Joe Wilburn Futrell

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JOE WILBURN4 FUTRELL (MARY JANE3 COOK, THOMAS S.2, THOMAS1) was born June 16, 1878 in Trigg Co, KY, and died February 08, 1951 in Murray, KY. He married SUELLA EVANS December 22, 1917 in Pine Bluff by Br. Ed Outland.

Notes for JOE WILBURN FUTRELL: The family lived in the Model, Tenn. area prior to the death of his father in 1884, and untill the family moved to Calloway County in later years. Before coming to Calloway County, he hired out to do farm work and in the 1900 Stewart Co. Census, lived in the household of his uncle, James Jefferson Cook. On Dec. 22, 1917, he was married to Suella Evans at Pine Bluff by Bro. Ed Outland, Suella b 6-27-1899, d 5-16-1987 in Murray where they had lived since the early forties, she was the daughter of Charles F. and Lucy Caroline Pittman Evans of the Boatwright community. Both are buried at Barnett Cemetery. In the days when families and neighbors lived quite far apart, square dance play parties (musicals) and pea shelling gatherings were an opportunity to visit and have fun. Since Joe played guitar and his brother Will, the banjo, they always had time to enjoy the get-to-gethers. (Source: The Cook Family History)

Children of JOE FUTRELL and SUELLA EVANS are:

JAMES FUTRELL, b. September 19, 1918; d. October 21, 1975, Murray Memorial Gardens.
WILLIAM HUNTER FUTRELL, b. August 30, 1920; d. March 01, 1925, Barnett Cemetery.
VIRGINIA LOU FUTRELL, b. January 07, 1923.
JUANITA FUTRELL, b. December 27, 1924; d. November 29, 1987.
WILMA JO FUTRELL, b. April 17, 1927.