The couple married in Alexandria, Louisiana in March 1917. They had met while working at the Pineville, LA state hospital - he as a barber and she as a nurse's assistant. The family story tells that because he wore a white coat, she initially believed he was a doctor. Both had come to Pineville to better their futures, leaving the farms on which they had been raised, she near Moreauville and he near Liverpool, LA. When married, they moved first to New Orleans (where their first child was born) but in September 1920, they made their permanent home McComb, MS, where he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad. In his final illness, Thomas Walter was sent to the railroad hospital in Chicago, where he died after a prolonged fight with lung cancer. His wife and daughter Felma took the train up from McComb to be with him in his last days and they brought his body back to be buried in McComb. Soft-spoken, gentle, generous and kind, he was the beloved "Daddy" of his four children and dear "Papa" to his 11 grandchildren.
The couple married in Alexandria, Louisiana in March 1917. They had met while working at the Pineville, LA state hospital - he as a barber and she as a nurse's assistant. The family story tells that because he wore a white coat, she initially believed he was a doctor. Both had come to Pineville to better their futures, leaving the farms on which they had been raised, she near Moreauville and he near Liverpool, LA. When married, they moved first to New Orleans (where their first child was born) but in September 1920, they made their permanent home McComb, MS, where he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad. In his final illness, Thomas Walter was sent to the railroad hospital in Chicago, where he died after a prolonged fight with lung cancer. His wife and daughter Felma took the train up from McComb to be with him in his last days and they brought his body back to be buried in McComb. Soft-spoken, gentle, generous and kind, he was the beloved "Daddy" of his four children and dear "Papa" to his 11 grandchildren.
Family Members
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James Oscar Webb
1875–1909
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Zula Yarborough
1879–1890
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John Edgar Yarborough
1881–1962
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Lemuel Lewis "Lewie or Lem" Yarborough
1883–1970
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Lena Wilmuth Yarborough Travis
1885–1938
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Nancy Jane "Nannie" Yarborough Bates
1890–1915
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Lanis Yarborough Sr
1892–1966
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Charley Joe Yarborough
1894–1895
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Nathan Roberts Yarbrough
1894–1975
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