ADDIE MAE (GRISHAM) LASSETTER 

PARENTS: James Lemuel Grisham, Sr. and    Margaret Amanda Jones

HUSBAND:  Benjamin Hill Lassetter

ADDIE MAE GRISHAM and BENJAMIN HILL LASSETTER

Picture of the Family of
James Lemuel Grisham, Sr. and
Margaret Amanda (Jones) Grisham

Picture of the Grisham Quartet

51. Addie Mae GRISHAM (18.James³, 4.Andrew², 1.George¹)  was born 11 March, 1889, Blue Ridge, Hamilton County, TX and was baptized 20 August, 1902, by the Blue Ridge Baptist Church, Hamilton County, TX.  Addie married  Benjamin Hill LASSETTER on 20 December, 1908, in Callahan County, TX.   Benjamin Hill LASSETTER (son of James Hill LASSETTER and Icey Luella LECROY) was  born 11 June, 1885.  Hill was a Baptist preacher until he abandoned his wife and six small children.  Addie worked as a seamstress in a men's clothing store in Lawton, OK, to support her family. Addie reared her children alone after Hill Lassetter deserted her and their children.

Addie died 30 November,  1947, in Oklahoma City, OK.  Addie was buried in  Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, OK. 

Hill Lassetter deserted his family when his children were small. Hill may have been born in 1888 (Retha Lassetter) or 1889 (Angy Lassetter).  His children believed that Hill later became a chiropractor in California, but died in an auto accident in Alaska or California.  Hill changed his name and concealed his identity from his family.  Perhaps he died about 1960.

Children:

i Hattie Angeline "Angy" LASSETTER was born 14 October, 1909, Moran, Shackelford County, TX.  Angy   married (1) Robert "Bob" Gerald MILLER on 4 July, 1940, in Altadena, CA.  Robert "Bob" Gerald MILLER, died 9 November,  1961.  Angy married (2) Claude Mills WEBB on 16 February,  1966. Claude  was  born 4 July, 1905, and died 22 July, 1991. Angy died 11 February, 1997, in  Oklahoma City, OK. 

Angy grew up in Lawton, OK, & attended Teacher's College in Edmond, OK. She taught in rural Oklahoma before marrying Bob Miller. During WW II, she worked at a naval ammunition supply in Pasadena, CA. Angy was a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Texarkana, AR.

115. ii Carney Benjamin LASSETTER , born 23 September, 1911.

116. iii William Woodrow "Billy" LASSETTER, I. , born 29 May 1915.

117. iv Ruth Ollie LASSETTER , born 20 August, 1920.

     v James David LASSETTER, Col. 

118. vi Donald Lincoln "Don" LASSETTER 

1900 Census
Texas, Hamilton County
Super. Dist. #4; Enum. Dist.#82; #: Pct. 1; Twp:Hamilton; Sheet 12B; Pg. 82-12-81
Census was taken June 15, 1900; Dwelling # 230; Family #: 230

*Ida Rose married Robert Jeff Fergusson on 9 November, 1898. Their first child was born 5 January, 1900. Each was listed as a single person in the home of the respective parent.

Sources

Blue Ridge Baptist Church Records

Crain, Clara Elsie Fergusson