Two Hundred Years of Our American Families

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Lucy with her son Reuben & his family Robert (w/hat), Elmer(in lap), Reuben Rabe, Lela, Kate Wynn Rabe, Jack, Lucy (standing in back)*, circa 1903

Louisiana Carolina "Lucy" STEWART
 b. 1 FEB 1847, AL
 m. Robert William RABE,
 27 JUN 1871, Hopkins County TX
 d. 10 JUN 1922, Brashear, Hopkins County TX
 Sherley Cemetery,
 Hopkins County TX

Robert William RABE
 b. 1835, Louisiana or Missouri*
 m. Mary H. STOCKTON
 m. "Lucy" STEWART, 1871,
 Hopkins County, TX
 d. 1885, TX

CHILDREN

1. Reuben Daniel RABE
    b. 8 NOV 1872,
    Van Zandt County TX
    m. Lela Kate WYNN,
    16 OCT 1892,
    Eastland County TX
    d. 19 Nov 1942, Provence,
    Carter County OK
    Provence Cemetery,
    Carter County OK
   
   
2. Doma Arie RABE
    b. 12 APR 1875, Rains County TX
    m. Newton Commodore WILLIAMS,
    7 JUL 1897, Erath County TX
    d. 14 SEP 1911, Eastland County TX
    Caddo Peak Cemetery, Johnson County TX
   
   
3. Katie Blanche RABE
    b. 3 JUN 1878, Rains County, TX
    m. Franklin P. KNIGHT, 1909, Dallas TX
    d. 13 APR 1953, Hopkins County TX
    Sherley Cemetery, Hopkins County TX
   
   
4. Lucy Judson RABE
    b. 10 JUN 1880, TX
    m. Harry Alvin FARMER, 10 OCT 1900, Erath County TX
    d. 14 DEC 1962, Bexar County TX
    Willow Cemetery, Haskell County TX
   
   
5. Edna Goldie RABE
    b. 25 OCT 1885, Eastland County, TX
    m. Nealy Ambrose MORTON, 24 JUL 1910
    d. 21 JAN 1973, Rotan Fisher County TX
    Belvieu Cemetery, Rotan, Fisher Coounty TX
   
   

Robert Rabe's first wife was Mary Stockton, Wilson Stockton's eldest sister. Wilson Stockton married Araminta Emma Stewart. According to Reuben's grand-daughter LaDella, Reuben spoke of his half-sister Mary Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert Rabe and Mary Stockton, who married a Jones.

1880 Rains County Texas Federal Census

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Rel	Job	POB	F'POB	M'POB
Rabe, Robert W	W	M	Head	46	Farmer	MO	GA	KY
Rabe, Lucy	W	F	33	Wife	Keeping House	AL	NC	GA
Rabe, Mary E.	W	F	16	Dau	At Home	TX	MO	AL
Rabe, Reuben	W	M	7	Son	-	TX	MO	AL
Rabe, J.D.	W	M	5	Dau	-	TX	MO	AL
Rabe, K.L.	W	F	2	Dau	-	TX	MO	AL
Rabe, Lucy	W	F	6mos	Dau	-	TX	MO	AL
Mary E. is Mary Ellen or Mary Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert Rabe's first wife Mary H. Stockton, born in Mississippi. Lucy's son Reuben is listed in the 1900 Eastland County census living 2 doors down from his uncle, Joseph Coleman Stewart. "J.D." is probably A. Dona. The family Bible, which is nearly illegible for "L.C. Stewart's" marriage listing appears to list a marriage to Robert Rabe in 1871 in Hopkins County.

1900 Erath County, TX Census, 6 JUN 1900
The widowed (1885) Lucy C. "Rube" (mispelled in transcription) lives with her children. A 14-year-old grandson, Lewis W., b. FEB 1886 is listed. Perhaps he was with her to help. In the 1930 census a W. Lewis Rabe of the same age is listed as an employee at the Rusk State Hospital for the Insane. His wife Zoe R. is with him. Lucy is living next door to her married daughter A. Donna [Rabe] Williams.

1910 Hobbs, Fisher County, TX Census, 11 MAY 1910
lists an "L.C. Rabe" F head of house, widowed. She has with her her daughter Edna, 24. Edna is a public school teacher. L.C. and Edna live next door to H.A. and Lucy Farmer, Lucy Rabe's daughter and son-in-law. L.C.'s place of birth is mistakenly listed as Tennessee.

1920 Hopkins County TX Census
Lucy is listed as "Lucy C.," 73, living with Mary Gertrude's son Franklin P. Knight and her daughter Katie B., and their daughter Alline.

I found Lucy's death date in the Tapp Funeral Home records at the Hopkins County Historical Society. Frank Knight ordered her service. Her death certificate states that she died in Brashear, a widow of 76 years, with a father named Stuart. It's hard to make out what she died of, it looks like it might say, "porely fed," which would be a very sad end to her life.

* From LaDella Rabe Jones, Summer 2006. She also told me that her grandfather, Reuben Rabe, told her "there was a duke in the family when they came over from Scotland or England." TSS

First photograph courtesy of LaDella Rabe Jones. Shirley Cemetery photograph taken by Teresa Stewart Sitz, June 2006.

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