Lula Maude Thomas Taylor
Lula Maude Thomas was born on December 11, 1908 in the Donaldson Creek community of Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the fourth of seven children born to Dallie Brown Thomas and Willie Mae Thomas Thomas. Dallie and Mae were both natives of Trigg County, Kentucky. Dallie was a successful farmer and a descendant of Perry Thomas. Mae was a descendant of Cullen Thomas.
Maude’s siblings were Ted Thomas, born in 1901 and married Beulah Sumner; Elmer Rowden Thomas, born in 1904 and married Marie E. Lance; Stella Grace Thomas, born in 1906 and married Chester Allen Sumner and later married Ernest Clyde Finley; Edna Ruth Thomas, born in 1912 and married Lloyd Seldon Downs and later married Meredith Simmons Christian; Bessie Mae Thomas, born in 1915 and married Herman Taylor Adams; and James Amos Thomas, born in 1918 and married Virginia Frances Futrell. In addition, Maude had two half brothers from her father’s second marriage to Ollie Mae Downs. They were Dallie Brown Thomas, Jr., born in 1923 and married Virginia Lucille Gardner and Earl Benard Thomas, born in 1925 and married Mary Ann Sumner.
Maude grew up on Donaldson Creek where she attended the Donaldson Creek School with her eight brothers and sisters. In 1925, when Maude was 16 years old, she married James Preston Sumner. Preston was born on July 28, 1905, the son of Thomas “Tommie” Darnell Sumner and Lula Bell Thomas Sumner. Tommie was a descendant of William Bridges and Lula Bell was a descendant of Perry Thomas.
Preston and Maude left Trigg County and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where Preston worked as a carpenter. Preston and Maude were divorced on July 26, 1933 in Colorado Springs, after eight years of marriage. They had no children.
On January 2, 1934, Maude married Charles Dell Taylor, III in Colorado Springs. Charles was born on April 1, 1911 in Cedar Hill, New Mexico. He was the son of Charles Dell Taylor, Jr. and Catherine Cullen Taylor, both natives of Colorado.
Charles and Maude lived in Colorado Springs until 1937 when they moved to Los Angeles, California. A few years later they moved to Baltimore, Maryland and then moved back to California, this time to Pasadena. When World War II began, Maude went to work in a ceramics factory. Charles enlisted in the Merchant Marines where he was soon sent overseas. He did not return until the war ended. After the war, Charles and Maude and their family moved to Orland, California in the norther part of the state where Charles purchased a farm with the money he had saved during the war.
Maude did not like living on a farm, so in 1950 the family moved to the small town of Carmichael which was near Sacramento where Maude worked at the McClellan Air Force Base. In 1953, the family returned to Southern California and bought a home in Altadena. Maude accepted a position with a local plastics factory where she ran an injection molding machine for 12 years until her retirement.
Charles and Maude were the parents of three children, Charles Brian Taylor, born in 1939 and married Joan Gail Janis; James Cullen Taylor, born in 1943 and married Kerrie Lynne Lyle; and Robert Leonard Taylor, born in 1948 and married Kaye Diane Lyle.
Maude died on September 3, 1968 at the age of 59 in Altadena, California. She was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena, Charles died on March 12, 1988 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum next to his wife.
Charles and Maude tombstone
LINEAGE: (Lula Maude Thomas Taylor was the daughter of Dallie Brown and Willie Mae Thomas Thomas and the granddaughter of Rufus King and Alvie Adeline Dunee Thomas. Rufus King was the fifth child of Perry and Elizabeth Josephine Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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