Life History

Notes

• 1906 Cherokee Roll, Citizens by Blood, Minor Children
  Under Provision of an Act of Congress 26 April 1906
  #378 Strange, Lula Euphemia Age 2 [b abt 1904] Female 1/32 Card #564
  
  I am puzzled to find that none of the other children were on the list.  Lula had a sister named Ella born just two years before, and Her sister Janie was born in 1900.  Why were they not in the list?  Likewise Mary Emma, born in 1895.  Their mother is reported as 1/16 Cherokee in the 1910 census.  Degree of Native blood was not reported in the 1920 census.  In the 1910 census her name was entered as Lulu.  Several censuses use this spelling, and show no other source, lacking the 1920 census which has her name right.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma, 15 April, Township 2, District 171, page 12B, Hse/Fam #27
  Strange, Cicero J Head M White 36 Married 15 years GA -- -- Farmer Owns Farm Can Read and Write
  Strange, Mary B Head F Ind (1/16 Cherokee)  35 Married 15 years 7 children/7 living OK MS OK Can Read and Write
  Strange, Lulu E  Dau F Ind (1/32 Cherokee)  6 Single OK GA OK No Occupation Can Read and Write
  
  1920 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma, 31 January, Foyil Township, District 155, page 24, Hse #49, Fam #51
  Strange, C J  Head M W 45 GA GA GA Farmer [b abt 1875]
  Strange, Mary Wife F W 42 OK MS OK [b abt 1878]
  Strange, Lula Dau F W 15 OK GA OK [b abt 1905]
  
  "[Lula Strange] m abt 1925 OK (William Joseph Wagner Sr. 1895-1947) Div[orced]
  --  R D Tucker, Ancestry Comment on this genelaogy 22 Sep 2014
  
  Lula and William moved to Arizona, where their son William Joseph Jr was born.  They were back in Oklahoma in 1930, where William was working as a machinst in a Steel Comapny mill.
  
  1930 Federal Census, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 2 April, Tulsa, District 72-88, page 1B, 503 S Utica St, Hse/Fam #15
  Wagner, William J Head Rents $30 No Radio M W 34 Married at age 30 LA LA LA Steel Co Machinist [b abt 1896]
  Wagner, Lula E Wife F W 25 Married at age 21 OK GA OK [b abt 1905]
  Wagner, William J Jr Son M W 3 Single AZ LA OK [b abt 1925]
  
  According to the Tucker comment above, Wililam and Lula were divorced and William did not die until 1947.  But in the 1940 census, Lula is reported as a widow, and has returned back home with her son to Rogers County, Oklahoma, where she is teaching school.  Perhaps she reported herself as widowed to avoid saying she had been divorced.  No record for William has been found after the 1930 census.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma, 11 May, Catoosa, District 66-2, Page 16A, Hse #294, Rents $20, Farm
  Wagner, Lula Head F Indian 36 Widow Grade C3 b Oklahoma Rural Rogers Co OK in 1935 Public School Teacher [b abt 1904]
  Wagner, William J Son M Indian 13 Single Grade 7 b Arizona Rural Rogers Co OK in 1935 [b abt 1927]
  
  Several genealogies report a date of death for Lula.  But none of them tell how they got the date.  None have documentation for anything but the 1910 census.  Some don't even attach that.  Some genealogies report her name as it is written in the 1910 census, Lulu.  But her name was Lula.  She was named after a sister of her father called Tallulah, or nicknamed Lula.
  
  Lula Euphemia Strange
  Birth 26 June 1904 in Chelsea, OK
  Death 25 Dec 1966 in  Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  Parents:
  Cicero James Strange 1874 - 1967
  Mary Bright Drake 1878 - 1959
  --  Baker, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/22388488/person/19808017187?ssrc=&ml_rpos=5

Sources

• 1. 1910 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma
  • 15 April, Township 2, District 171, page 12B, Hse/Fam #27
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma
  • 31 January, Foyil Township, District 155, page 24, Hse #49, Fam #51
• 3. U.S., Native American Citizens and Freedmen of Five Civilized Tribes, 1895-1914
  • Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;
  • Under Provision of an Act of Congress 26 April 1906
• 4. Ancestry Trees
• 5. 1940 Federal Census, Rogers County, Oklahoma
  • 11 May, Catoosa, District 66-2, Page 16A, Hse #294, Rents $20, Farm
• 6. 1930 Federal Census, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
  • 2 April, Tulsa, District 72-88, page 1B, 503 S Utica St, Hse/Fam #15
• 7. Ancestry Comments
• 8. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 9. Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008