Person:Camilla Lindsey (1)

Date of birth is in her father's bible--see Henry Carlton Lindsey, THE MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE (Brownwood, 1982), p. 96. But note that her tombstone gives the date of birth as 31 July 1894; the date of death given is 24 June 1984, and identifies her as Cumilla [sic] Lindsey Cooper.

Marriage is in Natchitoches Psh. Marriage Bk. 31, p. 361.

I remember Aunt Cumie, as the family called her; she was a rather fastidious lady, who was careful about her clothes and carried herself very erect. Some years ago, I had a conversation with her niece, Lucy Mai Adams, who told me that Aunt Cumie amused the family at the Lindsey reunions held each year near Coushatta. She came always well-dressed, with a hat and white gloves. The only facility at these reunions for some years was an outhouse, and it was amusing to see Aunt Cumie tipping towards the rough outhouse with her dainty clothes and gloved hands.

Unless otherwise noted, all information I have recorded is from MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE, p. 96.

Spouse James M. Griffith was a cattle rancher and farmer of Mansfield, LA, according to Mary Lou Lindsey Prothro, "The Lindseys of Red River Psh.," in Red River Psh. Heritage Soc., RED RIVER PARISH, OUR HERITAGE (Bossier City: Everett, 1989), p. 308. In her 20 Nov. 2002 email cited in file of Mary Alice Griffith, Claire Bradin Siskin tells me that James M. Griffith was a widower when CGL m. him, and had 10 children. Claire's mother Mary Alice was named for the deceased former wife. The email notes that CGL then m. Mr. Mitchell, living with him in Shreveport until he died abt. 10 years later (evidently abt. 1954-1955). She became at some point in these years an LPN, taking care of the elderly in their homes. She subsequently m. Mr. Cooper, who had a farm in Coushatta and d. when she was in her 70s, at which point she returned to her house in Shreveport, returning to Coushatta to live in a nursing home several years before her death.

Claire B. Siskin reports that CGL still had blond hair, as did her mother, up to the time of her death at the advanced age of 89. According to CBS, CGL's daughter Mary Alice also has only a streak of gray hair (in 2002), and CBS also had no gray in her hair. Note the stories about CGL's mother Mary Ann Green and how her hair, too, remained blond up to the time of her death as an elderly woman.

The 16 Jan. 2003 letter of Ledavon Bamburg cited in file of Dwight Cecil Lindsey says that CGL "was the cutest old lady I've ver known."