Collin Co, Tx -  Lillian Rotan Barnett

Submitted By : Shirley Brook <sbrook101@earthlink.net>

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She was a member of this Texas family:
William Thomas ROTAN (1853-1929) married Annie Louisa Morris (Born 1863 in
Grayson Co, Tx -  Died 1938 in Dallas).
They had the following children:
Zemila Lou Rotan Hicks(1884-1921)
Lillian Rotan Barnett(1888-1918)
Jessie Mary Rotan Bell(1891-1951)
Sarah Grace Rotan Coppedge (1894-1961)
John Morris Rotan (1900-1968)

Lillian Rotan Barnett was the wife of
James Ottus Barnett (10 Jul 1881 Al-06 Aug 1934 Webb Co, Tx). He is buried in
Blue Ridge, Collin Co, Texas.

OBITUARY AS FOLLOWS:

Mckinney Democrat Gazette,Collin co, Texas Dec 19, 1918 front page:

"Mrs. J O Barnett died of Pneumonia at 4:20 Tuesday.  Mrs. Lillian R Barnett,
wife of J O Barnett, 504 South Benge Street, died Tuesday afternoon at 4:20
o'clock of pneumonia. She was a daughter of Mr. And Mrs. W T Rotan of
Graceton, Texas.  She was born October 6, 1888 in Hopkins County, eight miles
south of Sulphur Springs, where she was reared.  She was well known in that
county and was loved by a host of friends.  She has taught school in various
places over the state, having taught at Blue Ridge, this county, for the last
three or four years.
Mrs. Barnett moved to McKinney with her husband in the spring of this year.
Her husband is a barber in the Sanitary Barber Shop, North Kentucky street.
She is survived by her husband and one little son, Rotan, aged 5 years.  She
also leaves her parents, three sisters, Mrs. James P Hicks, Como, Mrs. Carl V.
Coppedge, Ore City; and Mrs. David E Bell of Waco, and one brother, J. Morris
Rotan, now in a military hospital in southern France, having been wounded in
battle in October.
Mrs. Barnett at the time of her death was 30 years, 2 months and 13 days old.
These editors join with the numerous friends in extending condolence to the
bereaved ones."

Submitted by: Shirley Brook.