co., GA;

Children:

(1) Anna Eugenia (Annie) BALKCOM Powell (12/14/1871 – 03/14/1953) m. Richard Dozier Powell 09/15/1862 - 12/01/1906);

(2) Helen BALKCOM Powell (12/17/1873 – 12/28/1951) m. Charles Augustus Powell (05/23/1869 - 02/05/1960), brother of Richard Dozier Powell;

(3) Martha Ophelia BALKCOM Dozier (12/06/1876 – 1969) m. Edgar M. Dozier (1871 - 1936);

(4) Laura "Lollie" Lyle BALKCOM Mann (04/05/1880 – 11/21/1963) m. Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mann, Sr. (08/11/1873 - 01/30/ 1946);

(5) Henry Lewis Balkcom (08/15/1882 – 07/20/1973) m. Leila Cole WASH Balkcom (08/20/1886 - 01/29/1985) on 01/01/1908 In Clay Co., GA;

(6) Thomas Norwood Balkcom Jr. (12/22/1885 – 12/17/1961) m. Grace BUSH Balkcom (09/04/1882 - 09/17/1967);

(7) Alberta Louise BALKCOM Lane (10/--/1888 – 01/02/1961) m. Andrew Perry Lane (09/20/1894 - 11/05/1968);

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Colorful expressions: "Tut tut, me alive!" = her disapproval of something. This was relayed to me by my Aunt Ophelia Lucille BALKCOM Hancock (her granddaughter & namesake);