Black female, born in February 1885 in Pensacola, Florida. Her parents were Jeff Adams and Celia. She died of chronic nephritis on 21 June 1934, at her residence at 411 S. Baylen St., Pensacola. She was 49 years and 5 months old and was working as a laundress at the time. She was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery.
While Lula’s death certificate (informed by her brother, Joseph) says Jeff was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 1910 census indicates he was born in Alabama and Celia was born in Louisiana. That census also shows that Lula was in the middle of 6 children, with Joseph her next youngest sibling. Celia was widowed at that time, a laundress, and Lula’s occupation was “assists mother.”
Celia died in 1915 of heart failure. After that, Lula sometimes shows up in Pensacola City directories (as a laundress) but doesn’t always. She lived at a variety of addresses as she was surely renting.
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Year: 1910; Census Place: Pensacola, Escambia, Florida; Roll: T624_160; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 0021; FHL microfilm: 1374173. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.