Nora Lucille Vinson was born on October 11, 1899 in Trigg County, Kentucky, the only child born to John Robert Vinson and Willie Armstrong Vinson. John Robert was a native of Austin Station, Arkansas. He had moved to Trigg County at an early age and was a prominent banker in Cadiz as well as serving as Mayor of the city for several terms. He was a great-grandson of Cullen Thomas. Willie was a native of Trigg County and was a granddaughter of Starkie Thomas.
Lucille’s mother, Willie, died in 1902 when Lucille was only two years old. As a result, she went to live with her grandmother, Mary Thomas Armstrong, who raised Lucille from infancy. She lived with her grandparents until her marriage.
John Robert, Lucille’s father, married for a second time to Gertrude Wilson. This marriage produced two half-brothers for Lucille, Henry Richard Vinson, born in 1906 and married Geneva Robin Broadbent and John Robert Vinson, Jr., born in 1912 and married Doris Davis Peal.
On September 17, 1919 Lucille married Joseph Jonathan Futrell at her grandmother’s home in Trigg County. Joe Futrell was born on November 23, 1892 in Trigg County, the son of Daniel Worth Futrell and Sarah Jane Scott Futrell, both natives of Trigg County. Daniel was a successful Trigg County farmer. Joe was a veteran of World War I, serving near the end of the war at Camp Taylor, Kentucky (now Fort Knox) from May 24, 1918 to December 18, 1918.
After Lucille and Joe were married, they went to live on a large farm in the Roaring Spring community that had been given to Lucille by her grandfather, William Thomas “Tom” Armstrong. The farm had been bought by Tom in 1892 and was the farm where Lucille and Joe lived for their 51 years of married life.
Joe was a very progressive farmer. He used mules and a pond scraper to clear ground and built levees and ponds to hold back water to prevent soil erosion. He rotated his crops and grew red clover to make the ground stronger. In 1925 he bought his first tractor which was a steel wheel Fordson. In the summer when crops were completed, Joe would use his tractor and a rock crusher to make lime from limestone that he had blasted from the banks of Casey Creek. He used the lime to spread on his fields. He also raised Hereford cattle and Hampshire sheep on the farm, often selling the rams to his neighbors.
Lucille and Joe were the parents of four children, Thomas Jonathan Futrell, born in 1920; John Worth Futrell, born in 1922; Henry Scott Futrell, born in 1923 and died at 10 months; and Mary Jane Futrell, born in 1925 and married Carl Mount Wright.
Lucille died on June 9, 1971 at the age of 71 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz. She was buried in the Futrell and Wright Cemetery which was a family cemetery located at the Futrell home. Joe died on February 8, 1977 at the age of 84 in the Brookfield Manor Personal Care Home in Hopkinsville. He was buried in the family cemetery next to his wife.
Tom and Lucille tombstone
LINEAGE: (Nora Lucille Vinson was the daughter of John Robert and Willie Armstrong Vinson. John was the third child of Henry Cullen and Mary Catherine Sumner Vinson. Henry was the first child of Thomas Allison and Emeline Thomas Vinson. Emeline was the fifth child of Cullen and Elizabeth Futrell Thomas. Cullen was the first child of James and Mary Standley Thomas. Willie Armstrong was the second child of William Thomas and Mary Jane Thomas Armstrong. Mary Jane was the eleventh child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas. Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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