Fannin County TXGenWeb
The Fuller Girls

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Photographs from :Jenny Markham
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 Both were probably made about 1900.  One has the identification of Rebecca, Ida, and Belle Fuller.  Belle was my grandmother and I know the other two were sisters.  I have quite a mystery about the parents of my grandmother and feel that she was probably related to the Fuller sisters but I don't know the connection.  The second photo has the following identification written on the back, "Elizar Johnson, Belle Fuller, Randolph".  I suspect that the Randolph refers to the town but I am not positive.  I do not know who Elizar Johnson is or how she might be connected to my grandmother.

The family story about my grandmother is:  Her parents died within a few days of each other about 1890.  Jennie "Belle" Fuller was about 5 years old (born 4 May 1885) and her sister Lillie Mae Fuller was about 2 or 3.  There possibly is an older brother.  Mr. Fuller
probably had been married previously and had another family of older children.  Jennie Belle was taken in by Mrs. Sam Stone.  Her given name was either Matilda Caroline or Caroline Matilda and was a widow by 1900.  I found my grandmother living with her and a couple of her older sons on the 1900 census in Leonard.  Belle is listed as a "granddaughter" but I have not found anything to confirm that.  Lillie Mae was taken by a Reid family in Terrell.  Belle married Ollie Garfield Melton of Leonard in the home of her foster mother, Mrs. Stone, 24 Dec 1903, Leonard.  A list of the 13 guests include the 2 Fuller girls in the photo, Rebecca & Ida along with another sister and their mother "Mrs. Dr. Fuller".