Born = Margaret Lucille DeBoard
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Father's name was William Taylor DeBoard, apparently died in 1918 from the flu, but I have not been able to confirm.
*Provided by Find A Grave Contributor, Heather Keating #49340591
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There was a family in the Ozark hills of Missouri whose father died of the flu during this epidemic. The mother could not support her children without the support of her husband so neighbor families took a child each into their home. Grandpa and Grandma Harper took an eight year old girl named Margaret Lucille Deboard into their home. One year later after the mother had remarried, she went about collecting her children. When she came to the Harper home, Lucille did not want to leave the Harper family so her mother let her stay with them. I do not know the particulars on why she did not want to go with her mother and her new step father. In 1925 when Lucille was 15 years old, the Harpers moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Lucille went with them. There was never a legal adoption. In 1932 at the age of 22, Lucille married Freeman Herd and they moved to California and eventually became cattle ranchers near Visalia, Tulare County, California. Lucille died there at the age of 87 in January 1998.
Contributor: Ron Harper (48515355)
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Father's name was William Taylor DeBoard, apparently died in 1918 from the flu, but I have not been able to confirm.
*Provided by Find A Grave Contributor, Heather Keating #49340591
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There was a family in the Ozark hills of Missouri whose father died of the flu during this epidemic. The mother could not support her children without the support of her husband so neighbor families took a child each into their home. Grandpa and Grandma Harper took an eight year old girl named Margaret Lucille Deboard into their home. One year later after the mother had remarried, she went about collecting her children. When she came to the Harper home, Lucille did not want to leave the Harper family so her mother let her stay with them. I do not know the particulars on why she did not want to go with her mother and her new step father. In 1925 when Lucille was 15 years old, the Harpers moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Lucille went with them. There was never a legal adoption. In 1932 at the age of 22, Lucille married Freeman Herd and they moved to California and eventually became cattle ranchers near Visalia, Tulare County, California. Lucille died there at the age of 87 in January 1998.
Contributor: Ron Harper (48515355)
Born = Margaret Lucille DeBoard
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Father's name was William Taylor DeBoard, apparently died in 1918 from the flu, but I have not been able to confirm.
*Provided by Find A Grave Contributor, Heather Keating #49340591
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There was a family in the Ozark hills of Missouri whose father died of the flu during this epidemic. The mother could not support her children without the support of her husband so neighbor families took a child each into their home. Grandpa and Grandma Harper took an eight year old girl named Margaret Lucille Deboard into their home. One year later after the mother had remarried, she went about collecting her children. When she came to the Harper home, Lucille did not want to leave the Harper family so her mother let her stay with them. I do not know the particulars on why she did not want to go with her mother and her new step father. In 1925 when Lucille was 15 years old, the Harpers moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Lucille went with them. There was never a legal adoption. In 1932 at the age of 22, Lucille married Freeman Herd and they moved to California and eventually became cattle ranchers near Visalia, Tulare County, California. Lucille died there at the age of 87 in January 1998.
Contributor: Ron Harper (48515355)
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Father's name was William Taylor DeBoard, apparently died in 1918 from the flu, but I have not been able to confirm.
*Provided by Find A Grave Contributor, Heather Keating #49340591
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There was a family in the Ozark hills of Missouri whose father died of the flu during this epidemic. The mother could not support her children without the support of her husband so neighbor families took a child each into their home. Grandpa and Grandma Harper took an eight year old girl named Margaret Lucille Deboard into their home. One year later after the mother had remarried, she went about collecting her children. When she came to the Harper home, Lucille did not want to leave the Harper family so her mother let her stay with them. I do not know the particulars on why she did not want to go with her mother and her new step father. In 1925 when Lucille was 15 years old, the Harpers moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Lucille went with them. There was never a legal adoption. In 1932 at the age of 22, Lucille married Freeman Herd and they moved to California and eventually became cattle ranchers near Visalia, Tulare County, California. Lucille died there at the age of 87 in January 1998.
Contributor: Ron Harper (48515355)
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