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Lilly Engleman

Lucinda White Dulaney

Obit from Cotton Co. Obituaries 1902-1998
"The Devol Dispatch", Jan. 19, 1915

    Dulaney, Lucinda White, died at the of her son, J. C., in Devol Jan. 20, 1915. She was born Apr. 9, 1830 in Talapoose Co., Ala., the daughter of Dr. J. W. White. She moved to Mississippi when a girl and married Wm. P. Dulaney at Balden, Miss. in 1849. Her husband was killed in Parker Co., TX, in 1863, having been mistaken for an Indian while approaching a neighbor's house at night. She has lived with her children for the past 25 years. One son preceded her. She is survived by seven children, four of whom are, J. C. of Devol, J. W. of Altus, J. N. of Temple, and Mrs. S. A. Richey of Paris, TX. Also attending the service was Mrs. J. G. Dulaney of Paducah.

1915 from unknown Dallas newspaper

TEXAS PIONEER WHO DIED RECENTLY IN OKLAHOMA

     A pioneer Texas woman passed away at the of her son, J. C. Dulaney, at Devol, OK, at  11:30 p.m., Jan. 20, at the age of 84 years 9 months and 11 days. She was sick only twenty-four hours.
   Lucinda Dulaney was the daughter of Dr. J. W. White and was born in Tallipoosa County, Alabama, April 9, 1830; moved to Mississippi when a girl, and was married to William P. Dulaney at Baldwin Miss., Jan. 11, 1849. In 1850, with several other families, they moved to Corsicana, Texas, while the city was a town of only two or three stores. In 1865, Captain Dulaney moved and settled in Parker County, Texas, nine miles north of Weatherford, the county seat. At that time, their was on the extreme frontier of Texas. The Comanche and Kiowa Indians made many raids on the settlers, killing people and driving off their stock. All supplies for the towns and the people had to be hauled on ox wagons from Shreveport and Houston, those being the only railroad towns in the country, and they marketed their cattle by driving them over the Chisum trail through what is now Oklahoma, to Abilene, Kan.
   Dallas was then a small village, consisting of three or four stores on the bank of the river, and Fort Worth was then a small fort on the bluff where the court house now stands, overlooking the north valley, where today is North Fort Worth and the great packing plants.
   Her husband owned many teams of oxen and wagons, which were employed in freighting merchandise from Shreveport to Houston to the western towns and settlements.
   When the Civil War came on, the Indians became more bold and dangerous, and her husband, William P. Dulaney, was chosen as Captain of a company of homeguards and remained on the frontier to protect the settlement, during which time, as he was approaching a neighbor's house for the purpose of buying corn, was mistaken for an Indian and was shot and killed. This occurred on Nov. 5, 1862, about sundown. No pen can picture or brush portray the awful feelings of Mrs. Dulaney when he was hauled dead. Killed by one of his very best friends and a man who never recovered from the effects of his mistake. She was far out in the forest, with a house-full of small children and no one to depend upon for protection and for bread, but she fought a long and hard fight and won the battle, and lived long, to enjoy the fruits of her labors.
   In 1873 she sold out and moved to Falls County, Texas, where with her boys, six in number, and two girls, she engaged in farming, and where her children grew up and married, part of them still in Texas, some in New Mexico, and a part in Oklahoma, all useful citizens.
   Mrs. Dulaney was a subscriber to The Dallas News since its first appearance and prior to that a subscriber to The Galveston News. She was a member of the Methodist Church from her childhood and always lived a faithful Christian life. Blessed with remarkably good health in old age, she spent the last twenty-five years among her children, being sent by them whenever or wherever she wished to go, each child seeming to vie with the others in their efforts to make her life comfortable and pleasant in her declining years.