REVEREND JOHN L. LATTIMORE

 

 

     Reverend John L. Lattimore, b March 2,1836 in Benton County, Mississippi, d December 12, 1887 en- route to Florida - was a son of Reverend S. S. Lattimore, of North Carolina, and his wife (whose maiden name was Compere), of South Carolina. John L. was educated in Kentucky and Alabama, and taught school at Enterprise, Mississippi. He entered the Confederate States Army in 1862, serving as a Private and as a Chaplain.

    

     Ca 1861, John L. was married to Sarah C. Shivers, b ca 1841 in Alabama, whose father was born in North Carolina, and her mother in Virginia. The couple lived in Alabama and Mississippi before 1874, when they moved to Falls County, Texas - settling in the Stranger Community. It was there that both John L. and Sarah taught in the best schools in the county. Lattimore became the pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church (later Stranger Baptist Church) - teaching school in that building, while Sarah taught in Union Academy with classes in the Methodist-Presbyterian Union Church building.

    

     Reverend and Mrs. Lattimore were the parents of seven known children, who became well known in the field of education and politics:

    

     John C. Lattimore, b ca 1861 in Alabama - attended school at Stranger, and obtained his college degree. In 1877, John C. became superintendent of the Falls County School system - being appointed in 1887, and serving until September 1, 1890. He subsequently taught at Baylor University, in Waco.

    

     Oliver Shivers Lattimore, b ca 1866 in Alabama - taught school at Durango, Falls County, Texas; and later became Judge of the Texas Supreme Court.

    

     Mary Catherine Lattimore, b ca 1868 in Mississippi - married R. D. Spencer, of Falls County, Texas, and moved to Waco, where they reared eight children.

    

     Annie H. Lattimore, b 1870 in Alabama - no further information.

    

     Carrie E. Lattimore, b 1873 in Alabama - no further information.

    

     Ethel Lattimore, b 1877 in Falls County, Texas - no further information.

    

     Bertha Lattimore, b 1879 in Falls County, Texas - no further information.

 

 

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Submitted by Paula Bondurant

     About Bertha, his youngest child (my grandmother):  She married George Charles Felix Butte in 1898; by all accounts, the marriage was idyllic.  They lived first in Muskogee, Oklahoma Indian Territory, then in Germany and France where George Butte studied law in Heidelburg (taking a PhD. in Civil and Canon Law) and Paris.  Dr. Butte later served as Dean of the Law School at UT Austin, member of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, and Vice-Governor of the Philippines.  He ran against Ma Ferguson for governor of Texas in 1924.  Bertha died of a ruptured appendix in Austin, Texas, in 1924, leaving five children.  She is buried in Dublin, Texas, where, on the back of her tombstone, one may read:  "These were her jewels: George, Felix, Woodfin, Catherine, Pauline."

 

 

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 278 column 2 and page 279 column 1.  
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