[Originally posted at previous platform July 2016.]
Fernandella “Della” Lincecum Roberts lived to the age of 93 years, and surely saw a lot in those 9+ decades on earth. Della’s father, Garland Lincecum, was one of those who signed a petition to create Caldwell County, Texas. Della lost her father at age 13, was married and had her first child by 18. She would have her last child at age 45. Della spent most of her life in the same Caldwell county, and was buried in a cemetery on land originally owned by her father. (Courthouse image at right.)
Slavery was normal until she was 22. She couldn’t vote until she was 79.
Pattern: Year / Age – Event – Date / Place
1840 – Fernandella Brazoria Lincecum was born – 3 July at Lowndes County, Mississippi
1846 / Age 5 – Garland moved his family and settled at what would later be Caldwell County, Texas
1846 / Age 5 – Mexican-American War – 1846-1848 / USA, Mexico
1848 – California Gold Rush – 1848-1855
1850 / Age 10 – Della was enumerated for the 7th United States Federal census – 9 November at Caldwell County
1852 – First Lone State State Fair – May / Corpus Christi, Texas
1853 / Age 12 – Crimean War – 1853-1856
1853 / Age 13 – Della’s father, Garland R. Lincecum, died – 9 September at Lockhart, Caldwell County
1857 / Age 17 – Della married John C. Roberts – 9 August at Caldwell County
1858 / Age 17 – Della gave birth to son Jacob – 26 June at Caldwell County
1860 / Age 19 – Della was enumerated for the 8th United States Federal census – 20 June at Caldwell County
abt 1861 / Age 20 – Della gave birth to son Alexander
1861 / Age 20 – American Civil War – 1861-1865 / USA
1862 / Age 22 – Emancipation Proclamation – 22 September / USA
1863 / Age 22 – US Transcontinental Railroad – 1863-1869 / USA
1864 / Age 23 – Della gave birth to son Daniel Brazos – 7 April 1864 at Dale, Caldwell County, Texas
1865 / Age 24 – Assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln – 14 April 1865 / Washington, DC
1866 – Beginning of the era of Texas trail drives of cattle
abt 1867 / Age 26 – Della gave birth to daughter Louada
1869 / Age 26 – Suez Canal – Egypt
1872 / Age 31 – Della gave birth to son James T. – 11 February at Dale, Caldwell County, Texas
1873 – Buffalo Soldiers first posted in Texas
1876 / Age 36 – Della gave birth to son John B. J. – 13 October / Texas
1878 / Age 38 – Della watched her first son get married – 24 October at Caldwell County
1880 / Age 39 – Della was enumerated for the 10th United States Federal census – 12 June at Caldwell County
1886 / Age 45 – Della gave birth to her son Sullivan Ross – 13 January / Texas
1889 / Age 49 – Della’s mother, Emmaline R. Jones Lincecum, died – 7 July at Caldwell County
abt 1893 / Age 52 – Della watched her son Daniel get married
abt 1894 / Age 53 – Della watched her son James T. get married
1897 / Age 57 – Della watched her son Alexander get married – 27 October at Caldwell County
1898 / Age 57 – Spanish-American War – April thru August / USA, Cuba
1900 / Age 59 – Della was enumerated for the 12th United States Federal census – 8 June at Caldwell County
1900 – “Great Hurricane” kills 6,000 – 8 September / Galveston, Texas
1901 – Large discovery of oil in Texas – 10 January / Beaumont, Texas
1901 / Age 61 – Assassination of US President William McKinley – 6 September at Buffalo, New York
1903 / Age 63 – Wright Brothers First Flight – 17 September at Kitty Hawk, Dare County, North Carolina
1908 / Age 68 – Ford Model T Manufactured – 1908-1927 / Detroit, Michigan
1910 / Age 69 – Della was enumerated for the 13th United States Federal census – 10 May 1910 at Caldwell County, Texas
1912 / Age 71 – Titanic Disaster – April / Atlantic Ocean
1914 / Age 73 – World War I – 1914-1918 / Europe
1919 – Prohibition begins in Texas
1919 / Age 78 – Della’s husband of 61 years, John Roberts, died – 25 March at Caldwell County, Texas
1920 / Age 79 – Women in the United States receive the right to vote
1920 / Age 79 – Della was enumerated for the 14th United States Federal census – 2 January at Wilson County, Texas
1924 – First woman governor elected in Texas
1925 / Age 84 – Della’s son John B. J. died – 23 January
1929 / Age 88 – The Great Depression – 1929 until her death / USA and Europe
1930 / Age 89 – The Holocaust – 1930 until her death / Eastern Europe
1930 / Age 89 – Della was enumerated for the 15th United States Federal census – 9 April at San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
1931 / Age 90 – The Dust Bowl – 1931 until her death / Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
1933 / Age 93 – Fernandella Lincecum Roberts died – 9 September at San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. She was laid to rest in Lincecum-Roberts Cemetery at Lockhart, Caldwell County.
Visit Fernandella Lincecum Roberts’s page in the Lincecum Lineage database.
Texas Historical Markers: Caldwell County: Lockhart, Luling, Martindale
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