Friday's Photo: Lillie Mae Trott, from Bienville Parish to San Francisco

Lillie Mae Trott  1895 - 1985 [1]

Lillie Mae Trott, the daughter of Lula Laura Cook and William Jackson Trott, was born on 22 May 1895 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Lillie Mae's father was from Alabama, but her mother grew up in Bienville Parish. Lula Laura Cook was the daughter of Joseph Cook and Josie Bryan and the granddaughter of Joseph Bryan and Sarah Margaret Wimberly.[2] 

Lillie Mae grew up in Bienville Parish with two siblings, Allie Belle Trott and William Bryan Trott.[3] Lillie's father, William Trott, was a teacher in 1900 and 1910 but is shown as a farmer on the census in 1920.[4] Lula Laura, her mother, was known to be a teacher assistant and was appointed postmaster at Ringgold in 1932.[5] 

Lillie Mae Trott - about 1916 [11]

Lillie Mae married Herbert Benjamin Scott of Hope, Louisiana (now known as Fryeburg) sometime before 13 February 1916, when she was found as a resident of Hope as Mrs. H. B. Scott.[6] In December of 1917, Lillie Mae was working as a teacher in a public school in Hope, Louisiana but lived on Templeman Street in Shreveport.[7] By 1920 Lillie Mae and Herbert were living in Ringgold.[8] 

In 1922 Lillie Mae and her husband moved to Georgetown, Louisiana, and by 1926 they built a home in Pollock described as a residence and garage. The garage may have been a Ford dealership as H. B. Scott was the Ford Dealer in Pollock. At one time, it was also described as a filling station.[9] 

Lillie Mae was an active community member in Pollock. She was president of the PTA and a member of the State PTA Board; she organized the Pollock Community Fair and attended the State Woman's Missionary meeting in New Orleans.[10] 

Lillie Mae and Herbert had two children; Mary Beth Scott in 1920 and Jack Anthony Scott, who died at birth in 1926.[12] 

In 1928, the City Cafe opened in Pollock with Lillie Mae as the manager. On the 1930 U. S. Census, Lillie Mae's occupation was listed as a salesman in the insurance industry while her husband sold cars.[13] 

By 1931, Hebert Scott lived in Hope while Lillie Mae remained in Pollock. The Scott home burned later that year, and Lillie Mae and her daughter eventually moved to Alexandria.[14] 

Lillie Mae married Captain William W. Murphey on 15 February 1936 in Minden, Louisiana, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hunter. They may have met in Alexandria as Captain Murphey was the executive officer at Camp Beauregard in Alexandria prior to their marriage. Following their marriage, they lived in Alabama and the Philippine Islands.[15] 

In the summer of 1941, Lillie Mae and her daughter, Mary Beth, evacuated the Philippine Islands with other military families due to safety concerns.[16] William Murphey, a Lieutenant Colonel, remained at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines and was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Bataan. He was eventually transferred to a prison camp on Honshu, where he died on 31 January 1945.[17]

After leaving the Philippines, Lillie Mae lived in San Francisco until the age of 85 when she moved to Alabama to live with her daughter. Lillie Mae died at the age of 90 in Alabama. She and her husband are buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery.[18] 

Click on the links below to see photos of Lillie Mae as a child and other Trott family photos.

Friday's Photo: A trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon in 1939

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Friday's Photo: William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook Wedding Photo - Bienville Parish 1893

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae, and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The William J. Trott Family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lula Laura Cook Trott

Friday's Photo: Benjamin F. Trott and Daughter Annie

Friday's Photo: Grandma Trott

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

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    1. Lillie Mae Trott, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2.  Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 350-351.

    3. ibid.

    4. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, 1900 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Ringgold, ward 4,  enumeration district 7, page 2A, dwelling 23, family 23, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4120173_00878?pId=5899283: accessed 21 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 509. Also, 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4,  enumeration district 140, page 2A, dwelling 163, family 153, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00278?pId=29023813 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606. 

    5. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, New Postmaster Takes Position at Ringgold, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 27 April 1932, p.5; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100644436/lula-laura-cook-trott-postmaster/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    6. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 13 February 1916, p.3; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100646494/lillie-mae-trott-is-mrs-h-b-scott-in/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    7. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87464977/lillie-mae-trott-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    8. 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4, Ringgold Village,  enumeration district 4, page 2B, dwelling 41, family 41, Herbert Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00259?pId=29022921 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606.

    9. Pollock Personals, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468558/h-b-scott-new-carlillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Filling Station at Pollock Burns; Loss is $2000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 February 1931, p.1; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87470129/burned-filling-station-lillie-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Feels Oil Field Boom, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 20 February 1926, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466552/lillie-mae-trott-mm-hb-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    10. Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 22 April 1928, p.30; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468934/state-missionary-meeting-new/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Parent Teachers Meet, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 January 1928, p.6; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468684/president-of-pta-also-vp-of-wmu/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Community Fair Arrangements, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 11 September 1925, p.12; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466036/mrs-h-b-scott-organizer-of-fair-lillie/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, State PTA Board Holds Meet Today, The Shreveport Journal, 30 September 1932, p.20; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84349595/state-pta-board-lilli-mae-trott-mrs/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    11. Lillie Mae Trott Scott, photograph, ca. 1916; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

    12. Mary Pilkington, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 23 September 1985, p.7; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58551888/obituary-for-mary-beth-scott-allen/?: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 5 December 1926, p.40; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87467483/jack-anthony-baby-son-of-mr-and-mrs-h/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    13. Pollock Personals, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 7 April 1928, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468878/mrs-h-b-scott-manager-cafe-lille-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, 1930 U.S. Census, Grant County, Louisiana, Pollock Town, population schedule, supervisor's district no. 5, enumeration district 22-4,  p.1A, dwelling 6, family 6, Herbert B. Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4584878_00077?pId=34807365: accessed 24 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm T626.

    14. Pollock, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 14 February 1931, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87469987/hb-scott-living-in-hope-arkansas-so/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, H. B. Scott Home at Pollock Burns, Loss Totals $6000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 5 October 1931, p.8; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84350519/h-b-scott-home-burns-lillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    15. “Murphy-Scott,” The Bienville Democrat,  27 Feb. 1936, p.6, col. 5; database and images, The Digital Archives of The Bienville Parish Library (http://bienville.advantage-preservation.com : accessed 27 August 2021). Also, “Army Life of Pre-War Philippines Was Familiar to Mrs. William B. Allen,” Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, Texas), 27 April 1946, p.4-C; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100675597/mary-beth-scott-allen-dau-of-lillie/ : accessed 8 Dec. 2021).

    16. Ibid.

    17. Find a Grave, database and images  (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8757949/william-wayne-murphey : accessed 28 April 2022), memorial page for LTC William Wayne Murphey, Find a Grave Memorial ID 8757949, citing San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA; Maintained by William Holly (contributor 46616971). 

    18. Lillie Murphey, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 19 June1985, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84304632/lilli-mae-murphey-obituary/: accessed 28 April 2022).