Cousin Connections: Mary Lucia Lull (1915 - 2003)

Once again the internet has sent me in a direction I wasn't intending to go. But how could I resist when this photo of a 2nd cousin, twice removed,* showed up as an Ancestry.com hint?

[From the Ancestry.com tree of CabotLeeSweeney]

[Date: Sunday, January 1, 1939   Paper: Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska)   Page: 2  

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"Kiss the Boys Good-by" was a big hit on Broadway in 1939 and Helen Claire continued in the role while Cousin Lucia took the show on the road. Here's an interview with her soon after she was chosen.

[Man About Manhattan, Associated Press. Date: Thursday, January 5, 1939

Paper: Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) Page: 4. This entire product and/or portions thereof are

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From this clipping from the Columbus (Georgia) Daily Enquirer written a year and a half later, we learn some of the cities where Lucia's tour took her.

[Date: Sunday, July 27, 1941   Paper: Columbus Daily Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia)   Page: 16  

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*We are both descendants of Timney P. Watts (1803-1863), who is Lucia's maternal great grandmother and my paternal third great grandmother. My direct link is through Jesse T. S. Warren, Timney's only child with her first husband Jesse Warren, Jr., while Littleberry Bostick Phillips, Timney's youngest son is Lucia's ancestor.

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