Pike-Crenshaw County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stephenson, Lula Rainer May 23, 1942
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Alice Folmar Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00033.html#0008183 March 17, 2017, 12:26 pm

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STEPHENSON, LULA RAINER  (b. 3-16-1863 – d. 5-23-1942)  Pike Co. / Crenshaw Co.

MRS STEPHENSON DIES IN BRANTLEY
	Mrs. Lula Rainer Stephenson, 79, passed away at her home in Brantley at 10:20
Saturday night, May 23rd, following an illness of only a few days.  She had been
in declining health for several years before her fatal illness, which was caused
by a fall she received Tuesday afternoon, May 19th.
	Mrs. Stephenson, or “Domie” as her friends and grandchildren affectionately
called her, was born in Pike County at Mossy Grove near Troy March 16, 1863. 
Her parents were Young W. Rainer and Isabell Smart Rainer, pioneer settlers of
Pike County.  She was one of their twelve children. 
	Soon after the Civil War and after the death of her father, the family moved to
Troy, where she grew to young womanhood.  She was educated in the public schools
and later attended a boarding school for girls which was located on College
Street in Troy.
	She married J. H. Stephenson in Troy October 2nd, 1882, and they moved to
Talbotton, Ga., where they lived for several years, returning to Troy where she
spent most of her useful life.  Everyone in Troy knew and loved her.  She is
remembered by most of the Troy people as “Miss Lula.”
	She and Mr. Stephenson (“Uncle Bob”) moved to Brantley in 1919 to be near their
children, who were living there at that time.
	After his death March 28, 1928, she remained in their home in Brantley.  She
was a member of the Methodist Church.  Only the best can be said of her.  She
was kind, gentle, loving, honest and fair toward everyone and a good Christian
mother.  Her memory will always be held dear and cherished by her children, her
friends, and the little children in her neighborhood, who loved her so and whom
she loved.
	She was laid to rest in the Brantley cemetery Monday morning at eleven o’clock.
	Those who survive her are her children, Walter Stephenson of Houston, Texas;
Mrs. J. L. Andrews, Jacksonville, Fla.; Dick Stephenson, Brantley, Mrs. R. B.
Stanley of Greenville, Robert Stephenson of Brantley; one sister, Mrs. A. Black,
Brantley; six grandchildren, Walter Stephenson, Jr., Houston, Texas, Dr. R. H.
Stephenson, Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. J. B. Collins, Riverdale, Md., Joe Bob and Mary
Price Stephenson of Brantley, and Louise Stanley of Greenville, Ala.; and two
great grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
	Mrs. Stephenson has many friends in Greenville who knew and loved her when she
made her home here with her daughter, Mrs. R. B. Stanley and Mr. Stanley.
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Additional Comments:
The U.S. Census of 1910 shows that at age 47 Mrs. Stephenson was a dressmaker in
Troy and had her own shop … and that she had borne six children and five were
living at the time.  The source of this article is not known but may have been
written by a daughter of Mrs. Stephenson.  It is included in an
obituary/memorial collection inherited from Kathlyn Johnson Folmar (my mother)
of Pike County, who also had a memorial item about Mrs. Stephenson’s mother,
Isabel Jane Smart Rainer (Grannie Rainer), which I’m also posting at ALGenWeb. –
Alice Folmar Kelley

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